How Law Schools Benefit When Librarians Publish,Teach, and Hold Faculty Status |
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| Authors: | Carol A Parker |
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| Institution: | Finance and Administration, University of New Mexico School of Law , Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA |
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| Abstract: | Many nondirector academic law librarians publish and teach legal research classes. Some hold faculty status as well. Law librarians have expertise in the development and delivery of legal research instruction methodologies and are developing a body of literature documenting their efforts to create and share a pedagogy of legal research instruction. Principles of shared faculty governance entitle library faculty to contribute to the development and delivery of a curriculum of legal research instruction. Encouraging law librarian participation in the shared governance of law schools should lead to increasing opportunities for the successful reform of legal education curricula with respect to legal research instruction. |
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| Keywords: | law librarians faculty status shared governance pedagogy of legal research instruction |
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