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- Title
The ABA, the AALL, the AALS, and the "Duplication of Legal Publications".
- Authors
Danner, Richard A.
- Abstract
Between 1935 and 1940, the American Bar Association, the American Association of Law Libraries, and the Association of American Law Schools joined forces to work on solutions to a problem often referred to as the "duplication of legal publications." The need for practicing attorneys and law libraries to purchase multiple and duplica-tive versions of published law reports and other law books was burdensome in costs, complicated the research process, and contributed to what the American Law Institute identified as the two chief defects of American law: "its uncertainty and its complexity." This article highlights the efforts of the ABA, theAALS, and the AALL to develop solutions to the problem, focusing on the leadership of Harvard law librarian Eldon R. James within the ABA and elsewhere. Although these efforts ultimately failed, the story illuminates a moment in the history of law librarianship in which a prominent law librarian provided leadership on a matter of concern to the entire legal profession.
- Subjects
ASSOCIATION of American Law Schools; AMERICAN Association of Law Libraries; LAW libraries; PRACTICE of law; HARVARD Law School; JAMES, Eldon R.; LAWYERS; LEGAL bibliography; LAW reports, digests, etc.; LAW librarianship; LEGAL professions
- Publication
Law Library Journal, 2012, Vol 104, Issue 4, p485
- ISSN
0023-9283
- Publication type
Article