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TRAINING FOR LIBRARIANSHIP
more the tendency is coming to be for the
lawyer to either join a law association,
thereby acquiring the privilege of using the
association law library, or to engage with
others in a cooperative venture and to form
a proprietary or subscription law library.
In some buildings in several of the larger
cities, where the tenants are mainly or ex-
clusively lawyers, law libraries accessible to
the tenants are maintained by the owners of
the buildings.
The more common technical librar37' prob-
lems met with in the general library appear
only as minor questions in the law library.
Law reports are issued serially, each volume
being numbered in order of issue ; to be most
serviceable the best practice favors placing
them on shelves arranged alphabetically by

state or country, and under each state serially
by nimiber. The same arrangement is gener-
ally followed with statutes. Textbooks are
generally confined to specific subjects, and
are commonly arranged alphabetically by

author under each subject. It is quite clear,
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