Document Type
Article
Comments
Presented at the CASLIN conference, June 2007.
Abstract
WWW has rapidly evolved from a technological into a social medium. Web 2.0 has become a metaphor for the distributed and decentralized collaboration networks on a global scale. With the recent trends of new media development, the sources available have reached a critical mass resulting in an unprecedented information overload. The urgent challenge to all information professionals, in this case law librarians, is no longer availability and direct provision of resources, but rather the filtering and highlighting the ubiquitous Infosphere. The recent transformation of legal information has had more drastic consequences than in many other cases. The Cornell Law Library recognizes the new role of law librarians as advocates of free access and open source and, in parallel, as guides through the information overload and coaches of critical thinking of IT.
Date of Authorship for this Version
July 2008
Keywords
Legal information, Web 2.0, Law librarianship
Recommended Citation
Skenderija, Sasha, "Law Library 2.0: New Roles for Law Librarians in the Information Overload Era" (2008). Cornell Law Faculty Working Papers. 36.
https://scholarship.law.cornell.edu/clsops_papers/36