How to Manage a Law School Library: Leading Librarians on Updating Resources, Managing Budgets, and Meeting Expectations (Inside the Minds)

How to Manage a Law School Library is an authoritative, insider's perspective on key strategies for managing a law school library. Featuring library directors and managers representing some of the nation's top law schools, these experts guide the reader through executing the changing aspects of library services, allocating budgets, balancing print and electronic resources, and meeting student, professor, and school expectations. These top librarians give tips on addressing challenges, understanding staffing needs, maintaining cost efficiency, and implementing new digital technologies. Finally, these leaders offer advice for monitoring services, directing staff, instructing students, and teaching legal research. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside the minds of some of the leading information managers of today, as these experienced law school librarians offer up their thoughts around the keys to navigating this ever-evolving profession. Inside the Minds provides readers with proven business intelligence from C-Level executives (Chairman, CEO, CFO, CMO, Partner) from the world's most respected companies nationwide, rather than third-party accounts from unknown authors and analysts. Each chapter is comparable to an essay/thought leadership piece and is a future-oriented look at where an industry, profession, or topic is headed and the most important issues for the future. Through an exhaustive selection process, each author was hand-picked by the Inside the Minds editorial board to author a chapter for this book. Chapters Include: 1. Dan Martin, Library Director, Loyola Law School - "Meeting the Needs of Today's Law School Library Users" 2. Michael Whiteman, Associate Dean for Law Library Services & Information Technology, Northern Kentucky University, Chase College of Law "Law Library Management in the Twenty-First Century" 3. J. Paul Lomio, Library Director, Stanford Law Library "The Need to be the USAA/L.L. Bean/Fairmont Hotels/Lexus of Law Libraries" 4. Scott B. Pagel, Director of the Law Library & Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School "Changing Libraries and Changing Relationships: Challenges for the Library Director" 5. William Blake Wilson, Instructional and Research Services Librarian, University of Kansas School of Law, Wheat Law Library "The Importance of Communication: The Law Library's Interaction with Students and Faculty" 6. Christopher A. Knott, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Donald L. Garbrecht Law Library, University of Maine School of Law "Libraries as Service Institutions: Meeting Patron Needs in a Changing Environment" 7. Kris Gilliland, Associate Professor of Law and Director, University of Mississippi School of Law - "The Successful Law Library Manager: Training and Skills" 8. Marian F. Parker, Associate Dean for Information Resources, Wake Forest University School of Law "Meeting the Challenge: Succeeding as a Law School Library Director" 9. Penny A. Hazelton, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Library and Computing Services, University of Washington School of Law "Law Library Director of the Twenty-First Century" 10. Sherri Nicole Thomas, Assistant Professor of Law Librarianship, University of New Mexico School of Law Library "Premeditated Management: The Law Library as a Long-Term Project" Appendices Include: Appendix A: Strategies for Effective Legal Research Appendix B: The Librarian as a Project Manager Appendix C: Suggestions on How to Gain a Better Understanding of Your Library and Improve Your Skills