Studying Law Students’ Information Seeking Behaviour to Inform the Design of Digital Law Libraries

摘要: In this paper, we describe our ongoing work which involves examining the information seeking behaviour of legal professionals. This involves studying both academic and practicing lawyers with long-term aim of integrating user-centred legal support into digital law libraries. We report preliminary findings from the initial phase study, comprised a series semistructured interviews naturalistic observations academic law students looking for that they require their work. group academic often found it difficult to find were when using digital law A potential symptom difficulty was that hazy incorrect knowledge digital library system and information sources within rife. suggests the need to understand more about library systems use (within-systems knowledge). also found although used several electronic resources in complementary fashion to conduct seeking, chose rely primarily on one either LexisNexis or Westlaw law library platforms. Their preference based upon vague or sometimes flawed rationale suggests students to appreciate situations different resources might be useful (between-systems