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Investing in Support for Academic Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 June 2011

Alissa Sputore
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Abstract

Alissa Sputore from the Melbourne Law School describes the ground-breaking Law Research Service which the Law Library runs for its staff and students as part of an effort to improve the quality of research and publication in the Law School.

Keywords

legal researchacademic law librariesAustralia
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Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 115 - 118
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2011

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Footnotes

1 http://www.rae.ac.uk/

2 http://www.arc.gov.au/era/default.htm

3 Webb, Jo, Gannon-Leary, Pat, Bent, Moira, Providing Effective Library Services for Research (Facet, 2007)Google Scholar, see in particular Chapter 2 “Current challenges for libraries and research support”, and Chapter 8 “Facing the future”

4 Kroll, Susan and Forsman, Rick, A Slice of Research Life: Information Support for research in the United States (OCLC, 2010)Google Scholar

5 Schonfeld, Roger C. and Housewright, Ross, Faculty Survey 2009: Key Strategic Insights for Libraries, Publishers and Societies (Ithaka, 2010)Google Scholarhttp://www.ithaka.org/ithaka-s-r/research/faculty-surveys-2000-2009/Faculty%20Study%202009.pdf

6 Schonfeld and Housewright, above.

7 Kroll and Forsman, above.

8 Hadlund, Lotta & Olsson, Per, ‘The impact on University Libraries of changes in information behaviour among academic researchers: a multiple case study’ (2008) 34(1) The Journal of Academic Librarianship 52Google Scholar

9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing

10 For more information on discovery tools see Marshall Breeding, ‘Automation Marketplace 2010: New Models, Core Systems’, Library Journal 1 April 2010 http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6723662.html

11 Research Information Network (RIN), Challenges for academic libraries in difficult economic times: a guide for senior institutional managers and policy makers (RIN, March 2010)

12 Danner, Richard A., ‘Supporting scholarship: thoughts on the role of the academic librarian’ (2010) 39 Journal of Law and Education 365Google Scholar

13 For discussion on faculty research services in US law schools see Schilt, Margaret, ‘Faculty services in the 21st century: evolution and innovation’ in Bintliff, Barbara & Peoples, Lee F (eds), Public Services in Law Libraries: Evolution and Innovation in the 21st Century (Hawthorn, 2007)Google Scholar; Gerson, Kevin D, ‘Faculty Research Services at the UCLA Law Library’ (2008) 18 Trends in Law Library Management and Technology 55Google Scholar

14 Stephanie Davidson, ‘Way beyond legal research: understanding the research process of legal scholars’ (2010) (available on SSRN abstract 1537336)

15 Based on J. B. Ruhl, The hierarchy of legal scholarship, http://jurisdynamics.blogspot.com/2006/09/hierarchy-of-legal-scholarship.html

16 Jackie G Woodside, ‘Interdisciplinary trends of law faculty: possible implications for reference librarians’ (2009) (available on SSRN abstract 1424287)

17 Nixon, Judith M, ‘How scholars work: panning for gold in libraries’ (2010) 49(3) Reference and User Services Quarterly 231Google Scholar

18 This approach to library service is advocated in a recent OCLC report: Support for the Research Process: an academic library manifesto (OCLC, 2009)