Law Librarian Fellows

The Library and Information Science Program in the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver and its partners, the Westminster Law Library and the Sturm College of Law, have recruited and are educating ten new law librarians, known as the Law Librarian Fellows (LLF), thanks to a grant of $999,360 from the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The generous grant was one of 31 awards given to institutions nationwide as part of a $20.3 million initiative of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. The grant will enable the Law Librarian Fellows to partner with the Westminster Law Library to work on outreach programs in Colorado with the Colorado Supreme Court.

Partnering with law librarians on outreach initiatives from the State of Colorado Supreme Court Library, the law librarianship students will participate actively as members of the Support Center at DU starting in the summer of 2010. They will be assigned a list of clients and provide legal reference, document retrieval, and other services under the guidance of WLL law librarians. Clients will include rural attorneys, academic and public libraries with legal collections, rural government agencies, and non-governmental legal organizations serving low-income individuals and families. The University of Denver Law Librarian Fellows will be introduced in upcoming blogs. For more information about the Fellowship Program please contact Chris Hudson.

Written by Diane Forge Bauersfeld, Law Librarian Fellow