scholarly journals Building an Open Source Institutional Repository at a Small Law School Library: Is it Realistic or Unattainable?

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
School Library ◽  
Law School ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Development Support ◽  
The Law ◽  
Texas Tech University ◽  
Set Up

Digital preservation activities among law libraries have largely been limited by a lack of funding, staffing and expertise. Most law school libraries that have already implemented an Institutional Repository (IR) chose proprietary platforms because they are easy to set up, customize, and maintain with the technical and development support they provide. The Texas Tech University School of Law Digital Repository is one of the few law school repositories in the nation that is built on the DSpace open source platform.1 The repository is the law school’s first institutional repository in history. It was designed to collect, preserve, share and promote the law school’s digital materials, including research and scholarship of the law faculty and students, institutional history, and law-related resources. In addition, the repository also serves as a dark archive to house internal records.

scholarly journals Building an Open Source Institutional Repository at a Small Law School Library: Is it Realistic or Unattainable?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Fang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
School Library ◽  
Law School ◽  
Institutional Repository ◽  
Digital Repository ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Development Support ◽  
The Law ◽  
Texas Tech University ◽  
Set Up

Digital preservation activities among law libraries have largely been limited by a lack of funding, staffing and expertise. Most law school libraries that have already implemented an Institutional Repository (IR) chose proprietary platforms because they are easy to set up, customize, and maintain with the technical and development support they provide. The Texas Tech University School of Law Digital Repository is one of the few law school repositories in the nation that is built on the DSpace open source platform.1 The repository is the law school’s first institutional repository in history. It was designed to collect, preserve, share and promote the law school’s digital materials, including research and scholarship of the law faculty and students, institutional history, and law-related resources. In addition, the repository also serves as a dark archive to house internal records.

In Honor of Adolf Sprudzs

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 280-281
Author(s):  
Gerhard Casper
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Law School ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
The Law ◽  
Grant Money ◽  
The University

Adolf Sprudzs, Foreign Law Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Bibliography, came to the University of Chicago in August 1965. At that time the Law School Library had initiated a development program which aimed at the in-depth acquisition of legal materials for the European Economic Community countries and some other selected areas of the world. The appointment of Mr. Sprudzs was an essential step in the successful implementation of this program. The Law School already possessed a particularly rich collection of French and German legal publications, inter alia, and a faculty that included several European-trained law professors. The most influential of these was Max Rheinstein, who was instrumental in the growth of the foreign and comparative law program at the University of Chicago. The partnership of Professor Rheinstein and Mr. Sprudzs combined their great knowledge, interests and talents. Mr. Sprudzs’ ability to inspire faculty support led to the development of a comprehensive retrospective and current foreign and international law collection within the guidelines of the program. However, the real challenge to Adolf Sprudzs’ resourcefulness began in the early 1970's. As grant money became scarce, prices and the volume of legal publishing began a steady increase and the value of the dollar declined. Mr. Sprudzs was realistic in his assessment of the possible support of the collection and focused the scope of the collection in the areas that were of long-term research interest at the University of Chicago. He worked hard to increase European alumni support and to maintain the friendship that the foreign law graduates feel for the University of Chicago. His close contacts with these alumni, as well as with other librarians and law teachers in Europe, have often enabled the Law Library to acquire materials and obtain grants that would otherwise have been unavailable.

Creating history: a case study in making oral histories more accessible in the digital age

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristopher Turner
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
School Library ◽  
Law School ◽  
Oral Histories ◽  
University Of Kentucky ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
The Law ◽  
Time Required ◽  
The University

Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how the University of Wisconsin Law School Library sought to create easily searchable oral histories by partnering with the University of Kentucky and the University of Wisconsin Oral History Program. Through this partnership, a digital archive of fully searchable and indexed oral histories with links to relevant articles, Library of Congress keywords, summaries and maps is being created, giving users the ability to delve into the Law School’s history more deeply and with more historical perspective than ever before. Design/methodology/approach The implementation of the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) and the development of a daily workflow for adding University of Wisconsin Law School oral histories to the program is closely examined. The pros and cons of the program are discussed as well as the future of the Law School oral histories. Findings The OHMS program is a powerful tool that allows researchers to quickly and easily locate relevant portions of an oral history, saving the time required to review hours of an interview. OHMS also allows archivists and librarians to better organize and catalog each oral history by providing important metadata tools that provide context and background on each unique oral history. Originality/value The University of Wisconsin Law School is the first law school to implement the OHMS program in concert with an institutional repository. The program, which is free and open source, may be of great value to historians, archivists and non-profits who wish to make their content more visible and more searchable.

scholarly journals Colin Campbell Aikman: Reflections

2003 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 631
Author(s):  
Sir Kenneth Keith ◽  
A H Angelo
Keyword(s):  
South Pacific ◽  
Law School ◽  
The South ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
The Law ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Impact

Dr Colin Aikman served as Dean of the Victoria University of Wellington Law School. This article focuses on aspects of Dr Aikman's seminal lecture of the 1960s on law in the South Pacific, and on the impact of the constitutional thinking of Dr Aikman in the Pacific on a generation of students and colleagues in the Law Faculty of Victoria University of Wellington. 

scholarly journals Don Inglis

2008 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 397
Author(s):  
George P Barton
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Law ◽  
Law School ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University ◽  
Instrumental Role ◽  
Visiting Scholars

The author, having served as his lecturer, provides a tribute to Professor Angelo of the Law Faculty at Victoria University of Wellington. The article recalls Professor Angelo's instrumental role in bringing Comparative Law to the law school, as well as playing an important part in providing academic hospitality to visiting scholars. The author praises Professor Angelo's encyclopaedic knowledge on Comparative Law, and states that the University owes him a real debt for his commitment to expand and diversify law teaching, research, and writing. 

The Analysis of Contents on the Law School Library Websites

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-95
Author(s):  
Young-Joon Nam ◽  
Rho-Sa Chang
Keyword(s):  
School Library ◽  
Law School ◽  
The Law ◽  
Library Websites

Boomchee

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-14
Author(s):  
Shano Naylor ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Law School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Female Friend ◽  
The Law ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Law Student ◽  
Duty To Inform

At what point in a date do you owe the other party the duty to inform them you are engaged? Is marriage an exercise in love, or practicality? In this work of philosophical short story fiction, the law school student narrator working at a summer factory job decides to set up her shy female friend, Susie, with her boyfriend’s shy brother, Barry. They go on a double date and everything seems to be going fine. Only later does the narrator and her boyfriend find out that Barry is engaged to a mail-order bride from Southeast Asia that will be arriving shortly. The shy Barry, it turns out, wanted to “practice” going on a date before his new wife arrived. The law student narrator is embarrassed, and struggles with the moral duty both she, and Barry, owe to Susie.

scholarly journals A History of the Law Faculty

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
John M. Law ◽  
Roderick J. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Law School ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Law Faculty ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Law ◽  
The University ◽  
The Way

The authors examine the history of the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta. Beginning with a look at the early requirements to practice law in Alberta, the authors discuss the events leading to the establishment of the first permanent law school in the province. An analysis of the evolution of the Faculty is conducted. Along the way, the important contributions of many individuals, from John A. Weir to Wilbur Bowker, are acknowledged.

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