by Telle Zoller
University of Wisconsin Law Library
In 1995-1996 the Clearinghouse sent a Spanish language version of our questionnaire to the librarians and the deans of law schools in as many Latin American countries as we could find addresses for. The committee's thinking was that sending the survey in the native language would result in more likely response as well as being a courtesy to our colleagues in these countries.
Another idea to expand our network is to ask our colleagues in the U.S. to give the visiting foreign faculty our survey. A personal contact is often more powerful than a mailed letter. Before the July AALL Convention I will post the questionnaires in English and Spanish on Int-Law and Euro-Lex. If you prefer a traditional printed copy, contact me to receive copies of our survey letters to pass on to the foreign visitors. Maybe some day you may benefit from this effort.
Following is the combined list of all our surveys. If any of the information is no longer valid, please let me know.
University of Sydney, Library. NSW 2006. Phone: 02-692-4294. Fax:02-692-2890. Contact: Kerry Taylor. E-mail: kerryt@exho.ucc.su.oz.au. Will accept an exchange or a visitor for 6 to 12 months. No financial support. Supervisor/mentor, desk place, and assigned duties on optional work areas. Languages: English. Emphasis on academic research collection. They have requests for exchange on a regular basis from a a wide variety of countries.
Austria:
Universitätsbibliothek Innsbruck. A-6010 Innsbruck. Innrain 50. Phone: 0512-507-2070 May be interested to receive a visitor.
Belgium:
College of Europe in Bruges, Library. Dyver 11, B-8000 Brugge. Phone: (32)50-335-334. Fax: (32)50-332-426 Contact: Ms. Kris Clara, Head Librarian. Will accept a visitor for 3 weeks to 2 months. Housing might be negotiated. Desk place and assigned duties on public services depending on experience. Languages: Dutch, French, English. Emphasis on European integration.
England:
Law Library. City University. Northampton Sq. London EC1V 0HB. Phone: 0171/477-8000 ext. 4020. Contact: Paul Jamison E-mail: pjamison@city. ac.uk. Will have a part-time intern (0.5) for 3 to 6 months. Salary would come with job but UK salaries are low compared to US. Supervisor/ mentor, desk place, and assigned duties on public services. English only. Emphasis on English and European law. The benefit they might draw is improved knowledge of other commom law jurisdiction.
France:
Bilbiothèque Cujas. 2 rue Cujas. 75005 Paris, France. Contact: Mme. Carpentier and Mme. Ferrier. Will accept visitor; no length of time specified. No administrative support. Languages: French, English. No financial support. Visitors give the opportunity to gather information on foreign law systems, foreign law materials, and permit sometimes to set up a cooperation between libraries. Ireland:
Law Library. Boole Library. University College. Cork. Valery King, Librarian. Law Library. Phone:021/902-983; 021/902-281. E-email: v.king@ucc.ie. Fax: 021/273-428. Contact: John Fitzgerald, Librarian. Phone: 021/902-281. E-mail: library@ucc.ie. Will accept visitor up to 1 year. Salary and housing may be negotiated. Supervisor/mentor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional work areas. Languages: Irish and English. Emphasis on Irish legal material. General cross section of core subjects—reports, legislation, journals, monographs, constitutional, criminal, tort, property equity.
Italy:
International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT). Via Panisperma 28. 00184 Rome. Contact: Dr. Walter Rodino, Librarian. Will accept visitor. No time specified. No financial support. Supervisor, desk place, and assigned duties on technical services. Languages: Italian, English, and French. Emphasis on private law, commercial law, international private law, international trade law, private comparative law. Due to a staff shortage, visitor would be helpful. European University Institute. Badia Fiesolana, Library. Via dei Roccettini 9. 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole (FI). Phone: 055-4685-340.Fax:055-4685-283.Contact: Ms. Machteld Nijsten. Phone: 055-4685-278. E-mail: nijsten@datacomm.iue.it. They would like to start with a visitor and envisage an exchange for later period for 1 to 2 months. No financial support. Will help finding accommodation. Supervisor/mentor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional work areas. Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Dutch. Emphasis almost exclusively in the field of social science, particularly law, economics, political science, sociology, and history. Their law collection could benefit very much from the advice of a specialized librarian, especially in the field of comparative law and the law of the European Communities.
Netherlands:
Juridische Bibliotheek Jur. Li. Juridische Bibliotheek Jur. St. (Gravensteen). Postbus 9520, 2300, RA, Leiden. Phone: 071-277515. Contact: Mr. J. Bakker. Will accept an exchange or visitor for 3 to 6 months. Housing may be negotiated. Desk place and assigned duties depending on experience on technical services and optional work areas. Languages on staff: Dutch and English. Emphasis on law, Dutch law, and human rights. Will draw better contact with U.S. libraries.
