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Roger V. Skalbeck


Associate Law Librarian for Electronic Resources, Georgetown University Law Library, Adjunct Professor of Law

B.A., Macalester College; M.L.I.S., Dominican University; J.D., George Mason

Roger V. Skalbeck is the Associate Law Librarian for Electronic Resources & Services at the Georgetown Law Library. Roger has worked for more than fifteen...

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Roger V. Skalbeck is the Associate Law Librarian for Electronic Resources & Services at the Georgetown Law Library. Roger has worked for more than fifteen years in the legal profession, focusing on technology management in law libraries. He came to Georgetown in 2006. Prior to that, he worked at George Mason School of Law, as well as five different law firms in three cities in the United States. He also worked as a summer associate in the Munich office of Jones Day, and he’s fluent in German. He is currently the President of the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C. and he is the former chair of the Copyright Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. He has published articles on intellectual property and technology topics, as well as an annual ranking of 200 law school home pages. He is admitted to practice in Virginia.

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Books

  • Introduction to Online Legal, Regulatory, & Intellectual Property Research (Genie Tyburski ed., Mason, Ohio: Thomson/Texere 2004) (Roger V. Skalbeck, Contributor).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Roger V. Skalbeck, Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2011, 2 J.L. (1 J. Legal Metrics) 25-52 (2012).    [HEIN] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Roger V. Skalbeck & Jason Eiseman, Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2010, in 2011 Green Bag Alm. 339-366 (Ross E. Davies ed., Wash., D.C.: Green Bag Press 2010).    [SSRN] [BOOK]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2009, in 2010 Green Bag Alm. 289-306 (Ross E. Davies ed., Wash., D.C.: Green Bag Press 2009).    [SSRN] [BOOK]

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Books

  • Introduction to Online Legal, Regulatory, & Intellectual Property Research (Genie Tyburski ed., Mason, Ohio: Thomson/Texere 2004) (Roger V. Skalbeck, Contributor).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Roger V. Skalbeck, Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2011, 2 J.L. (1 J. Legal Metrics) 25-52 (2012).    [HEIN] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Roger V. Skalbeck & Jason Eiseman, Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2010, in 2011 Green Bag Alm. 339-366 (Ross E. Davies ed., Wash., D.C.: Green Bag Press 2010).    [SSRN] [BOOK]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, Top 10 Law School Home Pages of 2009, in 2010 Green Bag Alm. 289-306 (Ross E. Davies ed., Wash., D.C.: Green Bag Press 2009).    [SSRN] [BOOK]

Selected Contributions to Other Publications

  • Roger V. Skalbeck, Tech Innovation in the Academy, AALL and ILTA Digital White Paper 74-78 (2012) (reprinted in Peer to Peer, Dec. 2012, at 24-28).    [Gtown Law] [WWW]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, Tech Innovation in the Academy, Peer to Peer, Dec. 2012, at 24-28 (reprinting Tech Innovation in the Academy, AALL and ILTA Digital White Paper 74-78 (2012)).   
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, Mobile Legal Research: Do We NEED an App for That?, Law Libr. Lights, Winter 2011, at 20-22.    [WWW]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, The Power of Collaboration: WorldCat's Copyright Evidence Registry, AALL Spectrum, April 2009, at 14-15, 32-33.    [HEIN] [WWW]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck & Meg Kribble, Re-Hashing the Hash Tag - Crowd Competition and Community Standards at the #AALL2009 Conference, LLRX.com, Aug. 27, 2009.    [WWW]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, New Research Uses for Patent and Trademark Data, Legal Info. Alert, Feb. 2008, at 1, 3-4.    [W]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, DoNotCall.gov: Do Not Call it up With Firefox, LLRX.com, Sept. 29, 2007.    [WWW]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, The Freedom of Information Act and Trade Secrets, Legal Info. Alert, Nov./Dec. 2007, at 6, 15.    [W]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck & Sara Sampson, Have You reddit? Exploring Ways to Digg Some del.icio.us Stories, Legal Info. Alert, May 2007, at 1, 8-9.    [W]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, Law and Technology Podcasts, N.J. Law., Dec. 24, 2007, at S4.    [WWW]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck & Iva M. Futrell, Technology and Policy Issues with Acquiring Digital Collections, LJN's Legal Tech Newsletter, Jan. 2007, at 1-2, 4-5.    [W]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck & Iva M. Futrell, Technology and Policy Issues with Acquiring Digital Collections, LLRX.com, Feb. 12, 2007.    [WWW]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck & Iva M. Futrell, Did You Use Westlaw Enough for that Free iPod?: What Recent Graduates May (or May Not) Know About Legal Research, Legal Info. Alert, July/August 2006, at 1, 4-9.   
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, Don't Dilute my Coffee! Federal Trademark Dilution and Likely Legislative Changes, Legal Info. Alert, June 2006, at 1, 4-6.    [W]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck & Iva M. Futrell, Is There a New Digital Collection in Your Future?, Legal Info. Alert, Feb. 2006, at 1, 4-7.    [W]
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, Isn't that Patented Trademark Under Copyright Protection?, infoEdge, Spring 2004, at 6-8.   
  • Roger V. Skalbeck, How Dewey Classify OCLC's Lawsuit, LLRX.com Sept. 29, 2003.    [WWW]

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