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16 TALL Newsl. 1 (1996-1997)

handle is hein.journals/tallquart16 and id is 1 raw text is: September 1996 TALL NEWSLETTER TORNT ASSCATINO LAW LIBARE TALL Executive 1996-1997 Past President : Andrea Cambridge Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt 416-862-6785 President: Sharon Day-Feldman County of York Law Association 416-327-6013 Vice President: Wendy Duggan Manulife Law Library 416-926-3498 Secretary: Gaye Lefebvre Goodman & Carr 416-595-2300 x 5639 Treasurer: Heather Colman Coopers & Lybrand 416-814-5763 Director: Jane Freeman Davies, Ward & Beck 863-0900 x 248 Editorial Board Editor: Connie Crosby Book Review Editor: Katie Thomas Business Manager: Elisabeth Adams Quan Conference and Workshop Editor: Maria Cece Features Editor: Liz Groskorth IRQs Editors: Jane Freeman, Jeanette Bosschart In This Issue Feature Articles: Building an Electronic Law Library 1 Selecting Electronic Information 8 AALL Third Northeast Regional Conference 11 Book Review 18 Conference Report: SLA 21 Conferences & Workshops 23 Editor's Notes 2 IRQs 13 Ontario's Legislative Assembly Opens Website 10 President's Message 3 Publisher's Liaison Committee 14 SLA Roundtable Career Discussion 20 Building an Electronic Law Library Thomas B. Fleming and Martin J. Cullen Thomas B. Fleming is the Library Director at Piper & Marbury in Baltimore, Martin J. Cullen is Assistant Vice-President at Lehman Brothers in New York and Manager of Reference Services for Lehman's Business Information Services. Note: This article is re- printed with permission by Alert Publications, Inc., Chicago., IL. Originally printed in Volume 15, Number 6 of Legal Information Alert (June 1996). For subscription information call 312-525-7594. To stay relevant, law librarians have to be able to integrate electronic and paper information sources effectively. They must also do this while remaining the low-cost, high-quality provider of the information. We have kept this article general because there are so many varia- tions in hardware, software, and networks. It is intended to answer the following frequently asked question: How should I integrate elec- tronic information with the existing print library? For this discus- sion, electronic information includes the Internet, online services, CD-ROM products, electronic files, in-house information, and any- thing else that is available in electronic form. There used to be a real sense of nostalgia associated with building a traditional law library. You surveyed needs, assessed the physical space, developed a budget, planned the layout, ordered the books and the shelves, and finally, put everything in its place. You could rely on colleagues in other libraries for help on any questions because there were few variables. Now, you can easily go through a whole series of questions-such as: are you DOS or Windows, Windows 95 or Windows NT-only to find out that they are using a Banyon instead of a Novell network and cannot help you. The question today is not whether you should integrate the electronic data availability with the print information sources, but how. (Continued on page 3) Vol. 16, no. I

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