Provide the listserv with the names and numbers of those responsible for
this decision and maybe, just maybe, a few letters may be able to lead
them to the conclusion that a qualified librarian is the answer to their
problem. Just a thought!
Glenn Ross
Managing Librarian
Holland & Knight (813) 227-6629 -- Phone
400 N. Ashley, Suite 2300 (813) 223-9240 -- Fax
Tampa, FL 33602 rossg@class.org -- Internet
On Thu, 30 Mar 1995, Susan Lewis-Somers wrote:
> We have a law student whose summer employer has told her that one of her
> duties at the bank where she will work will be to "update" the materials
> in their banking law collection and to order any titles and supplements
> necessary to make the collection useful. Apparently the bank's legal
> department wants to operate on the cheap and avoid hiring a qualified
> librarian, even on a temporary or part-time basis. This poor law student is
> not a librarian and has no experience working in libraries or, presumably,
> in banking law, as she is just finishing her first year of law school. She
> has no idea how she will go about accomplishing this task. (I wonder if
> she'll even get a chance to do any legal work.)
>
> Are there any law librarians out there who regularly work with banking law
> collections whom she could contact with her questions, primarily via e-mail but
> possibly also by phone? I don't like the smell of this deal, but I'd like to
> find a way to help her out.
>
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> J.W. Long Law Library E-Mail: slewis@willamette.edu
> Willamette University College of Law Phone: (503) 370-6386
> 245 Winter Street SE Fax: (503) 375-5426
> Salem, OR 97301-3900
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