Open source, open law, open education: Opening digital legal research resources to students and the public

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Open source, open law, open education Opening
digital legal research resources to students and
the public
Roy M. Mersky Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in
Law and Director of Research Jeanne Price
Associate director for patron services Tarlton
Law Library Jamail Center for Legal
Research University of Texas
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Library

• "... a public institution or establishment,
  charged with the care of a collection of books,
  and the duty of rendering the books accessible to
  those who require to use them."
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• --Oxford English Dictionary

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The problem
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Why its in our interest to fix it
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Lessons learned
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From here to there
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Whats in it for us?
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Whats in it for us?

• 1. Sometime free resources are better

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Whats in it for us?

• 2. We have other constituencies .

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Whats in it for us?

• 3. We can use digital resources to maximize our
  investments in print resources

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What have we learned?
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