Academic Law Librarianship
Emily Allbon | Law Librarian | City University London
What’s covered today?
Career path
Support
Keeping in the loop
What do we do?
Me
Lawbore
Challenges
Q &A
Career path
What do we do? Helping students navigate the sources
Learning & teaching
Academic liaison
Web stuff
Research (some?)
Collection & space management
Budgets
Membership of library and law school committees
Vendor negotiations
What’s my story?
Who are my users?
Responsibilities:
Collection
Teaching & assessment
Managing the space
Supporting the CLS – active liaison with academics, students, law careers, volunteering.
Mooting
Lawbore
Current projects
Conferences
New library
Lawbore
Student guide to web
Created 2002
Unique
International interest
More Lawbore
Topic guides: links to web resources via subject studied
City Hub: community site for students: E-Library, News, Twitter, Database access
Learnmore: how-to wiki, learning legal skills
Future Lawyer: careers blog – participation from current students AND alumni
Support
Great network
Opportunities
Events
Friends
Funding
In the loop
Mailing lists –
e.g. LIS-Law
BIALL subscription
LIM & Newsletter
BIALL Job Board
Challenges for our sector
Doing more with less – squeezed budgets across HE & rocketing publisher costs (+ publishers splintering)
Balancing needs of teaching and research
Squeeze on space
Balance of hard copy and electronic
Outsourcing
Legal information literacy – improving standards
Engagement
worrylines!
Get involved!
Attend events (SLA, CLIG, BIALL)
Network
Join a professional organisation or even a committee…
Law Librarians on Twitter
@JamesMullan6
@UWElawlibrarian
@biall_uk
@LibWig
@thelawbod
@clareangela
@uswsuehouse
@lawbore (me)
@inner_temple
Happy days…
Lots of scope for developing wider interests
Larger teams = opportunities to learn about other subjects & bounce ideas off each other
Teaching can be very rewarding
Find me later‌ Emily Allbon @lawbore e.allbon@city.ac.uk
Credit thanks to…
Loop http://www.flickr.com/photos/pelegrino/3957449915/
Morris dancing http://www.flickr.com/photos/victius/4038527642/
Worrylines http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosengrant/4345500222/
Twitter - http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkalo/4712560243 /