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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP

armorer who helps in finding the armor that
will make him impervious to attack. So long
as the lawyer continues his practice, he must
maintain his contact with the law library.
Law libraries divide themselves into six
broad classes: (1) The law school library;
(2) the association law library; (3) the pri-
vate law library; (4) the proprietary or pri-
vate law library, the use of which is permis-
sible at a fixed subscription or rental ; (5) the
cornet law library, and (6) the state law
library. From this it appears that law libra-
ries may exist for and may be maintained by
the school, by the individual or a group of
individuals, by the bench or by the bar, and
further that the expense may be borne by the
public or by those who make use of the
library. But while each type of law library
may serve its special clientele in its own defi-
nite way, in the materials with which they
deal and in their use of these, all law libraries
are very much alike. They all deal with the
law, and modern law has a definite literature
of its own.
The law as it concerns the librarian, and
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