Yale Law School lillian goldman law library in memory of Sol Goldman

annual report 2017–2018

Yale Law School

Lillian Goldman Law Library

in memory of sol goldman

Annual Report 2017–2018 message from the director

Welcome to the 2018 Lillian Goldman Law Library Annual Report. This year few by as we brought on new members o the team, said arewell to a long-time colleague, and orged ahead with a variety o innovative projects and traditional activities. We also grate ully received major donations o rare books and special collections materials. In January, we welcomed our new colleague, Dawn Smith, Head o Acquisitions, who came to us with over a decade o acquisitions experience at Loyola Law School in sunny southern Cali ornia. As Dawn adjusted to her frst New England winter, she also led space-enhancing changes to our Technical Services and Technology & Digital Initiatives departments, with the help o Yale Law School Building Services. Although minor in terms o cost and labor, the changes trans ormed the space, opening it up and making it brighter, more pleasant, and much more conducive to ever-increasing acquisitions and digitization project work. Ms. Smith now occupies the position ormerly held by Yuksel Serindag, who moved down the hall and into the Rare Book Room as our new Metadata Librarian or Rare Books and Special Collections. He flls a vacancy lef when our colleague, Susan Karpuk, retired in the all. Be ore Ms. Karpuk lef the law library, she trained Mr. Serindag in all the unique rare book and special collections cataloging rules, the library’s local Hicks classifcation system, and other distinctive policies used in the description o these materials. This work is crucial in making our unique collections discoverable by researchers around the world. In its second year as a ormally constituted department in the law library, the Technology and Digital Initiatives department undertook several major projects this year. In collaboration with Law School IT, we began a project to digitize the Yale Law School’s collection o in-house recorded media. We completed the frst phase o this Audio Visual Digitization Project, which included creating catalog records and Teresa Miguel-Stearns barcoding over 1500 items. In accordance with Yale University’s Web Accessibility Law Librarian and Professor of Law Policy, our Technology & Digital Initiatives department will ensure that our digitization projects, and all o our online content, is accessible to those with visual impairments and other disabilities which might make it difcult to use online resources. We have also embarked on digitizing select special collections materials. Our frst projects involve two visually beauti ul as well as unique and invaluable scholarly collections: our world-renowned manuscript collection o early Italian city-state statutes; and our impressive collection o early 20th c. French postcards, donated by Lois Montbertrand ’85. We are grate ul to our dedicated alumni, such as Ms. Montbertrand, or their generous donations each year. This year was no exception. Ms. Montbertrand donated a set o over ffy French postcards and ephemera rom the early 20th century, all with popular images o lawyers, trials, and other legal topics. Other donors included Michael A. Varet ’65, who donated a letter in which Pro essor Arthur Corbin 1899 set out the history o his prolifc scholarly output. Also, Robert Bookman ’72 donated two books about the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklists in honor o two close colleagues and riends on the occasion o their respective birthdays. What a wonder ul and creative initiative! Additionally, in October, the law library received the largest gif o rare books in recent memory, with the donation o 43 titles (60 volumes) rom Pro essor Robert Freilich ’57, marking the 60th anniversary o his graduation rom Yale Law School. Pro . Freilich’s personal collection adds many unique titles and editions to our deep collection o early English law. During alumni weekend, we had the opportunity to thank Pro . Freilich and his wi e in person with a small but lively reception in the law library’s rare book room. Joining us were Dean Heather Gerken, Pro . Freilich’s classmates and

2 riends, and many o our alumni in town or the weekend. Next time you are in the law library, you can see Pro . Freilich’s beloved books on exhibit outside the rare book room. Make no mistake, however, these books are or research! Our rare book room hosts dozens o researchers and classes each year. Speaking o classes, our team o law librarian-instructors once again ofered a variety o popular and practical legal research courses, including Advanced Legal Research, Research Methods in U.S. Legal History, and specialized research classes in corporate law and international law. Each instructor employs a holistic and pedagogical approach to teaching their legal research course. Almost 150 law students enrolled in the law library’s legal research classes this year—the most ever. Our students requently ask our librarian-instructors to serve as re erences or clerkship, government, frm, and pubic interest positions. Our librarians also provide an impressively wide array o legal research workshops to our frst-term small groups, doctrinal courses, and law school clinics. These latter two examples are usually highly tailored to meet the ocus o the class or the cases currently in the clinics. Along with ormal instruction, our librarians support the research projects o our aculty and students through one-on-one re erence transactions and in depth In October, the law consultations. Individual research consultations, which account or 24% o our requests library received the largest or assistance (which totaled over 2,500 this year), are an increasingly popular and efective option or students. In act, we have seen a steady increase in in-depth research gif of rare books in consultations since we standardized our request process in the 2015-16 academic year. recent memory, with the In act, this year we more than doubled the number o research consultations rom donation of 43 titles. that frst year. Our Research Services librarians serve Yale Law School in myriad other ways, as described urther in the Annual Report. In addition to providing superb public services, we also continue to build our spectacular library collections. Collection development at the Lillian Goldman Law Library is a true team efort. Almost one-third o our librarians have particular countries and subject areas or which they are responsible. This year we took a step back and revisited our Collection Development Policy (last updated in 2010) to address the changes in the publishing industry and our community’s evolving needs. We sincerely believe we are collecting or current and uture generations o scholars; there ore, it is important to clearly articulate our policies, priorities, and guidelines to direct our purchases and to help our patrons locate our resources or their research and scholarship. Our resources would be very difcult to locate i not or the work o our acquisitions and cataloging colleagues. These teams purchase, process, and catalog over 10,000 items each year in all ormats, including print, electronic, and micro orm. A good number o our acquisitions are unique to the Lillian Goldman Law Library, which means that we are the frst (and ofen only) library to catalog the item. Our Access Services team oversees interlibrary loan or our community as well as or scholars around the world. Because we have so many unique and hard-to-fnd resources, we lend over 5,000 books each year to libraries near and ar. This year, our legal archivist completed processing the print material in the archive o Pro essor Ronald Dworkin, and has begun tackling the born digital materials. He also updated our guide to law-related archival materials, which gives scholars a single source to explore our university’s collection o papers o judges and lawyers, Yale Law School aculty members, Connecticut history-related materials, notable cases, and collections related to American diplomacy, civil rights, and civil liberties law. The law library not only collects domestic, oreign, and international law and relevant interdisciplinary material, but we also publish a variety o legal resources. In addition to the digitization projects mentioned earlier, and in keeping with the theme o producing open access, online content, our Access Services team recently added the entire run o the Yale Law Journal to the Yale Law School scholarship repository. We now host all nine (9) o our student-published journals, in addition to the legal scholarship o our aculty, students, and community. To date, researchers and scholars the world over have reely downloaded over 8.9 million papers rom Dean Heather Gerken and Professor Robert Freilich ’57 our institutional repository. 3 Celebrating Robert Freilich’s gif of English law books to the Law Library: Fred Shapiro, Mike Widener, Carole and Robert Freilich ’57 and Teresa Miguel-Stearns. To date, researchers and Furthermore, the Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Re erence, published by Yale University Press but sponsored and advised by our library, produced its tenth scholars the world over have book this year: The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History, by law freely downloaded over library colleagues John B. Nann and the late, great Morris L. Cohen. Congratulations 8.9 million papers from our to John on this antastic achievement! Rare Book Librarian Mike Widener and Rutgers Law Pro essor Mark S. Weiner ’00 institutional repository. also published a book this year: Law’s Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection. This book was produced to complement Widener and Weiner’s Grolier Club exhibition o 140 illustrated law books drawn exclusively rom the Lillian Goldman Law Library’s Rare Book Collection. The all exhibition in New York City was greeted with glowing reviews and enthusiastic praise rom visitors. We are all proud o Mike and Mark’s achievement. We recognize the years o planning and preparation that went into this major production, and we were thrilled to see some o the treasures o our collection on display in New York City or thousands o people to enjoy. Back in New Haven, the law library designed and curated a yearlong exhibit celebrating Pauli Murray @Yale Law School: 1961-1965. Using materials rom Yale University Library’s Manuscripts and Archives as well as replicas o documents rom the Pauli Murray Papers at Harvard University ’s Schlesinger Library, the exhibition showcased Ms. Murray’s educational, social, and political contributions during her our years at Yale Law School. Believing that “one person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement,” a corresponding display highlighted her writings and speeches as well as books and articles written about her prolifc career and li e. The exhibition commemorated the opening o Pauli Murray College, Yale University’s newest residential college. We continued our traditional—and highly regarded—outreach eforts, such as the YLS Faculty Book Talk Series, and Movie Night @ YLS with the Graduate Programs. We again implemented the popular wellness stations in the law library during March, and success ully ran the student creative writing contest or the ourth time. Many o the entries can be ound in the YLS Scholarship Repository. We treated our students to home-baked goods during examination periods, and we brought our mascot, Jozy, into the library several times each semester to give the students a urry break rom the rigors o the academy. In this introduction, I have only touched on a ew o the highlights o the library’s work this year. I hope this quick tour has sparked the desire to explore urther and dive deeper into the report where you will meet my colleagues and gain a great appreciation or the magic they per orm each and every day in our determination “to be the best academic law library in the world.”

Teresa Miguel-Stearns Law Librarian and Professor of Law 4 book talk series

The Lillian Goldman Law Library ’s Book Talk Series highlights the scholarship produced by our faculty, students, and alumni, and ofers a stimulating forum for discussing these works within the Yale Law School community. The 2017–2018 series featured thought-provoking works on topics ranging from crime and punishment in Black America to human rights.

Owen Fiss, Pillars of Justice. Hon. Raymond Kethledge. Lead Tom Tyler and Rick Trinkner, Why Commentary by Guido Calabresi Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Children Follow Rules: Legal Socialization ’58 llb. September 11, 2017. Through Solitude. November 14, 2017. and the Development of Legitimacy. April 5, 2018. James Foreman ’92, Locking Up Taisu Zhang ’08, ’14 ph.d., The Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Issa Kohler-Hausmann ’08, Black America. September 13, 2017. Kinship and Property in Preindustrial Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts China and England. Commentary and Social Control in an Age of Broken Oona Hathaway ’97 and Scott by James Whitman ’88. November Window Policing. Commentary by Shapiro ’90, The Internationalists: 28, 2017. Monica Bell ’09. April 12, 2018. How a Radial Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World. September Nadia Marzouki, Islam, An American Lea Brilmayer and Chiara Giorgetti 26, 2017. Religion. Commentary by Samuel Moyn. ’02 ll.m., ’09 j.s.d. International November 29, 2017. Claims Commissions: Righting Wrongs James Whitman ’88, Hitler’s American Afer Confict. Commentary by Model: The United States and the Making Hon. Stephen F. Williams, The Reformer: Michael Reisman ’64 ll.m., ’65 j.s.d. of Nazi Race Law. September 27, 2017. How One Liberal Fought to Preempt the April 19, 2018. Russian Revolution. Commentary by Linda Greenhouse msl ’78, Just a Nicholas Parrillo ’04. January 18, 2018. Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between. Commentary by Samuel Moyn, Not Enough: Human Jack Balkin. November 13, 2017. Rights in an Unequal World. Commentary by Amy Kapczynski ’03 and Daniel Markovits ’00. April 2, 2018.

