Virtual Reference Service in United States School of Law Libraries: Its Challenges and the Way Forward

Authors

  • Olugbenga Ademodi St. Thomas University School of Law

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine what is meant by virtual reference, how effective it is, in what situations it is used, what software is used, what costs are involved, how it is applicable in United States law school libraries and a host of other issues which will include but not be limited to challenges of this service and the way forward.

Author Biography

Olugbenga Ademodi, St. Thomas University School of Law

Olugbenga Ademodi has an LL.B, 1997 from Obafemi Awolowo University; B.L, 1999, Nigerian Law School; LL.M., cum laude, 2004, Master of Laws in Intercultural Human Rights, St. Thomas University, M.L.S., 2009, Texas Woman’s University; and J.S.D (Candidate, St. Thomas University School of Law). He worked as a Public Services Researcher at St. Thomas University School of Law Library in Miami, Florida from 2005 to April 2010. He is currently working on his J.S.D. in Intercultural Human Rights at St. Thomas University School of Law, through which he is exploring the status and rights of indigenous peoples in Nigeria. Olugbenga has participated in conferences and workshops in both Nigeria and the United States. He belongs to organizations such as AALL and SEAALL. In 2008, his article entitled “The Open Source Road to Web 2.0 for Nigeria: A View of Two Worlds from the Outside” was published in the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology.

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Vol. 18 No. 2 (2010)

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