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.