The Legal Bibliography: Tradition, Transitions, and TrendsPsychology Press, 1989 - 183 pages Law librarians in any setting will find The Legal Bibliography useful in developing, purchasing, and using bibliographies in the future. Practicing law librarians and bibliographers share their views on the evolving state of the legal bibliography. The rapidly changing world of librarianship presents the information specialist with new methods of accessing bibliographic information. These changes also have implications for the future of the printed bibliography. Some librarians have abandoned--or do not even know of--titles that were once familiar to every member of a reference staff in favor of databases and CD-ROM products. Yet printed bibliographies, some of questionable value, continue to be published and compete for a place on the acquisitions list of many libraries. The law librarian is affected by this change as much, if not more, than other members of the profession. A researcher seeking legal information is usually concerned with the very latest references, bringing into question the adequacy of traditional printed compilations, or compilations produced simply by conducting a database search. Concentrating on their own areas of expertise, the contributors describe their use or creation of legal bibliographies and consider the ways in which technology might be changing their work. Some of the contributors emphasize classic bibliographies of the past, while others look at how the legal bibliography is used by the legal information specialist today and how the changing nature of access to bibliographic information affects their work. Still others speak to the future in discussing projected publications or ideas for alternative methods of creating and distributing bibliographies. The chapters describing some of the major bibliographies of the past will also be valuable. Several of the chapters will be helpful to authors of bibliographies--both legal and non-legal--who should be considering the methods used to produce and distribute their product. This volume will also be essential to those interested in the topic of bibliography for purposes of comparison with other areas of specialization. Ideal for law librarians, library school collections, and anyone interested in the topic of bibliography in general. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Visions of Tomorrow | 7 |
A 25Year Retrospect | 33 |
Professor Bitner | 39 |
The Use of Legal Bibliographies in the Modern Reference | 57 |
The Search for the True Subject Expert | 75 |
Antiquarian Bookselling Bibliography and Rare | 89 |
The Columbia Experience | 108 |
Georgetown Universitys Developing Foreign Law Policy | 121 |
Description of the Bibliography | 129 |
Impact of New Technology | 137 |
The Role | 147 |
Distribution of Bibliographies in MachineReadable | 155 |
EndUser Access to Bibliographic Databases or Happy | 165 |
Whither Wither? Paper Bibliographies? | 175 |
The Importance of Legal Bibliographies | 182 |
Common terms and phrases
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