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Building A Home For The Laws Of The World: Part Ii: Hoping, Hunting, And Honing, Margaret A. Leary
Building A Home For The Laws Of The World: Part Ii: Hoping, Hunting, And Honing, Margaret A. Leary
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The following feature is the second, concluding portion of the edited version of "Building a Foreign Law Collection at the University of Michigan Law Library, 1910-1960,"© Margaret A. Leary, 2002, which originally appeared at 94 Law Library Journal 395-425 (2002), and appears here with permission of the author. The first part of the article (46.2 Law Quadrangle Notes 46-53 [Summer 2003] detailed how the vision of Dean Henry Bates, generosity of graduate William W. cook, and skills of librarian/traveler/negotiator Hobart Coffey combined to launch the building of the Law Library's international collection into one of the best in the world.
Building A Home For The Laws Of The World: Part 1: Bates, Cook, And Coffey, Margaret A. Leary
Building A Home For The Laws Of The World: Part 1: Bates, Cook, And Coffey, Margaret A. Leary
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The following feature is an edited version of "Building a Foreign Law Collection at the University of Michigan Law Library, 1910-1960."© Margaret A. Leary, 2002, which originally appeared at 94 Law Library Journal 395-425 (2002), and appears here with permission of the author. The first part of the article appears here; the conclusion will appear in the next issue of Law Quadrangle Notes.
Building A Foreign Law Collection At The University Of Michigan Law Library, 1910-1960, Margaret A. Leary
Building A Foreign Law Collection At The University Of Michigan Law Library, 1910-1960, Margaret A. Leary
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Ms. Leary describes the vision, energy, imagination, and techniques of the dedicated people who built an eminent foreign law collection at the University of Michigan Law Library. She also uses Michigan as an example to illustrate the development of libraries and librarianship nationally.
Introduction To "Books", Margaret A. Leary
Introduction To "Books", Margaret A. Leary
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It's well known that graduate William B. Cook's generosity provided the Law School with its trademark Gothic Law Quadrangle. It is less universally known that Cook endowed the Law School with a trust to support faculty research, and had a strong interest in the nature of that research. He chose to call the library building "Legal Research" and to inscribe above the main entrance "Learned and cultured lawyers are safeguards of the republic." Cook often said that the lack of "intellectual leadership 1s the greatest problem which faces America," and he wanted this Law School to provide that missing leadership. …
The Law Library, Victor H. Lane
The Law Library, Victor H. Lane
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It has been thought that a brief sketch of the library of the law department which should furnish information as to its present condition and of the more important of the incidents of its history would be of sufficient general interest to warrant its publication in the ALUMNUS, and I have been requested to prepare such an article.