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| Title: |
Academic Law Library Web Sites |
| Author: |
Sims, Lee |
| Appeared in: |
Legal reference services quarterly |
| Paging: | Volume 23 (2004) nr. 4 pages 1-28 |
| Year: |
2004-12-01 |
| Contents: |
In the past decade, contemporaneously with the expansion of the Internet, the number of pro se1 litigants has increased at an extraordinary rate. It is also occurring at the same time that the number of traditional in-person reference transactions is on the decline and online reference services are being increasingly accessed. The author argues that one way for an academic law library to deal with this patron base is through the library's Web site. Offering access to legal information online is distinctive from traditional in-person reference because it involves less exposure to liability for librarians and less risk of being accused of practicing law. The author discusses Web site features that would be of value to the pro se patron, surveys the numbers of academic law libraries offering those features, gives examples of Web sites specifically designed with the pro se patron in mind, and offers suggestions on how to structure the Web site to provide services for these patrons. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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