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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
That makes some sense now.
Some of my clients in the Clinical program Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners had me looking at a lot of MN law as well as Federal law. A lot of those cases involved divorces, child support, name changes and the like.
Law librarians just show you how to use some source and leave you to find what you might need.
Some libraries now seem to be hiring social workers to help those dealing with some kind of trauma when they come into a library which is quite an improvement IMHO.
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I love looking stuff up. I'm a google freak, and I get a kick out of weeding through the chaff to find the wheat. My "bathroom reading material" is the weekly local paper, the AARP bulletin - and a reverse dictionary. Discovering new things that I didn't know before is fascinating to me, and I'm not particular about the topic.
Law is fascinating, only because there's so much I don't know about it, that I can learn about it. It's probably why I didn't become a newspaper editor: I learned everything I needed to learn, in order to become one. And then it ceased to be interesting. The process was what grabbed and kept my attention.
I've learned a lot about medicine too, dentistry in particular. I became a certified aromatherapist because an accident and subsequent surgery to repair bones left me with aching muscles near the incision site, and the doctor recommended wintergreen. So I looked it up and just kept going.
I have no doubt at all that with enough sincere, personal interest or fascination with a topic, someone with good retention skills can learn enough about anything, to qualify to pass a test in that subject. That doesn't require formal training or schooling. It requires interest and dedication to the discovery process.