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The Newsletter of the Computing Services SIS                Volume 6, Issue 1
American Association of Law libraries                  December 2005
On the Front Lines
Are You a Librarian? Am I?
Ken Hirsh
These questions would seem to be simple to answer. Most readers
of this column work in a law library. Most have the word librarian in
their job title: Reference Librarian. Catalog Librarian. Director of the Law Librarian.
Electronic Services Librarian. I am always suspicious when I hear that last title: what
reference or circulation librarian today can do his or her job without using electronic
services?
What exactly does a librarian do? Are librarians place bound? That is, must there be a
library present for a librarian to do the job? Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary,
Ninth Edition (1989), not the latest edition from Merriam-Webster but the one on my shelf,
says a librarian is a specialist in the care or management of a library. It defines library
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In this issue
8   RSS: It's About Time by Bonnie Shucha
13  Mapping Your Mind with Open Source Software by Eric W. Kistler
16  Planning for an Integrated Library System (ILS) by Jean L. Willis
1   On the Front Lines: Are You a Librarian? Am I? by Ken Hirsh
3   Computing Services SIS Grants Program by Jim Gernert
5   Call for Nominations: Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award by James
Duggan
6   AALL Education Summit Report by Susan M. Boland
20  2005-06 CS-SIS Members of the Executive Board
20  2005-06 CS-SIS Committee Assignments
21 The Back Page

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