Staffing for Law School Computing Services, Second Edition

Georgia Law - Alexander Campbell King Law Library

Introduction

The Staffing for Law School Computing Services survey was completely revised during the spring semester of 2006. No data from prior questionnaires were used in this revision. If the law school you are looking for is not represented in the table, it is because that law school has not yet replied to the questionnaire or we have not yet had time to post the reply on our web page. Results of the survey are reported in three tables. The first table represents answers to questions 1-5 and 8-10. Questions 6 and 7, which ask for textual answers, are represented in thesecond table. The third table shows the free text comments made by some of the respondents to the survey. If a respondent wrote comments, anasterisk appears in the column with the letter which describes how computing is administered at that law school. It is surprisingly difficult to distill all the varieties of administration into discrete categories. The categories in the original questionnaire are:

All computing is administered through the law library_____.
All computing is administered through the law school_____.
Law library and law school computing are administered through two separate departments within the law school_____.
All computing is administered through a university department_____.
All computing is outsourced to a vendor (not the university)_____.
Some combination of the above choices (please explain).

A number of respondents chose more than one category and others selected f and gave extensive comments. I sometimes recorded answers in another category if it seemed obvious from the comments that it belonged there, but for clarity's sake, I included all comments in Table 3.

Each table includes data from out of law schools. Each table is organized by state, then alphabetically by university name (or law school name in the case of free standing law schools). All accredited law schools are listed, even if they did not participate in the survey. Non-participants are encouraged to become participants, and participants are encouraged to send revisions at any time a change occurs. I revise the table monthly if necessary. The most efficient way to report is by dropping a note to me at apuckett@uga.edu. Click here for a copy of the questionnaire and instructions for completing it.

Thank you for using the Staffing for Law School Computing Services survey.

Professor Ann Puckett
University of Georgia Law Library
Athens, Georgia
July 5, 2006

