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Information Management

Management + Business Acumen

A History of Legal Publishing: Let's Review the Past to Safeguard Our Future

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

11:15am – 12:15pm CDT

Room: Grand Hall LMN (East Tower Gold Level)

Coordinator(s)

Caroline Walters

Manager of Collection Development
Harvard Law School Library
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Slides (PDF)

Speaker(s)

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Richard Leiter

Director of the Schmid Law Library and Professor of Law
University of Nebraska College of Law
Lincoln , Nebraska, United States
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Jean O’Grady

Founder & Author
Dewey B. Strategic
Steve Roses

Director, Sales
William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
Maplewood, New Jersey, United States

Moderator/Coordinator(s)

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Ajaye Bloomstone

Acquisitions Librarian
LSU Law Center
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

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Have you ever heard of Clark Boardman Callaghan? How about Lawyers Co-op, Butterworth's, or Bender? New librarians will learn about the legal publishing world from the early days to the present from members of the professional community who have "spent time in the trenches," and not-so-new librarians may recall the older ways of doing business. We will review the many changes in formats and publishing trends over the past 150 years: what led to those changes, discuss as a group the ways libraries have had to adapt as a result of those changes (and will have to continue to adapt), the pros and cons of a more concentrated publishing field, new technologies, how this has affected different types of law libraries, and how these and new developments may impact the future direction of legal publishing.

Target Audience:

Newer law librarians, acquisitions librarians, library managers in all types of law libraries, vendors, publishers, and professionals who have "been around for a while!"

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to sum up and follow the progression and summarize the changes in the legal publishing world over the past 150 years in terms of technologies and trends.
Participants will be able to describe and assess the pros and cons of the concentrated legal publishing industry we have today.
Participants will utilize historical knowledge to better understand and manage the future of legal publishing and its effect on our libraries.