Legal Information Buyer S Guide And Reference Manual 2009

Around the world, legal information managers, law librarians and other legal information specialists work in many settings: law schools, private law firms, courts, government, and public law libraries of various types. They are characterized by their expertise in working with legal information in its many forms, and by their work supporting legal professionals, scholars, or students training to become lawyers. In an ever-shrinking world and a time of unprecedented technological change, the work of legal information managers is challenging and exciting, calling on specialized knowledge and skills, regardless of where in the world they practice their profession. Their role within legal systems contributes substantially to the administration of justice and the rule of law. This International Handbook addresses the policy and strategic issues with which legal information managers and law librarians need to engage in the context of the diverse legal environments in which they work. It provides resources, analysis, and considered studies on an international basis for seasoned professionals, those about to enter the field, and anyone interested in the evolution of legal information in the twenty-first century.

The nation's leading guide to the purchase of legal information in all formats, the Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual is the recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries' highest award for legal bibliography. It was also cited by Legal Information Alert (September 2004) as one of the top 20 innovations in the field of legal information in the past ten years. This annual 850-page, soft cover compendium provides detailed information about thousands of print, CD-ROM, and online legal information products, accompanied by critical cost-saving advice and strategies. Unlike standard bibliographies, it provides complete cost and supplementation cost information to help customers avoid financial pitfalls, including a detailed spreadsheet of more than 1,400 legal specialty titles with five year's supplementation cost data. An absolutely essential tool for any lawyer, law firm, or law library buying legal information from the highly concentrated legal publishing industry. The author, a former state law librarian, is the country's leading authority on cost-effective law library acquisitions. Guaranteed to save any lawyer thousands of dollars over the course of his or her legal career. Annual editions published in June.