Flip Sides of the Coin: Reconciling Law Librarianship and Christian Legal Education
Virginia Association of Law Libraries (VALL) Newsletter, p. 4, Spring 2000
4 Pages Posted: 24 Feb 2012
Date Written: 2000
Abstract
Few people query how law librarianship can be squared with Christian faith. Some, however, have no problem questioning in the alternative; can a Christian truly be a law librarian? To be honest, the problem may not be phrased so bluntly, but the import is the same. How is it possible to believe in the Gospel and still be an academic? And what “strange customs” and "savage rites” do you Christians practice behind closed library doors? Stated this way, the search for “understanding” can be viewed as shorthand for a rubric of exclusion. Do we wonder what novel characteristics affect other schools that serve specific groups or limited constituencies? But, in a larger context, such questions are driven by an academic - and some of us would say spiritually - inspired desire to understand. The purpose of this study is to examine several of the conceptions (and misconceptions) surrounding Christian law librarianship as applied to Regent University Law Library. While there is room for differing opinions, it is our general brief that Christian legal education and law librarianship are really flip sides of a single coin.
Keywords: law librarianship, christian, christian librarian, librarian, librarianship, Regent University, Regent law, regent, christian legal education
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