Resumen de Academic Law Library Director Status Since the Great Recession: Strengthened, Maintained, or Degraded?

Elizabeth G. Adelman, Karen L. Shephard, Richard J. Patti, Robert M. Adelman

• The status of the academic law library director is central to the educational mission of the law library. We collected data from 2006 to 2016 showing a 25 percent decrease in tenure-track directorships. We also found one in four changes in directorships since 2013 resulted in the new director having a degraded status compared to her predecessor