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Law Librarian’S Journal Over 10 Years Later, Joseph A. Custer

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Jim Bouton's book Ball Four chronicled the day-to-day experiences of a baseball pitcher for one season. Ball Four inspired Fritz Snyder in 1988 to chronicle his life as a reference librarian at the University of Kansas School of Law Library for a period of one month. The author holds a position very much the same as Fritz's in the same library. This article is a description of the author's work at the reference desk for the month of June, 1999. It provides interesting insights into the ways the profession has changed and how it has stayed the same.