was published in the Legal Information Management, 19 (2019), pp. 88–91 by the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

(doi:10.1017/S1472669619000197).  I was asked by the Association to contribute a piece to their 50th anniversary journal, so I focused on something of the history of the law librarian, and some thoughts on the enormous opportunities for the profession opened up by machine learning and other fast-emerging technologies.