Another thing about the request for research help on LAW-LIB from an
non-librarian is that, as someone mentioned, you have the option of ignoring
it or helping. Help can come in many forms, including referrals to other
relevant lists, relevant gophers/webs/etc., or physical libraries/librarians.
You can refer back to local resources for instance. Someone asking a
reference question via a listserv or a comment on someone's homepage might do
so for various reasons, among them, only list they know or just happened to
realize they *could* ask a question via e-mail at that point (the
appropriateness of the list or whether the person they're e-mailing to is
qualified or in a position to help with legal research questions might not
have entered into the decision to ask the question).
And questions to LAW-LIB can come from librarians who don't work in law
libraries, professors, lawyers, law students, and other folks who don't work
in law libraries. There is an opportunity here to promote the services of
law librarians. How we choose to do it is the question.
Cheers,
Lyo.
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