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Robert M. Adelman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Academic Law Library Director Status Since the Great Recession: Strengthened, Maintained, or Degraded?
2020Co-Authors: Elizabeth G. Adelman, Karen L. Shephard, Richard J. Patti, Robert M. AdelmanAbstract:Concern about the status of law firms, law schools, and law libraries has been discussed widely since the economic crisis that began in December 2007. Scholars have debated whether some law schools will—or should—close, merge, or implement other changes. This dialogue has considered a variety of underlying reasons for the various changes. In this article we continue the conversation by examining changes in law schools that have occurred since late 2007 resulting in part from the economic downturn and from advances in technology. Our particular focus is on the status of law Library Directors. We view the status of law Library Directors as one indicator among many signifying the well-being of law schools and their libraries. In short, we ask: How has the employment status of academic law Library Directors changed since the Great Recession? We begin with an overview of the legal industry and related institutions, compiled from American Bar Association (ABA) reports, legal scholarship, and legal news sources. Following that, we detail changes that have occurred in law libraries and among law Library Directors, finding a 25 percent decrease in tenure-track Directorships and trending degraded status of new Directorships. Finally, we turn to data analysis to explore the impact of these changes.
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academic law Library Director status since the great recession strengthened maintained or degraded
Law Library Journal, 2020Co-Authors: Elizabeth G. Adelman, Karen L. Shephard, Richard J. Patti, Robert M. AdelmanAbstract:The status of the academic law Library Director is central to the educational mission of the law Library. We collected data from 2006 to 2016 showing a 25 percent decrease in tenure-track Directorships. We also found one in four changes in Directorships since 2013 resulted in the new Director having a degraded status compared to her predecessor
Kevin B Shelton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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tenure and the law Library Director
Journal of Legal Education, 2012Co-Authors: James M Donovan, Kevin B SheltonAbstract:The status of librarians of any rank within a law school has been the subject of ongoing discussion.1 The major fault line in the debate has been whether librarians are administrators, faculty, or one of those imperfect hybrids that anthropologist Mary Douglas noted makes everyone uncomfortable.2 Depending on where a librarian lands, certain consequences follow. If he falls squarely within faculty, there are the added demands of performance and evaluation on tenure criteria, but also the benefits of full participation in the shared governance of the law school, an obvious value to the Library. On the other hand, administrators are spared such heightened scrutiny, leaving them more time to run the Library; again, in theory, a benefit to the organization. Reasonable people can disagree as to which choice better supports the mission of the institution. Always simmering just below a boil, this disagreement has generated new heat due to a review of American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation standards that began in earnest in 2008. As it presently reads, Standard 603 requires that the Director have tenure or tenure-like protections. Factions within the ABA, especially law school deans, view such rules as intrusive, depriving them of needed flexibility to determine the terms of employment for their librarians. The first section of this article describes the current state of the Standard 603 review to identify the terms in which the discussion has been conducted and the positions of the major interested parties. Part II defends the present requirement that law Library Directors be appointed as tenure-track faculty on
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tenure and the law Library Director
Social Science Research Network, 2011Co-Authors: James M Donovan, Kevin B SheltonAbstract:This essay offers a response to the current discussion concerning the possible rescission of ABA Accreditation Standard 603 governing tenure-track appointment of the law Library Director. Part I reviews this discussion, highlighting the terms and arguments on all sides of the debate. Part II offers a defense of the current standard, based upon the need for the Director both to receive the protections of academic freedom and to participate in faculty governance of the law school. The need for tenure to perform a Director's professional duties, however, does not make one automatically tenureable. Part III examines the skeptical attitude that librarians have expressed concerning whether they are either willing or able to perform at the added expectations of tenured faculty, especially scholarly production. A comparison of Leiter's scholarly impact scores shows that Directors tend to perform well below the faculty averages of their schools, shedding possible light on the law school deans' expressed desire to eliminate 603. Additional data for new Director hires, however, suggests that this trend may be changing, and that rising Library Directors are better preparing themselves to succeed under the traditional criteria of tenure review. This result gives promise that the concerns of the deans can be addressed not by lowering the bar and making Directors simple administrators, in the process weakening their ability to perform their Library oversight duties, but by raising the quality of candidate chosen to assume the role.
Joseph A Custer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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making the leap to being a law Library Director
Social Science Research Network, 2011Co-Authors: Joseph A CusterAbstract:This article addresses my experience in going from being a mild-mannered Associate Director of an academic law Library to that of a dynamic leader of an academic law Library. While I do enjoy hyperbole, I should stop right here and tell you that I'm pretty much the same person I was before I became a Director. I didn't undergo any cognitive self-transformation after I accepted the position to be the new Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Omer Poos Law Library at Saint Louis University Law School, none that I am aware of anyway. What I did bring to the job was what all of you who are seeking to make the move one day will do and those of you who have already made the move have already done, and that is to bring your own experience, knowledge, abilities and skills to the position.
