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Embedded Legal Information Professionals: Challenges and Opportunities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 December 2016

Peter Wilson  and
Cosmo Anderson
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Abstract

‘Embedded librarianship’ has been on the rise in the legal sector since the early 2000s, but what is it and why has it become so popular? This article, written by Peter Wilson and Cosmo Anderson, aims to open up the wider conversations around embedded librarianship through a combination of the authors' practical experience and original research of librarians in UK and Irish law firms.

Keywords

law firmslaw librarianshipembedded librarians
Type
Law Librarianship: An Evolving Profession
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , December 2016 , pp. 212 - 218
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2016. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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