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12 LH & RB: Newsl. Legal Hist. & Rare Books Special Int. Sec. 1 (2006)

handle is hein.lbr/aalhnlt0012 and id is 1 raw text is: New4&M Le 4 la o~~ 5~.e~dt~4~4 e4Lo4w From My Commonplace Book Morris Cohen Franz Kafka, The Trial (1948): On the table, which still stood on the platform as before, several books were lying. May I glance at the books? asked K., not out of any particular curiosity, but merely that his visit here might not be quite pointless. No, said the woman, shutting the door again, that isn't allowed. The books belong to the Examining Magistrate. I see, said K., nodding, these books are probably law books, and it is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance. That must be it, said the woman, who had not quite understood him.. . (p. 62) Learned Hand, The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (1960) Collected by Irving Dilliard: ... I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry. I believe that that community is already in process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981): The History of every major Galactic Civilization Continued on page 2 COMMONPLACE From the Chair Laura Ray The Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section is working with the Centennial Committee and Micrographics & Audiovisual Special Interest Section to advise AALL members planning, or working on, Oral History projects. We kicked off this effort at the 2005 AALL Annual Meeting with our Values, Video and Vignettes: Using Video Oral History Techniques to Document the Unwritten Histories of A-ALL program. If you missed that program, you'll find much of the information in John Pedini's article In Their Own Words: Videotaping Oral History, Trends in Law Library Management and Technology June 1998, pages 1- 5. This article provides key information on identifying appropriate subjects, researching subjects, and developing interview questions, as well as very practical information on scheduling, speaker releases, equipment, setting, lighting, camera operation, interview pacing, and interview techniques. Continuing the Oral History program effort, the AALL Centennial Committee has two particularly relevant items within the Centennial Celebration Toolkits section of its Web site: Overheard at the Bar Programs and Oral History Project. The Overheard at the Bar Programs link provides a good overview of how to produce live oral history programs. During such sessions, in front of a live audience, key individuals informally discuss their professional and personal activities and experiences. Perhaps you recall The Centennial Bar is Now Open: Pour Another Round of AALL History program - with Carolyn Ahearn, Albert Brecht, Laura Gasaway, Roger Jacobs, Gitelle Seer, and Betty Taylor - at the 2004 Continued on page 3 CHAIR LH&BB

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