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The International Association of Law Libraries: Its Beginnings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Kurt Schwerin
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In No. 28 of the Bulletin of the International Association of Law Libraries (June, 1972) Dr. Gerhard J. Dahlmanns published “some reflections on the development, aims and purposes” of the I.A.L.L. This article was an excellent survey on the history, policies and problems of the Association at the time when the originally modest Bulletin, under the presidency of Dr. Hans G. Leser, became a full-fledged international periodical. The present article tries to record in greater detail the history of the inception and the first two years of the Association. I have these years in vivid memory, they were years of lively planning in which I was deeply involved.

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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 12 , Issue 1-2 , April 1984 , pp. 1 - 6
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Copyright © 1984 by International Association of Law Libraries 

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References

1. See also: Landheer, B., “Ten Years International Association of Law Libraries”, IALL Bulletin, No. 23, p. 5 (1969); “Letter of the Outgoing President” (Hans G. Leser), International Journal of Law Libraries, Vol. 2, p. 49 (1974), and “President's Page” (Gerhard J. Dahlmanns), ibid., p. 52.Google Scholar

2. Schwerin, K., “William R. Roalfe, First President of the Int. Assoc, of Law Libraries: A Profile”, IALL Bulletin, No. 5, p. 15 (1962); K. Schwerin, “William R. Roalfe (1896-1979): A Tribute”, Int. Jour, of Law Libraries, Vol. 8, p. 3 (1980).Google Scholar

3. Stern, W. B., “In Memoriam Howard Drake (1915-1967)”, IALL Bulletin, No. 20, p. 1 (1967); I. Sipkov, “In memory of William B. Stern (1910-1972)”, IALL Bulletin, No. 29/30, p. 7 (1972); also “President's Page” (Hans G. Leser), ibid., p. 3.Google Scholar

4. Cf. my reviews of the Szladits Bibliography in Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 50, p. 706 (1955); Law Lib. Journal, Vol. 56, p. 116 (1962), and International Jour, of Law Libraries, Vol. 9, p. 281 (1981); my review of the Guide in Law Lib. Journal, Vol. 53, p.70 (1960).Google Scholar

5. Cf. my review in Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 53, p. 120 (1958).Google Scholar

6. Cf. my review in Law Lib. Journal, Vol. 49, p. 66 (1956).Google Scholar

7. Schlesinger's casebook, Comparative Law: Cases - Texts - Materials appeared in its 4th edition in 1980; the second edition of von Mehren's casebook (with James R. Gordley), The Civil Law System: An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Law, appeared in 1977.Google Scholar

8. Stern's paper was based on his article, “Worldwide Responsibilities of American Law Libraries” in Law Lib. Journal, Vol. 54, p. 139 (1961). Schwerin's paper was also published in a substantially expanded versin, as an article “Law Libraries and Foreign Law Collections in the USA”, with a foreword by K. Howard Drake, in The International and Comparative Law Quarterly (London), Vol. 11, p. 537-67 (1962), and in Japanese in National Diet Library: Library Science Series (Tokyo), no. 7, pp. 165-91 (1962). In a slightly modified version the paper had been read in German (“Amerikanische Rechtsbibliotheken”) at the 55th German Library Day-Annual Meeting of the Association of German Librarians (Deutscher Bibliothekartag) in Munich on May 26, 1961. This German version was published in Libri: International Library Review and IFLA Communications (Copenhagen), Vol. 12, pp. 217-34 (1962). - The Survey on Foreign Law Collections included in the article became later the point of departure for a debate on the merits and methods of foreign law surveys by two good friends and prominent members of the IALL (Adolf Sprudzs and Igor Kavass), published in the Internat. Jour, of Law Libraries, Vol. 2, pp. 84-87 and 141-152 (1974). See also I. I. Kavass, “Foreign and International Law Collections in Selected Law Libraries in the United States: Survey 1972-73”, in Internat. Jour, of Law Libraries, Vol. 1, p. 117 (1973).Google Scholar

9. International Association of Law Libraries: Proceedings of the Meeting at the Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 24-25, 1961. Ed. by Kurt Schwerin. Ann Arbor, Cushing-Malloy, 1962.Google Scholar