Law Firm Librarianship Issues Practice and Directions 1st Edition by John Azzolini 1843347088 9781843347088

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ISBN 10 : 1843347088 

ISBN 13 : 9781843347088

Author:  John Azzolini 

The legal information environment is deep, wide, and dynamic with many participants, including courts, parliaments, legislatures, and administrative bodies. None exemplifies the agile, knowledge-engaging legal player better than the law firm. Current, authoritative information is essential for the successful representation of clients. The firm’s most dependable resource for retrieving information is its library staff. Law Firm Librarianship introduces the reader to the challenges, qualifications, and work conditions of this distinct type of research librarian. The book begins by asking what law firm librarianship is, whilst the second chapter focuses on the law firm and its culture. The third chapter covers the law firm library itself, including the practical aspects of the firm librarian’s interaction with his or her professional environments. The next chapter considers the effects of legal publishing practices, and the penultimate section surveys the various research tools the firm librarian relies on for sound knowledge. The book concludes by looking at the dynamic qualities of law firm librarianship.

Law Firm Librarianship Issues Practice and Directions 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
Preview
Background
2 Tasks, skills, and attributes
Law firm librarianship distinguished from other types of librarianship
Client centrality
Rapid turnaround time: the norm of speed
Billable time and matter numbers
Importance of practice groups
Law and business as core collections
Current, relevant law is “good law” and “on-point”
Getting the right information yourself and putting it directly into the requester’s hands
Skills and traits
Ability to analyze complex problems relating to diverse knowledge areas
Comprehending the sources, authority structures, and relevance of law-related publications
Information management
Presentation skills
Training and teaching
Service commitment
Ability to work under pressure
High personal standard for attaining research results
Self-confidence in one’s information finding abilities
Adaptability to change (perhaps a fondness for it)
Vision
Education and qualifications
Job market and compensation
New roles
Labels and name variations
Associations
Knowledge sharing
Professional development, networking, and employment opportunities
Enhancement of a sense of community
Lobbying efforts to serve members’ interests
Blogs, wikis, journals, and presentations
Annual conferences
Notes
3 The law firm
The law firm as a professional service firm
A knowledge-centered environment
The client relationship
Billable hours and monetized time
The global firm
Multinational offices and locality
Importance of practice groups
Partnership and leverage
Legal and regulatory issues
Professional support lawyers
Outsourcing
Knowledge management
Notes
4 The law firm library
The library as a business unit
The value imperative
Budgeting and finances
Cost recovery
Contracts and licenses
Marketing efforts
Relationships with other departments, other offices, and other library units
Library hierarchies: managers and directors
The library as an information unit
The expanding definition of the collection
The library as a service
Embedded librarianship
Training
Copyright issues
Notes
5 The legal publishing world
Legal information: the distinct value of aggregation
Legal publishing market: consolidation and competition
Pricing issues
Vendor relationships: dedicated representatives, training, and demonstrations
Notes
6 Research sources and systems
Content properties
Systems, databases, providers, and facilitators: the conduits of content
Full-service legal platforms
Specialized but wide content
Niche content
Free but valuable
Internal know-how
Document delivery
Blogs and wikis
Library listservs
7 Conclusion: Law firm librarianship: a dynamic profession
The law firm world
User expectations in a high-tech world
The simplification of search
Predictions for possible directions
Dynamic and resilient

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