Formed in 2011, the ERC is a group of law librarians interested in empirical research. Our group's goals include:

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• Encouraging law librarians to expand their knowledge of trends in empirical research and methods and resources that can be used to support empirical research;

• Facilitating librarian instructional efforts to increase information literacy about statistics and empirical methods; 

• Encouraging law librarians to engage in empirical research on topics important to libraries;  

• Maintaining a list of publications by librarians about empirical research;

• Partnering with AALL Special Interest Sections, including ALL-SIS,PLL-SISandCS-SIS to support and publicize programming and professional development opportunities on empirical research; and 

• Providing a forum for sharing knowledge related to empirical research, including the development and archiving of data, availability of existing data and requirements for institutional review boards.