Adolf Sprudzs
1922-2003

Foreign Law Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Bibilography, Emeritus
University of Chicago Law School

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A native of Latvia, Adolf Sprudzs was educated in Latvia and Germany, where he studied law, and in Belgium, where he obtained licentiate degrees from the University of Louvain in business administration and in international relations. He received his M.A.L.S. degree from Rosary College in Illinois in 1961. Since 1955, Mr. Sprudzs has served with the law libraries at Northwestern University and the University of Illinois and as supervisor of the Defense Information Office in Chicago. He joined the University of Chicago Law School in 1965 and was foreign law librarian and lecturer in legal bibliography from 1967 to 1992.

Mr. Sprudzs was active in law library associations on local, national, and international levels, and was a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) since 1974. In 1980, he was elected secretary of the IALL for the period 1980-83. From 1980 through 1984 Mr. Sprudzs performed the duties of associate editor of the International Journal of Law Libraries, now the International Journal of Legal Information. In June 1986, Mr. Sprudzs was elected president of the International Association of Law Libraries for the periods 1986-1989 and 1989-1992.

Among his numerous publications are Res Baltica, Treaty Sources in Legal and Political Research, and The Baltic Path to Independence (ed.).

Born: 1922. Education: Licencie en sci. commerc. et financihres, 1951 Licencie en sc. pol. et Sociales, Sect. Relations Int'l., 1954, University of Louvain; M.A.L.S., 1961, Rosary College.