Information skills training offers opportunities for gradually embedding
changes in legal education programs and to bring about the integration of
legal knowledge, skills and experience. If shared goals are formulated in a
spirit of close collaboration, curricular changes and revisions will
potentially have a greater effect and be more likely to enhance long-term
programs. The university library can serve as an ideal base for the use of
information technology such as web portals and content integrated search
engines, which in turn will help refocus attention on the use of library
facilities. The harmonization and maintenance of this apparatus, however,
requires both a new form of cooperation and a re-interpretation of the legal
education curriculum. This article compares several library developments
which could prove important for legal education from a Dutch perspective,
and also examines library education in the law schools of the United States
of America.