This session was a group presentation by individuals from 3 different law schools about the evolving role of IT in the law school. Historically IT was ‘housed’ in the library because the library was the biggest user of technology in the law school. That has not been true for several years now. Other departments within any school or college have significant IT needs.
At Duke the IT department was split off from the law library 12 years ago and established as a separate department. Four years ago Duke established an educational technologies department deparate from the law library and the IT department. Duke has found this configuration works well for them but cautions other schools to find a configuration that fits their culture.
Pepperdine is in the process of separating the IT department from the law library. One of the Associate Librarians is the Director of IT but they have separated the IT budget out from the law library.
Rutgers IT department is separate from the law library. They collaborate quite a bit on what they call high profile projects.
