As an all-purpose private law librarian, I do appreciate the multi-purpose
aspect of Lawlib-l. As Mary writes, the Lawlib-l is not difficult to wade
through, even on a Monday morning! If I am not interested in a message, I
can skip easily to the next. In other words, this situation DOES seem to
me to be excessive proliferation. However, in order not to miss anything,
I have subscribed to both the new lists.
FRANK DRAKE
Arnstein & Lehr, Chicago
On Tue, 21 Dec 1993, Mary Whisner wrote:
>
> We appreciate and understand what Mark Folmsbee is trying to
> accomplish with the new lists, lawlibref-l and privatelawlib-l. But we
> have some concerns.
>
> Law-lib hasn't been a particularly cluttered list. It's not a
> problem to skim the handful of messages that come in each day. It's also
> not a problem to delete the ones that we don't need to pay much attention
> to (e.g., offers for runs of reporters).
>
> One of the beauties of law-lib is that it offers an opportunity
> for the different segments of our profession to communicate. As academic
> librarians, we want to know what's going on in firm and court libraries:
> the students we're training today will be there next summer. As reference
> librarians, we find it helpful to hear about the concerns of acquisition
> and cataloging librarians, and we would hope that they would want to hear
> about some reference and circulation concerns. All of us -- private,
> academic, state, court, county -- need to know about the whole range of
> issues. We might lose some of this important cross-fertilization if some
> people think they only need to subscribe to one narrowly defined list that
> matches their job and library type.
>
> We are fortunate that our library subscribes to chapter and SIS
> newsletters. So we have the opportunity to skim various sources and to
> keep up with our profession. Not every library can afford those
> subscriptions. Law-lib provides that broader view to many law librarians.
>
>
> Mary Whisner and Peggy Roebuck Jarret
> Gallagher Law Library
> University of Washington
> whisner@u.washington.edu; pjarrett@u.washington.edu
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