Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
Even though libraries have existed for thousands of years, one must wonder what role law libraries play and, more importantly, what roles law librarians play in supporting students, faculty, lawyers, and judges with so much information now available online? What value do law librarians add for today’s legal researchers?
At their core, law librarians continue to strive to perform two major functions: (1) “select, organize, and preserve legal information” and (2) help lawyers, judges, students, and faculty locate and use that information. This article hopes to explain just why it is important that law librarians continue to serve in these roles and how they are serving these roles for students, faculty, lawyers, and judges.
Publication Citation
Published in 2025 Green Bag Almanac & Reader (Ross E. Davies & Cattleya M. Concepcion eds., Wash., D.C.: Green Bag Press 2025), Pp. 298-338.
Scholarly Commons Citation
Williams, Austin Martin, "Law Librarians as Content Preservers and Mediators for Modern Legal Researchers" (2025). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2672.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2672
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