{"title":"Book Review: Helping Library Users with Legal Questions: Practical Advice for Research, Programming, and Outreach","authors":"Agnes Gambill West","doi":"10.17161/jcel.v5i1.16270","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Deborah A. Hamilton’s new book sheds light on the access to justice crisis in the American legal system and illustrates valuable strategies for how libraries can help. Hamilton’s passion for assisting the public with research and discovery of legal information makes her well-suited to share practical advice for research, programming, and outreach related to legal information literacy. Hamilton’s message to readers is clear: libraries can play a significant role in making the justice system more accessible and equitable by providing access to laws and legal information.","PeriodicalId":354781,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v5i1.16270","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Deborah A. Hamilton’s new book sheds light on the access to justice crisis in the American legal system and illustrates valuable strategies for how libraries can help. Hamilton’s passion for assisting the public with research and discovery of legal information makes her well-suited to share practical advice for research, programming, and outreach related to legal information literacy. Hamilton’s message to readers is clear: libraries can play a significant role in making the justice system more accessible and equitable by providing access to laws and legal information.
黛博拉·汉密尔顿(Deborah A. Hamilton)的新书揭示了美国法律体系中诉诸司法的危机,并阐述了图书馆如何提供帮助的宝贵策略。汉密尔顿对协助公众研究和发现法律信息的热情使她非常适合分享与法律信息素养相关的研究、规划和推广方面的实用建议。汉密尔顿向读者传达的信息是明确的:图书馆可以通过提供法律和法律信息,在使司法系统更容易获得和公平方面发挥重要作用。