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All Academic Librarians: Let's Evaluate the ABA Standards for
Academic Law Libraries
For Immediate Release
May 13, 2004
As part of a continuing effort to keep the law
school accreditation process current, the American
Bar Association's Committee on Legal Education will
soon turn its attention to reviewing law school
library standards and considering revisions to
its current standards. The 2004 standards appear
in Chapter
Six, Library and Information Resources and
in Chapter
7, Facilities, Standard 702, Law Library.
The ABA is soliciting input from various groups,
including AALL, the Association
of American Law Schools, and the Center
for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction.
The ABA Law Library Committee has been charged
with gathering the ideas of AALL members and
presenting them to the ABA . Towards that end, Judith
Wright will post individual standards to
the Professional
Development Online Forum and solicit your
comments. She will gather, compile, and report
to the committee about the conversations on this
discussion list. There is much at stake, and
she hopes that you will take the time to comment
on the ABA standards.
In most states, students cannot be admitted
to practice without graduating from an accredited
law school. All academic law
librarians need to understand the standards that
must be met in order to be accredited by the
ABA . This online forum will promote an essential
competency:
1.3 Understands and supports the culture and
context of the library and its parent institution
In addition, this online forum will enhance
competencies of the participants for the following
competencies:
2.7 Provides leadership within the parent organization
to ensure that the library is vital to that organization
2.9 Tracks, anticipates, and influences changes
in policy and legislation that impact the library
and the profession
5.1 Creates collection development policies
that are appropriate to the overall mission of
the parent organization
6.4 Designs curricula and methods to meet the
educational needs of clients and evaluates the
educational process for effectiveness
6.5 Educates clients in the methodologies of
legal research
6.6 Provides training and guidance on the organization
and use of legal resources in various formats
The moderators will be Judith Wright, Glen-Peter
Ahlers, Pauline
Aranas, Charles
Ten Brink, Steve
Hinckley, Timothy
Kearley, Carol
Avery Nicholson, Rita
Reusch, and Chris
Simoni. The discussion will be held May
17-31.
To join the discussion, click here.
For questions and concerns, contact Pam
Deemer.
After May 31, the list subscribers will be purged;
you will not be subscribing to a permanent list.
Subscribers to past Career Development/Prodev
Forums, please note: Because the Prodev subscriber
list is purged after each forum, you will have
to re-subscribe for this new one .
Join in, and hear what your colleagues will
be talking about during those two weeks.
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