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- Title
Educating Aspiring Law Librarians: A Student's Perspective.
- Authors
Brooks, Serena
- Abstract
The article examines the current state of available additional legal research skills training needed to be law librarian in the U.S. There is currently no one accepted model of education for law librarianship. Some law librarians have a law degree and graduate library degree (MLS), some have just an MLS, some have just the law degree, and some have neither. Throughout the history of law librarianship, there have been many different schools of thought on the degrees necessary for a member of the profession, but the current thinking is that the entry-level credential is the MLS degree. According to a task force of the American Association of Law Libraries, 85% of those working as law librarians have a graduate degree in library science and nearly 30% of all law librarians also have a J.D. or LL.B. degree. Law school libraries currently require, or at least prefer, individuals to have both J.D. and MLS degrees, although there are still a number of respected law librarians working in law schools with only the MLS. Nonacademic law library settings seem to actually prefer librarians without the J.D., as they do not want librarians who may be tempted to give legal advice.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LAW librarians; SPECIAL librarians; LAW libraries; PROFESSIONAL education; UNITED States education system
- Publication
Law Library Journal, 2005, Vol 97, Issue 3, p517
- ISSN
0023-9283
- Publication type
Article