I agree with Kimberli. America's law librarians have a great deal to
contribute around the world. I suggest that AALL could approach
volunteer groups to expand programs already in place. For example, I'm
going to spend two weeks this May volunteering at the national library
of the Cook Islands. That program is part of Global Volunteers, an
international organization founded by a Minnesota attorney, which has
library volunteer programs in China as well.
-----Original Message-----
From: Kimberli Morris [mailto:kmorris2@law.gwu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 12:27 PM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: --anybody want to help rebuild?
This is a topic I'd been thinking about lately, even before the
national library was lost. I've been wondering what role AALL does or
could play in developing law librarianship abroad.
I know the ALA has had various international librarian exchange
programs; the ABA has several programs for legal institution building,
as does AALS. Individual librarians have been involved in these
projects and many have perhaps worked through IFLA. But I'm not aware
that we have as a profession stepped up to offer our expertise. For
example, in the ABA-UNDP International Legal Resource Center project
description ( http://www.abanet.org/intlaw/ilrc/
<http://www.abanet.org/intlaw/ilrc/> ) legal education, supporting
electoral bodies, and strengthening local institutions are listed as
work areas. Those sound like areas where law librarians have a great
amount to contribute, but none of the positions offered seem to be
geared for librarians. Nor do they seem to build in a way for this
particular legal expertise to be shared.
Does AALL already work with the ABA and AALS in their programs?
(That could well be, and I've just missed it.) If not, is it something
we would want to do?
>
>
> A national library (and a national museum) have been
completely
> destroyed. Imagine in your mind if this were to be the
Library of
> Congress and the Smithsonian, onlyseven or eight hundred
years
> older. This is not a nation's loss, it is humanity's loss.
>
> Now the available option is can we help rebuild it?
>
> If memory serves, the Code of Hamurabi is the oldest known law
> collection of humanity.
>
> So do law librarians feel anything at all about loosing their
most
> senior document?
>
> I feel a need to rebuild.
>
> Daniel Mitchel, reference librarian, Sacramento, CA
>
>
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