5 library administration: Collaboarting With The Law School Community And Beyond

This was another exciting and eventful year for Library Administration as we continued our eforts in supporting students, faculty, and library colleagues in a variety of ways. As a dynamic department with a broad range of core responsibilities, Library Administration champions many facets of the work taking place throughout the law library.

Supporting Students Birthright: A War Story, November 7, We hope to continue these student and 2017. Co-Sponsored by Law Students community organization collaborations or Reproductive Justice and the in the coming years. For the past several years, Library Visual Law Project. Administration has expanded the ways in Supporting Faculty which we connect with our community Marley, March 27, 2018. Co-Sponsored by co-sponsoring events with several Yale by Jamaican American Connection New Endeavoring to promote and support Law School Student Organizations. This Haven and Yale Black Law Students aculty scholarship, teaching, and learning, year has been no diferent. Library Admin- Association. Library Administration engages in a istration once again played an active number o activities each year. One o role in helping YLS student groups bring Inside Out, March 28, 2018. Co-Sponsored the oremost examples o this is the multiple events to campus. In co-sponsor- by Ofce o Student Afairs in observance Faculty Book Talk Series, which Library ing these events, we regularly acquire o National Mental Health Day. Administration sponsors. The Faculty books and flms not already in our collec- Book Talk Series highlights aculty, tion as well as rights to publicly screen In the Land of Blood and Honey, March 29, student, and alumni scholarship and flms, and then we assist students with 2018. Co-Sponsored by the Women, Law also ofers a orum or discussing these the necessary marketing and publicity to and Cinema Reading Group, The Orville scholarly works within the YLS commu- ensure the success o the events. Over H. Schell, Jr. Center or International nity. The Book Talk Series section the years, these events have increasingly Human Rights, and Yale Law Women o this Annual Report highlights the grown in popularity. They are well numerous talks, approximately 13, attended and genuinely well received. Book Talks held over the course o this year.

This year, or the frst time, we were able Judge Raymond M. Kethledge, United The law library aids aculty scholarship to expanded our reach within the local States Court o Appeals or the Sixth and teaching through the on demand community by partnering with New Circuit. Lead Yourself First: Inspiring purchasing o books, databases, and Haven’s Jamaican American Connection Leadership through Solitude. November 14, other resources within reason. In addition, (JAC). Library Administration worked 2017. Co-Sponsored by Yale Law School on behal o aculty, as well as students, with JAC to bring both a movie screening Federalist Society. the law library underwrites the expensive and exhibit to YLS. Below is a sampling process o submitting articles or o events that the library co-sponsored Judge Stephen F. Williams, Senior publication through online, ee-based with various groups this year: United States Circuit Judge o the United manuscript submission portals. Through States Court o Appeals or the District these and other activities, the law Film Screenings o Columbia. The Reformer: How One library serves a vital role in contributing Liberal Fought to Preempt the Russian to and highlighting the work o YLS’s Prison Terminal, September 12, 2017. Revolution. January 18, 2018. Co-Spon- world renowned aculty. Co-Sponsored by The Orville H. Schell, Jr. sored by Yale Journal o Regulation. Center or International Human Rights. Supporting Our Library Colleagues Exhibitions Tribal Justice, October 26, 2017. Library Administration is instrumental Co-Sponsored by Yale Native American Wedeyah—We are Here: Caribbean contribu- in encouraging and supporting the work Law Student Association and Ofce tions to United States Law, Culture, & Poli- and development o all the units and o Student Afairs. tics in celebration o National Caribbean departments within the law library. This Heritage Month, June 2017. Co-sponsored year, the administrative team worked in by Jamaican American Connection conjunction with the Technology & Digital New Haven.

6 Professional Activities

Law Librarian and Professor of Law Teresa Miguel-Stearns developed and chairs the ALLStAR (Academic Law Libraries: Statistics, Analytics, and Reports) Benchmarking Advisory Board. She is a founding member of GOALI, a Research4Life program that brings online licensed and open-access legal content to institutions in developing countries, which launched in March 2018. Ms. Miguel- Stearns was invited to deliver GOALI work- shops and informational sessions at library conferences in the Dominican Republic (ACU- RIL), Poland (IFLA), and the United States (NELLCO and AALL). Ms. Miguel-Stearns is a board member of the Law Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Asso- Ofce Assistant Shana Jackson training intern N’Kiyah Galberth to fle administrative documents ciations and Institutions (IFLA), and on the editorial board of the International Journal of Legal Information. For the second year, Ms. Initiatives department to host a summer Association o Research Libraries’ Library Miguel-Stearns organized and led a concurrent intern rom the New Haven Promise Management Skills Institute (LMSI), conference of Latin American law librarians at internship program. N’Kiyah Galberth, which was ofered on Yale’s campus at SELA, called SELA Bibliotecarios, with the goals a junior at the University o Connecticut, the Sterling Memorial Library. In addition, of sharing information about law libraries, ser- spent the summer working on projects the still relatively new Pro essional vices, and collections to enhance support to or various law library departments Development Committee, implemented law faculty and students; professionalizing the including an extended stint in Library by Library Administration, hosted a law work of librarians in Latin America; and creat- Administration. During her time in the library-wide workshop on Mastering ing a network of librarians specializing in law administrative suite, N’Kiyah worked Difcult Conversations presented by Kirk throughout Latin America. Ms. Miguel-Stearns on a number o projects rom routine Hooks rom Yale’s Ofce o Organizational and colleagues Lisa Goodman and Jordan ofce fling to assisting with curating and Efectiveness and Staf Development. Jeferson researched and curated a year-long publicizing exhibitions. This workshop ofered the entire staf exhibit, Pauli Murray @ YLS: 1961–1965, and gave numerous talks and interviews related to an opportunity to urther develop our the exhibit. She is a fellow at Pauli Murray Col- This year, Library Administration was communication skills. lege and advisor to several undergraduates. pleased to be able to support several

library colleagues in attending the Lisa A. Goodman, Associate Law Librarian for Administration, served as Co-Chair of the Yale University Library’s Advisory Committee on Library Staf Diversity and Inclusion. Ms. Goodman served as Immediate Past Chair of the Black Caucus of the American Association of Law Libraries (BCAALL). In September, Wayne State University’s School of Information Sciences selected Ms. Goodman as one of ffty Shining Stars in commemoration of its 50 years of accreditation by the American Library Association. In October, Ms. Goodman attended the International Associationof Law Libraries’ 36th Annual Course on Interna- Ms. Goodman attending tional Law and Legal Information. Ms. the IALL Annual Goodman was also elected to serve as Vice- Course dinner in Atlanta Chair/Chair-Elect of the Academic Law Librar- with Ms. Willian S.A. ies Special Interest Section of the American Frias, Law Librarian Association of Law Libraries. at De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. 7 librarian scholarship and publications

Rare Book Librarian Mike Widener along with Professors Mark Weiner (Rutgers Law School), Judith Resnik (Yale Law School), and Laura Wexler (Yale University) present on Visual Culture and Legal Norms: What Can We Learn from Law’s Picture Books?

Julian Aiken Evelyn Ma Editor in Chief of GlobaLex—an electronic up against mortality: an anthology Chinese and American Forum on Legal open access publication dedicated to of outstanding yale law school Information and Law Libraries: Highlights dissemination of international, foreign, and student stories, (Editor, Lillian Goldman from Hangzhou. 22(3) AALL Spectrum comparative law research articles. Law Library, 2018). 46 (2018), with Ning Han and Wei Luo. Fred Shapiro Bonnie Collier John B. Nann Confessions of the Antedater (Dictionaries: a conversation with jan ginter yale law school guide to research Journal of the Dictionary Society of North deutsch. Interviewer. Yale Law School Oral in american legal history (New America, forthcoming). History Series. (New Haven, CT: Lillian Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018), Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, 2018). with Morris L. Cohen Michael Widener law’s picture books: the yale law Jordan Jeferson Teresa Miguel-Stearns library collection (Clark, NJ: Talbot Do It Yourself: Self-Motivation and Creating ALLStAR: How Collaborating on Collecting Publishing, 2017), with Mark S. Weiner. Your Own Leadership Opportunities and Sharing Data is a Win-Win in for Professional Growth in Ashley Krenelka AALL Spectrum – Nov./Dec. 2017 / Vol. 22, Legal Eagles & Lady Justice: Law Books with Chase (ed.) millennial leadership in No. 2, p.12, with Jessica Panella and Pictures at Yale, Fine Books & Collections, libraries (William S. Hein & Co., Inc. 2018), Christine Iaconeta. Spring 2018, at 69. with Cate Kellet. Collecting the Law of Latin America: representing the law in the most serene Cate Kellett History, Challenges, and Trends in republic: images of authority from Do It Yourself: Self-Motivation and Creating u.s. libraries in collecting latin america renaissance venice (New Haven, CT: Lillian Your Own Leadership Opportunities for the 2 st century and beyond Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, 2018). for Professional Growth in Ashley Krenelka (McFarland & Co. 2017), with Julienne With Christopher W. Platts. Chase (ed.) millennial leadership in Grant (forthcoming). libraries (William S. Hein & Co., Inc. 2018), Cesar Zapata with Jordan Jeferson. Lucie Olejnikova Yale Law Library Newsletter, September Book Review of International Legal 2017 – May 2018, 9 issues. Research in a Global Community by Heidi Frostestad Kuehl and Megan A. O’Brien. Carolina Academic Press, 110 L. Libr. J. 411 (2018).

8 one person plus one typewriter: pauli murray @ yale law school

that designation. While researching and writing her 1,308-page dissertation “Roots o the Racial Crisis: Prologue to Policy,” Pauli was also engaged in activism that would change the course o history or A rican Americans and women. During her time at Yale Law School, Pauli Murray was an active member o the Civil and Political Rights Committee o John F. Kennedy’s President’s Commission on the Status o Women. She also helped plan and organize the March on Washington with Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Phillip Randolph, and Bayard Rustin, lobbied the executive and legislative branches to include sex as a protected class or employment Using materials from Yale University discrimination in the Civil Rights Library Manuscripts and Archives Act, and tirelessly wrote and spoke as well as replicas of documents from To commemorate the opening o about issues impacting marginalized Pauli Murray College, Yale University’s Americans across the country. the Pauli Murray Papers at Harvard newest residential college, the Lillian The law library has plans to donate University Schlesinger Library, Goldman Law Library designed and this exhibit to Paul Murray College. the main exhibit showcased Pauli’s curated the yearlong exhibit, Pauli Murray educational, social, and political @Yale Law School: 1961– 1965. Using materials rom Yale University Library contributions during her four years Manuscripts and Archives as well at Yale Law School. as replicas o documents rom the Pauli Murray Papers at Harvard University Schlesinger Library, the main exhibit showcased Pauli’s educational, social, and political contributions during her our years at Yale Law School. Believing that “one person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement,” a corresponding display highlighted her writings and speeches as well as books and articles written about her prolifc li e and career. Pauli Murray, was a lawyer, women’s rights and civil rights activist, Episcopal priest, scholar, author, and poet. She graduated rom Yale Law School with her j.s.d. in 1965, making her the frst A rican American woman to earn

9 access and faculty services: Providing Local, National, and Global Service

Access Services and Faculty Services combined into a single unit last year, and exists to provide exemplary service to our students and faculty, as well as share our library’s materials with scholars across the US and the world.

