Law Librarianship Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Law Firm, Government, and Academic Law Libraries

Name: Law Librarianship Practice: Challenges and Opportunities in Law Firm, Government, and Academic Law Libraries
Brand: Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
SKU: 9781538199749
Price: 759.51 HKD
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Author: Ellyssa Kroski
ISBN: 9781538199749

By Ellyssa Kroski

Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing) December 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781538199749
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
Publication: December 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

This ground-breaking new legal librarianship book serves as an invaluable resource for practicing law librarians who want to be at the forefront of information technology and law libraries.

Law librarianship is a constantly evolving field that has seen major shifts in practice over the past several years including the post-pandemic trend towards remote and hybrid work, the increased prominence of virtual services, the outsourcing of library staff, burgeoning cybersecurity risks, and the advent of generative AI. Law librarians have adroitly adapted to all of these changes and have once again proven their resilience.

Law Librarianship Practice is a cutting-edge book that provides insights into the latest emerging trends and technologies in academic, government, and law firm librarianship. This book offers guidance from forward-thinking library leaders on how they are tackling the challenges of law librarianship today including; managing remote workforces, negotiating with vendors, navigating outsourcing services, planning for emergencies, riding out law firm mergers, succession planning, and more. Experts working in the field provide practical applications of new technologies and opportunities, such as how librarians are conducting AI-informed competitive intelligence, using big data for decision-making, and what's happening in artificial intelligence. The book also covers innovative initiatives in the areas of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Access to Justice, and more.

Law Librarianship Practice serves as a comprehensive manual of modern-day law library practices, providing invaluable resources for law librarians. Readers will gain inspiration from nearly thirty chapters contributed by distinguished academic, government, and law firm librarians as well as library consultants who share their experience along with a combination of researched data, contract excerpts, surveys, and other real-world intelligence.

Divided into three segments, readers will be led through twenty-eight chapters in the areas of Law Library Management, Law Library Technologies, and Law Library Challenges and Opportunities.

