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Law Librarianship: A Forum, Bob Berring, Mark Estes, Penny Hazelton, Kathie Price, Joanne Zich

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Law librarianship is a profession that has a proud history and a bright future, yet it is not without its problems and concerns. For this issue of Law Library Lights, we have gathered together a number of luminaries in the field and asked them a number of questions related to the most important issues facing our community: professional image, additional roles, education and training, ethics, minority recruitment, budget crunch, technology, vendors, and the future.

This exchange was published in volume 35, issue number 5, May/June 1992.

Integrating Manual And Computer Legal Research, Penny Hazelton

Chapters in Books

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Memorials, Marian Gould Gallagher And Melissa Sue Landers, Penny Hazelton

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From The President, Penny A. Hazelton

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A series of From the President columns written by then President of the American Association of Law Libraries Penny A. Hazelton in 1990 and 1991.

[Interview With] Viola Bird

Librarians' Chapters in Books

An interview with Viola Bird, who served as assistant law librarian for twenty years, from 1953 to 1973.

Betty Wilkins

Librarians' Chapters in Books

An oral history interview with Betty Wilkins, former director of the University of Washington Law Library.

Designing And Maintaining Serials Check-In Systems: Even If You Plan To Automate, Penny A. Hazelton, Dennis C. Benamati

Books

Like most libraries, law libraries are anxious to install integrated library systems that, in addition to other functions, will provide effective online serials control. For some, these systems are a reality, for others, their installation is in various stages of planning. For most, however, they are merely something to read, hear and day-dream about. In small and medium size libraries, the daily struggle of maintaining control over growing serials collections will be left to manual systems for some time to come.

The information in this paper is intended to suggest ways that may ease the frustration of a manual system. …

I Remember Them Well, Marian Gallagher, Julius J. Marke, Arthur A. Charpentier

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We who have undertaken the task of translating our AALL memories of personalities into words should not be viewed by our readers as having been present at the Narragansett Pier organizational meeting. We date from the early forties. No one now living can take any of us back to 1906. What we know of our early people we have gleaned from the Law Library Journal, and so should you, for we shall not talk of them. Ours is to be personal recollection, and we have known enough remarkable people to be content with that. Nor shall we talk of …

The Law Librarian: Marian Gallagher, George Schatzki

Washington Law Review

Being a relatively new kid on the block, I am not sure I am an appropriate person to write about Marian Gallagher. After all, you—the attorneys, the librarians, the faculty and students (past and present)—have interacted with her for so long. What can I relate about her that you don't already know? For many years, before I considered joining the faculty here, the name of Marian Gallagher was well known to me. Not being in the book business myself, I was limited in my knowledge, but I did know she "produced" an incredible number of talented librarians and she had …

Reminiscences On Marian Gallagher, Harry M. Cross

Washington Law Review

In thinking about Marian's performance as a member of the faculty and law librarian I am mildly surprised at concluding that it is not really exceptional—rather it has always been extraordinarily fine; I know of no exceptions. The efforts of her staff to be helpful and their loyalty to her are almost legendary, and favorably reflect the quality of her performance and the wonderful kind of person she is.

Marian Gallagher, Professional: Librarian, Scholar, Teacher, Beverly J. Rosenow

Washington Law Review

For more than three decades Marian G. Gallagher has been Law Librarian and Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law. During this time she has become one of the most highly respected and warmly regarded members of the Washington legal and university communities. Total professional competency and continued excellence in job performance have commanded the respect; a keen intellect, unfailing courtesy and consideration, and a delightful wit have engendered the affection.

Law Libraries Losing To ‘Double Inflation', Hugh D. Spitzer

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In this short article, I will take a look at the largest law library in the Northwest, the University of Washington's facility, and outline how inflation is eating away at this particular institution. Then I will suggest some ways to cope with the problem if we want to maintain the quality of research materials which many of us are used to.

Miles Oscar Price—The Journal Record, Marian G. Gallagher

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Miles 0. Price was not a man possibly to be forgotten. His record of published scholarship and professional achievement will live beyond those who respected him as a colleague and mentor and cherished him as a friend. That record is conspicuous and monumental. In addition, he left us a less conspicuous record, footprints discernible in the variety of his influence over the law library profession and in the foundations he laid for its members' individual and collective accomplishments. Some of those footprints have been traced, in this issue of the Law Library Journal, by his close associates. The following recounts …