Date of Response	State	University	Comments
	AL	Cumberland School of Law, Samford University	Not Reported
02/2006	AL	University of Alabama
02/2006	AR	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
02/2006	AR	University of Arkansas, Little Rock
02/2006	AZ	Arizona State University
03/2006	AZ	University of Arizona
02/2006	CA	California Western School of Law
02/2006	CA	Chapman University
05/2006	CA	Golden Gate University
03/2006	CA	Loyola University
02/2006	CA	McGeorge School of Law
03/2006	CA	Pepperdine University
03/2006	CA	Santa Clara University
02/2006	CA	Southwestern University	As an independent law school, our MIS department handles all administrative functions: registrar, admissions, accounting, etc.
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
05/2006	CA	Stanford University
02/2006	CA	Thomas Jefferson School of Law
05/2006	CA	U.C.L.A.
02/2006	CA	University of California, Berkeley	The law school maintains the network infrastructure and servers but the law library gives user support to students through our labs and also to law library staff.
05/2006	CA	University of California, Davis
02/2006	CA	University of California, Hastings
02/2006	CA	University of San Diego
04/2006	CA	University of San Francisco	Desktop support and educational technology is administered through administration. Server and networking and most security support is administeredthrough the University's IT Department.
02/2006	CA	University of Southern California
02/2006	CA	Western State University
02/2006	CA	Whittier Law School	Network and workstation support done by library staff. Law school application and e-mail done by library staff. Student e-mail & management information system done by college staff.
03/2006	CO	University of Colorado	Instructional tech support is centralized with a dedicated person for the law school (for whom we pay a % of salary). Ditto the front-line desktop support. Computer labs in library managed centrally.
02/2006	CO	University of Denver
	CT	Quinnipiac College	Not Reported
02/2006	CT	University of Connecticut
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
02/2006	CT	Yale University
02/2006	DC	American University
02/2006	DC	Catholic University of America
02/2006	DC	George Washington University
03/2006	DC	Georgetown University
	DC	Howard University	Not Reported
04/2006	DC	University of the District of Columbia	Currently the answer is b. However, when my replacement is hired, s/he will take over that responsibility center as well and the answer will shift to a. That is expected to happen during the summer of 2006.
	DE	Widener University, Wilmington	Not Reported
02/2006	FL	Barry University
	FL	Florida A & M University	Not Reported
	FL	Florida Coastal School of Law	Not Reported
02/2006	FL	Florida International University	Infrastructure support is provided by the university technical services (UTS), a university department (i.e., e-mail, networking).
02/2006	FL	Florida State University
02/2006	FL	Nova Southeastern University
04/2006	FL	St. Thomas University
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
04/2006	FL	Stetson University
02/2006	FL	University of Florida
	FL	University of Miami	Not Reported
03/2006	GA	Emory University
03/2006	GA	Georgia State University
03/2006	GA	John Marshall Law School
01/2006	GA	Mercer University	Although the IT department is housed in the library, the IT staff support all law school personnel and students and report to both the law library director and the law school dean. The university maintains the IT infrastructure, providing networking and telecommunications support.
01/2006	GA	University of Georgia
02/2006	HI	University of Hawaii
02/2006	IA	Drake University	Except university provides network support. e
01/2006	IA	University of Iowa
04/2006	ID	University of Idaho
02/2006	IL	Chicago-Kent College of Law	The Center for Law and Computers (CLC) administers the network infrastructure for the law school and the law library. In addition, the CLC administers all faculty and student computing. The Electronic Resources Group in the law library administers law library computing and supports faculty and student use of library electronic resources.
02/2006	IL	DePaul University	Basic infrastructure provided by the university, while the law school has at least 2 full time persons assigned to these functions. The law library has one full time & one part time person.
04/2006	IL	John Marshall Law School
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
02/2006	IL	Loyola University
03/2006	IL	Northern Illinois University	The law library works with the law school's IT department to support law library computing and law school educational technology. The law school's IT department supports computing outside the law library. The University IT department supports the law school's file servers.
02/2006	IL	Northwestern University	Law school computing administered by law library, and university provides network services.
02/2006	IL	Southern Illinois University	While the majority of computing is administered through the law school, some web development and maintenance and electronic technology training is done by the law library, and campus IT is responsible for the network infrastructure and some aspects of network security.
04/2006	IL	University of Chicago	The law library staff is supported by the university library's IT department. Students, faculty and staff are supported by the law school IT department.
02/2006	IL	University of Illinois
04/2006	IN	Indiana University, Bloomington	Computing is primarily administered through the law school. However, the law library administers the student computing centers, maintains the online resources through the library's website and trains students and faculty in the use of electronic resources. Equipment and resources to maintain the automated library system are administered through the university library. University computing services provides some support for the wireless system and other equipment support.
	IN	Indiana University, Indianapolis	Not Reported
02/2006	IN	Notre Dame University	We depend on university computing for network maintenance, file and mail service as well as overall security infrastructure/policy.
02/2006	IN	Valparaiso University
06/2006	KS	University of Kansas
02/2006	KS	Washburn University
