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Fred E. Rosbrook
The following article is reprinted from volume 16 of the Rochester Historical Society�s Publication Fund series, published in 1937. Part 1 of the book, in which this article was included, contained histories of various research libraries in the city of Rochester, New York. By the time of the article�s publication in 1937, the Appellate Division Law Library was already nearing its centennial, having been founded in 1849. Since then it had grown into one of the largest court libraries in the country.
Author Fred E. Rosbrook had already served as its ninth director for eighteen years when he wrote this article. Mr. Rosbrook attended Cornell Law School, where he also served as assistant librarian. After graduating in 1906, he worked as a legal editor for a publishing company and later as the statutes law indexer of the New York State Law Library from 1915 to 1919. He came to Rochester in 1919 to serve as librarian of the Appellate Division Law Library.
While at the library he continued to edit legal titles, including the Consolidated Laws of New York, Collier on Bankruptcy (12th and 13th editions), and the American Bankruptcy Reports, New Series. He was a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, elected to life membership in 1956, and the founder and first editor (1927�32) of Law Library News, a monthly newsletter published for AALL members from 1927 to 1937. Rosbrook served as librarian of the law library until 1956; his thirty-seven years at the helm still remains the longest tenure of any of the library�s directors.�David Voisinet
