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24 Trends L. Libr. Mgmt. & Tech. 1 (2014)

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Volume 24


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  IN LAW LIBRARY MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
Edited by Philip C Berwick + For academic, firm, corporate, and government law librarians

The Empirical Research Law Librarian
Part 1: Making the Case and Filling
the Role

By TERESA M. MIGUEL-STEARNS, Associate Librarian for Administration, and
SARAH E. RYAN, Empirical Research Librarian, Lillian Goldman Law Library
Yale Law School

O ver the course of the last decade, the Reference Department of the Lillian
       Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School has seen an increase in
requests for assistance with data collection and empirical analysis. These requests
have become progressively more sophisticated and technical while our patrons
have become more knowledgeable and skilled. Until recently, when a student or
faculty member expressed interest in gathering data and engaging in empirical
research, the reference librarians would guide the researcher to appropriate places,
such as the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics or TracFed or ICPSR data
portal, and then send the researcher to the Yale University StatLab for additional
research assistance and support. Alternatively, members of our faculty who were
trained and experienced empiricists often hired a team of research assistants
capable of working with the data once they had found it.


(2014)

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