Portugal:
Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa, Bibliotaca. Almeda da Universidade. 1699 Lisboa Codex. Phone: 797-7051 ext. 204/205. Fax: 795-0303. Contact: Mr. Jose L.S. Antunes, Librarian. Will accept an exchange and visitor for 1 to 4 weeks. No financial support. Supervisor/mentor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional work areas. Languages on staff: Portuguese, English, French. Emphasis on all areas of law. To exchange other points of view and experiences. Experience with the Erasmus project, from Sweden and France.
Scotland:
Glasgow University Library. Hillhead Street. Glasgow, G12 8QE. Phone: 041-339-8855 ext.6722. Contact: Heather Worlledge-Andrew. E-mail: gxlr30@cms.glsgow.ac.uk. Will accept an exchange and visitor for 2 to 3 weeks. Housing may be negotiated. Sharing office of mentor. Public services. Multi-lingual staff overall, but law librarian speaks only English. Emphasis on European law, history of law with a good general law collection. Insight into different work practices, learn of overseas sources, and gain a fresh perspective on their own collection. Much experience of visitors. Any visitors would be welcomed, but the number of them and time span would be restricted due to housing limitation.
Sweden:
University of Uppsala. Law Library. Juridiska Institutionen. Bos 512 S-75120, Uppsala. Contact: Birgitta Kohler. Will accept an exchange or visitor. Help to find housing. Perhaps some financial support. Supervisor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional work areas. Languages on staff: Swedish and English. Would like to develop personal and professional relationships with foreign law librarians and to get help to use foreign materials in a better way. No foreign visitors but Swedish librarians and library students.
Argentina:
Universidad Catolica de Salta. Ciudad Universitaria. Casilla Correo 18. Salta 4400. Phone: 087/253-666. Fax: 087/253-270. Contact: Luis Alberto Martinez. May be interested to receive a visitor. Universidad de Mendoza. Facultad de Ciencias Juridicas y Sociales. Boulogne Sur Mer 665. 5500 Mendoza. Phone: 291192. Contact: Maria Elena Giunta. Will accept exchange or visitor. No time limit specified. No financial supporrt. Assigned duties in optional work areas.
Brazil:
Biblioteca da Facultadade de Direito da Universidade. Federal de Minas Gerais Avenida Alvarez Cabral, 211. 30,170-000 - Belo Horizonte. Minas Gerais. Phone: 011- 031/222.4933 Extension A-8. Contact: Maria Lucia Barcelos Martins Gomes Will accept exchange or visitor for 1 month. No financial support. A Faculdade nao dispoe de recursos para as despesas de viage e estadia em Belo Horizonte. Supervisor/mentor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional areas. Languages on staff: Portuguese. Emphasis on Ciencias Sociais com predominancia do direito. Troca de experiencia de trabalho e publicacoes. Nao temos experiencia com intercambio ou visitante.
Colombia:
Departamento de Bibliotecas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Ciudad Universitaria, Santa Fe de Bogota, DC. Colombia. E-mail: http://biblioteca.campus. unal.edu.co. Phone: 269-1743. Contact: Victor Albis, Director Departamento de Bibliotecas. Phone: 269-1743. E-mail: director@biblioteca.campus.unal.edu.co. Will accept an exchange, visitor, or internship for: dos meses. No financial support. Supervisor/mentor, desk place, and assigned duties on technical services. Languages on staff: Spanish, English, and French. Emphasis on: Todas las areas de derecho. The benefit they might draw is: Establecer relaciones con bibliotecarios y bibliotecas de otros paises en el area del derecho. Estudiar otros sistemas de catalogacion. Buscar la manera de colocarnos en red con otras colecciones alrededor del mundo.
Ecuador:
Biblioteca General. Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. Av. 12 de Octubre 1076 y Carrion, Quito. Contact: Oswaldo Orbe Cortez, Phone: 228780 E-mail: biblio@puce.edu.ec. Will accept an exchange or visitor for 30 days. Financial support may be negotiated. Condicionado a la existencia de partida presupuestaria para el efecto.De no existir ser negativa la respuesta. Desk place and assigned duties on public and technical services Languages on staff: Spanish and English. The benefit they might draw is: Actualización e intercambio de experiencias. No experience with visitors.
