Table Of ContentBIALL Handbook of Legal Information Management
BRITISH AND IRISH ASSOCIATION
OF LAW LIBRARIANS (BIALL)
The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) is the leading
professional body in the UK and Ireland for information professionals working in
the legal sector. BIALL is a self-supporting association which draws its income
primarily from membership subscriptions. With over 700 personal and institutional
members, the Association supports a number of different sectors including academic
institutions, law firms, and barristers’ chambers, as well as students entering the
profession.
Continuing professional development is fundamental for legal information
professionals, as it is vital they keep up to date with changes in the law. To this end,
BIALL supports its members through the organization of regular training events, at
both a national and regional level, and through the publication of its quarterly journal
Legal Information Management. The Annual Conference is also an important event
for BIALL members and non-members alike, providing an opportunity to learn about
and discuss, formally and informally, the key issues affecting the legal information
profession. BIALL has strong links with international legal information associations
and offers bursaries to attend overseas conferences as well as its own conference.
Practical support and advice is also given for the day-to-day issues affecting
legal information professionals through a number of schemes run by the BIALL
committees and publications, including the BIALL Newsletter, the Handbook of
Legal Information Management and the Annual Salary Survey.
BIALL Handbook
of Legal Information
Management
SeCOND eDITION
Edited by
LOyITA WORLey AND SARAH SpeLLS
© The editors and contributors 2014
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system
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Loyita Worley and Sarah Spells have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and
Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
BIALL handbook of legal information management / By Loyita Worley and Sarah Spells.
-- Second edition.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-2396-6 (hardback : alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-4094-2397-3 (ebook) --
ISBN 978-1-4724-0025-3 (epub)
1. Law libraries--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Law libraries--Ireland--
Handbooks, manuals, etc. 3. Legal literature--Great Britain--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
4. Legal literature--Ireland--Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Worley, Loyita, editor of
compilation. II. Spells, Sarah, editor of compilation. III. Title: Handbook of legal
information management.
Z675.L2B52 2014
026.34'00941--dc23
2014003369
ISBN 9781409423966 (hbk)
ISBN 9781409423973 (ebk) V
ISBN 9781472400253 (epub)
Printed in the United Kingdom by Henry Ling Limited,
at the Dorset Press, Dorchester, DT1 1HD
Sarah SpellS
3 August 1978–11 September 2012
Sarah was the Law Librarian and Deputy Head of Teaching and Research Support at
SOAS Library, at the time of her sudden and tragic death.
She is much missed by all at BIALL and will be best remembered as the Chair of
the Publications Committee, where under her leadership, the committee delivered
an extra level of quality and depth to BIALL’s portfolio of publications. Her key
achievements included updating and republishing the Legal Research Packs in 2010
having been expanded to cover more legal topics; the redesign of the Newsletter to
improve its look and feel and include a greater range of content for members; and
updating the BIALL Careers Information leaflet to help promote law librarianship
as a profession.
Sarah also took on the role as editor of this new edition of the BIALL Handbook
and whilst she wasn’t able to complete the project, the time she spent in organizing
author submissions and working with Ashgate has been invaluable. To recognize her
contribution BIALL is proud to dedicate this new edition of the BIALL Handbook
of Legal Information Management to her memory.
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Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Contributors xiii
Foreword by Jas Breslin xxi
Preface xxiii
Acknowledgements xxv
Glossary xxvii
1 Law libraries and their users 1
Jules Winterton
2 Sources of legal information and their organization 53
Guy Holborn
3 Legal research – techniques and tips 75
Peter Clinch
4 Legal technologies 109
Current awareness systems 109
Dean Mason
Law firm intranets 119
Sally Roberts
Library management systems (LMS) 128
Mandy Webster
5 Financial management 141
Planning and budgeting 141
Sarah Brittan and Michael Maher
Negotiating online subscriptions 154
Fiona Fogden
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6 Managing legal information professionals 167
Loyita Worley and Jacky Berry
7 Copyright and data protection 197
Chris Holland
8 Knowledge Management 215
Ann Hemming
9 Collection management 231
Cataloguing and classification 231
Diana Morris
Developing the collection and managing the space 239
Lesley Young
Taxonomies and indexing 246
Christine Miskin
10 E-learning and virtual learning environments 255
Angela Donaldson
11 Planning a training session 283
Emily Allbon
12 Making the most of social media tools 303
James Mullan
13 Outsourcing 331
Kate Stanfield and Sophie Thompson
14 The Legal Services Act 351
Amanda McKenzie
15 Case studies 367
Academic law libraries 367
Diane Raper
Freelance legal information professionals 369
Karen Scott
Government department libraries 372
Penny Scott, Stephanie Curran, Kathy Turner and Rachel Robbins
Contents ix
Law firm libraries and information services 374
Loyita Worley
Solo librarians 377
Nicola Herbert
Professional society libraries: The Northern Ireland
experience of change and repositioning 379
Heather Semple
References and bibliography 383
Index 407
