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A Response To The Durham Statement Two Years Later, Margaret A. Leary
A Response To The Durham Statement Two Years Later, Margaret A. Leary
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This response to The Durham Statement Two Years Later, published in the Winter 2011 issue of Law Library Journal, addresses that article's call for an end to print publication of law journals and its failure to sufficiently consider the national and international actors and developments that will determine the future of digital libraries.
Memorial: Beverley J. Pooley (1934-2001), Margaret A. Leary
Memorial: Beverley J. Pooley (1934-2001), Margaret A. Leary
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Beverley J. Pooley died at the age of sixty-seven on August 23, 2001, of kidney failure due to complications from pancreatic cancer. His death came shockingly fast, for he had only learned how seriously ill he was the week before. The bare facts about Bev's life cannot begin to describe what he was to the local community, the University of Michigan, and the law school world. Born in England in 1934, he earned B.A. and LL.B. degrees from Cambridge University; and LL.M., S.J.D., and M.A. in Library Science degrees from the University of Michigan. During that time he served in …
Memorial: Margaret Althea Goldblatt (1948-2000), Margaret A. Leary
Memorial: Margaret Althea Goldblatt (1948-2000), Margaret A. Leary
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Margaret Goldblatt, who died on June 15, 2000, in Cape Town, South Africa, after a year-long battle with cancer, was a rare combination of librarian and entrepreneur. She had both a sense of humor and a sense of professionalism that endeared her to those who knew her. Many of her colleagues knew her only through telephone and e-mail communications, for she worked the last several years from the office of Ward and Associates, located in the home she shared with her husband Peter Ward and her two children, Clea Goldblatt, age 21, and Zachary Ward, age 11.
Books, Microforms, Computers And Us: Who's Us?, Margaret A. Leary
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.