Legal Research and Information Literacy – San Francisco

The AALS Section on Law Libraries will hold a program during the AALS 2011 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Jan. 5-8, 2011, on Legal Research and Information Literacy: The Intersection of Intellectual and Practical Skills.  The call for papers deadline is Sept. 17, 2010.

This Call for Papers will result in a panel presentation by three to five authors writing in areas suggested by the program description, which follows:

Legal Research and Information Literacy:
The Intersection of Intellectual and Practical Skills

Conducting effective research is a fundamental legal skill, and research instruction provides an essential intellectual component in legal education.  In our constantly changing information environment, legal research education must move law students towards becoming “information literate,” with an ability to articulate and evaluate the problem presented to them, identify appropriate information resources and use them correctly, evaluate and analyze research results, and apply the results to help solve their problem.

Presenters, chosen from a Call for Papers, will explore all aspects of legal research education and information literacy, including defining information literacy for legal professionals; the development of information literacy standards and outcome measurements; legal research instructional techniques, evaluation, and assessment; and the preparation of law students to become lifelong learners in the legal research field.

Eligibility:
Faculty members and professional staff of AALS member and fee-paid law schools are eligible to submit papers.   Foreign, visiting and adjunct law faculty members, non-law faculty members, graduate students, and fellows are not eligible to submit.

Newer members are especially encouraged to submit papers.  Non-published works will be given a higher priority, but papers that already have been, or are scheduled to be, published (including in SSRN and pre-publication resources) are eligible for consideration.

Form and Submissions:
Papers submitted for consideration should be in a close-to-final form but need not be publication-ready.

The manuscript should be double-spaced, on 8 1/2″ by 11″ paper in 12-point (preferably Times New Roman font) with approximately 1″ margins on all sides.  Pages should be numbered sequentially.  Footnotes should be 10-point or larger, single-spaced, and preferably on the same page as the referenced text.

Submissions should be prepared using Microsoft Word (or otherwise submitted in rich text format) and must be sent electronically to the address below.  Submissions are limited to articles, essays and book chapters.

Registration Fee and Expenses:
Call for Paper panel participants will be responsible for paying their own annual meeting registration fee and travel expenses.

How will papers be reviewed?
Papers will be selected after review by members of the Executive Committee of the Section.

Will the program be published in journal?
Papers will be considered for publication in the Law Library Journal.

Deadline date for submission:
September 17, 2010.

Contact for inquiries:
Barbara Bintliff
University of Colorado at Boulder
402 UCB
Boulder, CO  80309-0402
303-492-1233
Barbara.bintliff@colorado.edu
(NOTE: updated contact information will be provided when available)

UPDATE (Sept. 12, 2010):
Contact for inquiries:
Barbara Bintliff
Joseph C. Hutcheson Professor in Law
Director of Research
Tarlton Law Library
Jamail Center for Legal Research
The University of Texas School of Law
727 East Dean Keeton Street
Austin, TX 78705
Ph: 512-471-7735 Fax: 512-471-8398

Contact for submissions:
Anne Klinefelter
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3385
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3385
(919) 962-1049
klinefel [at] email.unc.edu

Authors of accepted papers will be notified by October 8, 2010.

Barbara Bintliff
Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law
Director, William A. Wise Law Library
University of Colorado at Boulder
402 UCB, 2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Boulder, CO  80309
voice:  303-492-1233
fax:  303-492-2707

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