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Tablets in the Library: Trialling eBooks and iPads at Middle Temple Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2014

Renae Satterley
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Abstract

This article by Renae Satterley discusses a trial conducted over a four month period at Middle Temple Library where members were allowed to borrow iPads for a week, free of charge. The iPads were lent to the library by LexisNexis and had ebooks and a subscription to LexisLibrary loaded on to them. In this article the author discusses the pros and cons of lending tablets to library users and whether law ebooks are as popular as some claim. It also examines the possibilities of integrating tablet computers into legal research training sessions.

Keywords

ebooksipadse-learning
Type
Current Issues
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 145 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 

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Footnotes

1 City of London Libraries and Archives eLibrary, http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/libraries-and-archives/elibrary/Pages/eLibrary.aspx. See also Guy Daines, ‘The Right to E-Read’ (Feb 2014) CILIP Update 20.

2 Matamoros, Alex Berrio and Neary, Mary Ann (2012). “Integrating iPads into legal research instruction at Boston College Law School” (Sep/Oct 2012) AALL Spectrum 27, 28.

3 Barber, Marianne (2011). “You can build it but will they come? A trial implementation of eTextbooks at the College of Law” (2011) 11(4) Legal Information Management 238.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Allbon, Emily and Kaur Dua, Sanmeet (2012). ‘Legal skills: ensuring ‘appy students’ (2012) 12 (4) Legal Information Management 266.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 Bainbridge, Jonathan et al. (2013). “iPads in Legal Learning (iLEGALL): mobile devices in professional legal learning” (2013) 4(1) EJLT <http://ejlt.org//article/view/193/290#_edn1> accessed 18 February 2014.

6 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MiddleTempleLibrary; Twitter @mtlib; Website http://www.middletemple.org.uk/library-and-archive/library/