I had a wonderful experience at a lunch with several faculty today. One
faculty member, about 5 years into teaching, said she had a, perhaps,
sociological question for me (oh god, I thought -- here comes the big
question). She said with very few exceptions she had found her experience
with law librarians at law schools, clerking in courts and in law firms to
be very positive -- that law librarians were almost uniformly friendly and
helpful, the law librarians being an oasis in the legal organizations she
had experienced (by this time I had stopped eating, or was it my heart that
had stopped). That she had not found non law librarians as uniformly
helpful and friendly. She asked me why I thought law librarians were so
friendly and helpful.
I had no great response as to why other than that we are all such wonderful
people and do usually feel very integrated into and an important part of our
organizations.
You may know the real answer to her question.
I'm going home now.
Albert Brecht, USC.
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