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Reflections in the Fishbowl: the Changing Role of Law Librarians in the Mix of an Evolving Legal Profession
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2018
Abstract
This paper by Victoria Elizabeth Baranow is a reflective piece after co-moderating a session at the 2017 CALL Conference in Ottawa with Shaunna Mireau. The session was titled ‘Unconference Through the Fishbowl: The Changing Role of Law Librarians in the Mix of an Evolving Legal Profession.’ A play-by-play article on the session was written based on notes and recollections from the session and published in the TALL Quarterly, the journal by the Toronto Association of Law Libraries.1 The article was used as the basis for this paper; which goes one step further in attempting to answer some of the big questions we are faced with each day while also questioning some of the assumptions and wider cultural forces at play in our law librarianship profession.**
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The editor of LIM is grateful both to Victoria Elizabeth Baranow for allowing this article to be reprinted in this journal and to Susan Barker as editor of the Canadian Law Library Review where this article was originally published: (2018) Canadian Law Library Review / Revue Canadienne des Bibliotheques de Droit 43(1), 9–15.
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1 The TALL Quarterly article can be downloaded from HeinOnline by non-TALL members and contains both a description of the session as well as an explanation of how the fishbowl format works. Baranow, Victoria, “Debriefing CALL: Unconference Through the Fishbowl,” (2017) 37:1 Tall Q 5Google Scholar.
2 A big thank you to Jennifer McNenley who took notes throughout our session - my article for the TALL Quarterly and this article for CLLR would not have been possible without her notes to fill in the blanks of my memory.
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11 Supra note 4 at 99.
12 Supra note 4 at 103.
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18 Supra note 13 at 22.
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22 Supra note 13 at 23.
23 Supra note 19 at 17.
24 Supra note 13 at 22.
25 Ibid at 22.
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28 Supra note 9 at 527.
29 Ibid at xiv-xv.
30 Supra note 26 at 88.
31 Supra note 13 at 23.
32 Supra note 8 at 189.
33 Ibid at 189, n 78.
34 Supra note 4 at 101.
35 Supra note 8 at 175.
36 From his photograph he also does not appear to be a visible minority, a factor that could make this discussion even wider and longer than my word count allows; additionally, I myself am not a visible minority, although I am female and have a disability (hearing impairment).
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40 Supra note 38 at 16.
41 Ibid at 17.
42 Ibid at 17.
43 Ibid at 36.
44 Ibid at 36.
45 Supra note 8 at 197.