Elizabeth G. Adelman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Academic Law Library Director Status Since the Great Recession: Strengthened, Maintained, or Degraded?
2020Co-Authors: Elizabeth G. Adelman, Karen L. Shephard, Richard J. Patti, Robert M. AdelmanAbstract:Concern about the status of law firms, law schools, and law libraries has been discussed widely since the economic crisis that began in December 2007. Scholars have debated whether some law schools will—or should—close, merge, or implement other changes. This dialogue has considered a variety of underlying reasons for the various changes. In this article we continue the conversation by examining changes in law schools that have occurred since late 2007 resulting in part from the economic downturn and from advances in technology. Our particular focus is on the status of law Library Directors. We view the status of law Library Directors as one indicator among many signifying the well-being of law schools and their libraries. In short, we ask: How has the employment status of academic law Library Directors changed since the Great Recession? We begin with an overview of the legal industry and related institutions, compiled from American Bar Association (ABA) reports, legal scholarship, and legal news sources. Following that, we detail changes that have occurred in law libraries and among law Library Directors, finding a 25 percent decrease in tenure-track Directorships and trending degraded status of new Directorships. Finally, we turn to data analysis to explore the impact of these changes.
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academic law Library Director status since the great recession strengthened maintained or degraded
Law Library Journal, 2020Co-Authors: Elizabeth G. Adelman, Karen L. Shephard, Richard J. Patti, Robert M. AdelmanAbstract:The status of the academic law Library Director is central to the educational mission of the law Library. We collected data from 2006 to 2016 showing a 25 percent decrease in tenure-track Directorships. We also found one in four changes in Directorships since 2013 resulted in the new Director having a degraded status compared to her predecessor
James M Donovan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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tenure and the law Library Director
Journal of Legal Education, 2012Co-Authors: James M Donovan, Kevin B SheltonAbstract:The status of librarians of any rank within a law school has been the subject of ongoing discussion.1 The major fault line in the debate has been whether librarians are administrators, faculty, or one of those imperfect hybrids that anthropologist Mary Douglas noted makes everyone uncomfortable.2 Depending on where a librarian lands, certain consequences follow. If he falls squarely within faculty, there are the added demands of performance and evaluation on tenure criteria, but also the benefits of full participation in the shared governance of the law school, an obvious value to the Library. On the other hand, administrators are spared such heightened scrutiny, leaving them more time to run the Library; again, in theory, a benefit to the organization. Reasonable people can disagree as to which choice better supports the mission of the institution. Always simmering just below a boil, this disagreement has generated new heat due to a review of American Bar Association (ABA) accreditation standards that began in earnest in 2008. As it presently reads, Standard 603 requires that the Director have tenure or tenure-like protections. Factions within the ABA, especially law school deans, view such rules as intrusive, depriving them of needed flexibility to determine the terms of employment for their librarians. The first section of this article describes the current state of the Standard 603 review to identify the terms in which the discussion has been conducted and the positions of the major interested parties. Part II defends the present requirement that law Library Directors be appointed as tenure-track faculty on
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tenure and the law Library Director
Social Science Research Network, 2011Co-Authors: James M Donovan, Kevin B SheltonAbstract:This essay offers a response to the current discussion concerning the possible rescission of ABA Accreditation Standard 603 governing tenure-track appointment of the law Library Director. Part I reviews this discussion, highlighting the terms and arguments on all sides of the debate. Part II offers a defense of the current standard, based upon the need for the Director both to receive the protections of academic freedom and to participate in faculty governance of the law school. The need for tenure to perform a Director's professional duties, however, does not make one automatically tenureable. Part III examines the skeptical attitude that librarians have expressed concerning whether they are either willing or able to perform at the added expectations of tenured faculty, especially scholarly production. A comparison of Leiter's scholarly impact scores shows that Directors tend to perform well below the faculty averages of their schools, shedding possible light on the law school deans' expressed desire to eliminate 603. Additional data for new Director hires, however, suggests that this trend may be changing, and that rising Library Directors are better preparing themselves to succeed under the traditional criteria of tenure review. This result gives promise that the concerns of the deans can be addressed not by lowering the bar and making Directors simple administrators, in the process weakening their ability to perform their Library oversight duties, but by raising the quality of candidate chosen to assume the role.