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Update from China-US Conference on Legal Info/Law Libs

The China-US Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries is underway! Here is an excerpt of the impressions of one of the participants. The conference involves Associate Dean and Director of the Law Library Joan Howland in a significant leadership role.

The China-US Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries here in Beijing, opening today, is a miracle conference. First, the mere fact of it is a miracle. That librarians from the U.S. and China, (in fact, there are librarians here from other countries, too!), should put together a jointly planned conference, and gain support from China?s central education ministry for it is quite amazing. With the blessing of the ministry, not only most of China?s law schools? librarians, but also their deans are attending! And many western librarians are attending ? not only directors, but also reference and cataloging librarians. This is a wonderful development.

Read more of this participant's impressions at Out of the Jungle blog.

Full post as published by LexLibris on May 29, 2009 (boomark / email).