materials and deliver them to the circula- tion desk or our patrons to pick up. We also have a deliver-on-demand service which is used to mail books and journals to patrons when they are not able to visit the library (e.g. during the summer when they are out on internships). The Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository (http://digitalcommons.law. yale.edu/) is an online open access reposi- tory containing almost all past and present Yale aculty legal scholarship. The reposi- tory was developed and is managed by the Access Services team, and was created with the intention o making Yale legal scholar- Map of document downloads from the Legal Scholarship Repository by geographic region. ship openly available on the World Wide Web. Containing over 15,000 papers, it 2018 was another pleasingly busy around the world. In Alison Burke, Cha has seen more than 8.5 million downloads year or Access and Faculty Services. The Chi Hung, and Craig Kirkland, we have a to date, and is recognized as one o the Lillian Goldman Law Library has seen a wonder ul set o interlibrary loan staf, most valuable ree portals to legal scholar- continual growth in circulation and related with over 40 years’ collective experience in ship available on the Internet. It serves the transactions. Our checkouts o print law accessing hard-to-fnd materials or our Yale Law School by archiving and celebrat- materials have seen an 11% increase over students and aculty. We have seen a total ing the work o its scholars; as such, it the last our years. Over the last eight increase in interlibrary borrowing or our represents our institutional memory and years, we have seen a more than 24% patrons, including digital document stands as a major ocal point o our increase in total measurable Access Ser- delivery, o 20% over the last our years. community. vices transactions, including checkouts, Our loans to other libraries have decreased This year, the Access Services team scans, and interlibrary loans. by 7% over the same period. Nonetheless, completed the signifcant project o adding To make our own law library materials we are still a net lender. That we were able the entire content run o the Yale Law more easily accessible to our patrons, we to meet all o these requests in a timely Journal to the repository. Ms. Burke and have developed a robust and highly and pro essional manner is a testimony to Ms. Hung each worked incredibly hard on popular scan-on-demand service which the incredible work o Ms. Burke, Ms. this project and it is largely due to their involves library staf and student workers Hung, and Mr. Kirkland. eforts that all Yale Law Journal content scanning chapters and articles rom print Additionally, Access Services supports (dating back to 1891) is now reely materials in our collection. Usage o this the sourcecite activities o all nine Yale available online. Projects such as this have service continues to grow every year. In Law School student journals. We ensure contributed to the huge success o the the frst ull year o the scanning service each has ull access to our expansive repository, which has become an indispen- (FY’12), we completed 270 requests. Six collection o print and digital materials, sible tool or scholars around the world. years later, in the last fscal year (FY’18), support in locating obscure re erences, As illustrated in the mapped international we completed 2883 requests. Over the last physical space in the library to collaborate, download count above, the repository has our years we have seen a 40% increase in and online space to work and publish. played a signifcant role in projecting Yale completed scan requests. We are continually exploring new ways Law School’s identity in countries across A large part o our work in Access to improve user access, both on-site and every continent except Antarctica. Services involves getting material rom remotely, to library resources. For exam- This spring, we ran the ourth annual other libraries or our own patrons, and ple, we have adopted the use o SMS text Yale Law School Short Story Contest. acilitating interlibrary loans o our print alerts to improve remote communications Each year, the entrants to our competition and digital material to other libraries with our mobile users. We now page or are judged anonymously by a panel o 10 Professional Activities

materials requests annually. It also coordi- Julian Aiken, Assistant Director for nates with liaison librarians on research Access and Faculty Services, is an projects and trains aculty, aculty assis- editorial board member for the Journal tants, research assistants, and visiting of Access Services, and served this scholars in legal research and navigating year on the library’s Outreach, Licensed Content, Orientation, and Access the library’s resources. This year, Faculty Services Planning Group committees. Services conducted library tours or He also serves as a committee member nearly all new and visiting aculty mem- for the American Association of Law bers, generating considerable positive Libraries Spectrum Article of the Year eedback rom those who took advantage Award Jury. He presented on librarians o the service. as citizens building change using Open Notable developments within the unit Access at the 2018 annual Computers this year include the creation o a library in Libraries conference in Washington research assistant pool to provide pro es- D.C. Additionally, he attended an sors with on-demand project help. Under ARL Library Management Skills Insti- the supervision o aculty member and tute, hosted at Yale University Library. library director Teresa Miguel-Stearns, Lora Johns, Faculty Services Librarian, Faculty Services librarian Lora Johns hires earned an M.L.I.S. from Simmons and manages the RAs, most o whom are College in May 2018. Lora has served on second- and third-year law students. This several law library committees, includ- judges made up o writers, alumni, law program has provided extensive research ing the GOALI Committee, which aculty, and librarians. Each year we have assistance to several pro essors whose helped launch a new U.N.-backed pro- an entirely new set o judges. This year, we projects are not large enough to warrant gram to bring legal resources to under- received more than twenty superb entries hiring a personal ull-time RA, but served scholars worldwide. In addition, to the competition. The quality o the substantial enough to require signifcant Lora served on the Yale University Li- writing was high and the judging difcult, student work. The program has been brary’s Standing Committee on Profes- but ultimately we agreed upon a unani- very well-received by the aculty who have sional Awareness. Lora has also taken mous winner. We would like to congratu- used it. Faculty members have also been on collection development responsibili- late Colson Lin (2018) or winning the delighted with our expanded weekend ties in German and Swiss law. This year, Lora published extensively on AALL’s competition with his dazzling story, Men o’ and evening materials delivery service, RIPS Law Librarian Blog and the FCIL War. We ound it to be a power ul and which is stafed by Cesar Zapata, Antonio DipLawMatic Dialogues blog. This haunting piece, to which we have returned Malabag, and Benjamin Bernard. summer, Lora was appointed the editor again and again, and ound new aspects to Also new this year is an efort to collect of the RIPS Law Librarian Blog for the enjoy with each rereading. We suspect we in ormation related to aculty scholarship, coming year and joined the RIPS Schol- will be attending Colson’s book signings in both or benchmarking purposes and arship Committee and the ALL-SIS the not-too-distant uture. Our depart- or AALS and ABA reaccreditation eforts. Collection Development Committee. ment published a book o the best stories Working with the ofces o Academic entered into the competition, which has Afairs and Human Resources, Faculty Cesar Zapata, Collections and Access been added to the law library’s collection, Services and library administration have Coordinator, enjoyed an active year and serves as reminder o just how bril- developed a survey that was administered as member of the Library Internship liant our students are. to aculty assistants this May to collect Committee. He worked with the New Haven Promise Program to select a The Faculty Services unit, which last comprehensive in ormation on the candidate for our Summer Internship year was integrated into Access Services, scholarship produced by the law school’s program, and also started a new pro- has continued to deliver the excellent aculty. The resulting data is expected gram to hire a high school senior as an service it has always provided to our to in orm the uture o the Faculty intern for the library for one month. pro essors. Faculty Services handles book Services unit and illuminate how it can He attended the annual conference of and document delivery or aculty and improve its already high standards o the American Association of Law liaises with archives and libraries all over service to aculty. Librarians in Austin, Texas, where he the world to obtain rare materials or attended various programs related to aculty research projects. In general, the new and innovative technology for department handles more than 2,500 stacks maintenance. 11 collection development: Refection and Collaboration

Collection development is a library Works that are primarily oriented toward Law; Nonlegal Subjects; Foreign Law; unction that is in a continual state practicing attorneys or are produced Comparative Law, Roman Law, o fux, as publishing patterns and the by publishers with such an orientation and Religious Legal Systems; Internation- needs o patrons are changing rapidly. are generally dis avored unless relevant al Law; Rare Book Collection; and Only rarely are we able to take any time to one o our clinical oferings or other Archival Papers. An Appendix, titled E- to refect upon and record new policies clear need. Book Considerations, reprints the and procedures. During the 2017-2018 The above general principles guide Report o our Licensed Content Commit- year, however, we did take such time to some specifc goals that we are committed tee and sets orth guidelines or when produce a required revision o our ormal to pursuing even in an in ormation the e-book ormat is appropriate or statement o Collection Development climate in which our budget is more our collection. Policy, which was last updated in 2010. constrained than in the past: The above-quoted excerpt rom the This revision was a very use ul exercise, Collection Development Policy provides as it orced us to rethink some policies, • Collect electronic legal resources the theory behind our collecting. The saving considerable money in the process. o signifcant value to our aculty practice o collecting is illustrated by the The revision also was use ul because and students, unless a resource concrete list o electronic resources it resulted in a document that we hope is prohibitively expensive. purchased or licensed during 2017-2018. will help patrons and staf to better Here are some o the more notable understand our library collection and be • Comprehensively collect scholarly new electronic resources: better able to locate resources or their monographs or United States research and scholarship. law and or public international Climate Change and Law Collection The introductory section o the law in the English language. Collection Development Policy states the Making of Modern Law: distinctive guiding principles o why • Collect oreign-law materials ACLU Records, Part 2 and how we collect resources: extensively in order to serve the “The Lillian Goldman Law Library current and uture research Mergent SEC Historical Collection collects books, serials, databases, needs o our aculty and students and other resources primarily to support and to enhance nationwide ProQuest Executive Branch research and instruction by current access to such materials. Documents, Part 3 and uture Yale Law School aculty and students. A secondary but important • Maintain one o the premier ProQuest House of Commons purpose o our collection is to support collections o legal history materials Parliamentary Papers, 21st Century current and uture law-related research in the world. This means we will and scholarship by members o the collect rare law books extensively, Washington Post digital license Yale University community and scholars retain and preserve older materials, rom throughout the world. collect reprints, and collect Some o these were acquired in collabora- Collection policy refects the Yale Law current secondary sources on tion with the University Library, School’s theoretical orientation, its strong legal history extensively. allowing us to obtain very valuable tools tradition o interdisciplinary studies or Law School aculty and students involving the social sciences and the • Collect the social science, humanities, while in most cases paying only part o humanities, and its longstanding interest and general monographs most in the cost. For example, the Mergent in law viewed rom a global and historical demand by our aculty and students, SEC Historical Collection o previously perspective. We avor publications that to the extent that budget permits.” unavailable securities flings back take a scholarly or critical approach. to the 1960s was purchased together We avor items published by university Afer the Introduction, other sections with the University’s Center or Science presses and other publishers who produce o the Collection Development and Social Science In ormation. Most scholarly or authoritative materials. Policy cover Format and Duplication importantly, when the Washington Guidelines; Guidelines or Specifc Post ended its ree digital license or Types o Material; United States

12 Professional Activities

educators and students, the Law Library, Nann, and or our library as a whole. Fred Shapiro, Associate Director for responding to requests by the Law John is the principal author, with the late Collections and Access, continued his School community, initiated negotiations Morris Cohen, our ormer director, roles as consultant to the Making of with the Post that led to a pathbreaking listed as coauthor because he originally Modern Law digital legal history prod- campuswide subscription or Yale. conceived the work. It is a notable honor ucts, consultant to the Oxford English At the end o the fscal year, our existing or Mr. Nann that the Yale Law School Dictionary on legal terms, series editor for Yale University Press on the Yale Wall Street Journal digital license or name is attached to the book. Law Library Series in Legal History and Law School afliates was being converted Our primary digital publication is the Reference, and editor of the Yale Book to a campuswide WSJ subscription that Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository, of Quotations. His annual list of the ten will be much less expensive or us. We an open-access archive o YLS’s aculty, most notable quotations of the year are grate ul to Julie Linden, Director o student, and other publications, intended was disseminated by the Associated Collection Development at the University to present the intellectual output o the Press and covered by other media such Library, and her colleagues or their school and preserve its institutional as National Public Radio “All Things work on these acquisitions. history. The Access and Faculty Services Considered.” He also served as a con- As noted in last year’s Annual Report, section o this Annual Report describes sultant to the United States Postal Ser- “One distinctive strength o collection current developments o the repository. vice. development at YLS is a heavy emphasis In conjunction with the Gale publish- on oreign, comparative, and international ing company, our library has created the Daniel Wade, Curator for Foreign and International Law, attended the Ameri- law. This is an essential means o support- Making of Modern Law series o digital can Association of Law Libraries An- ing globally- ocused scholarship and products, constituting perhaps the world’s nual Meeting, where he led the Foreign, research by aculty, students, and centers, most important legal history database. Comparative and International Law one that requires special expertise and During this year planning began on book discussion group. linguistic competence on the part o our a new module o MOML, based in part on librarians.” This year, newer librarians our library’s collection and spearheaded have assumed roles in our selection o by our Associate Director or Collections oreign legal materials. Lucie Olejnikova and Access, Fred Shapiro. now works with Daniel Wade in the very important area o selecting German law. Lora Johns and Stacia Stein have responsibility or selecting, respectively, Swiss law and Austrian law.

