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Roy Mersky, RIP

Claire Osborn has a nice and well-deserved obituary in the Austin Statesman for the late great Roy Mersky, who ran the UT-Austin law library since before I was born. Osborn writes:Roy Mersky was a giant in his field who made the University of Texas law library one of the best in the nation, friends and colleagues said. Along the way, he taught worldwide, wrote prolifically and compiled a résumé more than 40 pages long. "He was probably the most famous law librarian in the history of legal education," said Larry Sager, dean of the University of Texas School of Law. Mersky, 82, died Tuesday at an Austin hospice. The director of the UT Tarlton Law Library had lymphoma and injured himself in a fall days before his death, his colleagues said...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).