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The Case Of The Disappearing Briefs: A Study In Preservation Strategy, Margaret A. Leary

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Federal appellate court records and briefs are significant to researchers in many disciplines, but academic law libraries are discarding them. Ms. Leary chronicles the demise of paper holdings in law libraries, the rise of microforms, and the contents and usage of the National Archives and Records Administration's files. She then derives principles for preservation strategies that may apply to other categories of legal material.

Response To Wayne P. Kelley, Margaret A. Leary

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I appreciate Mr. Kelley's comments and his concern about the "fundamental legal responsibility of federal depository libraries to provide free and unrestricted access to depository materials to the general public," or, as stated in 44 U.S.C. § 1911, "Depository libraries shall make Government publications available for the free use of the general public." I write to respond to the statements that "It is impossible to determine exactly what sort of access to depository materials is allowed at the University of Michigan Law Library from the [Snow] article," and "It appears that the ... policy does not meet our requirements."

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.

Books, Microforms, Computers And Us: Who's Us?, Margaret A. Leary

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The author suggests that in the increasing effort to define, and refine, their identity and image, librarians have recently turned towards computers - and away from books and microforms. The result has been an avoidance of the more important issues facing librarians - such as ownership, accessibility, cost, and preservation of new formats of information - and an ever greater obfuscation of what constitutes the profession of librarianship.

"Bridging The Ravine"; Or, The Joint Library Automation Project Of Henderson State And Ouachita Baptist University, Marilyn Martin, S. Ray Granade, Robert Yehl

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Automating a library is challenging, frustrating and rewarding. It requires detailed, often tedious planning, and enormous amounts of patience. Software glitches, hardware failures, and miscommunication between automation vendors and library staff are common complaints found in the library literature. These problems loom large when any library automates. When two libraries undertake such a project together, problems proliferate. The automation project of Ouachita Baptist University (OBU) and Henderson State University (HSU) Libraries illustrates problems inherent in any automation, some unique to joint endeavors, and others representative of cooperation between a public and a private institution. Above all, it illustrates how a …

"Linus Is Resting": The Joys And Perils Of A Shared Automation Project At Henderson State And Ouachita Baptist Universities, S. Ray Granade

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Automating a library is challenging, frustrating and rewarding. It requires detailed, often tedious planning, and enormous amounts of patience. Software glitches, hardware failures, and miscommunication between automation vendors and library staff are common complaints found in the library literature. These problems loom large when any library automates. When two libraries undertake such a project together, problems proliferate. The automation project of Ouachita Baptist University (OBU) and Henderson State University (HSU) Libraries illustrates problems inherent in any automation, some unique to joint endeavors, and others representative of cooperation between a public and a private institution. Above all, it illustrates how a …

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.

Supporting Faculty Research: A Direct Role For The Library, Margaret A. Leary

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The primary mission of the University of Michigan Law Library is supporting faculty research and teaching. For most of the library's history, that support was indirect, aimed at building a collection that would meet present and future faculty needs. In the 1980s, however, it became clear that the law library's collection would never again be able to meet all faculty needs, or all student needs; law was no longer an isolated discipline, and we would need to supply information from many sources and in varied formats. The University of Michigan Law Library has had a faculty document delivery system for …

In Step With The Times: Law Library Keeps Up With Changes In Legal Research, Margaret A. Leary

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Change is constant in legal research. Plucknett's work describes, for example, the modem textbook replacing published case reports as the most important form of legal literature. More recently, A.B.W. Simpson has argued that the law review article has displaced the treatise. Apart from these changes, the law itself has continued to embrace concepts from other disciplines and deal with facts and methodologies of an increasingly technological society.

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 …

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 …

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 …