[LAW-LIB:56136] Re: Law Librarian on Front Page of N.Y. Times

From: andrew.evans@washburn.edu
Date: Fri Jul 18 2008 - 13:59:16 PDT

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    Fred,

    I read that article before leaving for Portland and carried it around
    with me hoping to get your autograph. A lot of us in the legal
    profession probably have used the serenity prayer at one time or
    another.

    Great story!

    Thank you,
    Andrew

    "I'm a law librarian so I drink like a Kennedy and read like the
    Dickens!"

    Andrew Pulau Evans, JD, MLS
    Head of Reference & Gov Docs Librarian
    Adjunct Professor of Law
    Washburn University Law Library
    1700 SW College Ave
    Topeka KS 66621
    (785) 670-1787
    andrew.evans@washburn.edu

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro@yale.edu>
    Date: Friday, July 18, 2008 3:40 pm
    Subject: [LAW-LIB:56134] Law Librarian on Front Page of N.Y. Times
    To: "law-lib@ucdavis.edu" <law-lib@ucdavis.edu>

    > Law librarians may be interested to see that there was an article
    > about me on the front page of last Friday's New York Times:
    >
    > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/11prayer.html
    >
    > The article describes how my researches on the recently published
    > Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press) led to discoveries
    > casting doubt on the standard story of the origin of the Serenity
    > Prayer.
    > Fred Shapiro
    > Associate Librarian for Collections and Access
    > Lillian Goldman Law Library
    > Yale Law School
    >
    >

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