Ep 042: The AALL’s Femi Cadmus on the Changing Face of Law Librarians

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We are not your grandfather’s law librarian.” As president of the American Association of Law Libraries,</span> <a href= "https://law.duke.edu/fac/cadmus/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Femi Cadmus</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">makes that point emphatically. Her organization recently completed it first-ever</span> <a href= "https://www.aallnet.org/forms/store/ProductFormPublic/aallstateofprof2019"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">AALL State of the Profession</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">report, an in-depth look at what information professionals do and how they do it. The report’s bottom line is that technology is making the role of the law librarian more diverse and more essential than ever before.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As the AALL prepares to convene in Washington, D.C., in July for its</span> <a href= "https://www.aallnet.org/conference/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">annual meeting</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, Cadmus shows LawNext host Bob Ambrogi to discuss the state of the law librarian profession and the evolving role of information professionals in law firms, corporations, law schools and government.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Born in New York and raised in Nigeria, Cadmus is currently at</span> <a href= "https://law.duke.edu/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Duke University School of Law</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, where she is the Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty research professor of law, associate dean of information services and technology, and director of the Michael J. Goodson Library. With almost three decades in law libraries, she was formerly at Cornell University, where she was Edward Cornell law librarian, associate dean for library services and professor of the practice. Her earlier experience includes positions at the law schools at Yale, George Mason University and the University of Oklahoma.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cadmus’