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9 Legal Reference Services Q. 1 (1989)

handle is hein.journals/lgrefsq9 and id is 1 raw text is: INTRODUCTION The Legal Bibliography: Tradition, Transitions and Trends Scott B. Pagel INTRODUCTION In 1967, contributors to a special issue of Library Trends exam- ined the state of the art of bibliography.' Specialists were asked to analyze the developments in their own subject areas. Miles 0. Price, then Law Librarian Emeritus and Emeritus Professor of Law at Columbia University, provided an article on the topic of legal bibliography.' He noted that, while the term was often used to de- scribe the kinds and functions of legal materials, he would use it as applied to lists of law books and related materials. Professor Price proceeded to offer comments on several bibliographies, and the uses made of those tools by legal researchers. His views remain illu- minating in today's research environment, and his remarks about many of the titles are as true now as they were twenty years ago. The article is particularly interesting because of one section de- voted to a new technological development. Professor Price, a leader of the profession, praised the advances in a process which, he be- Scott B. Pagel is Assistant Law Librarian, Columbia University Law School Library, New York, NY 10027. @ 1989 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. I

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