Last Friday, reference law librarian John Thompson of
Powell, Goldstein, Frazer, & Murphy asked for
assistance in obtaining some French materials, and
promised to "pay photocopying and shipping costs".
Although the materials must be readily available in
Washington DC, I agreed to photocopy, scan and e-mail
them. I did that, Friday evening. I e-mailed Mr.
Thompson that he could download the articles at
http://members.xoom.com/juridique/misc/juillard.pdf
http://members.xoom.com/juridique/misc/nguyen.pdf
and
http://members.xoom.com/juridique/misc/salem.pdf
It had taken me 20 minutes to do the photocopying, and
an hour to scan the resulting 100 or so pages. I asked
Mr. Thompson in return to donate $10 to charity (I
used up most of a £10 copycard) and confirm that he
had done so.
Not a word have I had of acknowledgement. But,
unfortunately, that has been unfailingly the result
when I have taken the trouble, over the past year or
two, to procure foreign materials on behalf of
librarians in private law firms. And, since I am a
retired legal researcher and writer, the cost comes
out of my own pocket, not some institution's.
I am, therefore, signing off.
Andy Grossman
LLB (Columbia), Docteur en droit (Louvain)
Member, NY & DC Bars
written at: University College London
School of Library, Archive and Information Studies
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Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 05:37:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andy Grossman <andygr@yahoo.com> | Block
address
Subject: Re: French Language Journals and Books
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu, llsdc@gmu.edu
CC: jthompson@PGFM.com
Add Addresses
The journals are easy: everybody has Clunet (Journal
de droit international) and Revue générale. I'll
photocopy the articles and e-mail them to you as Adobe
Acrobat *.pdf files this afternoon.
I checked the PUF web site (http://www.puf.com) but
your book is probably out of print. But it's there in
the Columbia Law School catalog:
2nd Floor
Call # JX6271 L392
Author Laviec, Jean-Pierre
Title Protection et promotion des investissements :
étude de droit international économique
Paris : Presses universitaires de France, c1985
Columbia has a document delivery service; you can
telephone them and arrange for the pages you need to
be sent or faxed.
I'm sure I could find the book here in London, too,
but since so many US libraries have blanket orders
with PUF I can't see the point in running around
England for it.
As for the photocopying charge, you can give the 10
cents a page it will cost me to charity.
Andy Grossman
LLB, Docteur en droit
University College London, SLAIS
--- jthompson@PGFM.com wrote: >
>
> Sorry for the cross posting.
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am having some trouble tracking down a couple
> French language journals and
> a book and I was hoping someone out there may have
> them. I've checked OCLC
> and the British Library but have had no luck.
> Here's what I'm looking for:
>
> Journal de Droit International (2 articles: "Les
> Conventions
> Bilaterales d'Investissment Concluees par la France"
> by Patrick Juillard
> (1979), vol. 106, pg. 274-32; and "Le Developpement
> de la Protection
> Conventionelle des Investissements Etrangers" by
> Mahmoud Salem (1986), vol.
> 113, pg. 579-626)
>
> Revue Generale du Droit International Public ("Le
> Reseau Suisse
> d'Accords Bilateraux d'Encouragement et de
> Protection des Investissements"
> by Nguyen Huu-Tru (1988) vol. 92, pg. 577-671
>
> Protection et Promotion des Investissements: Etudes
> de Droit
> International Economiques by Jean-Pierre Laviec
> (1985), Presses
> Universitaires de France
>
> We, of course, would be willing to pay photocopying
> and shipping costs if
> someone out there has any of these. I apologize
> again for cross-posting as
> well as any butchering of the French language (as
> well as the English) that
> may have occurred. Thanks in advance.
>
> John Thompson
> Reference Librarian
> Powell, Goldstein, Frazer, & Murphy
> Washington, DC
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