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33 Legal Reference Services Q. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/lgrefsq33 and id is 1 raw text is: Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 33:1-37, 2014 Routledge Published with license by Taylor & Francis Taylor& Francis Group ISSN: 0270-319X print / 1540-949X online DOI: 10.1080/0270319X.2014.869963 Order Matters: Typology of Dual-Degreed Law Librarians JAMES M. DONOVAN University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky, USA To a great extent, law librarianship bas regarded the dual-degreed librarian as too familiar and uncomplicated to merit extended at- tention. The present discussion challenges this assumed simplicity. The goal of professional education is to work on deeper personal levels to create a particular identity and to inculcate specific values necessary to the successful practice of the vocation. Such funda- mental effects are neither easily erased nor superseded by a later professional indoctrination. Understood in this way, professional education produces an outcome that defies the commutative prop- erty. Order matters. Librarians who go to law school (i.e., libyers) should be discerniblefrom lawyers who attend library school (law- brarians), with consequencesfor thepractice of law librarianship. Using data describing members ofthe American Association ofLaw Libraries, this study tests the hypothesis that, given the fundamental levels at which professional enculturation operates, when an indi- vidual undergoes professional formation more than once the values of the first training regime will typically have the more profound impact on the general personality. KEYWORDS professional education, identity, ethics, personality, enculturation INTRODUCTION Law librarianship is unique among the academic specialties. Although dual degrees are not uncommon among librarians, no other specialty routinely assumes that the librarian will hold the terminal degree in the discipline for which she provides services. Medical librarians are not required to be MDs, 0 James M. Donovan Address correspondence to James M. Donovan, University of Kentucky College of Law, 620 S. Limestone St., Lexington, KY 40506, USA. E-mail: james.donovan@uky.edu 1