Networks and Law Libraries

The Tuesday afternoon session of the American Association of Law Libraries\u27 69th Annual Meeting, a panel on Networks and Law Libraries, convened at 3:30 p.m. in the Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University, Mr. Morris L. Cohen, presiding

Research in a Changing World of Law and Technology

As a long-time friend and admirer of legal education at Dalhousie, it is an honor and a pleasure for me to offer the Read lecture this year. It is particularly warming to have Mrs. Read and the next two generations of Reads here today, since Dean Read was the strongest proponent of the law library\u27s development during his deanship here. One of the designated topics for these lectures has been legal education. With the dedication of the addition to the Weldon Building housing the restored Sir James Dunn Law Library, and the designation of a librarian, for the first time, as Read lecturer, it seemed fitting to focus this year on three sacred, but often neglected, totems of legal education - books, libraries and research. The central role of this holy trinity in North American law schools has been, at least since Langdell\u27s time, affirmed and repeatedly reaffirmed in numerous addresses and reports. Under the pressure of financial constraints and budgetary competition, however, the reality of support and commitment has been often less affirming

The Law Library Rare Book Room

PROFESSOR COHEN: In recent years, the library profession quite properly has been concerned with providing maximum accessibility of its collections and services to the reader. An unfortunate byproduct of this enlightened view, however, has been a popular deprecation of the traditional custodial role of the librarian. To avoid the stereotypic image of the over-protective librarian, zealously guarding the collection against the user, many libraries have neglected their proper responsibility for conservation and preservation. Forty years ago, back in 1941, one librarian said: . . . the current Messianic emphasis on the dissemination of knowledge through books has resulted in undue neglect of the conservation of knowledge in books (G. Flint Purdy, 66 Library Journal 144, February 1941). Valuable materials are being lost through deterioration of book paper and binding, careless photocopying, poor storage conditions and other natural hazards and reader abuses. Accessibility and dissemination require that the library\u27s materials be available for use, but also that they be handled and maintained in a manner consistent with their survival for future readers

Marian Gallagher: A Memorial Dedication

In an academic career that spanned over forty years, Marian Gallagher left a unique mark on American law librarianship, and thereby on American legal education. She trained many outstanding law librarians, inspired an even greater number of us, and provided leadership in her own library and throughout her profession. She was also, as George Schatzki and others have said, funny and happy, warm and sensitive, bright, thorough and efficient. Through her individuality, her wit and her manner, she brought color, verve and style to a profession. Her special contribution to law librarianship and legal education stemmed from a combination of those accomplishments and personal traits. What she did was inseparable from what she was; her deeds flowed naturally from her character and her personality

Research in a Changing World of Law and Technology

As a long-time friend and admirer of legal education at Dalhousie, it is an honor and a pleasure for me to offer the Read lecture this year. It is particularly warming to have Mrs. Read and the next two generations of Reads here today, since Dean Read was the strongest proponent of the law library\u27s development during his deanship here. One of the designated topics for these lectures has been legal education. With the dedication of the addition to the Weldon Building housing the restored Sir James Dunn Law Library, and the designation of a librarian, for the first time, as Read lecturer, it seemed fitting to focus this year on three sacred, but often neglected, totems of legal education - books, libraries and research. The central role of this holy trinity in North American law schools has been, at least since Langdell\u27s time, affirmed and repeatedly reaffirmed in numerous addresses and reports. Under the pressure of financial constraints and budgetary competition, however, the reality of support and commitment has been often less affirming

Book Reviews

Dictionary of Legal Abbreviations Used in American Law Books by Doris Bieber The proliferation of legal sources and abbreviations poses two related problems--first, the need for standardized citation forms,and second, the need for guides to commonly used abbreviations. The first problem has been difficult to solve, and universal acceptance of standard citations is unlikely to be achieved. A Uniform System of Citation, published by the Harvard Law Review Association, in collaboration with the Columbia Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal, has attained wide acceptance and has become the authoritative guide for legal citations in this country. Unless future editions increase in complexity or deteriorate in clarity and scope, the influence of the Bluebook (as it is popularly known) should grow, and it should become as close to an effective standard as seems possible. Web of Violence: A Study of Family Violence by Jean Renvoize Every so often someone rediscovers a horrible aspect of the human condition and brings it to public attention. Thus, Professor C. Henry Kempe rediscovered child abuse in America in 1961 and conducted a symposium on the subject.\u27 A similar rediscovery occurred in England about 12 years later when a public inquiry was held on the fatal beating of eight-year-old Maria Colwell by her stepfather. From the American symposium came the now familiar term battered child. \u27 From the English inquiry came the catch slogan Remember Maria. \u27 Since these events, the subject of child abuse has been discussed constantly in both countries. In the course of the discussion, other battered family members have turned up.It seems that children also batter parents, parents batter grandparents,\u27 siblings and spouses batter each other.\u27 Lumped together under the rubric violent families, these attackers and victims are now in the limelight, a fashionable subject for the ministrations of social workers,\u27 lawmakers, and commentators

CVD of CrO2: towards a lower temperature deposition process

We report on the synthesis of highly oriented a-axis CrO2 films onto (0001) sapphire by atmospheric pressure CVD from CrO3 precursor, at growth temperatures down to 330 degree Celsius, i.e. close to 70 degrees lower than in published data for the same chemical system. The films keep the high quality magnetic behaviour as those deposited at higher temperature, which can be looked as a promising result in view of their use with thermally sensitive materials, e.g. narrow band gap semiconductors.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figure

Traverse Planning with Temporal-Spatial Constraints

We present an approach to planning rover traverses in a domain that includes temporal-spatial constraints. We are using the NASA Resource Prospector mission as a reference mission in our research. The objective of this mission is to explore permanently shadowed regions at a Lunar pole. Most of the time the rover is required to avoid being in shadow. This requirement depends on where the rover is located and when it is at that location. Such a temporal-spatial constraint makes traverse planning more challenging for both humans and machines. We present a mixed-initiative traverse planner which addresses this challenge. This traverse planner is part of the Exploration Ground Data Systems (xGDS), which we have enhanced with new visualization features, new analysis tools, and new automation for path planning, in order to be applicable to the Re-source Prospector mission. The key concept that is the basis of the analysis tools and that supports the automated path planning is reachability in this dynamic environment due to the temporal-spatial constraints

Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Pion Scattering from Li

We show that the neutron and proton transition densities predicted by recent quantum Monte Carlo calculations for A=6,7 nuclei are consistent with pion scattering from 6Li and 7Li at energies near the Delta resonance. This has provided a microscopic understanding of the enhancement factors for quadrople excitations, which were needed to describe pion inelastic scattering within the nuclear shell model of Cohen and Kurath.Comment: 10 pages, REVTeX, 3 postscript figures; added calculation of elastic and inelastic pion scattering from 6Li at multiple energie