I had posted copies of a lot of these letters on Findlaw's boards back in 2001 or so. They attracted rather nasty comments from some lawyers, law students and then a five year cyberstalker/cybersmearer.
But, I hope some of you have seen what I had been trying to do. I contacted victim assistance providers like this one in MA and asked them what they would like to see in law libraries and other types of libraries.
You really have to see the 40 or so other letters I copied and sent to this Victim Assistance provider on July 16, 1992 to get a clear idea of what I wanted to accomplish.
Mainly I wanted to get libraries more involved in the delivery of practical information to victims/survivors of crimes.
This is something taught to me at the University of Denver Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Management. Anticipate a need not being met and fill that need with whatever resources best fit it. I thought victim assistance professionals and not so much law professors would be the best judges of these needs.
I did think what I was doing was very professional in approach even if I was basically doing it on my and my parent's dime.
This kind of approach I hope is why I was nominated to 24 Marquis Who's Who publications from 1992 through 2002.
It probably did make me some enemies though among people who arrogantly insist that they know what is best for a certain group with respect to information needs.
I have a large number of letters like this and will not bore you with posting them.
Basically, I just wanted to show that my approach was well thought out and not based on any kind of emotional re-action to my own experiences related to the murder of Michelle Mitchell in Reno, Nevada on 2-24 in 1976. This is my birthday. The U of MN Law School did teach me how to at least try to be very objective about whatever I was doing. You often cannot pick your clients as a lawyer and if you are in a law library setting you really cannot pick and chose whom you want to help and whom you do not want to aid.
In 1992, I tried to contact 5-10 victim assistance provider in every US state and US territory and asked them what they would like to see in their local and other libraries which would help survivors/victims of crimes cope. As I have said before repeatedly, I had checked libraries in many states for something I would like to help survivors/victims of crimes from February 28, 1976 through when I wrote all these letters in 1992 and I found very little of any practical value.
I looked at libraries abroad too and contacted various victim assistance providers in other countries.
Please look at the letter I put up earlier in this other thread.
https://www.talkofthevillages.com/fo...21-post11.html It is from that August (August 5, 1992) from the Law Librarian of Congress, M. Kathleen Price.