Preface – Ellyssa Kroski, MLIS, Director of Innovation & Engagement, The New York Law Institute; Forward - Ronald E Wheeler, MLIS, JD, Associate Dean, Law Libraries/Associate Professor of Law and Legal Research, Fineman and Pappas Law Libraries, Boston University School of Law; Law Library Management; 1. Policy Development in Law Libraries – Sheri H. Lewis, JD, MLIS, Director, D'Angelo Law Library, The University of Chicago Law School; 2. Budgeting for the law library – Justin Huckaby, MSLIS, JD, Director of the Grisham Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law, University of Mississippi Grisham Law Library; 3. Negotiating Contracts – Kerry Lohmeier, MSIS, JD, Associate Dean of Library and Information Services The University of Akron School of Law/ Suzanne Darais, JD, MLS, Director, Faust Law Library, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law; 4. The Business of Running a Law Library - Abigail Ross, MLS Principal RoFinCo, LLC; 5. Managing remote and hybrid workers - John DiGilio, MLIS, JD Firmwide Director of Library Services, Sidley Austin LLP; 6. Vendor Relations: Navigating Challenges & Opportunities with Collaboration, Negotiation & Implementation – Crystal Alberthal, MLIS, Head of Collections, Resources & Information Management, University of Washington Gallagher Law Library/Pearl McCrea, MLIS, Collection Management Librarian, University of Washington Gallagher Law Library; 7. Institutional Knowledge Management and Succession Planning - Sabrina Sondhi, JD, MLIS Director of the H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library and Professor of Legal Research, Penn State Dickinson Law/Amy Carr, MLIS Senior Manager, Knowledge Management, Bowman and Brooke LLP; 8. How to create a strategic plan and prove the ROI of the library – Rachel Gordon, MLIS, MBA, JD, Director of Library Services, Yale Law Library/ Marci Wilding, JD Public Services Law Librarian/Assistant Professor of the Practice of Law University of Mississippi; 9.
.Law firm Libraries: Organizational structure, Positioning of the Library, and Law Firm Mergers – Marcia Burris, Director of Research and Knowledge Management, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP: 10. Digital Leases and Lost Legacies: The Quest for Sustainable Access - Sabrina Sondhi, JD, MLS Director of the H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library and Professor of Legal Research, Penn State Dickinson Law; 11. Risk Management in Law Libraries - Marci Wilding, JD Public Services Law Librarian/Assistant Professor of the Practice of Law University of Mississippi; Law Library Technologies; 12. The Law Library Website - Syd Stephenson, MLIS Electronic Services & Systems Librarian Oklahoma City University School of Law/Jingwei Zhang, MLS, LLM Reference and student services librarian, Rutgers Law Library; 13. The Law Library Intranet - Erik Adams, MLIS, Director of Library Digital Technology, Sidley Austin LLP/ Iain Barksdale, MLS JD, Law School Technology Services Librarian, The University of Alabama School of Law/ Kristen Naik, MLIS, Digital Initiatives Analyst, Sidley Austin LLP; 14. Cybersecurity Issues and Training - Susan Boland, MLIS, JD Associate Director, University of Cincinnati Robert S. Marx Law Library; 15. AI and Machine Learning in Law Libraries - Sarah Ryan, MLS, PhD, JD, Director of the Law Librarianship Program; Associate Professor of Information Science, University of North Texas/Cas Laskowski, MLIS, JD, Head of Research, Data, & Instruction; Director, Law Library Fellows Program, University of Arizona; 16. Generative AI in Law Libraries - Michelle Rodenburg, MIS, JD Law & Technology Librarian University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law/ Jennifer Wondracek, MLIS, JD Associate Dean for Legal Information and Library Services, Capital University Law Library; 17. AI-Driven Competitive Intelligence – Jim Currie, MBA, Competitive Intelligence Manager, Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP/Josh Farley, Senior Competitive Intelligence Coordinator, Norton Rose Fulbright /Victoria Swindle, MLIS, Library Technology Specialist, Steptoe & Johnson PLLC; 18. Big Data and Law Libraries - Monique Gonzalez, MLIS, JD Associate Dean and Director for the Library and Information Technology Services, Paul M. Herbert Law Center, Louisiana State University; 19. Data on the Horizon: Involvement and Impact of Law Librarians in Big Data Projects - Erik Adams, MLIS, Director of Library Digital Technology, Sidley Austin LLP/ Kristen Naik, MLIS, Digital Initiatives Analyst, Sidley Austin LLP; Law Library Challenges and Opportunities; 20. Advancing the Impact of Legal Information: Challenges and Opportunities in Law Firm Libraries – Scott Bailey, MSIS, Director of Research & Knowledge Services, Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP; 21. Challenges and Opportunities in Government Law Libraries - Holly Grimes, MLIS, Circulation Librarian, Alabama Supreme Court and State Law Library; 22. Using Scenario Planning to Discover Challenges and Opportunities in Academic Law Libraries - Debbie Ginsberg, MLIS, JD Faculty Services Manager Harvard Law School Library; 23. How Law Libraries Can Reimagine Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in an Anti-DEI Climate – Monique Gonzalez, MLIS, JD Associate Dean and Director for the Library and Information Technology Services, Paul M. Herbert Law Center, Louisiana State University/ Phebe Huderson-Poydras, MLIS, JD, Director of Library Services, Professor of Law, Southern University Law Center; 24. Access to Justice (A2J) - Latia Ward, MSLS, JD Research Librarian University of Virginia School of Law, Arthur J. Morris Law Library/Rebecca Katz, MSLIS, JD, Founder and Executive Director, JusticeAccess; 25. Law Library Partnerships - Kris Turner, MLIS, JD Associate Director of Public Services University of Wisconsin Law Library; 26. Working in the Field Without an MLIS - Don Boman, MLIS Research & Knowledge Resources Manager Skadden Arps; 27. The Professional Law Librarian Today - Malika Lipscomb, MLS Research & Training Librarian Fisher Phillips/ Nicholas Lamb, MA, JD Information Research Specialist in Learning Technology at Baker Library, Harvard Business School; 28. The Law Library as a Center for Innovation - Kenton Brice, MLS, JD Law Library Director University of Oklahoma College of Law; Bibliography; Index; About the Editor; About the Contributors