David King describes the principle role of a librarian as “assisting faculty and students in their research.” The Reference/State Documents Librarian and Archivist on the Delaware Campus, David started at the Law School in May of 1991. “I became a librarian to help people,” he says before mentioning that he enjoys working with the excellent faculty and students at Widener Law.
With a background in rare books and manuscripts, David is responsible for developing and maintaining an archive of the Law school, documenting its history by collecting and preserving student, faculty, and school publications, selected documents and reports, as well as school memorabilia and ephemera. Recently he assisted colleagues on the Chester Campus in gathering illustrations, providing text, and editing final captions for a time line which will be installed in the University’s Alumni Auditorium this year.
David also compiles Delaware-specific bibliographies to assist researchers, and he has been instrumental in developing the library’s archive of superseded Delaware legal materials. Currently he has two bibliographic chapters scheduled to be published this year:
“Brown v. Board of Education: A Bibliographic Essay on School Segregation and Desegregation in Delaware,” is scheduled to be published by the Pennsylvania State University Press as part of the papers of the Louis L. Redding Symposium on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
With Mary Marzolla, Associate Professor and Acting Library Director, David has submitted a chapter on Delaware practice resources in both print and electronic formats as part of State Practice Materials: Annotated Bibliographies, to be published by William S. Hein & Co.