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The Happy Hiker Hikingcommunication Is Basically Walking…Aand Organization Kind of Laura W The Secret Lives of Law Librarians The Happy Hiker HikingCommunication is basically walking…aand organization kind of Laura W. Dickson, Legislative Research Librarian, Goodwin Procter meditationare two of to the be in the woods, away After a week of legislation monitoring, reference joining a club was the best option for safety, biggest challenges from computers, Ainterviews, e-mail, database searching, training, but both clubs have provided fun commun- facing librarians phones, and yes, flipping through treatises, scanning the stacks, ity both on and off the trails. An interesting who manage the lawyers. and pulling cases, I like to take a break in the variety of Washingtonians choose to escape the student workers Spending the mountains. In less than two hours’ drive in city and suburbia for treks in the woods. in academic day outside almost every direction from Washington, D.C., libraries. Academic allows time for there are lovely trails for anyone who wants to Why Hike? libraries rely on contemplation, wander. It is rejuvenating to trade in office wear Hiking is basically walking, which is a well- student workers reflection, and for a pair of well-worn boots, layers of hiking known form of healthy low impact exercise, to staff the library may even bring gear, and a day pack to spend a few hours but I find hiking to be much more. It is a kind during weekends, that light bulb walking in the woods. of meditation to be in the woods, away from holidays, and late moment for a Over two and a half years computers, phones, and yes, the into the night. research project ago, my first hike was on the lawyers. Spending the day out- stumper. Tuscarora Trail in the George side allows time for contempla- Washington National Forest. tion, reflection, and may even At seven miles, it exhausted me, bring that light bulb moment but I was hooked. I soon found for a research project stumper. myself in REI and Hudson The views can be breathtaking. Trail Outfitters shopping for To stand on a vista and not see proper equipment to advance civilization for miles is refresh- my new passion. I’ve picked up ing and puts much in perspect- my pace since that first outing, ive. The peace of the trail is and now spend one day almost something that can’t be found every weekend on the trails, amongst concrete and traffic. year round. But there are risks to spend- I usually hike with one of two local hiking ing the day in the woods and anyone interest- clubs, The Capital Hiking Club (http://www. ed should assess whether hiking is a good activ- capitalhikingclub.org/) and the Wanderbirds ity for them. There is the possibility of injury. (http://home.comcast.net/~wanderbirds/ From blisters, bruises, and scrapes to wounds wbirds.htm). Both clubs organize hikes every from contact with plants or animals in their weekend with a rented bus for travel to and natural habitat, you have to be prepared for what from the trail heads; they also provide beer, may happen. When you are hurt on the trail, soda, and chips at the end of the hike. The clubs you need to get yourself out of the woods, if equip everyone with maps and have a leader you are able to. On one hike I twisted my who puts arrows on the trail at each junction, knee, which blew up like a balloon. Thankfully I so you don’t make a wrong turn. A “sweep” was able to finish the hike on my own two feet, hiker is designated to make sure no one is albeit rather slowly. Fellow hikers have broken left behind. In the beginning, as a lone hiker, continued on page 5 Volume 50, Number 4 • Summer 2007 1 FROM THE EDITOR Table of Contents FEATURES A Fond Farewell The Happy Hiker Laura W. Dickson 1 Dawn Bohls, Library Manager, Ropes & Gray LLP Tarot Investigator Paul Weiss 6 There are lots of great things about being a law Tlibrarian—interesting work, smart colleagues, On (not) Writing great professional organizations—but one of the Glenn Jordan Spangler 8 key elements of job satisfaction for many of us is the work/life balance that this career allows. I All I Really Need to Know I Learned love being a law librarian, but I also love being in Library School (Novelist Edition) able to leave the office and not be a law librarian. Mindy Maddrey 10 This issue ofLights is entitled “The Secret Lives Walking on the “Wild” Side: of Law Librarians.” It’s about what we do when My Secret Life with Animals we’re not in the office. I’ve really enjoyed reading Jennie C. Meade 12 the articles submitted for this issue. Did you