Rebuilding the Profession: Recommendations for Librarians Interested in Becoming Academic Law Library Directors

Introduction * * (c) Penny A. Hazelton, 2007. January 2005, Washington, D.C., breakfast during annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. A chance conversation provided the catalyst for the summer 2005 workshop for which these papers were prepared. Unfortunately, it was January 2005,...

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Published in:Law Library Journal 2007-12, Vol.99 (1), p.101-863
Main Authors: Bintliff, Barbara A, Gasaway, Laura N, Hazelton, Penny A, Houdek, Frank G, Johnston, Janis L, Dragich Pearson, Martha, Brink, Charles Ten, Wu, Michelle
Format: Article
Language:English
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administrative
appointments
Career development
Chief librarians
concentrate
conversation
education law
information
introduction
Law libraries
Librarians
Library management
nonetheless
participants
responsibilities
unfortunately
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Summary:Introduction * * (c) Penny A. Hazelton, 2007. January 2005, Washington, D.C., breakfast during annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools. A chance conversation provided the catalyst for the summer 2005 workshop for which these papers were prepared. Unfortunately, it was January 2005, much too late to get into the official programming cycle for the July 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) in San Antonio. Nonetheless, many felt that we needed to get something started right away. Under the leadership of Penny Hazelton, a workshop for aspiring academic law library directors was planned for Wednesday, July 20, 2005, during the AALL meeting. Robert Hu, newly arrived at St. Mary's Law School as the law library director, made space available to us at no cost. And the information schools at the University of Washington and University of Texas were generous in sponsoring the workshop, so coffee and pastries were available for this low-budget event. Nearly sixty law librarians attended the four-hour program. To determine the content for the workshop, we decided to concentrate on the most essential topics for law librarians interested in academic director jobs. Speakers limited their remarks to ten minutes, a tactic that left time for consider-able discussion with the participants. The first segment of the workshop focused on the duties of academic director jobs--administrative skills and faculty responsibilities. The latter was included because the vast majority of academic director jobs are faculty appointments. The middle session ...
ISSN:0023-9283