A. Introduction

AuthorTed Tjaden
ProfessionNational Director of Knowledge Management McMillan LLP
Pages287-288

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This book has focused on how to use legal resources. For some legal researchers, this will suffice since the focus of their work is hands-on legal research. Other lawyers or legal researchers, however, will need to choose or recommend for acquisition particular legal resources for a law library, be it as part of a small law firm or personal collection or as part of a larger organization. Very little has been written in the literature on how to acquire legal resources.1While it helps to have a good working knowledge of legal resources when deciding what to select or acquire, there are certain things that many lawyers or legal researchers may not be aware of on this topic, matters that often fall within the expertise of a law librarian. Therefore, this chapter is aimed at lawyers or other legal researchers who need to make decisions about selecting and acquiring legal resources. Information is provided on the following topics:

· deciding between print and electronic resources

· criteria for selecting material for a law library

· managing a small law firm law library

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· negotiating licences for electronic resources

Additional resources are set out in Section G...

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