Suggested Readings

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Histories, Past Views, and General Background

• Christine Brock, Law Libraries and Librarians: A Revisionist History; or, More Than You Ever Wanted to Know 67 Law Libr. J. 325 (1974)
• Richard Danner, What are Law Libraries For?(1999)
• Diane Murley, A Selective History of Technology in Law Libraries (2009)
• Mary Whisner, Change and Continuity (Rip van Winkle's Reference Office (2010)
• Bob Berring, A Brief History of Law Librarianship in Law Librarianship in the Twenty-first Century (2007)
• Richard Danner, Blair Kauffman, and John Palfrey The Twenty-First Century Law Library (2009)
• John Palfrey, Cornerstones of Law Libraries for an Era of Digital-Plus (2010)

Opening Keynote

• Bob Berring, Legal Information and the Search for Cognitive Authority (1999 working paper)

The Open Law Movement

• The Twelve Tables
• Public Information for All: An Interview with Carl Malamud (2010)
• Law.gov: A Proposed Distributed Repository of All Primary Legal Materials of the United States
• David Curle, Law.gov: Because Good Enough Isn’t Yet Good Enough (2010)
• Sarah Glassmeyer, Open Law?(2010)
• Sarah Glassmeyer, Radical Trust and Legal Information (2010)
• Joe Hodnicki, Can eGov Still Be Considered Non-Essential Services in the 21st Century?(2011)
• Joe Hodnicki, It's Time for Law.Gov (2009)
• Joe Hodnicki, Should We Support Law.gov? (2010)
• Joe Hodnicki, It's Time for LAW.GOV, Part II: AALL To Aid LAW.GOV Project By Way of State Working Groupsharga hp (2009)
• Joe Hodnicki, Staying the Course with Law.gov: Let's Not Entertain Scaled-Back Objectives that Leaves the Rest to the Private Sector (2010)
• Sean McGrath, What Does Law.Gov Mean to You? (2010)
• Ed Walters, For Westlaw and Lexis, an AOL Moment: Fastcase's Ed Walters on LAW.GOV (2010)
• The Legal Information Institute - A Quick Overview | "law-not-com" web site

The Open Access Movement

• The Durham Statement (2008)
• Richard Danner, Kiril Kolev & Marguerite Most, Print or Perish? Authors’ Attitudes toward All-Electronic Publication of Law Journals (2011)
• Richard Leiter, Why I'm Signing the Durham Statement (2010)
• Sarah Glassmeyer, Getting to Durham Compliance (2010)
• Richard Danner, The Durham Statement Two Years Later: Open Access in the Law School Journal Environment (2011)
• Richard Danner, Open Access to Legal Scholarship: Dropping the Barriers to Discourse and Dialogue (2009)
• Richard Danner, Supporting Scholarship: Thoughts on the Role of the Academic Law Librarian (2010)
• Richard Danner, Taming Multiplicity in the Post-Print Era: Law Librarians, Legal Scholarship, and Access to the Law (2010)
• Open Access Law Program
• Olufunmilayo Arewa, Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw, Law Schools, and the Legal Information Market (2006)
• Edward Hart, Indexing Open Access Law Journals... Or Maybe Not (2010)
• Ken Hirsh, On the Durham Statement (2009)
• Jessica Litman, The Economics of Open-Access Law Publishing (2006)
• Lawrence Solum, Download It While Its Hot: Open Access and Legal Scholarship (2006)
• Jim Milles, Redefining Open Access for the Legal Information Market (2006)

The Open Collections Movement

• Robert Darnton, Google's Loss: The Public's Gain
• James Donovan, Libraries as Doppelgängers: A Meditation on Collection Development

Working Together

• Michelle Wu, Building a Collaborative Digital Collection, a Necessary Evolution in Libraries
• Sarah Glassmeyer, The Loris in the Library

Unconference Sessions

Information Literacy and Changing Patron Needs

• Sarah Glassmeyer, Ranganathan and Me, A Love Story (and Manifesto) (2009)

Digital Plus Confidentiality and Potential Roles for Law Libraries

• Anne Klinefelter, When to Research is to Reveal: the Growing Threat to Attorney and Client Confidentiality from Online Tracking (2011)

Is That Swan...Black?

• Kent McKeever, Is That Swan...Black?

Hacking the Casebook: eLangdell and other Studies in Cases

• eLangdell

Developing Human Resources: The Skills Needed for Law Librarians of Today and the Future

• Ron Wheeler, Nancy Johnson, & Terrence Manion, Choosing the Top Candidate: Best Practices in Academic Law Library Hiring (2008)
• Sarah Glassmeyer, LibPunk Mentorship (2010)
• Sarah Glassmeyer, Involvement, and How to Get It (2009)

Other Topics

• R. David Lankes, The Atlas of New Librarianship
• Sarah Hooke Lee, Preserving Our Heritage: Protecting Law Library Core Missions Through Updated Library Quality Assessment Standards (2008)