Law Library Benchmarks

Law Library Benchmarks
Author: Primary Research Group
Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2008
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1574401041

. Data in the report is based on a survey of 55 North American law libraries drawn from law firm, private company, university, courthouse and government agency law libraries. Data is broken out by size and type of library for ease in benchmarking. The 120+ page report covers developments in staffing, salaries, budgets, materials spending, use of blogs & wikis, use of legal directories, the library role in knowledge management, records management and content management systems. Patron and librarian training, reimbursement for library-related education and other issues are also covered in this latest edition.

Law Library Benchmarks, 2014 Edition

Law Library Benchmarks, 2014 Edition
Author: Primary Research Group
Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1574402854

The 155-page study gives extensive data and commentary on law library spending plans and management practices including current and future expected budgets, spending on salaries, and materials such as online databases, print reporters, online and print directories, books, e-books, journals and other information resources. The report also looks at use of particular types and brands of information resources, at cost recovery efforts and at law library effort to reduce costs and improve productivity through better negotiation and other tactics. The study also presents detailed data on library measures to enhance mobile device access and to use social media, blogs and other internet resources in the law library service effort.

Legal Research and Law Library Management

Legal Research and Law Library Management
Author: Julius J. Marke
Publisher: Law Journal Press
Total Pages: 1218
Release: 2006
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781588520135

This revised edition of Legal Research and Law Library Management retains the best elements of the previous edition while covering the latest in law library management.

Using the Law Library

Using the Law Library
Author: Jennifer Sekula
Publisher:
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2004
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780910073271

Describes how to do legal research in plain-language.

Law Library Journal

Law Library Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1909
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Vols. 1- include Proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Using a Law Library

Using a Law Library
Author: Peter Clinch
Publisher: Blackstone Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2001
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9781841740294

This new edition describes paper sources, the proliferation of CDs, and the most valuable sites for law research on the Internet, with techniques for using all these sources effectively.

Maximizing Law Library Productivity

Maximizing Law Library Productivity
Author:
Publisher: Primary Research Group Inc
Total Pages: 78
Release: 2006
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1574400770

This report looks closely at a broad range of management practices of law firm libraries including those from the following institutions: Foley & Hoag; Northwestern Mutual Insurance; Nelson, Mullins Riley And Scarborough; Cornell University Law School; Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt; Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw; Loyola University Law School; Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal; Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione; The Civil Court of the City of New York; Beus Gilbert The many issues covered include: trends in the physical space allocated to the library, print vs. electronic information spending, retention policies on print reporters, uses of blogs, personnel and training policies, outsourcing, relations with records and knowledge/content management, ways to serve multiple offices and locations, use of RSS feeds and weblogs, uses of intranets and other shared workspaces, information literacy training, favored databases, optimizing librarian time management, management of the flow of reference requests, software selection and other issues impacting the performance of law libraries.