Library Publications

The Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference, published by Yale University Press but sponsored and advised by our library, produced its tenth book this year: The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History by John B. Nann and Morris L. Cohen. This landmark book is a great mile- stone or our librarian colleague, John

Curator for Foreign and International Law Dan Wade inspects an exhibit he is curating on L1.

13 foreign and international law collection: Notes from the Underground

Collaborative Collection Germany and Luxembourg, maintaining In addition, librarians continued to Development the current profle and adding materials provide research training workshops on on criminal and commercial law. Stacia international law to students enrolled Stein, Instructional Services Librarian in doctrinal and clinical courses, ofen at and Lora Johns, Faculty Services Librarian, the request o our aculty. In the all and The law library continues to collect joined the collection development team the spring semesters, we worked closely sources in comparative law in English, and select materials rom Austria and with students in clinics, including the French, German, Italian, and Spanish and Switzerland respectively. The blog post Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic and the augment its ocused oreign law acquisi- “German Law Monographic Collection Asylum Clinic. In the past year, one-of tions. It collaborates with the Northeast Development at Yale” submitted by research workshops on international, Foreign Law Librarians’ Cooperative Mr. Wade in FCIL-SIS’s DipLawMatic oreign and comparative law tailored or Group (NEFLLCG), a regional consor- Dialogues Blog succinctly describes law students enrolled in a substantive tium where librarians in the Foreign the collective efort o German law course, undergraduate students enrolled and International Law Collection meet monographic collection development in a seminar, journal editors, clinical twice a year with their counterparts rom at the law library. students and moot court contestants, Columbia University, Cornell University, were ofered by librarians in the Research Fordham University, Georgetown Univer- Print acquisitions aside, noteworthy Services and Instructional Services depart- sity, Harvard University, and University electronic resources acquired in the ments. A series o research workshops o Pennsylvania, and share in ormation past year include Brill Primary Sources ofered to incoming graduate students on issues and trends o legal publishing. Climate Change and Law Collection rom all over the world was also scheduled Evelyn Ma with Dan Wade, and Lucie and ProQuest House o Commons during the all 2017 semester. Additionally, Olejnikova attended the all and spring Parliamentary Papers, 21st Century. librarians continue to provide research meetings o NEFLLCG respectively. support to our aculty and students, and The law library continues to collect continued to ofer the popular individual print materials o regions in accordance Experiential Teaching and and group research consultations. with guidelines agreed upon by Research Support member institutions. With Ms. Olejnikova joining the team Reaching out to the Community Daniel Wade, Curator o Foreign and as Head o Foreign and International International Law, oversees the exceptional Law, the one-credit Research Methods in In the past year, Mr. Wade, assisted by human rights collection and acquisitions Foreign and International Law course Ms. Olejnikova and Ms. Ma, has taken the rom a wide variety o oreign jurisdic- resumed in spring 2018. In order to lead in preparing exhibits highlighting tions. Other librarians assist with the provide a more active experiential learning the breadth and depth o our print selection process based on their interest opportunity or students, Ms. Olejnikova collection. The displays with well-timed and expertise. Cate Kellett, Catalog and has modifed the existing one-credit thematic oci included the ollowing: Government Documents Librarian, legal research class to accommodate collects or Latin America and Iberia. more hands-on in-class exercises. 19th Century Russian Literature and Law Ms. Ma, Re erence Librarian or Foreign Supplementing lectures and database (Summer 2017) by Mr. Wade and International Law, collects or China, demonstrations, which characterize the Korea, Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia. more traditional classroom pedagogy, Peace and Peacekeeping in commemoration Senior Librarian or Re erence, Instruc- the course aimed to cultivate students’ o the United Nations International Day tion, and Collection Development, research skills in practical problem o Peace (September 2017) by Mr. Wade John Nann, has a wide port olio covering solving, research process planning, and German Witch Trials (October 2017) the European Union and countries sharing critical evaluation, use, and application by Mr. Wade the British Commonwealth traditions: o available research resources. The India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand well-received seven-week course enjoyed Nuclear Disarmament (October 2017) and the United Kingdom. Head o Foreign good enrollment and each class was by Mr. Wade and International Law, Ms. Olejnikova, ocused and lively, smattered with active oversees selections o materials on student participation. Human Rights and Indigenous Peoples (December 2017) by Ms. Ma

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Evelyn Ma, Reference Librarian for Foreign and International Law, is a member of the Chinese-American Forum of Legal Information (CAFLL) Executive Board. She currently serves on the law library Orientation and Outreach Committees.

Lucie Olejnikova, Head of Foreign and International Law, is the current chair of the FCIL-SIS website committee (2016-2020). She continues to be Editor-in-chief of GlobaLex and Secretary of International Legal Arctic Law (January 2018) by Mr. Wade graduate student community a unique Research Interest Group (ILRIG), plat orm or cultural and legal conversa- American Society of International Law CEDAW and Women’s Rights (February tions through the medium o movies. (ASIL). She currently serves on the 2018) by Mr. Wade law library Professional Development Throughout the academic year, we ofered Committee. Hugo Grotius: The Father of International library tours and orientation programs Law (March 2018) by Mr. Wade. or incoming students and visitors. In the Of Bees and Law (June 2018), by Ms. summer o 2018, we welcomed 29 interna- Olejnikova, a sampling o works on bees, tional lawyers, jurists, law students, and honeybees, and bee keeping and law, prospective graduate law students rom showcasing a variety o relevant US and our continents who were attending the oreign law titles, including a 1930 week-long Yale Summer Law Program. German doctoral thesis (Einwirkungen (Immissionen) auf Grundstcke gemäss § 906 BGB: unter besonderer Bercksichtigung der Professional Development durch Bienen verursachten Immissionen by and Engagement Bernhard Hecker), a 1908 French doctoral thesis (La condition juridique des abeilles Librarians continue to participate in the by Richard Moulis), and a 1891 German global exchange o legal in ormation and monograph (Das recht an bienen: Zugleich take advantage o pro essional develop- ein beitrag zur allgemeinen lehre vom recht ment opportunities. Ms. Ma and Mr. an tieren by Dr. Jur. Karl Bälz). Wade attended the Annual Meeting o American Association o Law Libraries We continue to co-host Movie Nights @ (AALL) held in Austin, TX in July 2017. YLS with the Graduate Programs. Co- Ms. Ma, Ms. Olejnikova, and Mr. Wade ordinated by Ms. Ma and Yuksel Serindag, continue to be involved in pro essional Rare Book Cataloger, the event is in its organizations, including the AALL, the 12th year. Five movies were presented by American Society o International Law students enrolled in the LL.M. program, (ASIL), the International Association o with one co-coordinated by law students Law Librarians (IALL), and the Chinese- enrolled in the reading group, “Women, American Forum o Legal In ormation Law and Cinema”. The movies eatured (CAFLL). Ms. Olejnikova continues to included: Ida (Poland) and The Secret in serve as editor-in-chie o GlobaLex, an Their Eyes (Argentina) in the all; and 4 electronic open access publication dedi- Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Romania), cated to the dissemination o interna- Lipstick Under My Burkha (India), and The tional, oreign, and comparative law Divine Order (Switzerland) in the spring. research articles. The orum continues to provide the YLS

15 lillian goldman law library Strategic Plan 2018–2022

Vision: To be the best academic law library in the world

Mission: The Lillian Goldman Law Library supports the rich educational and scholarly programs o Yale Law School and Yale University. We contribute to global legal research, scholarship, and education. Our outstanding collections and exemplary services make the library a centerpiece o the Yale Law School experience.

Guiding Principles: intellectual curiosity: thoughtfulness: helpfulness:

We engage the world creatively We are refective, strategic, and We utilize our expertise to provide with open minds, seeking deliberate in our library assessment the highest level o service to and sharing knowledge across and decision-making. anticipate and meet the needs the global community. o patrons and colleagues.

respect: dissemination of knowledge:

We value and respect each member We gather, organize, and preserve o our community as a complete digital and physical resources to person. We endeavor to oster diversity, acilitate access to knowledge. We inclusion, and compassion in our guide and instruct in the discovery, library and beyond. use, and evaluation o in ormation.

16 Strategic Objectives:

sustainable librarianship: creative librarianship: public good:

1. Implement and maintain the best 1. Foster an environment that 1. Expand the law library’s engagement systems and processes to provide the encourages orward thinking in the legal and library pro essions highest level o service to Yale Law and risk-taking without obstacles through advocacy in the areas School aculty, students, and staf. to innovation. o in ormation policy and access to justice. 2. Explore sustainable and innovative 2. Explore digital tools and approaches to research support and strategies to enhance legal 2. Promote accuracy in and open access education. research and scholarship. to in ormation.

3. Build and maintain world-class digital 3. Participate in the development 3. Acquire resources or an inclusive and print collections that serve the o emerging technical and present and uture, ensuring that Yale Law School and the larger legal pro essional standards and underrepresented and marginalized and scholarly communities. initiatives. groups and views are meaning ully refected in the library’s collection. 4. Preserve our collection in use ul and 4. Develop models or assessing accessible ormats. new and existing responsibilities 4. Cultivate relationships with diverse to optimize use o resources populations in the law school and the 5. Ensure intellectual access to law and personnel. library pro ession. library resources through robust description and organization 5. Integrate environmental awareness and that acilitates discovery, access, green practices into library operations. and use o in ormation.

communication: people:

1. Improve communication with 1. Foster a culture o autonomy patrons to increase awareness and that values our staf as experts, understanding o the value and pro essionals, and unique utility o in ormation literacy. individuals.

2. Explore innovative methods to 2. Further the development and actively engage and educate patrons wel are o our staf by ensuring on our services and resources. time and space or pro essional growth, thought ul refection, 3. Make imaginative and deliberate and wellness. use o presentation space and media to in orm patrons and enhance the 3. Address potential sa ety and library experience. emergency issues within the library, developing protocols 4. Augment staf understanding through as necessary to meet patron transparency o job duties, workfows, and staf concerns. and administrative operations. 4. In all the library’s activities, 5. Enhance internal communication by be welcoming, supportive, encouraging open dialogue during and use ul. decision-making.

