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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