{"id":447,"date":"2017-09-19T15:57:18","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T19:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/about\/robert-oakley\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:27:15","slug":"robert-oakley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/about\/robert-oakley\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Oakley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-448 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/bob_oakley.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot of Robert Oakley\" width=\"1000\" height=\"808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/bob_oakley.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/bob_oakley-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2017\/09\/bob_oakley-768x621.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Professor Oakley was the Library Director at as well as a professor at Georgetown Law Center. Before joining the Law Center in 1982, he served as Associate Law Librarian at Cornell Law School and Director of the Law Library and associate professor of law at Boston University School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>His writings include articles entitled &#8220;Intellectual Property Issues and Information Networks,&#8221; &#8220;The Deteriorating Historical Record: Implications for Scholars and Libraries,&#8221; &#8220;Collection Development: The Impact of a National Law Library,&#8221; &#8220;Education for Law Librarianship: Avoiding the Trade School Mentality,&#8221; and &#8220;Copyright and Preservation: A Serious Problem in Need of a Thoughtful Solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He focused on representing the interests of the American Association of Law Libraries in matters on Capitol Hill and around Washington and he has served on numerous other professional committees. Professor Oakley served two three- year terms on the Executive Board of the American Association of Law Libraries, and served as its President in 2000-2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Oakley was the Library Director at as well as a professor at Georgetown Law Center. Before joining the Law Center in 1982, he served as Associate Law Librarian at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":341,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-447","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3466,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/447\/revisions\/3466"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}