The Kirkland & Ellis Library Research Request Database
By William P. Scarbrough, Chief Information Officer, and Maria A. Black, Information & Technology Services Specialist
(Posted July 15, 1998; Archived August 15, 1998)
What’s Happening at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference, July 11-15, 1998
If you are attending the AALL Conference, and would like to share any information or experiences with our readers, send an e-mail message to Sabrina I. Pacifici. This page will be continuously updated as we receive information from our roving reporters at AALL.
Notes from the Technology Trenches By Elizabeth H. Klampert
Elizabeth H. Klampert is the Director of Library Services for the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Ms. Klampert was formerly a litigator for five years, specializing in professional liability litigation. Before attending law school, she was a corporate librarian for twelve years, holding management positions in libraries in a number of large organizations, including Rainier National Bank in Seattle, Deloitte & Touche, and Merrill Lynch, both in New York. She received both her BA in English and MLS from the University of Washington in Seattle. She received her JD at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York.
(Posted July 1, 1998; Archived July 15, 1998)
Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html
This university law school produced site provides online versions of the tables of contents of 750+ law reviews and scholarly journals related to the law. U.S. as well as foreign titles are included. You can select U.S. or non U.S. contents pages for viewing if you wish. Only journals received in the past three months are listed on the site. The files are updated daily. The contents pages from a journal appear the day following receipt by the Tarlton Law Library. The entire archive can be searched by keyword.
Sixty Sites (or so) in Sixty Minutes (or so) 1998 SLA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, IN Presented by: Gayle O’Connor, Legal Consultant, Automated Legal Solutions Jenny Kanji, Senior Region Information Manager, LEXIS-NEXIS
(Posted July 1, 1998; Archived August 15, 1998)
Product Review – SnagIt by TechSmith (v. 4.1) By Susan Charkes, JD, MLS
Systems Librarian, Dechert Price & Rhoads, Philadelphia, PA
ResearchWire Expanding the Solo Practitioner or Small Firm Resources with the Internet By Michelle Ayers
Michelle Ayers is the Principal of Ayers Information Network, L.L.C., in Philadelphia, PA.
The Brief Reporter By Robyn Rebollo
Robyn Rebollo is the Law Librarian for McGuire, Woods, Battle and Boothe LLP in McLean, VA.
Guide on the Side The Elevator Speech–It’s There for You By Marie Wallace
Marie Wallace has enjoyed a fulfilling career as a librarian, beginning in 1951 in academia with the University of California and transitioning in 1971 into the private law library world until her 1995 retirement from O’Melveny & Myers. She is the 1997 recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries’ highest honor, the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award. Throughout her professional life, Marie has been a guiding force in the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, Practising Law Institute’s programs for law librarians and Teaching Legal Research in Private Law Libraries (TRIPLL).
In June of 1997, Sen. Torricelli (D-NJ) jumped on the bandwagon and introduced “The Electronic Mailbox Protection Act of 1997.” S. 875 has the same “opt-out”, sender