Why is AALLs Bibliographical Award named in honor of Joseph L. Andrews?
AALL’s Bibliographical Award was established in 1967 to honor Joseph L. Andrews, a man whom his former director at the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York called “easily the finest reference librarian I have ever known.” [Arthur A. Charpentier, In Memory of Joseph L. Andrews, 58 Law Libr. J. 451, 452 (1965).] Andrews was reference librarian for the Association of the Bar for thirty-five years (1930–65). As an award for “a scholar, librarian or bibliographer whose contribution, either in a single work or as the product of a career, is particularly noteworthy and of value to law librarians and to the legal profession,” it was appropriately named for a man who was a “self-taught scholar and in love with bibliography all his life.” [Thomas H. Reynolds, Proceedings, Second Business Session, 70th AALL Annual Meeting, 70 Law Libr. J. 453, 453 (1977).] Indeed, Anthony Grech, first recipient of the award, noted that Andrews believed that compiling bibliographies “was a
