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Management + Business Acumen

Teaching + Training

Explore Opportunities to Lead, Innovate, and Transform Under the New ABA Library Standards

Sunday, July 21, 2024

11:30am – 12:30pm CDT

Room: Regency Ballroom C (West Tower Gold Level)

Coordinator(s)

Beth Adelman (she/her/hers)

Director of the Law Library & Vice Dean for Legal Information Services
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, New York, United States

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Moderator/Coordinator(s)

Shira Megerman (she/her/hers)

Associate Director of Instruction, Research, and Reference
University of Maryland Carey School of Law
Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Speaker(s)

Caroline Osborne (she/her/hers)

Associate Dean of the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library and Associate Professor of Law
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Scott Pagel

Director of the Law Library & Professor of Law
George Washington University
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Jennifer Rosato

Managing Director
ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Jessica Whytock (she/her/hers)

Associate Dean of the Law Library, Research Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, California, United States

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The American Bar Association’s Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar is home to the Section's Council, which is the national accrediting body for American legal education. The Section is undergoing standards review process which has yielded several changes that impact academic law libraries. This program will introduce you to the ABA’s standards review process, explain recent changes in the ABA Standards that impact law libraries, and analyze how these changes affect your institution and your job.

Target Audience:

Academic law librarians or any librarian interested in law school accreditation standards.

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to explain the ABA standards review process.
Participants will identify recent changes in the standards impacting law libraries.
Participants will be able to assess the impact of these changes on their institution.