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The Graduate Education
for Law Librarianship Special Committee
is created to promote the offering of
courses in law librarianship in graduate
schools for library and information sciences
and to work with the Diversity Committee
and the Recruitment Committee to increase
awareness of law librarianship as a career
choice to those in graduate library schools.
Specifically the Special
Committee is charged to:
- Work to bring research/law
librarianship courses to all library/information
science graduate education programs.
- Update the website
Education for a Career in Law Librarianship
and determine how to maintain it in
the future
- Facilitate service
by law librarians on their library/information
science school’s advisory boards
and alumni organizations
- Contact faculty members
who teach special libraries courses
in library schools and ask that they
introduce law librarianship into their
courses.
- Review AALL Guidelines
for Graduate Programs in Law Librarianship
and promote the AALL Competencies for
Law Librarianship as the basis for courses
and future directions for library education
for law librarians.
- Propose a means to
increase the future visibility of graduate
education for law librarianship
- Recommend to the Executive
Board a process or entity to be created
to carry this work forward after the
term of the Special Committee expires.
SIZE:
The Special Committee is created
for a term of three years which will end
at the AALL Annual Meeting in 2007. The
Special Committee will include a chair
and six members.
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