17 legal archives

Yale’s law-related archival collections support scholarship by preserving been processing the papers o Ronald legal history and giving researchers access to primary source materials Dworkin, the infuential legal philosopher, public intellectual, and ormer Yale Law School pro essor. The Dworkin papers include correspondence, subject and research fles, writings, and personal materials rom throughout his li e and career. Materials range rom copies o Pro essor Dworkin’s 1950s Ox ord University jurisprudence exams, to correspondence with colleagues at Yale and elsewhere, to drafs and outlines o articles and books rom the late 1960s through the 2010s. This year Mr. Sonnen- berg completed physical processing or the paper materials in the Dworkin papers. This process involved frst reviewing all materials, checking or damage or deterio- ration, and arranging the papers into thematic series to acilitate research by scholars, while also respecting the original order in which Pro . Dworkin organized his papers. Mr. Sonnenberg then rehoused materials in acid- ree archival boxes and olders or long-term preservation, and created a detailed inventory. The next step will be completing a fnding aid or the collection. A fnding aid serves as a guide to the contents o the collection or researchers, combining an inventory o materials with other contextual in or- mation about the origins and processing o the collection. In addition to paper materials, the Dworkin papers also include a signifcant amount o “born-digital” material— computer fles created by Pro . Dworkin A long with the Lillian Goldman Mr. Sonnenberg processes, arranges, and stored on hard drives and foppy Law Library’s outstanding collections o and describes newly-acquired collections, disks. Mr. Sonnenberg prepared these legal publications, digital resources, and responds to re erence questions rom materials or trans er to Yale’s Digital rare books, Yale University also holds students, aculty, and other researchers Accessioning Service, which created exact law-related archival collections. These about law-related materials, assists in the copies o each disk and drive or perma- manuscript collections are held within acquisition o new materials, and serves nent storage. In the coming year, we plan Yale University Library’s Manuscripts and as a conduit between the law library and to review these materials, incorporate Archives department. The Archivist or Manuscripts and Archives to promote them into the published fnding aid, and Legal Collections, Eric Sonnenberg, the use o legal archival collections at Yale make them available to researchers. works within Manuscripts and Archives and beyond. We have also pursued new collecting to process legal collections and support This year was a busy one or legal opportunities this year and have recently research using these materials. archives at Yale. The primary ocus has reached an agreement to acquire the

18 Professional Activities

papers o Judge George Bundy Smith. To help scholars navigate these collec- Eric Sonnenberg, Archivist for Judge Smith was a Yale graduate (Yale tions, Manuscripts and Archives maintains Legal Collections, is an active member College ’59, Yale Law School ’62), a research guide to law-related materials of the Society of American Archivists Freedom Rider, and longtime judge in at Yale (available at https://guides.library. (SAA), New England Archivists New York, including serving on the New yale.edu/mssa_subjects_law). The (NEA), and the American Association York State Court o Appeals rom 1992 to research guide identifes possible collec- of Law Librarians (AALL). He served 2006. His materials, donated by his wi e, tions o interest to researchers, sorted into as co-chair of Yale University Library’s Library Staf Association Dr. Alene Smith, include writings and categories including judges and lawyers, (LiSA) Committee, and chair of photographs that will enhance Yale’s rich Yale Law School aculty members, Con- the law library’s Archives Advisory collections in legal and civil rights history. necticut history-related materials, notable Committee. In addition to processing and acquiring cases, and collections related to American new collections, Mr. Sonnenberg also diplomacy, civil rights, and civil liberties promotes and supports usage o the law. The guide also includes links to other extensive legal collections already held sources o research in ormation both at Manuscripts and Archives. These inside and outside Yale. Mr. Sonnenberg comprise over 150 collections, covering a has been updating this guide with in or- wide range o legal history. Highlights mation about recently-added collections, include the papers o U.S. Supreme Court and will continue to expand the guide Justices Potter Stewart and Abe Fortas; to make it a comprehensive and up-to- materials rom notable Yale Law School date guide to locating and accessing legal fgures, rom ounders David Daggett and archives at Yale. Samuel Hitchcock to 20th century aculty In the coming year, we look orward including Jerome Frank and Thomas I. to making new collections, such as the Emerson; and collections in international Dworkin papers, available to researchers, law and diplomacy, including the papers and expanding opportunities to support o U.S. Secretaries o State Henry research using the law-related archival Stimson, Dean Acheson, Henry Kissinger, collections at Yale. and Cyrus Vance.

Legal Archivist Eric Sonnenberg reviews print materials from the Dworkin collection.

19 rare book collection: A Landmark Exhibition Draws International Praise

“Eye-opening…” “Fascinating…” “Courageous…” — wall street journal — the new yorker —frankfurter allgemaine

Public Programming: o the law library’s decade-long efort Collection (Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing, Law’s Picture Books to build a unique collection o illustrated 2017), which won the 2018 Joseph L. law books. Andrews Legal Literature Award rom the Law’s Picture Books: The Yale Law Library The Grolier Club exhibition, on display American Association o Law Libraries in Collection, a major exhibition o 140 through Nov. 18, was the centerpiece recognition o its creativity, originality, illustrated law books drawn exclusively in a many-pronged public programming judgment, and signifcant contribution to rom the Lillian Goldman Law Library’s campaign: legal literature. Rare Book Collection, opened on Sept. 13 at the Grolier Club in New York City. It • Mr. Widener and his wi e, Emma Molina • Mr. Weiner produced a set o fve videos was greeted by glowing reviews in the Widener, curated a companion exhibition that document the exhibition’s develop- international news media and enthusiastic in the law library, Around the World ment and explore its broader themes. praise rom visitors. The exhibition, with Law’s Picture Books, Sept. 5–Dec. 15. our years in the making, was curated by • The law library and the Grolier Club Rare Book Librarian Mike Widener and • The exhibition was accompanied by a sponsored a lively panel discussion on Pro essor Mark S. Weiner ’00 o the 220-page, ull color exhibition catalogue, Oct. 5 at the Grolier Club, which included Rutgers Law School. It was the capstone Law’s Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Mr. Widener, Mr. Weiner, Pro essor

20 John Brigham (University o Massachu- legal history used the Rare Book Room the Yale Law School Executive Committee setts), Pro essor Eric Hilgendor as its classroom or the Fall semester, or (Mar. 23), admitted students (Apr. 19), (University o Wrzburg), Kathryn the ourth time, and made heavy use the Connecticut Supreme Court Historical James (Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript o the rare book, manuscript, and re er- Society (Apr. 19), and the Yale Summer Library), and John D. Gordan III ence collections. Landmark works in early Law Seminar (June 27). (Cromwell Foundation). English and American law were used by The Rare Book Collection’s online Pro essor John Langbein in his History resources continued to grow. The Flickr • The law library sponsored a public o the Common Law class on Sept. 25 and site grew by almost a thousand images, lecture at the Yale Law School on Nov. 8, Nov. 27, with students remaining afer organized into 132 albums. Since its eaturing Pro essor Judith Resnik o the lectures to get close looks at the books inception in 2008, the site has garnered the law school, Pro essor Laura Wexler and ask questions. Mr. Widener gave a over 1.8 million views, including 200,000 (American Studies, Yale), Mr. Widener, presentation on illustrated law books to in the past year. There were close to six and Mr. Weiner. the Feb. 6 meeting o the Visual Law thousand downloads o documents in Project’s Images o Justice reading group. the Yale Law Special Collections section • Mr. Widener and Mr. Weiner gave gallery On Feb. 27, Pro essor Rohit De brought o the eYLS portal. tours at the Grolier Club or the general his undergraduate class, Law and History, public on Sept. 21, Oct. 5, and Nov. 2, as to the Rare Book Room or a session on well as private tours or the Yale Library the history o legal literature co-taught Building The Collection Associates on Sept. 21 and or Yale Law by Pro . De and Mr. Widener. On Apr. 4 School staf on Sept. 29. Mr. Widener taught a session on legal In Oct. 2017, the Lillian Goldman Law biography and archival research to John Library received the largest gif o rare The exhibition and its catalogue were Nann’s Research in American Legal books in recent memory, with the dona- made possible with the support o the History seminar. Richard Rose brought tion o 43 titles (60 volumes) rom Charles J. Tanenbaum Fund, Yale his Art Department class, The Visual Book, Pro essor Robert Freilich ’57, marking the Law School, and a generous gif rom to the library or a session on beauti ul 60th anniversary o his graduation rom the Pine Tree Foundation. The videos law books which included the Law Books Yale Law School. Highlights o the which accompanied the exhibition Bright and Beautiful exhibition. Close to collection include the 1569 Bracton De were supported by a generous gif rom two hundred rare books and re erence Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae, the John Robinson Block. books rom the collection were used in 1604 Glanville, the 1635 Fitzherbert Novel the Rare Book School course, Law Books: Natura Brevium, the 1640 Britton, and History & Connoisseurship, taught by early editions o Sir Edward Coke’s Public Programming: Mr. Widener and Ryan Greenwood o the Institutes and Reports. Other Activities University o Minnesota Law Library, The steady stream o gifs rom Lois June 11-15. On June 19, Mr. Widener Montbertrand ’85 continued with a set o Following up on the visual ocus o taught a 90-minute session on law and over ffy French postcards and ephemera Law’s Picture Books, the Spring semester American nation-building, or the Yale rom the early 20th century, all with exhibition was Law Books Bright and or Li e course, American Nationhood: popular images o lawyers, trials, and Beautiful: Examples from the Yale Law North and South. other legal topics, in addition to several Library Collection. Mike Widener selected Tours are a signifcant part o the manuscripts and printed works on early two dozen law books and manuscripts collection’s outreach eforts. This year, American law practice. based solely on the beauty o their there were tours or Yale Law School staf Other donors included Michael A. typography, decoration, or design. (July 7, Sept. 11, and Sept. 14), law school Varet’65, who donated a letter in which It was another busy year or classroom graduate students (Aug. 22), frst-year Pro essor Arthur Corbin 1899 set out the use o the Rare Book Collection. On law students (Aug. 23), trans er students history o his prolifc scholarly output. July 31 and Aug. 4 Mr. Widener taught a (Aug. 25), Yale School o Management Robert Bookman ’72 donated two books session on “The Literature o Anglo- students (Aug. 28), law school deans rom on the McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklists. American Trials” to our groups o high Argentina (Sept. 11), Alumni Weekend The most signifcant purchase was a school students in the Yale Young Global open house (Oct. 20-21), Yale Law School collection o 275 Italian city-state decrees Scholars program. Pro essor Anders legal history students (Oct. 24), Fair and ordinances, including 234 rom Venice Winroth’s graduate seminar in medieval Haven public school students (Mar. 2), and 13 rom Florence, almost all o them

