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Summer is often accompanied by reading time in cars, on boats and airplanes, at the beach, and poolside, so AALL Spectrum wants to know: member to member What’s on your must-read list this summer?

Palfrey’s Born Digital: Understanding the I don’t frequently First Generation of Digital Natives, trying This year I am read nonfiction on to gain an even deeper understanding of participating in the my own time, but these young people’s expectations of Literary Exploration I am determined higher education and how those affect Challenge. The to read Benjamin legal research instruction and training. challenge is to read Ferencz, Nuremberg books from 12, 24, or Prosecutor and —Jessica Haseltine, Texas Tech University 36 genres, depending Peace Advocate Law Library, Lubbock Tiffani Willis on which level (easy, Alice Pidgeon by Tom Hofmann. hard, and insane, Professor Ferencz respectively) one taught at Pace University years ago, and One Hundred Years chooses. I chose the insane level, or 36 we had wonderful discussions about peace of Solitude, yet again, books. This summer I am aiming to tackle and other lofty topics. He is a fascinating since our great friend some of the bigger books for the challenge: man, and I hope to learn more about the Garcia Marquez is Wolf Hall for historical fiction, The Secret Nuremberg trials, which he prosecuted. It’s gone. I’ve read it six History for literary fiction, and Middlemarch so wonderful to have known a person who or seven times over for Victorian. did so much for mankind without much the past four decades recompense or glory. He deserves to be for its restorative —Tiffani Willis, Research Services better known. Paul J. Donovan properties; each time, Librarian, Pepperdine University School I regard life with more of Law, Malibu, California —Alice Pidgeon, Head of Technical amazement, affection, humor, and tranquility. Services, Pace University Law Library, White Plains, New York —Paul J. Donovan, State Law Librarian, I will read My Vermont State Library, Montpelier Dear Boy by John Edgar Tidwell and (1) How Jesus became God, Bart Ehrman Carmeletta M. I’m a big fan of English history, so I’m Williams. It is a (2) The God Problem, Howard Bloom finally going to try getting through Thomas compilation of (3) Death in the City of Lights, David King B. Costain’s four-volume history of the letters that Plantagenets. It begins with the conquest Langston Hughes’ It’s not really what it looks like—it just Joyce A. McCray of England by William the Conqueror in Pearson mother, Carrie happens that these three titles are at the 1066 in The Conquering Family and ends Hughes, wrote to top of my Kindle list, so I have to read with the death of King John in 1216 in him as an adult them before I buy anything else. The Last Plantagenets. In between are author. It is an excellent book! The Magnificent Century and The Three —Elliott C. Blevins, Manager of Library and Edwards. Comedian Joan Rivers considers —Joyce A. McCray Pearson, Director and Information Services, Sandberg Phoenix & these must-read titles and says she reads Associate Professor of Law, Wheat Law Von Gontard, P.C., St. Louis them every 10 years. Good enough for me. Library, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence —Sharon Bradley, Special Collections My “must-read” Librarian, University of Georgia School of list includes Frank Law, Athens Some may recall the scene in the film Bryce McCluskey “Goodbye, Columbus” in which Ali and Melanie Lynn MacGraw’s character and her new Winter’s The Idea Dante’s Divine boyfriend, played by Richard Benjamin, of the Digital Comedy. I’ve been swim at a cliché-ridden country club pool University: Ancient attending a weekly and pass by a lounging middle-aged Traditions, Disruptive Jessica Haseltine lecture series this sunbather who is heavily made up, easily Technologies and the spring that only has distracted, and reading Tolstoy’s War and Battle for the Soul been addressing Peace. Despite the comic nature of such of Higher Education and Douglas Thomas about a quarter of superficial attempts, I actually believe and John Seely Brown’s A New Culture of Martha Campos the masterpiece, serious reading can be tackled with a Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for and now I have to deep satisfaction in the summer. I plan a World of Constant Change. As digital read the rest. His to read Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the natives are sweeping the ranks of law extended similes are, well, like beautiful 21st Century in Arthur Goldhammer’s students and young , it’s becoming jewels, to use a simile. Wish I could read translation. Irrespective of one’s politics increasingly important for law librarians to it in Italian! going in, and without knowing if it really is understand how this new generation thinks a seminal, magisterial, “heir to Tocqueville’s and learns. My summer will be spent —Martha Campos, Manager of Library tradition of analytic history” as one of following the thread started by John Services, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Amazon’s listed big reviewers states (Jacob 36 AALL Spectrum I June 2014 AALLJune2014:1 5/19/14 4:30 PM Page 37

S. Hacker and Paul Pierson American Prospect 25 (2014):76), it is not a big price to pay in time or money for the chance to be “present at the creation” of some sort announcements of watershed. In fact, the non-Kindle and hardcover is only $23.97 on Prime. OK, Last Chance to Renew Your AALL I buy international and foreign law. And Membership what if it does end up in the line of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Karl Marx, and John The new AALL membership year began June 1. If you haven’t already Maynard Keynes? You’ve done your done so, we hope that you are planning to renew your membership, which intellectual duty and are ready for the both strengthens the profession and provides you with essential career faculty lunch. So make an umbrella drink, resources. This month, a final set of dues invoices for 2014-2015 will float along with the dismal science, and mail to all library directors for their institutionally paid memberships then watch Game of Thrones. You do not and to all other individual members. Be sure to renew before August 1 to ensure your membership benefits continue for another year! need to worry about income inequality if you have dragons. Following is the 2013 membership renewal schedule: June: Third and final dues invoices mailed out —Marylin J. Raisch, Associate Law Librarian for International and Foreign Law, August 1: Expired members deleted from the AALL membership database John Wolff International and Comparative and access to the AALLNET Members Only Section and Law Library Journal Law Library, Georgetown University Law and AALL Spectrum subscriptions discontinued. Library, Washington, D.C. For more information or to renew your membership online, view the application form on AALLNET at www.aallnet.org/Home-page-contents/ Join-benefits. If you have any questions about your membership renewal, The book that contact AALL Headquarters at [email protected] or 312/205-8022. captures my attention for summer reading is Fighting for the Press: the Inside Story of the and Other Battles by James Goodale. Bess Reynolds next month in spectrum While my usual Here’s a taste of what you can look forward to in the July issue of Spectrum: summer reading • Interviewing with Skype tends to be mysteries and historical novels, this is a title that I find compelling. As a • Grant writing and law libraries librarian and strong supporter of the First • Gen X/Gen Y: transition from caucus to special interest section Amendment, I remember Nixon’s war on • The 2014 Day in the Life photo contest winners the press and Agnew’s “nattering nabobs of negativism” when I read about the current cases of , Bradley Manning, and Julian Assange and Wikileaks. The author, James Goodale, is a retired partner at my firm. In 1971, Memorials Goodale was the chief counsel for when they were presented AALL Spectrum has been advised of the death of Linda Dean. with the opportunity to publish the Pentagon Papers, the secret Defense Ms. Dean worked for Nixon Peabody LLP in Rochester, Department documents that outlined the New York, and was an AALL member since 1997. She U.S government policy on Viet Nam. If passed away in November 2013. anyone has the inside story, this is it. AALL Spectrum carries brief announcements of members’ deaths in the “Memorials” column. —Bess Reynolds, Technical Services Traditional memorials should be submitted to Manager, Library and Knowledge James Duggan at Law Library Journal, Tulane University Law Library, 6329 Freret St., Management Department, Debevoise New Orleans, LA 70118-6231 or emailed to [email protected]. & Plimpton LLP, New York

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