01/2006	KY	Northern Kentucky University
02/2006	KY	University of Kentucky
03/2006	KY	University of Louisville
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
02/2006	LA	Louisiana State University	The law library and law school computing are separate departments within the Center, but both cooperate to administer computing services and I supervise both departments. In addition the main campus computing services operates our wireless network and all aspects of our wired network connection up to the point it connects to our servers.
	LA	Loyola University	Not Reported
02/2006	LA	Southern University
02/2006	LA	Tulane University
02/2006	MA	Boston College
	MA	Boston University	Not Reported
	MA	Harvard University	Not Reported
	MA	New England School of Law	Not Reported
02/2006	MA	Northeastern University	The Law Library and the Office of Computer Services are two branches in the Department of Information & Research Services. The law library director is alos Assistant Dean of IRS and supervises both branches. OCS administers IT for entire law school.
02/2006	MA	Suffolk University	The university is also involved. They are responsible for the email system and network access.
	MA	Western New England College	Not Reported
01/2006	MD	University of Baltimore	While the law library provides most of the law school's computer support, the main university Office of Technology Services (OTS) is responsible for maintaining all servers & PC labs on campus.
	MD	University of Maryland	Not Reported
02/2006	ME	University of Maine	Computing is administered through a combination of law library, law school and university.
02/2006	MI	Ave Maria School of Law
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
02/2006	MI	Detroit College of Law, Michigan State University
02/2006	MI	Thomas M. Cooley Law School	All computing is administered through the law school except the library online system and related web content is administered through the library.
	MI	University of Detroit	Not Reported
	MI	University of Michigan	Not Reported
02/2006	MI	Wayne State University
05/2006	MN	Hamline University	The parts of the university do their own web stuff but with close coordination and some support from university.
02/2006	MN	University of Minnesota	Under the direction of Associate Dean who also supervises the library.
03/2006	MN	University of St. Thomas	One academic technical support specialist works for the university's IRT department with dotted line reporting to the director of the law library and assistant dean for administration.
02/2006	MN	William Mitchell College of Law	Most computing is administered by the law school's IT department, which has 8 FTE's, including its media specialist position. The college's webmaster is in the marketing department. The library manages its integrated library system and electronic research resources and content of its web site.
02/2006	MO	Saint Louis University
02/2006	MO	University of Missouri, Columbia
04/2006	MO	University of Missouri, Kansas City	IT is housed in the law library but maintains the entire law school.
04/2006	MO	Washington University	Library, Computing and Multimedia are administered through Information Resources Department.
02/2006	MS	Mississippi College	Primary network support is handled by the university. Primary training and work station support is administered by the law school IT department. Library systems are maintained by the library. Web presence is maintained by department.
02/2006	MS	University of Mississippi	However, the law school and library staff devoted to IT matters frequently work cooperatively on larger network issues, etc. In addition, some matters (e.g., wireless support) are handled mostly by the university's IT department.
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
02/2006	MT	University of Montana
01/2006	NC	Campbell University	But University IT maintains network infrastructure (i.e., switches, routers, firewall, connection to ISP and some servers) and provides administrative database support.
02/2006	NC	Duke University
05/2006	NC	North Carolina Central University
02/2006	NC	University of North Carolina
04/2006	NC	Wake Forest University
04/2006	ND	University of North Dakota
04/2006	NE	Creighton University
01/2006	NE	University of Nebraska
02/2006	NH	Franklin Pierce Law Center
	NJ	Rutgers University, Camden	Not Reported
	NJ	Rutgers University, Newark	Not Reported
	NJ	Seton Hall University	Not Reported
02/2006	NM	University of New Mexico
03/2006	NV	University of Nevada-Las Vegas	It is administered through the law school with some additional systems and support from university IT including network, file sharing, student information systems and e-mail.
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
02/2006	NY	Albany Law School	A content management system allows dozens of persons to maintain web content -- none of this activity is included.
02/2006	NY	Brooklyn Law School	The law school IT department administers all of the networking, desktop and administrative computing for the law school. The library manages the student computer labs (with IT department staffing) and supports and maintains the Innovative system. Educational technology support is also shared (content by library, hardware by IT).
02/2006	NY	City University of New York
	NY	Columbia University	Not Reported
	NY	Cornell University	Not Reported
04/2006	NY	Fordham University	Some library computing is administered only by the library. Some library computing administration is shared by the library and ISP. All other law school computing is administered by ISP. ISP hires some consultants (outsourced).
02/2006	NY	Hofstra University
02/2006	NY	New York Law School	Computing is outsourced to Collegis, except that library has a person to deal with library applications.
	NY	New York University	Not Reported
02/2006	NY	Pace University	C is true, except that we also get support (mainly server and network support) from the university. The relationships evolve over time.
02/2006	NY	St. John's University	Library supports computer labs. Law school supports all other computers, wireless network, instructional technology. University supports network, servers.
05/2006	NY	SUNY, Buffalo
03/2006	NY	Syracuse University
04/2006	NY	Touro College
