Dear Mr. Livingston:
I beg to differ with the assertion that you made
in your E-Mail of November 2, 1994 to the effect that
"most law librarians are in fact attorneys."
I conducted a most unscientific review of the
Biographical Directory of the American Association of
Law Libraries. It revealed that 633 of the listed
members have JDs while 1722 of the listed members have
MLS' (or MLIS, or MSLS, etc.). This tells me that even if
every listed member of the association who has a JD has
an MLS (or MLIS, or MSLS, etc.), that still means that
there are more of us without JDs than there
are with JDs.
While it is true that it is generally accepted
that academic law librarians are more likely to have
JDs than are other law librarians, please do not forget
that we are still law librarians, and that we are not
necessarily, nor are we "in fact", attorneys.
Lydia E. Wilson
Librarian- not lawyer
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison
1285 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10019
E-Mail:bm.pww@rlg.sanford.edu
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