The following criteria were used to determine the articles included in The Complete Periodical Literature of Law Librarianship:
Please note: Spanish-language articles that fit the above criteria, if authored by U.S. or Canadian law librarians, will be added in a future update.
Not included are:
Please note: the editors attempted to find and include every article on law librarianship that met the above selection criteria. Readers should contact the editors concerning any article not included that they believe meets the selection criteria.
Each article has been assigned a designation indicating the primary law library audience to which the article is most directed (see Library Type). However, any article, regardless of library designation, may be useful to readers from other types of law libraries.
Researchers should keep this in mind when examining articles that otherwise appear to be of interest:
The Library Type Categories are:
The Annotations were written by the editors to provide the reader with a detailed look inside each article. These Annotations highlight the major themes and topics included within the article. Click the + symbol to expand the Annotation.
These annotations are reproduced in the index and search results and are full text searchable.
A Significance is assigned to each article and an article may have more than one significance value assigned to it. Users can browse, search, and filter search results by Significance. The Significance is appended after the article publication year.
Articles are assigned at least one of the following:
Landmark = of both great value and lasting importance
Continuing Value = useful for current readers and researchers
Historical Value = of historical interest
Please note that this Significance is not intended as a ranking or assessment of an article's overall quality or level of scholarship.
For ease of access, Bibliographies & Research Guides are listed alphabetically by title within their own dedicated tab that can be navigated by an A-Z index. These bibliographies and research guides will also appear within results when using the Search CPLLL tab. Generally, this content:
Although select Bibliographies & Research Guides may have one (or all) of the above at the editors' discretion, the absence of any of these indicators from a Bibliography & Research Guide is not an oversight.
All Bibliographies & Research Guides, within both their dedicated tab or within the Search CPLLL tab, can be identified as such by a (Bibliography & Research Guide) note at the end of the article title.