04/2006	NY	Yeshiva University	Infrastructure, servers, administrative systems, security, and desktop hardware and software are maintained by university MIS. Student laptop software support, classroom technology including course web, and library system server are administered through the law library. Student printing is outsourced to a vendor but all trouble shooting is done by the law library.
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
02/2006	OH	Capital University
03/2006	OH	Case Western Reserve University	While most of the tech. computing service support is in the law school, most of the educational training and support is in the library.
02/2006	OH	Cleveland State University
02/2006	OH	Ohio Northern University	But -- our IT Tech reports jointly to law library director & VP of IT. There is no other law school department for computing, though. The university IT department supports building infrastructure, but all local administration (budget, personnel, services) is done through the law library.
03/2006	OH	Ohio State University	Ed. Technology and some training handled by law library staff.
	OH	University of Akron	Not Reported
02/2006	OH	University of Cincinnati
04/2006	OH	University of Dayton
02/2006	OH	University of Toledo
	OK	Oklahoma City University	Not Reported
02/2006	OK	University of Oklahoma	All computing except for email and network cabling switches is supported by Law Center Information Technology Services.
02/2006	OK	University of Tulsa
03/2006	OR	Lewis and Clark Northwestern School of Law
02/2006	OR	University of Oregon
02/2006	OR	Willamette University
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
02/2006	PA	Duquesne University
04/2006	PA	Pennsylvania State University	Most computing is administered through the law school. Integrated library system stations & software/access is administered through a university libraries department.
	PA	Temple University	Not Reported
	PA	University of Pennsylvania	Not Reported
04/2006	PA	University of Pittsburgh
02/2006	PA	Villanova University
	PA	Widener University, Harrisburg	Not Reported
	PR	Inter American University of Puerto Rico	Not Reported
	PR	Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico	Not Reported
	PR	University of Puerto Rico	Not Reported
03/2006	RI	Roger Williams University	Software, Teaching/Training: in the library & labs, administered by law library; in the rest of the law school, administered by univ. IT dept. Hardware & software installation: in the library & labs, administered by law library and univ. IT dept; in the rest of the law school, administered by univ. IT dept. Network & security: univ. IT dept. Supervising labs: law library. Planning: law library, law school administration, & univ. IT dept. Web: Administered by Admissions, law library, other individual law school depts, & univ webmaster (in university marketing & communications dept.)
03/2006	SC	University of South Carolina
	SD	University of South Dakota	Not Reported
04/2006	TN	University of Memphis
02/2006	TN	University of Tennessee	The Network and Computing Services group at the University of Tennessee Joel A. Katz Law Library is officially a part of the law library staff. However, the Dean and the Director of the Law Library both work with the Head of Network and Computing Services in planning and prioritizing.
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
04/2006	TN	Vanderbilt University	I'd say almost all the computing in our law school is administered through the law school. There is a small percentage of computing that is managed by the campus IT folks. The law library is not autonomous and some database management and bibliographic utility support is handled by the central library's IT staff. The law library does not have a person dedicated to IT, but two of the librarians assist with web pages, course management support, interlibrary loan and document delivery software as needed.
02/2006	TX	Baylor University
02/2006	TX	South Texas College of Law
02/2006	TX	Southern Methodist University
02/2006	TX	St. Mary's University	The university IT department maintains all law school network and email, whereas the law school IT staff supports local applications and classroom a/v and computing technology.
	TX	Texas Southern University	Not Reported
02/2006	TX	Texas Tech University
	TX	Texas Wesleyan University	Not Reported
02/2006	TX	University of Houston	Law IT handles local network, hardware, software, web. Univ. IT responsible for university-wide network, all servers, remote access, and ultimately responsible for email system and authentication.
02/2006	TX	University of Texas	Faculty/Staff (including library) computing administered through law school. Student computing is outsourced to campus IT and administered through law library.
03/2006	UT	Brigham Young University
02/2006	UT	University of Utah
02/2006	VA	Applachian School of Law	Library staff handles Lexis/Westlaw and other "library" databases, and the content and management of the library portion of the school's web site. Library staff is responsible for library automation software (III) issues, as well as the library security/entry system. Library staff also spends significant time servicing printers and troubleshooting computer issues in the library-housed computer lab.
02/2006	VA	College of William and Mary	Primarily law school and university. Library does some.
02/2006	VA	George Mason University
Date of Response	State	University	Comments
02/2006	VA	Regent University	All is through a university department except for web design and Blackboard and Examsoft support.
02/2006	VA	University of Richmond
03/2006	VA	University of Virginia
01/2006	VA	Washington & Lee University
02/2006	VT	Vermont Law School
02/2006	WA	Gonzaga University
05/2006	WA	Seattle University
02/2006	WA	University of Washington
03/2006	WI	Marquette University	University has 1 FTE assigned to law school. University does CRP program.
04/2006	WI	University of Wisconsin	The director of the law library administers both law school IT and the library. The director of the law school IT department reports to the director of the law library, who reports to the dean of the law school. IT is separate from the library in that the IT department has separate staffing and separate budgeting.
03/2006	WV	West Virginia University
04/2006	WY	University of Wyoming

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