21 ephemeral broadsides and pamphlets. They cover a wide variety o subjects, including crime, public health, commerce, frearms, sumptuary laws, debt, blas- phemy, gambling, taxation, regulation o lawyers, and much, much more. Other additions to the Italian Statute Collection included a collection o over 50 pamphlets and a dozen manuscript rom Tuscany (1551-1697). Collections o early English legal Rare Book Fellow Ryan Martins showing materials from the collection authors neared completion with the acquisitions o Michael Dalton’s Countrey copy appears to be the only complete copy •A 1553 Paris edition o Justinian’s Institutes, Justice (1666), William Sheppard’s Survey in the U.S., bound in contemporary blue printed by Charlotte Guillard, with all of the County Judicatures (1656), Giles velvet over wooden boards. the pages dyed yellow! Thanks to Jacob’s Accomplish’d Conveyancer (1715- Other notable acquisitions include: Pro essor Richard Laursen o Boston 1732), and William Blackstone’s Du jury en University, we know what the dye is matière civile et criminelle (Paris, 1792). • Report of the Lemmon Slave Case (1860), (a vegetable dye made rom buckthorn), American rarities include an unrecorded with the ownership signature and notes but we still don’t know why. Hart ord, Connecticut broadside, O.K. o William M. Evarts, who argued the OLL for Kleveland, no imprisonment for debt case on behal o the State o New York. (1844), and Execution of the pirates, Gibbs & Transitions Wansly (1831), a seemingly unique version • Illustrationen zum Brgerlichen Gesetzbuch o the trial o a notorious A rican-Ameri- (1930?), a set o prints illustrating laws in Yuksel Serindag became the new Rare can pirate. the Austrian Civil Code; no other copies Book Cataloger in August, upon the The library has embarked on a new in WorldCat or KVK. retirement o Susan Karpuk and afer collecting feld, “Law & Modern Social months o training by Ms. Karpuk. Movements.” This sampling o titles, rom • From Anthony Taussig’s collection o He has continued his training by taking over a hundred acquired this year, gives English law, 27 STC titles, including: the Rare Book Cataloging course and an idea o the collection’s scope: War- the frst edition o Fitzherbert’s Diversite Mr. Widener’s Law Books: History & time Prosecutions and Mob Violence (1918); de courtz (1526), the 1545 Natura Brevium, Connoisseurship course rom the University Make Freedom Constitutional (1935); In Taverner’s Institutions (1551), Phayer’s o Virginia’s Rare Book School. Among Defense of Negro Rights (1950); McCarthy- Boke of presidentes (1559), Fitzherbert’s the projects that Mr. Serindag completed ism in the Courts (1953); Police Terror Ofce of Shirifes (1565), and Pulton’s were the Robert Freilich donation o in Harlem (1964); The A.C.L.U.: Lawyers Abstract of All Penal Statutes (1579). 40 English and American law books, and Playing the Red Game (1969); Handbook 27 early English law books rom the on Nonpayment of War Taxes (1971); • A manuscript copy o a printed book, collection o Anthony Taussig. The Grass Case: Defense for the Religious Claude Pocquet de Livonniere’s Regles du Ryan Martins became the new Rare Use of Marihuana (1974); Law for the droit François, with extensive and charm- Book Fellow midway through his People: An Alternative for Law Students ingly naïve decorations, prepared or the frst year as a Yale law student. He holds (1977); Attention!! Supreme Court Decisions: young son o a French nobleman in 1732. a bachelor’s degree in philosophy rom America is a Christian Nation (1982); the University o Toronto, and a master’s and Gun Ownership: A Constitutional • Damhoudere’s La practicque et enchiridion in philosophy rom the University o Right (1992). des causes criminelles (1554), the frst Ox ord. He is the lead curator or the Fall The outstanding international law French-language edition o the most 2018 exhibition, Learning the Law: The acquisition was Tabulae in Hugonis Grotii success ul illustrated law book, and one Book in Early Legal Education, and is being de jure belli ac pacis (1688), Grotius’s own o the most success ul books in the introduced to all aspects o rare book schematization o his masterpiece. Our history o legal literature. librarianship.

• An 1888 bilingual edition o the Mexican Constitution, in Spanish and Nahuatl. 22 Professional Activities

Reviews of Law’s Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection Mike Widener gave a talk entitled (Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing, 2017) “Picturing the Law: Visual Culture and Legal Publishing,” Oct. 10, 2017, in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library, “With respect to the many fne “An extraordinary new book… University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. He spoke on “Law’s law-themed cofee-table books out splendid for the lawyer-collector.” Picture Books: An Analysis of the there, this book is the best. … —bryan a. garner, editor in chief, Data,” at the Grolier Club in New black’s law dictionary You have to see it to appreciate it, York City, Oct. 5, 2017. He presented “Learning from Law’s Picture Books” and you should.” “A fascinating companion on Nov. 8 in the Yale Law School. —the green bag volume…a remarkable collection On June 28 he was a panelist for a roundtable discussion at the Litchfeld of illustrations.” “A breathtaking collection of … Historical Society, “Legal Education: —rare book monthly Past, Present, and Future,” sponsored illustrated law books and by the Connecticut Bar Foundation. manuscripts, ranging through “A unique and detailed assessment Mr. Widener was appointed to time and across the globe.” the Ad Hoc Committee on Archives of the role of illustrations and Archival Policy, charged with —the ca tonian in legal literature.” recommending a plan for the archives —greg lambert, president, american of the American Society for Legal “A path-breaking volume.” association of law libraries History. He served on the FirstSearch —jus gentium: journal of Advisory Group, advising OCLC international legal history on improvements to its expert search interface. As a faculty member of the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School, Mr. Widener taught the week-long course, “Law Books: History Publications Citing Rare Book Collection Sources & Connoisseurship,” for the sixth time June 10-15.

Sandro Notari, Iura propria: Un decennio Mittelalter: Interdisziplinäre Forschung di studi sugli statuti del Lazio (2006-2015), und Rezeptionsgeschichte 149 (2018). Historia et Ius, Dec. 2017, http://www. https://mittelalter.hypotheses.org/12757. historiaetius.eu/uploads/5/9/4/8/594 8821/notari_12.pd . Helena Katalin Szépe, Venice Illuminated: Power and Painting in Renaissance Christopher W. Platts & Michael Widener, Manuscripts (New Haven: Yale Representing the Law in The Most Serene University Press, 2018). Republic: Images of Authority from Renaissance Venice (New Haven: Lillian Judith Green Watson, Kent and Warren, Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, Connecticut in 1798: Dwelling House 2018). Size and Quality, Multi-Family Living Arrangements, and Crowding, 56 Wilfrid Prest, Sir William Blackstone, Connecticut History Review 144 (2017). in Queensland Legal Yearbook 2016 (Brisbane: Supreme Court Library Michael Widener, Legal Eagles & Lady Quensland, 2017), at 123. Justice: Law Books with Pictures at Yale, Fine Books & Collections, Spring 2018, at 69. Michele Spadaccini, Rifessioni su un codice proveniente dal Mezzogiorno Michael Widener & Mark S. Weiner, Law’s svevo-angioino conservato nella Lillian Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collec- Goldman Law Library—Yale University, 1 tion (Clark, NJ: Talbot Publishing, 2017).

23 research instruction

The law library’s holistic and pedagogical approach to teaching legal research is working well and students are responding positively. The importance o excellent legal research instruction is evidenced by requests rom students to serve as re erences or clerkship, government, frm, and pubic interest positions.

For-Credit Courses

The continued increase in enrollment in or-credit legal research courses is but one indication o the strength o the legal Instructional Services Librarian Stacia Stein teaching in the Advanced Legal Research course. research program at Yale Law School. Just as the enrollment or legal research Inter-Departmental Team a commitment to providing students classes grows so too does each class grow with instruction that will prepare them in depth and richness. The library is Julie Krishnaswami, Associate Law or their work outside o the law school. ortunate to have a number o dedicated Librarian or Research Instruction, All o our research courses and work- and skilled instructors who share the and Stacia Stein, Instructional Services shops emphasize the relationship o joy and craf o legal research using the Librarian, coordinate and oversee legal authorities to the specifc tools so latest teaching methods. all research instruction ofered by as to provide students with a ramework Advanced Legal Research (ALR) the law library. They work closely with or evaluating the appropriate use o the is the oundational research class at Yale librarians in Research Services and sources, tools, and techniques. First and Law School. This year, total enrollment throughout the law library to teach oremost, our goal is holistic: we aim in ALR was 109 students. Despite the legal research in a variety o ways to teach students to locate the appropriate high demand, we were able to keep to meet the growing and evolving sources efciently as well as evaluate classes small and add to fexibility in needs o our students. and understand that source in the context student scheduling by ofering two o the legal issue, clients, and applicable sections o ALR in Fall Semester and two constraints. Second, we provide regular in the Spring Semester. During Fall Legal Research Pedagogy assessment o student learning. For Semester, Ms. Krishnaswami taught one example, in ALR, we monitor students’ section o ALR and Jordan Jeferson and In the introduction to his seminal work, comprehension in each class as we Ms. Stein taught another section. In the Material and Methods of Legal Research, guide them through in-class exercises. Spring Semester, John Nann taught one Frederick C. Hicks (Pro essor o Law Third, each research instructor section o ALR and Ms. Stein taught and Law Librarian, Yale University, models values, attitudes, and norms o another. In what is becoming (hope ully) a 1929–45) proclaimed that “[i]n the ethical and pro essional behavior. The tradition, in both Fall and Spring Semes- history o legal education, the study o pro essional norms in the research ters, Law Revision Counsel Ralph Seep legal bibliography and the use o law context include accountability, honesty, and Deputy Counsel Robert Sukol rom books is more ancient than ormal thoroughness, cost-and time-efectiveness, the U.S House o Representatives’ Ofce teaching o the subject.” The librarians and the balancing o competing duties. o the Law Revision Counsel joined the at the Lillian Goldman Law Library Finally, we strive to make our students ALR students online or a class session. are proud to be carrying on this strong aware o the demands o the pro ession Mr. Seep and Mr. Sukol’s vast knowledge tradition o both the study and teaching by teaching them to be sel -directed, o the U.S. Code acilitated student o legal research at Yale Law School. li elong learners, and to manage the appreciation and understanding o one The teaching librarians’ respect or uncertainty and ambiguity inherent in o the essential tools or legal research. the past is combined with an enthusiasm legal research while critically assessing or current pedagogical methods and their own per ormance.

24 Professional Activities

Total Research Instruction Course First-Term Legal Research Julie Krishnaswami, Associate Law Enrollments, 2014–2017 Instruction Librarian for Research Instruction, was invited to present on a panel discussing Additionally, other, specialized research For a third consecutive year, the Librarians Ten Tips for Teaching Administrative Law Research at the American Associa- courses were ofered in the Spring and the Clinical Fellows joined orces tion of Law Libraries’ (AALL) Annual Semester. These courses adhere to the to pilot a research and writing course or Meeting in Baltimore. Ms. Krishnas- same pedagogical model. This spring we Yale law students in their frst term. wami served as Chair of the AALL Law ofered Research Methods in Foreign This pilot class provides legal research Library Journal Article of the Year and International Law, taught by Lucie and writing instruction in an integrated Award Jury. In addition, she served as a Olejnikova and Evelyn Ma; Research ormat during six sessions in the frst member of the AALL Annual Meeting Methods in United States Legal History, six-weeks o the semester. The pilot Planning Committee. taught by Mr. Nann; and Specialized program is the frst class o its kind at Legal Research in Corporate Law, taught Yale Law School and was designed Stacia Stein, Instructional Services by Jason Eiseman, Mike VanderHeijden, to meet students’ demands or more Librarian, served as treasurer for the and Ms. Stein. research and writing instruction in the Southern New England Law Librarians In all legal research classes, the instruc- First Year. Ms. Krishnaswami, Ms. Association as well as on the law li- brary’s Orientation Committee. Ms. tors employ a problem-based pedagogy: Stein, and Mr. Eiseman each instructed Stein also contributed to a number of in each class session, students work in a group o students in the research publications including blogs for AALL’s small groups or independently to address section o the pilot program. Professional Engagement, Growth, and the types o problems they would be In addition to the frst-term pilot, Mr. Advancement Special Interest Section charged with researching in a law frm, Nann, Mr. VanderHeijden, Ms. Jeferson, and the Foreign, Comparative & Inter- government agency, or public-interest and Ms. Ma, supported the First Term national Law Special Interest Section. practice. Students then present their Small Groups by working with Coker She also contributed instructional ma- research strategies be ore the entire class, Fellows to provide research instruction terials to the Research Instruction & and the class discusses the various research to the Small Group students. Patron Services Special Interest Section methods. In these presentations students Teach-in Kit. adhere to a research process, track their work, synthesize knowledge o the legal authorities and communicate the results as they would to a supervisor in practice.

