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37 SCCLL News 1 (2011)

handle is hein.lbr/alsclnws0037 and id is 1 raw text is: A Newsletter of the State, Court and County Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries I View From The Chair Kathy Carlson, SCCLL Chair This issue is devoted to technology. To me the word technology is synony- mous with change since in my lifetime I have seen a number of technological changes. When I was in high school, reports were handwritten with pen and paper. Can you imagine the noises that would come out of a teenager today if told to handwrite a paper? College brought a little Smith Corona portable manual typewriter and lots of whiteout. In law school, I progressed to an electric type- writer and since job applications needed to be perfect, a lot of retyping. Out in the real world for the first time, I learned to use a Dictaphone and had lots of giggles when the transcriptions came back for correction. Finally, when I went to library school, I reached the era of the word processor. However, it was on a mainframe computer and I had to upload my work for printing and walk to the computer processing center to pick up the finished product. How spoiled we are today with a desktop system and an attached printer. Those of us who have been around a few years could do the same progres- sion with a number of other pieces of equipment (e.g. the telephone from ro- tary dial to cell phones with all the apps). This may make us appreciate the advances a little more than those who have never used some of the older technology. It might also make us a little more reluctant to learn something new-again. It all depends on attitude. I actually find new technology exciting as long as it is something that is fairly easy to learn (just tell me which but- tons to push to make it work). I don't think I could ever go back to drafting documents on a typewriter or give up some of the other technological devices to which I have become addicted. However, as much as technology makes life easier, I believe there are some things that are still better accomplished the old-fashioned way. I love doing electronic research yet I find that there are some things that are still better accomplished by using a book. I also firmly believe that the best electronic I also firmly believe that the best electronic researchers are those who learned how to do good manual research first and know what each category of legal research material does and how they play together; that secondary sources provide a fount of information and that one does not need to jump im- mediately into primary sources.

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