The Soros Foundation runs a national library program. More info may be
available at http://www.soros.org
Rick Apgood
Reference Librarian
UDC-David A. Clarke School of Law
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From: Nicholas A. Worthington [mailto:nworthingto@sonnenschein.com]
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 1:44 PM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu; owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: --anybody want to help rebuild?
I too have been thinking about this. Unfortunately, the Iraqi National
Library is not the only one to suffer in recent years. I seem to recall
that the Sarajevo library, again with irreplaceable archives, was destroyed
in the fighting there. There may have been others as well.
I would be interested in information on programs that help in these
situations, or that are taking steps to prevent the loss of threatened
collections.
Nick Worthington
Librarian
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
San Francisco Library
415.882.1005
415.543.5472 FAX
"Kimberli Morris"
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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/ ) 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
>
>
Kimberli A. Morris | Head of Electronic Services
Jacob Burns Law Library | George Washington University Law School
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