Total Research Instruction Course Enrollment total alr other enrollment enrollment research courses 2013-14 87 33 54 2014-15 102 78 24 2015-16 146 95 51 2016-17 140 114 26 2017-18 147 109 38

*Note: the total enrollment numbers for 2016-17 are slightly lower than the previous year because we ofered fewer one and two-unit research courses.

25 research instruction: workshops and guest lectures

Throughout the year members of the Instruction Department partner with our colleagues in the Research Support Services Department and other law school entities to present research workshops. Doctrinal and clinical faculty and student groups also request instructional sessions and librarians frequently guest lecturer on specifc research practices in clinics and doctrinal classes.

This year’s workshops and guest Legislative Advocacy Research, presented by Mr. Nann lecture’s included: Preemption Checking, presented by Mr. Nann and Ms. Stein

Legal Resources for Community Economic Development, Summer Research Clinic, presented presented by Mr. Eiseman by Mr. Nann and Ms. Stein Data Sources for Empirical Legal Research, Researching International Law, presented by Michelle Hudson presented by Mr. Nann and Teresa Miguel-Stearns Introduction to Empirical Legal Research, Urban History Research, presented by Mr. Nann presented by Ms. Hudson Yale University Library Advanced Search Fest, Introduction to Legal Research for presented by Mr. Nann Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, Bluebooking for LLMs, presented by Ms. Stein presented by Ms. Jeferson and Mr. VanderHeijden Introduction to the Study of Law for Non-JD students, Researching Educational Rights, presented by Ms. Jeferson presented by Ms. Stein Search Strategies, presented by Ms. Jeferson Researching Legal Ethics, presented by Ms. Stein Healthcare Research, presented by Ms. Krishnaswami Strategies for Capital Assistance Research, How to Write Your SAW and Substantial, presented by Ms. Stein presented by Ms. Krishnaswami Legal Research for Environmental Protection, Introduction to Statutory and Regulatory Research, presented by Mr. VanderHeijden presented by Ms. Krishnaswami History of the Common Law: Early English Legal Literature, Legislative History Research: Introduction to the Regulatory State, presented by Mike Widener presented by Ms. Krishnaswami History of Legal Literature, presented by Mr. Widener Orientation to the Library for the Dean’s Advisors to the First Legal Biography & Archival Research, presented by Mr. Widener Year Students, presented by Ms. Krishnaswami Medieval Legal History: Orientation to the Rare Book Collection, Research for Reproductive Justice, presented presented by Mr. Widener by Ms. Krishnaswami Rare Book School: Law Books: History & Connoisseurship, Research Training for Research Assistants, presented by Mr. Widener presented by Ms. Krishnaswami The Visual Book: Beautiful Law Books, Introduction to CISG Research, presented by Ms. Ma presented by Mr. Widener Introduction to Foreign and International Law Resources Visual Law Project: Images of Justice Reading Group: for Yale College, presented by Ms. Ma Illustrated Law Books, presented by Mr. Widener Introduction to International Human Rights Research, Yale for Life: American Nationhood: North and South, presented by Ms. Ma presented by Mr. Widener Introduction to Westlaw, LexisNexis, and Bloomberg Yale Young Global Scholars: The Literature of Anglo - Law for LLMs, presented by Ms. Ma American Trials, presented by Mr. Widener Introduction to Legal Research for Yale Summer in Law, presented by Ms. Olejnikova, Ms. Ma, and Mike Widener

26 research services: Sharing High-Quality Research Advice with our Patrons

The librarians in the Research Services department are committed to sharing their research knowledge and expertise with Yale Law School faculty, students, and staf.

Reference librarians visiting Mark Twain at his house in Hartford.

We make every efort to ensure accessible, Research Support In an age during which some might high-quality assistance or all members o think library users live and work online, the Yale Law School community. When In addition to department members 45% o the 2,563 re erence questions patrons need help, we are available in- Michelle Hudson, Jordan Jeferson, Evelyn received this academic year were handled person - no appointment necessary—Mon- Ma, John Nann, Lucie Olejnikova, and via ace-to- ace interactions – either day through Friday. Students who might Mike VanderHeijden, the re erence desk in-person at the re erence desk or at beneft rom longer, more specialized was stafed this year by Lora Johns (Faculty scheduled research consultations with conversations about their research may Services Librarian), Julie Graves Krishnas- re erence librarians. These individual schedule one-on-one consultations with wami (Associate Law Librarian or research consultations, which account or us, either in person or via video con erence. Research Instruction), and Stacia Stein, 24% o requests or help, are an increas- We also provide research assistance (Instructional Services Librarian). Includ- ingly popular and efective option or through classroom instruction, tailored ing librarians rom the Instructional students seeking assistance. We have seen a meetings with clinical aculty and students, Services and Access and Faculty Services steady increase in consultations since the and specialized research workshops. I departments in orms the work o these 2015-2016 academic year when we sched- patrons pre er, they can reach us via email departments while increasing the ability o uled 301 such meetings until this year’s as well. the Research Services department to meet total more than doubled to 615. Hal o all the research needs o its patrons. consultations this year were scheduled in

27 October, November and February. The All o our Research Services librarians Faculty and Clinic Liaison Program sessions are intended to help students are experts in general legal research, and develop research plans, work through they ofen possess special skills or expertise The Research Services department also research roadblocks, and teach students as well. For example, Ms. Ma is fuent in coordinates the law library’s liaison pro- about research processes and sources. Mandarin and Cantonese and, there ore, gram. Library liaisons (librarians in the Research consultations develop trusted handles all China legal research requests Research Services, Instructional Services, relationships between students and and has collection development responsi- and Access and Faculty Services depart- librarians. The sessions demand a signif- bilities or China, Japan, and Korea. Mr. ments) serve as personal librarians to YLS cant time investment rom both student Nann, our historical legal research expert aculty, clinics, and other targeted patron and librarian, but it is one that pays whose book, The Yale Law School Guide to groups. Liaisons are the frst point o dividends or our students and librarians Research in American Legal History, was contact when a given patron requires alike. O the 1,580 hours logged during this published this year by Yale University library assistance. This assistance can take academic year, roughly one-third o that Press, has collection development responsi- the orm o library orientations, database time (586 hours) was dedicated to these bilities or the United Kingdom, India, and trainings, research consultations, and consultations with students. To bridge the the European Union. Because questions guest lectures, to name a ew examples. gap that exists between students who that come to re erence librarians run the The relationships between librarians and would like to meet with us but who are of gamut rom the typical law school ques- patrons that develop through the liaison campus, out-o -state, abroad, or otherwise tions about how to research legislative program beneft both parties: patrons unable to attend, many o us have begun to history and how to fnd bilateral or multi- receive timely help tailored to their needs, adopt video con erencing tools to fll the lateral treaties, to requests or assistance while the library is better able to anticipate need or synchronous, remote accessibility. with empirical, historical, and other both service and collection needs. We remain committed to exploring a interdisciplinary research projects, our core Clinical assistance can range variety o methods to meet students’ needs strength remains our ability to work rom guest lectures on general research or research assistance and advice. together to expertly respond to just about topics, to smaller, project-specifc any question that comes to us. research consultations with individuals

Monthly Distribution of Reference Services

Field Options jul-17 aug-17 sep-17 oct-17 nov-17 dec-17 jan-18 feb-18 mar-18 apr-18 may-18 jun-18 Total

Consultation 3 8 27 78 78 29 58 134 69 62 29 40 615

Directional 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 10 14 2 0 39

Document Delivery 0 0 0 2 3 8 7 6 3 5 6 5 45

Outreach 0 0 0 4 3 1 1 1 7 7 4 1 29

Question/request 41 58 117 255 196 104 228 285 165 171 97 77 1,794

Workshop 0 1 6 12 3 0 0 12 1 2 0 5 42

28 Professional Activities

Michael VanderHeijden, Associate Law Librarian for Research Services, serves on the Executive Board of the Law Librarians of New England (LLNE) and is chair of LLNE’s Access to Justice Committee that was formed in November 2017. In the spring, he presented on Access to Justice and Public Libraries at the annual meeting of the Massa- chusetts Library Association.

Michelle Hudson, Empirical Services and Assessment Librarian, chaired the ALL-SIS Statistics Committee. She presented a workshop, Internal Assessment & Peer Benchmarking in Academic Libraries, at the AALL Annual Meeting. Michelle also attended the 2017 Canadian Library Assessment Workshop.

Jordan Jeferson, Coordinating Librarian for Research Services, is the or groups o clinical students. Many legislative history research. Mr. VanderHei- President of the Southern New o us in Research Services assisted jden and Ms. Johns continue to provide England Law Librarians Association students in the Worker and Immigrant research support or Pro essor Judith and the Co-Chair Elect of Yale’s Rights Advocacy Clinic this year. Resnik’s book project or which she was Working Women’s Network Afnity Group. She is also the chair of the Signifcant training and research expertise recently awarded an Andrew Carnegie Outreach and Publications committee was provided by Mr. Nann to the Fellowship—The Impermissible in Punish- for the Professional Engagement, San Francisco Afrmative Litigation ment: Whipping, Isolating, Disenfranchis- Growth, and Advancement Special Project, by Ms. Jeferson to the Veterans ing—and Imprisoning. And fnally, Ms. Interest Section of AALL. Legal Services Clinic, by Ms. Ma to Jeferson dedicated considerable time over the Immigration Legal Services Clinic, the last our years assisting Pro essor by Ms. Olejnikova to the Lowenstein James Forman on a book project, Locking International Human Rights Clinic, Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in and by Mr. VanderHeijden to Black America, or which Pro . Forman the Environmental Protection Clinic. was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. We are ofen able to match a librarian’s Research Services librarians serve interest and skills with those o a pro essor Yale Law School in myriad other ways. or clinic. Ms. Stein, who co-teaches a class We assist Public Afairs and Alumni on Business In ormation, is liaison to the Afairs with research requests; we train new Entrepreneurship clinic. Ms. Hudson, aculty assistants, research assistants, our Empirical Services and Assessment visiting ellows, and others; and Librarian, is the liaison to Pro essors Issa we provide research assistance to our John Nann, Senior Librarian for Kohler-Hausmann and Tom Tyler among Assistant and Associate Deans. As much Research, Instruction, and Collection others. Mr. Nann, is matched with legal as possible we reach beyond aculty Development, is a member of both the historians and Pro essors Claire Priest, and students to support the essential AALL Annual Meeting Program John Witt, and Nick Parrillo. As liaison to work o the staf at Yale Law School. Committee and the AALL Continuing Pro essor William Eskridge, Ms. Krishnas- Education Committee. He is the wami was invited to his class, Introduction author, with Morris L. Cohen, of The to the Regulatory State, to speak about Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History. 29 technical services Professional Activities

