Hannah Rosborough

Instruction & Scholarly Communications Librarian

20172024

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Hannah Rosborough is the Instruction & Scholarly Communications Librarian at the Sir James Dunn Law Library, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University. She directs the research component of the Legal Research and Writing program and supports all stages of the research cycle for faculty and students. She is the Administrator of the Schulich Law Scholars institutional repository and the Pure Research Portal. 

Her general research interests include legal research pedagogy, the future of legal information, innovation in legal research, promoting free access to the law, and legal citation. Her current research focuses on emerging challenges at the intersection of technology, legal information, and legal education. With a people-centered approach, she examines how legal information is discovered, structured, and disseminated and the potential impacts of technology on these processes. Her work emphasizes the importance of delivering accurate, accessible, and timely legal information and aims to improve access to legal information and legal information literacy in the digital context.

Hannah is an active contributer to Slaw, Canada's online legal magazine, where she explores issues in legal information and scholarly communications.

Contact Information

Sir James Dunn Law Library
Weldon Law Building
6061 University Avenue
PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4R2

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

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Education/Academic qualification

LLM, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University

20222024

MLIS, Dalhouse University School of Information Management

20142016

BEd, Saint Thomas University

20112012

BA (Hons), University of New Brunswick

20072011

External positions

Member, Board of Directors, Canadian Association of Law Libraries

20232025

Member, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Ethics Board, Dalhousie University

20192022

Research Interests

  • Legal Education
  • Legal Technology
  • Law and Technology
  • Copyright Law
  • Innovation in Legal Research
  • Legal Information
  • Scholarly Communications
  • Legal Research

Disciplines

  • Library and Information Science
  • Legal Writing and Research
  • Law Librarianship
  • Legal Education
  • Intellectual Property Law

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