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Vol. 110, No. 1 Winter 2018 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL LIBRARY LAW LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 110, No. 1 Winter 2018 Pages 1–180 2018 Pages 110, No. 1 Winter Vol. ARTICLES 2018: A Legal Research Odyssey: Artificial Intelligence as Disruptor [2018–1] Jamie J. Baker 5 Access to Print, Access to Justice [2018–2] Kimberly Mattioli 31 The Reference Assistant [2018–3] Annalee Hickman Moser and Felicity Murphy 59 The History of the University of New Mexico School of Law Librarians’ Fight for Faculty Status and Equal Voting Rights [2018–4] Ernesto A. Longa 93 Remaking the Public Law Library into a Twenty-First Century Legal Resource Center [2018–5] Mark G. Harmon, Shannon Grzybowski, Bryan Thompson, and Stephanie Cross 115 0023-9283(201824)110:1;1-G Vol. 110, No. 1 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Winter 2018 American Association of Law Libraries Editorial Staff Editor: James E. 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Except as otherwise expressly provided, the author of each article in this issue has granted permission for copies of that article to be made for classroom use or for any other educational purpose provided that (1) copies are distributed at or below cost, (2) author and journal are identified, and (3) proper notice of copyright is affixed to each copy. For articles in which it holds copyright, the American Association of Law Libraries grants permission for copies to be made for classroom use or for any other educational purpose under the same conditions. Vol. 110, No. 1 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Winter 2018 Table of Contents General Articles 2018: A Legal Research Odyssey: Artificial Jamie J. Baker 5 Intelligence as Disruptor [2018-1] Access to Print, Access to Justice [2018-2] Kimberly Mattioli 31 The Reference Assistant [2018-3] Annalee Hickman Moser 59 Felicity Murphy The History of the University of New Mexico Ernesto A. Longa 93 School of Law Librarians’ Fight for Faculty Status and Equal Voting Rights [2018-4] Remaking the Public Law Library into a Twenty- Mark G. Harmon 115 First Century Legal Resource Center [2018-5] Shannon Grzybowski Bryan Thompson Stephanie Cross Review Article Keeping Up with New Legal Titles [2018-6] Benjamin J. Keele 149 Nick Sexton Regular Feature Practicing Reference . Mary Whisner 167 My Year of Citation Studies, Part 1 [2018-7] LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 110:1 [2018-1] 2018: A Legal Research Odyssey: Artificial Intelligence as Disruptor* Jamie J. Baker** Cognitive computing has the power to make legal research more efficient, but it does not eliminate the need to teach law students sound legal research process and strat- egy. Law librarians must also instruct on using artificial intelligence responsibly in the face of algorithmic transparency, the duty of technology competence, malpractice pitfalls, and the unauthorized practice of law. Introduction ...........................................................5 AI Becomes a Reality ....................................................7 The Current State of Artificial Intelligence ...............................7 Artificial Intelligence in the Professions .................................9 Finance: Kensho and Beyond ......................................10 Medicine: IBM Watson for Medicine ................................11 Law ............................................................13 Natural Language Processing and Premature Disruption ....................16 AI in Legal Research ...................................................20 DeepQA Applied to Legal Research ....................................20 The Limitations of AI and the Need to Use AI Responsibly ...............22 Algorithmic Accountability and Computational Negligence ............22 The Duty of Technology Competence and Malpractice Pitfalls ..........25 Unauthorized Practice of Law ......................................27 Algorithmic Literacy: Legal Research Instruction Implications ............28 Conclusion . .29 Introduction ¶1 My fascination with worker automation started at age twelve. My classmates and I traveled four hours away from our rural northern Michigan town of 2500, a town that had not changed much since the late 1800s when the manufacturing stronghold, the East Jordan Iron Works, was established. Most of our fathers * © Jamie J. Baker, 2018. I would like to thank Paul Friener for his dedicated ear. I would also like to thank my mentor, John Michaud, for his ever-present advising and thorough review, and law librarian Alyson Drake for her constant inspiration. I would also like to thank Texas Tech University School of Law for its generous support. This paper was presented at the SEALS New Scholar Colloquia in August 2017. ** Interim Director, Texas Tech University School of Law Library, Lubbock, Texas. 5 6 LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL Vol. 110:1 [2018-1] worked at the iron works; most of our mothers worked for Dura Automotive, a rural assembly line making component parts for the “Big Three” in Detroit. For many of us, this was our first big trip away from home. We were taking a three-day field trip to see, among other things, the world-renowned Henry Ford Museum. There were many memorable moments from this trip. I remember seeing the chair in which Lincoln was assassinated, with its blood-soaked back. I saw Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House. And I saw the future of automation in the auto industry. ¶2 One of the museum’s exhibits displayed the new robotic arm of the automo- tive assembly line. The docent leading our school tour touted this as “revolution- izing” the line. As we filed to the next exhibit, I remember the distinct pit that formed in my stomach. While that robotic arm symbolized a revolutionary step in manufacturing, it also symbolized a loss of work and wages for the many struggling families in my hometown. The robotic arm would be great for Ford’s bottom line; it would be disastrous for my family’s bottom line. ¶3 Sure enough, within five years, Dura Automotive left East Jordan and took its jobs with it. While not solely attributable to automation, it was no doubt part of the equation. As a result of this early life experience, I developed a near obsession with prognostications about automation’s future impact on society, including my chosen profession: law. ¶4 The assembly line involves the type of routinized work that is prime for automation, but we’re now starting to hear about the automation of knowledge work in fields like finance, medicine, and law. And much of what we’re hearing is that in the immediate future, knowledge work will see automation advances similar to those already seen in the manufacturing sector. ¶5 While it is naïve to think that automation won’t affect knowledge work at all, it is clear that computing capability is not ready to replace highly skilled profession- als. If stakeholders start to believe the hype of the PR campaigns surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, various sectors may be subject to pre- mature disruption—the notion that workers are displaced before the technology is truly ready to replace them. To avoid premature disruption, legal professionals must understand current computing capability and the associated