Technical Services welcomed a new large set o the Brgerliches Gesetzbuch Scott Matheson, Associate Law Librarian librarian, completed the transition o (German Civil Code) and train others in for Technical Services, served on the another colleague to a new role, and the department how to use this steering committee of, and made several implemented a major system change. complicated set. Despite the small size o presentations for, the Preserving Electronic In the midst o these changes, the the team, they continue to catalog more. Government Information (PEGI) project, a grant-funded study to develop a national department continued to do the daily consensus on preservation needs for work o acquisitions and cataloging. Ms. Kellett worked with catalog assistant public information. Jonathan Lasky to improve the efciency Susan Karpuk, the rare book cataloger, o the way materials are handled afer Cate Kellett, Catalog and Government retired afer many years cataloging rare they arrive at the library but be ore they Documents Librarian, served as chair of the and special material rom manuscripts are sent to the shelves. Ms. Kellett also AALL Government Documents Special to 17th century German theses in myriad completed the recataloging and other Interest Section (GD-SIS) and attended the languages. Just as the rare book collection updates to the library’s large collection o Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) has been preserving legal history or the Code o Federal Regulations, ensuring Conference as the representative from generations to come, so Ms. Karpuk that it will continue to be well organized GD-SIS, where she presented, To SuDoc or transmitted her years o knowledge o into the uture. Not: Organizing Your Documents Collection cataloging to our new rare book cataloger to Meet Your Patrons’ Needs. Yuksel Serindag. Ms. Karpuk trained A new acquisitions librarian, Dawn Smith, Yuksel Serindag, Metadata Librarian— Mr. Serindag, previously the acquisitions joined the law library in January. She Rare and Special Collections, is actively librarian, or a ew months in rare book quickly learned about the department’s involved in the implementation of the and special collection cataloging rules, work and helped to rethink and improve Global Online Access to Legal Information the library’s local Hicks classifcation some existing processes. She also led a (GOALI) initiative and he is also involved system, and other special policies used success ul efort to reorganize some work in organizing the Movie Night @ YLS in the description o the law library’s spaces in the department to better ft series for graduate students. Furthermore, special collections. the changed work o acquisitions, serials, he attended several classes at Rare Book and binding. School, in addition to helping prepare for a Because o this training, cataloging o new class taught at the law library. acquisitions or the legal history collection Serials assistant Rosemary Williams has continued without interruption. One checked in thousands o new journal issues, Dawn Smith, Head of Acquisitions, continued her service to the Black Caucus o the most interesting books added to looselea updates, update pamphlets, of AALL as its Secretary and was elected our collection recently was Institutionum and new volumes. She also took on the to serve as the as Vice-Chair/Chair- ciuilium libri quatuor, which was printed in processing o the Code of Federal Regulations, Elect for the coming year. Ms. Smith partici- 1553 on paper that was then dyed yellow. a very complex serial with hundreds o pated in several Yale trainings, including Mr. Serindag nicknamed it the “curry annual volumes. the Library Management Skills Institute book.” Rare Book cataloging will continue and Managing at Yale Essentials. She to enhance our existing bibliographical Finance assistant Ivette Clegg helped also attended the Innovative Users Group records in, and add new ones to, our ease the transition to the university’s meeting in Orlando, Florida. database, while continuing to cooperate new fnancial system and worked with with other cataloging units within and departments across campus to ensure outside Yale Law Library. international vendors were paid correctly. The acquisitions team, led by Diana In addition to his rare books duties, Mr. Quinones, continued to work with Serindag will also contribute to the regular selectors to order materials rom around cataloging team by using his German the world. The team also began to language expertise. Cataloger Cate Kellett incorporate new technical workfows into trained him over the summer to amiliarize some ordering that reduced repetitive him with the local practices o the work. Louisa DeGaetano helped process department. Mr. Serindag’s contributions a record number o rush requests and will be a great asset in reducing the backlog Valerie Wellons continued working o oreign language material. In act, he to bind periodicals to preserve them or spearheaded a large project to process a uture researchers. 30 technology & digital initiatives: Setting the Foundation

can be digitized in-house by Law School ITS. We worked with several media digitization vendors to determine cost and specifcations or outsourcing special ormats, and we continue to work with ITS to implement in-house workfow or digitization, digital objects metadata creation, access, and preservation.

Digitizing Special Collections

This year we began planning or the digiti- zation o select special collections material. We are prioritizing two rare collections or digitization: the library’s collection o early Italian Statutes manuscripts and early 20th century French postcards donated by Lois Montbertrand ’85.

In anticipation o the Yale Law School’s bicentennial in 2024, we are also prioritiz- The Technology & Digital Initiatives Audio Visual Digitization Project ing the digitization o historical material department was created in 2016 to ocus that document li e and history o the Law on digitizing historical items rom the The project to digitize the Yale Law School. This includes the Yale Law School Lillian Goldman Law Library, preserving School’s collection o in-house recorded Bulletins, Yale Law School Directory and digitized and born-digital items, and media was ofcially underway at the Facebook, Reports o the Dean, Yale Law using technology to support the mission beginning o this fscal year. We completed Library publications, aculty memorials o the law library and Yale Law School. the frst phase with an inventory o over and biographies, and three student publi- The department includes: Jason Eiseman, 1500 items, creating catalog records or cations (the Yale Shingle, Mirror, and Re- Associate Law Librarian or Technology each recording and barcoding each item. porter) active in succession between 1893– & Digital Initiatives; Caitlyn Lam, Digital This process helped establish physical and 1970. We expect to complete this work Assets Librarian; and Joanne McCarthy, intellectual control over recorded media over the course o the next 2–3 years. Technical Assistant. scattered across the law school. Our ocus on digital objects management Our inventory uncovered a wide variety and preservation requires that we explore Digital Projects o media type or which we no longer have issues around project management, widely available playback devices, such as intellectual property, digitization, digital The department is responsible or manag- reel to reel, audio cassette, optical media, preservation, metadata, and access and ing digital projects that support the U-matic, VHS, and DAT tapes. The risks discovery. While we continue to explore mission o the law library and law school. o technical obsolescence and material these areas, we have completed a draf o These projects involve digitization, digital degradation make these items prime candi- the law library’s frst digital policy state- preservation, and digital scholarship and dates to prioritize or digitization to ensure ment under the library’s Digital Projects humanities. This project-based approach our continued ability to access this content. and Assets Management Committee. has helped us with budgeting and schedul- Upon completion o the inventory, we This policy statement provides guidance ing or expensive and large scale technol- fnalized a project proposal, work plan, and or the development and management ogy projects requiring signifcant amounts budget which lay the groundwork or the o our digital assets. o planning. Digital projects undertaken next phase o the project: digitization. this past year include the beginning o The special nature o some o this material our Audio Visual Digitization Project and will require us to outsource certain digitization o special collections. ormats to a vendor, while other material 31 Technology

The technological responsibilities o the department ocus on maintaining our websites, consulting on technology use in the law library, and working with students, aculty, and the law school ITS department on projects merging new technology and traditional library research support. This work involves supporting work in digital scholarship and humanities, The War Manifestos Database collection on the Documents Collection Center and also building and enhancing the in rastructure to support aculty research created to publish discrete research collec- in the digital age. tions and scholarship associated with Global Constitutionalism the law library. In December 2017 we Seminar Ebook launched a redesign o our Documents Accessibility Collection Center. Every year the library works in conjunction with Pro essor Judith Resnik to publish an On March 1, 2018, Yale University imple- The new redesign took advantage o ebook version o material rom the Gruber mented a Web Accessibility Policy requir- Yale University’s YaleSites plat orm. This Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights ing every website to meet Web Content includes a cleaner look and design, but annual Global Constitutionalism Seminar. Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG”) 2.0 also enhanced eatures such as a compre- The 2017 book, Reconstituting Constitutional Level AA. This policy ensures that websites hensive site search that allows users to Orders (https://documents.law.yale.edu/ are accessible to those with visual impair- fnd everything available on the website. global-constitutionalism–2017-reconstitut- ments and other disabilities which might In addition to the redesign we added ing-constitutional-orders), is available as a make it difcult to use Yale’s websites. two new items, the War Manifestos PDF or in a variety o ebook ormats or Database and a new edition o the Global reading on electronic devices. The Technology & Digital Initiatives de- Constitutionalism Seminar ebook series. partment made a number o improvements to the library websites to meet the new standard and improve accessibility. We also War Manifestos Database Professional Activities conducted multiple training sessions to ensure that all o our content creators are The War Manifestos Database (http://docu- Jason Eiseman, Associate Law Librarian better able to create accessible content. ments.law.yale.edu/mani estos) contains for Technology & Digital Initiatives, “records o all known war mani estos issued served on the board of the Law Libraries In addition to making the websites more by sovereigns between 1492 and 1945. section of the Connecticut Bar Associa- accessible, these changes should also have a These mani estos were collected, analyzed, tion. In May, he was elected to the board positive impact on the overall usability o and coded by a research team at Yale Law of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance. In July he delivered a presenta- the site, making it easier or all website School studying the various categories o tion at the American Association of Law users to fnd what they’re looking or and claims used to justi y resort to war through- Libraries on the topic of digitization. use the library’s resources. In the coming out history.” This research was led by Pro- months we will continue to upgrade and essors Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro, Caitlyn Lam, Digital Assets Librarian, was update websites to continue improving and heavily supported by law librarians. active on numerous committees for the their accessibility and usability. American Association of Law Libraries The database is searchable by war, event, Technical Services Special Interest year, person, or other actors. The aceted Section. She also serves as co-chair of the Documents Collection Center search inter ace allows users to narrow the Yale Working Women’s Network Career list o mani estos based on available data. Development Committee. Most recently, The Documents Collection Center (https:// Each mani esto is linked to a PDF or to the she attended the Summer Educational documents.law.yale.edu/) was originally library where the document is available. Institute for Visual Resources & Image Management workshop in New Mexico.

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Service Awards

Several members of the law library celebrated milestones with Yale this year. These colleagues celebrated anniversaries of 5, 10, 15, or 30 years of service to the university in 2018.

Jordan Jeferson Phil Liscio Jonathan Lasky Cha Chi Hung Coordinating Librarian for Book Monitor Catalog Assistant Library Services Assistant Reference Services and 5 Years 10 Years 15 Years Lecturer in Legal Research 5 Years

John Nann Fred Shapiro Dan Wade Ivette Clegg Senior Librarian for Associate Director for Curator for Foreign and Financial Assistant Research, Instruction, and Collections and Access International Law and 30 Years Collection Services and Services and Lecturer Lecturer in Legal Research Lecturer in Legal Research in Legal Research 30 Years 15 Years 30 Years

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For an eighth straight year, the library ’s trivia team bested a team Mike Widener accepting the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature of law students in friendly competition. Members of the team Award from AALL President Greg Lambert. are Julie Krishnaswami, John Nann, Jordan Jeferson, Jason Eiseman, Fred Shapiro, and Scott Matheson (seated). 33 Yale Law School

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