Raising the Impact Factor of the Library: Using the U.S. News & World Report’s Upcoming Academic Impact Law School Rankings to Boost the Academic Standing of Law Librarians

Authors

Paul McLaughlin, University of Tennessee College of Law

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Description

This article recommends that law libraries and their librarians use the upcoming U.S. News & World Report’s academic rankings for law schools as an opportunity to enhance academic law libraries’ standing in the legal profession and to elevate law librarians’ statures within law schools.

This is an original manuscript / preprint of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Legal Reference Services Quarterly on Sept. 18, 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/0270319X.2020.1818476.

Publication Date

9-2020

Publisher

Legal Reference Services Quarterly

Keywords

impact factors, law school rankings, law librarians

Disciplines

Law | Legal Education

Recommended Citation

McLaughlin, Paul, "Raising the Impact Factor of the Library: Using the U.S. News & World Report’s Upcoming Academic Impact Law School Rankings to Boost the Academic Standing of Law Librarians" (2020). Law Library Faculty Scholarship. 29.
https://ir.law.utk.edu/fac_scholar/29