know that we have a horse show judge in our Letterboxing: Modern Day midst? An almost-Master-Gardener? A published Treasure Hunting author and an author who should be publish- Shelley Shearer and Steven Shearer 14 ed? A dedicated hiker? A set of letterboxers? A rare book enthusiast? A beekeeper? And even a Plants Are My Passion tarot card “investigator”—LLSDC’s own Web- Judy Gaskell 16 master, Paul Weiss! Fries’ Bees Real Deal Absolutely continued on page 3 Delicious Wildflower Honey John P. Fries 18 Law Librarians as Rare Book Librarians, and UVA’s Rare Book School Billie J. Grey 22 LIBRARY ISSUES AALL’s Authentication Summit Elizabeth LeDoux 26 Deadline for If you would like to write for Lights, please Submissions contact Shannon O’Connell at soconnell@ COLUMNS wc.com. For information regarding submission deadlines and issue themes, visit the LLSDC Editor’s Column Web site at www.llsdc.org. Dawn Bohls 2 President’s Column Billie Jo Kaufman 4 Law Library Lights is published quarterly by the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C., Inc. 20009, ISSN 0546-2483. Eye on Serials Susan Chinoransky 11 Beginning with Vol. 50, #1 (Fall 2006), Law Library Lights is now published in PDF format on the LLSDC Web site: www.llsdc.org. Notification of avail- Book Review ability of each new issue will be sent to the LLSDC listserv. If you would like Karen W. Silber 22 to receive individual e-mail notification when new issues are published, please Membership News send an e-mail to Shannon O’Connell at [email protected]. Amy Taylor 23 LLSDC does not assume any responsibility for the statements advanced by Tech Talk contributors to Law Library Lights. The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors and do not constitute an endorsement by LLSDC. 2 Law Library Lights From the Editor continued from page 2 even been taking ballet classes with me for the My favorite hobby I have a number of hobbies of my own. I past three years. In the picture, you can see (and probably my garden, I walk, I ride my bike, I try to take a us in costume for our June adult recital, held biggest “secret”) yoga class at least once a week—I need lots of for family and friends at St. Mark’s Episcopal is ballet. I’d taken physical activity after spending the work day at Church in Capitol Hill. a year of ballet my desk! But my favorite hobby (and probably Over the past few years, my involvement as a third-grader my biggest “secret”) is ballet. I’d taken a year in ballet has lessened somewhat. My possibly but, outshone of ballet as a third-grader but, outshone by my obsessive five-or-six-classes-a-week schedule by my much- much-more-coordinated younger sister, quick- has been reduced to twice a week. Although more-coordinated ly settled on horseback riding as my principal it’s great physical training, too much ballet younger sister, childhood activity. Ten years ago, at thirty, I re- can be very hard on the knees and lower back if quickly settled on entered the ballet studio—as an adult beginner. you don’t have the ideal physique. But balancing horseback riding I had remembered the five positions of the feet out the ballet with yoga and weight training as my principal and that was about it, but that was fine. We has actually made me stronger and I’m able to childhood activity. started from the beginning. enjoy ballet more and to use my body more wisely. I was lucky to find Ballet is a great comple- two small local studios with ment to librarianship— progressive adult classes. one nurtures my body As I began to advance, I and spirit, the other (the uberperfectionist) had (more prosaically, but to live with the fact that still just as important) I couldn’t get both my uses my intellect and my arms and my legs to do organizational skills. everything the teacher And now I take a wanted us to do (or at least final bow—as editor of not at the same time), so I Law Library Lights. This would just focus on getting has been a demand- the legs right. Many years ing, wonderful, reward- later, as my flexibility starts ing year, and it’s been to fade and my muscles exciting to get all your lose power, I’m learning positive feedback about to stress presentation over the content and the new athleticism in my dancing. format. I may have been Ballet is a wonderful the “prima ballerina,” activity because you’re always evolving, never getting all the applause and praise, but I couldn’t static. It’s a fascinating discipline because ballet is have done it without a lot of help behind all about perfection, or at least about presenting the scenes.
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