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He Was Not Afraid to
Burn a Policeman Pirate.
And Rightly So: Curating
Digital Resources in
Foreign Law
Scarlett Taylor
Practicum Spring 2015
● New York University School of Law Library
● Foreign and International Law and
Reference Intern
Internship Information
NYU School of Law Library
● Generally
○ Over 1,000,000 volumes of over 600,000 titles
● Foreign Law
○ Member of the Northeast Foreign Law Libraries
Cooperative Group
■ Concentration in Austrian, French, German,
Italian, Swiss, Romanian, Argentine, Mexican
and Commonwealth primary legal materials
Interning Responsibilities
● This major research guides thing, soon to be
discussed in detail
● Research reference questions
● Aid in foreign law collection development
Main Project: Research
Guides
● Evaluate the benefits and problems of HTML
web pages versus Libguides for research
guides
● Migrate over 60 research guides from HTML
web pages to Libguides
● Evaluate every. single. link.
● Recategorize and redescribe as necessary
● Assess holes in digital resource collection
(on the guides)
● Fill them!
Starting Point
< Before
v After
Considerations
● Uniformity
● Making resources accessible
● Content needs of the users
Obstacles
● Jurisdictional inconsistency
● Language

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Scarlett Taylor SILS Practicum

  • 1. He Was Not Afraid to Burn a Policeman Pirate. And Rightly So: Curating Digital Resources in Foreign Law Scarlett Taylor Practicum Spring 2015
  • 2. ● New York University School of Law Library ● Foreign and International Law and Reference Intern Internship Information
  • 3. NYU School of Law Library ● Generally ○ Over 1,000,000 volumes of over 600,000 titles ● Foreign Law ○ Member of the Northeast Foreign Law Libraries Cooperative Group ■ Concentration in Austrian, French, German, Italian, Swiss, Romanian, Argentine, Mexican and Commonwealth primary legal materials
  • 4. Interning Responsibilities ● This major research guides thing, soon to be discussed in detail ● Research reference questions ● Aid in foreign law collection development
  • 5. Main Project: Research Guides ● Evaluate the benefits and problems of HTML web pages versus Libguides for research guides ● Migrate over 60 research guides from HTML web pages to Libguides ● Evaluate every. single. link. ● Recategorize and redescribe as necessary ● Assess holes in digital resource collection (on the guides) ● Fill them!
  • 8. Considerations ● Uniformity ● Making resources accessible ● Content needs of the users