Guatemala:
Biblioteca "Ludwig Von Mises". Universidad Francisco Marroquin. 6a. Calle Final Zona 10, Apartado 632-A. 01910 Guatemala, Guatemala, C.A. Fax: 502-2/346896. Contact: Maria Victoria de Gomez. May be interested in accepting a visitor.
Mexico:
Facultad de Derecho. Universidad de Guanajuato. Lascurain de Retana No. 5. CP 36000 Guanajuato. Guanajuato, Mexico. Phone: 473/2-00-06 Ext. 3092, 3093, 3094. Fax: 473/2-50-51 Contact: Dr. Manuel Vidaurri Arechiga, Director. May be interested in accepting a visitor.
Peru:
Universidad Catolica de Santa Maria de Arequipa. Oficina de Promoción y Desarrollo. Casilla Postal #1599, Arequipa. Phone: 51-54-252542. Fax: 51-54-251144. Contact: Dr. Ramiro Valdivia Cano. Will accept a visitor for 3 months. Housing may be negotiated. Supervisor/mentor on technical and optional services. Languages on staff: Spanish and English. Emphasis on Derecho: Civil, Penal, Constitucional, y laboral. The benefit they might draw is: Obtener un pleno conocimiento sobre el sistema bibliotecario utilizado en el extranjero y su respectiva codificación. Obtener un conocimiento sobre los modos, formas de empleo y utilización de las fuentes bibliograficas. No experience with visitors.
Brigham Young Library. Contact: Lovisa Lyman. Accepts visitor for 1 to 8 weeks. Housing may be negotiated. Supervisor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional work areas. Languages: Spanish and German.
Chadbourne & Parke. 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112. Contact: Catherine Pennington. Will accept a visitor for 1 to 3 weeks. Salary may be negotiated. Will provide supervisor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional work areas. Staff: 13. Languages: Russian, Italian, Spanish, French. Covington & Burling. 1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. P.O. Box 7566, Washington, DC 20044. Contact: Roberta Shaffer. Will accept visitor for 1 to 8 weeks. Salary may be negotiated. Desk place and assigned duties in technical services. Collection on EC, Pan-European and multi-national law. Staff: 25. Languages: French, Spanish, German.
Law Library of Congress. Contact: Natalie Gawdiak. Will accept intern/exchange/visitor with no time limit specified. No financial support. Will provide supervisor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional work areas. All major world languages. Los Angeles County Law Library. Contact: Richard T. Iamele, Library Director. Will accept an intern for 1 to 2 months or longer. Salary may be negotiated; interns currently paid $8.13/hr. Supervisor and assigned duties in public services. Looking for special skills and languages and an opportunity to do collection evaluation for specific jurisdictions. Languages on the staff: Russian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese.
Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College. 10015 SW Terwilliger, Portland, OR 97219. Contact: Kathy Faust. Will accept visitor for 4 weeks or longer. Housing may be negotiated. Supervisor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional work area. Languages: German. Emphasis on environmental and tax law. Would welcome help in organizing and developing Commonwealth and UN collections. Ohio State University Law Library. Contact: Bruce S. Johnson, Director. Will accept visitors for 1 to 3 weeks. No financial support. Supervisor, desk place, and assigned duties in public services. Emphasis on French and German law. Languages: German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Ukrainian.
O'Melveny & Myers. San Francisco Branch. 275 Battery St. 25th fl. San Francisco, CA 94111. Contact: Georgine O'Connor. Will accept visitors. No financial support. Emphasis on California law and Pacific Rim. English only
Shearman & Sterling. 153 E. 53rd. Street, Room 3205, New York, NY 10022. Contact: Jack S. Ellenberger. Will accept a visitor for 1 to 3 weeks, carefully pre-scheduled. No financial support. Some supervision of public services work. Emphasis on international banking. 10 member staff. Languages: French and Chinese.
Tarlton Law Library. Univ. of Texas, Austin. Contact: Jonathan Pratter. Will accept a visitor for 1 to 3 weeks, no financial support. Supervisor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional areas. Languages: Spanish, French, German, Portuguese. University of Houston Law Library. Contact: Sylvia E. Castano. Accepts visitor with no time limit specified. Financial support may be negotiated. Provides supervisor, desk place, and assigned duties in optional areas. Foreign and international law with emphasis on Mexican law. Languages: French, German, Spanish, and Chinese.
University of Virginia Law Library. Contact: Larry B. Wenger, Law Librarian. Will accept an intern or visitor with no time limit specified. No financial support. Desk place and assigned duties in optional area. Collection concentration: Commonwealth, international, maritime and historic preservation law. Major Western languages.
FORWARD to next article: New F/I Librarian at Ohio State.
BACK to Contents page.