The Law Library In A New Law School, Marian G. Gallagher

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Law school faculty members have a reputation for paying attention to their libraries. They achieved that collective reputation long ago through insistence on autonomous library administration by their own kind, and they have nurtured it by exhibiting greater dependence on libraries than the members of any other discipline. Expressions of their concern and involvement are recorded repeatedly in annual reports, budget justifications, fund-raising brochures, and the proceedings of ceremonial cornerstone layings. Some have gone far beyond expressions of concern, demonstrating compulsion to devote more time to the functioning of their law libraries than has seemed necessary or interesting to the …

Anatomy Of The Aall Scholarships And Grants, Viola A. Bird

Librarians' Articles

The American Association of Law Libraries Scholarship and Grants Program may not have reached its age of majority, but it is a well developed teenager. Like other teenagers, there has been some confusion over its activities. Thus, some explanation is merited here for a better understanding of its purpose and selection procedures than has been possible through the year-after-year announcement of names of donors and recipients. Probably even those who attended an institute or convention under the sponsorship of the program understand little more than that their checks arrived shortly before the meeting date and gave them real financial assistance …

Law Librarianship Training At The University Of Washington, Marian G. Gallagher

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The law librarianship program at the University of Washington is built on the premise that the quality of special librarianship is enhanced by subject knowledge in the specialty, and candidates for the Master of Law Librarianship degree must be lawyers. This is not the place at which we shall set out the reasoning of those who originated that rule of selectivity or the defense of those who continue it. It should be obvious that neither the originators nor the present administrators subscribe to the theory that all professional law librarians must be lawyers. Neither do they believe that those whose …

Introduction To Library Science With Practical Problems, Marian G. Gallagher

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What are some of the things you might expect a school of librarianship to teach you?

The author proceeds to identify: cataloging, classification, an awareness of bibliographic sources, scanning professional sources, budgets and finance, dealing with serials, and respect for details.

Publications Of Members Of The American Association Of Law Libraries: A Selected List Through 1955, Marian G. Gallagher

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A bibliography of books and articles longer than one hundred pages.

The Law Librarian's Education And The Autonomous Library, Marian G. Gallagher

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I am concerned with a defense for the law library administrator who has been presented with serious arguments contradicting his beliefs that a law librarian's education should include both law and librarianship, and, often in issue with it, that there are special aspects of law library administration which prevent its fitting neatly into a unified library system. The frequency with which the two beliefs are attacked simultaneously results from the fact that, salary scales being in issue, librarians object more heatedly to the added cost of legal training than do lawyers to the added cost of librarianship training; when they …

The Law Librarianship Course At The University Of Washington, Marian G. Gallagher

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Under the quizzing of maiden aunts, very few five-year-olds express the hope of becoming law librarians when grown. Nor have their attitudes toward the opportunities and fascination of law librarianship altered to any discernible degree by the time they begin filling out applications for admission to law school, or reach that advanced stage in legal education marked by interviews with placement officials. This profession is not one which has distinguished itself as a goal; in short, and baldly, neophyte law librarians do not walk in and apply for positions-they have to be recruited.

Voting membership for University of Washington law …

Armchair Tour Of The University Of Washington Law Library, Marian G. Gallagher

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Bibliomania is a rare disease. Contrary to popular belief, the germ breeds, not on ancient vellum bookbindings, but on the inside pages of hard-to-locate, bound or unbound, published or unpublished, material. Consequently, the infection is not apt to spread to the practicing attorney who has too many clients and too many cases for a seven-day week. While it may be the secret hope of every librarian that years of exposure (to the bindings when help is scarce, to the inside pages when help is plentiful) will cause him to become infected, he does not lose sight of the fact that …

Law Books And Law Publishers, Arthur S. Beardsley

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There are indications that the depression, which has burdened us for the past five years, is slowly receding. In its wake will doubtless follow renewed prosperity with all the blessings of peace and contentment. A freedom from financial worry will replace the present fear, and money will be more plentifully earned and freely expended.

It remains to be seen, however, whether the problems encountered during this economic cycle will be soon forgotten. Will the members of the legal profession and the law libraries return to their former policies of, what has appeared to be, uncontrolled and ill-advised purchasing of the …

The Law School Library—A Library Of Research For Lawyer, Layman, And Legislator, Arthur S. Beardsley

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We will probably agree that the college or university as a seat of learning must develop and maintain library facilities commensurate with the standing before the world which the institution's progress has earned. The library, and of course we include the law school library, is one of the indices of an educational institution's efficiency, and as such, we expect it to grow and expand by adding to the richness of its collections, material of ever increasing importance and usefulness. We expect the college library to take the lead in gathering for future reference the materials valuable for research which, on …