Don’t Count Out Law Librarians
July 13th, 2005I had a wonderful conversation with Heather Smith from American Lawyer a few months ago. She was writing an article about the importance of law libraries. The article, titled Don’t Count Out Law Librarians came out today. Well worth a read if you are at all interested in law libraries. My quote is cutesy, but very true:
“There are other benefits to good old-fashioned hard copy. “A law library without a print collection just doesn’t make any sense,” says Steven Cohen, a former Rivkin Radler law librarian turned blogger (librarystuff.net). “Lexis goes down every once in a while. Westlaw goes out every once in a while. The Internet goes out every once in a while. During the blackout [in 2003], I had librarians scrambling looking for reporters.”