National Library Week: Reference Desk

HAPPY NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK! Enjoy this short video on what it's like to be a reference librarian!

Don't forget to stop in the law library from April 14-18!

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In Celebration of National Library Week

The Lake County Historical Society’s

Treasures of Lake County

Thursday, April 17, 2008
1:30 pm

Dale Craig,
Lake County Historical Society’s
Library Resource Manager
will Present

The Lake County Courthouse
Lake County’s Research Library
Lake County’s Heritage Homes

Coffee and Cookies will be served

Bring a Brown Bag Lunch

Free to Lake County Bar Association Members

Call 440.350.2638 to reserve your seat

Librarian: Executive Summary

By Marty Nemko

Posted December 19, 2007

Forget about that image of librarian as a mousy bookworm. Librarians these days must be high-tech information sleuths, helping researchers plumb the oceans of information available in books and digital records. It's an underrated career. Most librarians love helping patrons dig up information and, in the process, learning new things. Librarians may also go on shopping sprees, deciding which books and online resources to buy. They even get to put on performances, like children's puppet shows, and run other programs, like book discussion groups for elders. On top of it all, librarians' work hours are reasonable.

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Web's Largest Free Law Library Opens to the Public

WASHINGTON, Feb 13, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Fastcase today opened the doors to the largest free law library on the Web. The Fastcase Public Library of Law (http://www.plol.org) launches as the most comprehensive free resource for legal research online, making it the best starting point for anyone who wants to learn about and use the law.

The Fastcase Public Library of Law (PLoL) is powered by Fastcase, Inc., the premium provider of next-generation legal research. Since its founding in 1999, Fastcase has worked to democratize the law, making it more accessible to more people.

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Ohio Law Firm Sounds Alarm on Electronic Document Retention, Offers Guidelines to Help Companies Enhance Preparedness

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Feb 04, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/

To address growing concern over legal challenges related to electronic documents, Harrington, Hoppe & Mitchell Ltd. today released a set of general guidelines designed to help companies prepare for the possibility of such challenges.

The guidelines, posted on the law firm's website ( http://www.hhmlaw.com/newsPR.asp?press_id=20080204b ), hhmlaw.com, are excerpted from a comprehensive and proprietary document the firm recently provided to its clients.

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Local judges, attorney write law book

ELIZABETH STUDEBAKER, Feature Writer

A huge undertaking of legal research and writing, a book authored by a Fairborn attorney and two local judges, is a tool to use the law in a most effective way. One of the authors, prominent Fairborn attorney Charles M. Rowland II said, “It’s good to know the law, but it’s better to write the law book.”

Greene County Court of Common Pleas Judges Steven A. Wolaver of Fairborn and J. Timothy Campbell, Xenia, and Rowland of the firm Brown, Rowland & Kelly have completed authoring a revision to “Anderson’s Ohio Civil Practice.

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Firms scale down law libraries as Internet use grows

The Business Journal of Phoenix - by Mike Sunnucks Phoenix Business Journal

TheLike horse-drawn carriages and manual typewriters, law libraries are being driven into yesteryear by technology, innovation and changing norms.

Rows of shelves with stacks of heavy books once took up substantial space in law offices. They required reinforced floors and sometimes sliding tracks for shelves, and were staffed by librarians and research assistants.

But those extensive in-house libraries are becoming obsolete as more attorneys embrace technology -- in particular, the Internet, electronic databases and legal information services.

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Mahoning law library gets wireless Internet

Wireless Internet ‘is a part of the times,’ a lawyer says.

YOUNGSTOWN — The law library on the fourth floor of the Mahoning County Courthouse is now a wireless Internet hot spot.

Anyone with a laptop computer or a smart phone with wireless Internet access capability can use the new service, said Chris Liddle, owner of Mahoning Valley Data of Poland, the installation contractor.

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Law library management likely to be revamped

By MARIAN MCMAHON, mailto:tribune@gazettenews.com

Task force is making recommendations which include use by the public

LAKE COUNTY - In recent weeks, Lake County Administrator Ken Gauntner has given the Lake County Commissioners updates on the matter of the law libraries.

According to its Web site, "Lake County Law Library Association, serving members of the Lake County Bar Association, Judges of the Courts of Lake County and the elected officials of Lake County.

"Located in the basement of the Lake County Courthouse in Painesville, Ohio, members have access to a wide range of print and online resources. Our collection covers a variety of areas including federal, state, tax, family, probate, real estate and labor law.

"The Lake County Library also provides materials to its three- branch libraries located in the Municipal Courts of Mentor, Painesville, and Willoughby, as well as Lakeland Community College Library and Morley Library."

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Funding shrinking for county law library

By RENEE BROWN,
T-R Staff Writer

Although local funding for the Tuscarawas County Law Library is shrinking, its supporters are hopeful the library will continue to exist.

“We do provide a service,” said New Philadelphia attorney Rick Hinig. “It’s an asset to the legal community and the community in general.”

Hinig has been president of the law library association for 15 years. For the last three years, however, the law library board has been struggling with the prospect of losing a sizable percentage of its budget by 2011. The board is made up of Hinig and six other area attorneys.

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Law libraries face funding, other changes

Sunday, October 28, 2007
BY Shane Hoover
REPOSITORY STAFF WRITER

CANTON: If not for the small sign next to the door, the Stark County Law Library's entrance looks like that of storage room.

Behind the door is row after row of legal volumes, code books and court opinions for Ohio, the federal courts and other states.

There are tips on tax law or drafting an entertainment industry contract. And books on medicine, environmental law and defenses to drunken driving charges. More than 60,000 volumes, plus electronic databases, take up a quarter of the County Office Building's fourth floor and there are branches at the municipal courts in Alliance, Massillon and Canton.

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Lake County Law Library Annual Meeting

The Lake County Law Library Association
will host its Annual Meeting
Thursday, January 17, 2008
at Cappelli’s at The Comfort Inn
7701 Reynolds Road
Mentor, Ohio
at 12:00 noon.

A complimentary lunch of
Grilled Chicken Salad will be provided.
Vegetarian selection is available, too.

Please contact Angela Baldree
at 440-350-2638 for reservations by January 11, 2008.