When your law librarians aren’t in the LRAW classroom, we aren’t idle. Here are just a few of the projects we have been working on.
Honoring Ida Salley Reamer
In 1922, Ida Salley Reamer graduated first in her class at UofSC School of Law. Around the time of her law school graduation, she was a founding member of a local chapter of the League of Women Voters and the legislative chair of the state League.
Professor Rebekah Maxwell organized a temporary public display in the Coleman Karesh Reading Room on October 17, 2019, unveiling Mrs. Reamer’s law school diploma and her license to practice law . These documents were donated by Mrs. Reamer’s granddaughter, Mrs. Cornelia Edgar, and Professor Maxwell has now secured their permanent place in the library’s Legal History Room.
Preparing for a Catalog Changeover
The law library is already part of a consortium called PASCAL, which allows our law students and law faculty to borrow physical books and digital resources from numerous other college and university libraries in South Carolina. Law library users can already find the titles available through PASCAL in the law library’s online catalog and can select physical books from other libraries to be delivered to them at the law library for free.
Our catalog is scheduled to shift to the Alma platform in June 2020, which will allow us to deepen our collaboration with PASCAL. Our librarians are busily learning as much as possible about the technical capabilities of the new platform in order to create a seamless transition for law library users and continue to make the most of the tremendous resource-sharing power of PASCAL.
Publishing Scholarship
Associate Dean Duncan Alford’s article Central Bank Independence: Recent Innovation in Human History (Lexis login required) is published in the November/December 2019 issue of The Banking Law Journal. Congratulations to Dean Alford on this publication.