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25 Legal Reference Services Q. 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/lgrefsq25 and id is 1 raw text is: The Law in Popular Culture Collection Roy Mersky ABSTRACT. Professor Mersky describes the creation and manage- ment of the Law in Popular Culture collection at the University of Texas Tarlton Law Library. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: <docdelivery @haworthpress.com> Website: <http://www.HaworthPress.com> @ 2006 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.] KEYWORDS. Special collections, popular culture and the law, collec- tion development A NEW GENERATION OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Library literature defines special collections in varying ways. According to the ALA Glossary of Library Terms, a special collec- tion is: A collection of material of a certain form, on a certain subject, of a certain period, or gathered together for some particular reason, in a library which is more or less general in character.' Roy Mersky is Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law and Director of Research, The Jamail Center for Legal Research, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law. This article is based on a presentation made to the American Association of Law Li- brarians on July 17, 2005. It is an expanded version of one published in the Texas Li- brary Journal and is adapted here with permission from the Texas Library Association. Legal Reference Services Quarterly, Vol. 25(1) 2006 Available online at http://www.haworthpress.com/web/LRSQ @ 2006 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1300/Jll3v25nOl 01 1