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    \u27A Time to Build\u27 - William W. Cook and His Architects: Edward York and Philip Sawyer

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    The following narrative outlines the role of donor William W. cook and the architects who built the Law Quadrangle 70 years ago. The report is excerpted and adapted from 94 Law Library Journal 395-425 (2002-26). The author is director of the University of Michigan Law School\u27s Law Library

    The Case of the Disappearing Briefs: A Study in Preservation Strategy

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    Federal appellate court records and briefs are significant to researchers in many disciplines, but academic law libraries are discarding them. Ms. Leary chronicles the demise of paper holdings in law libraries, the rise of microforms, and the contents and usage of the National Archives and Records Administration\u27s files. She then derives principles for preservation strategies that may apply to other categories of legal material

    William W. Cook and Detroit Street Railways, 1891-1894

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    In 1890, much of Detroit\u27s street railway system used outmoded technology, had severe labor and public relations problems, and faced uncertainty over the remaining length of the 30-year franchise granted by the city in 1863, but extended in 1879, perhaps illegally. An apparent solution came in 1891, when William W. Cook-later to earn a fortune that he would give to the University of Michigan Law School-and other Eastern capitalists purchased Detroit\u27s street rail system. They were unable to solve the existing problems, and the new outside ownership itself added difficulties. Cook\u27s group sold out in 1894, and over the next seven years street car lines consolidated, ultimately as the Detroit United Railway in 1901. The war between the city and the company continued until 1922 when the city finally bought the company. This made Detroit the first U.S. city to own its transit system, the Department of Street Railways, or D.S.R. Examining Cook\u27s role provides information about his investments, his business relations, and his continuing connection to Michigan after he moved to New York City in 1882 from his Hillsdale home. The story also provides insight into the longstanding difficulties of providing effective transportation in southeast Michigan

    In Step with the Times: Law Library Keeps Up with Changes in Legal Research

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    Change is constant in legal research. Plucknett\u27s work describes, for example, the modem textbook replacing published case reports as the most important form of legal literature. More recently, A.B.W. Simpson has argued that the law review article has displaced the treatise. Apart from these changes, the law itself has continued to embrace concepts from other disciplines and deal with facts and methodologies of an increasingly technological society

    Remembrances of William D. Murphy

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    In mid-1988, as the time for me to assume the presidency of AALL at the end of the Atlanta meeting approached, the association\u27s first executive director, William Jepson, announced that he would resign soon after the meeting. The presence of adequate staffing at headquarters had been a key element in my decision to run for president, so I was particularly appalled at the idea of the position being empty almost exactly as I took office. Then someone-I like to think it was Babe Russo but I can\u27t remember definitely-suggested that Bill Murphy might be willing to serve as acting executive director while we conducted a search for a new person. I will never forget being overwhelmed by two simultaneous feelings. First, only at that moment did I fully realize how awful my life would be without an acting director. Thoughts remarkably like those described as near-death experiences flew through my head. But second, I felt an immense relief at being rescuedsimilar to the relief I feel when my migraine medication kicks in! I suspended both sets of emotions while I talked to Bill, and when he said yes, I focused only on the second; positive feelings of relief

    Building a Home for the Laws of the World: Part II: Hoping, Hunting, and Honing

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    The following feature is the second, concluding portion of the edited version of Building a Foreign Law Collection at the University of Michigan Law Library, 1910-1960, © Margaret A. Leary, 2002, which originally appeared at 94 Law Library Journal 395-425 (2002), and appears here with permission of the author. The first part of the article (46.2 Law Quadrangle Notes 46-53 [Summer 2003] detailed how the vision of Dean Henry Bates, generosity of graduate William W. cook, and skills of librarian/traveler/negotiator Hobart Coffey combined to launch the building of the Law Library\u27s international collection into one of the best in the world

    Response to Wayne P. Kelley

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    I appreciate Mr. Kelley\u27s comments and his concern about the fundamental legal responsibility of federal depository libraries to provide free and unrestricted access to depository materials to the general public, or, as stated in 44 U.S.C. § 1911, Depository libraries shall make Government publications available for the free use of the general public. I write to respond to the statements that It is impossible to determine exactly what sort of access to depository materials is allowed at the University of Michigan Law Library from the [Snow] article, and It appears that the ... policy does not meet our requirements

    Building a Home for the Laws of the World: Part II: Hoping, Hunting, and Honing

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    The following feature is the second, concluding portion of the edited version of Building a Foreign Law Collection at the University of Michigan Law Library, 1910-1960, © Margaret A. Leary, 2002, which originally appeared at 94 Law Library Journal 395-425 (2002), and appears here with permission of the author. The first part of the article (46.2 Law Quadrangle Notes 46-53 [Summer 2003] detailed how the vision of Dean Henry Bates, generosity of graduate William W. cook, and skills of librarian/traveler/negotiator Hobart Coffey combined to launch the building of the Law Library\u27s international collection into one of the best in the world

    Books, Microforms, Computers and Us: Who\u27s Us?

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    The author suggests that in the increasing effort to define, and refine, their identity and image, librarians have recently turned towards computers - and away from books and microforms. The result has been an avoidance of the more important issues facing librarians - such as ownership, accessibility, cost, and preservation of new formats of information - and an ever greater obfuscation of what constitutes the profession of librarianship

    Memorial: Margaret Althea Goldblatt (1948-2000)

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    Margaret Goldblatt, who died on June 15, 2000, in Cape Town, South Africa, after a year-long battle with cancer, was a rare combination of librarian and entrepreneur. She had both a sense of humor and a sense of professionalism that endeared her to those who knew her. Many of her colleagues knew her only through telephone and e-mail communications, for she worked the last several years from the office of Ward and Associates, located in the home she shared with her husband Peter Ward and her two children, Clea Goldblatt, age 21, and Zachary Ward, age 11
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