LLRX Update - June 1, 2000

[Cindy Chick]

LLRX.com (http://www.llrx.com) is the free Web journal providing current,
comprehensive articles and resources for legal professionals and law
librarians on research, information technology, digital legislation,
cybernews, Web links and Web tools for researchers, software reviews, and
presentation/marketing/training issues, since 1996. 

Editors: Sabrina I. Pacifici & Cindy L. Chick. 
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New on LLRX.com, June 1, 2000

Features:

The Supreme Court Enters the Internet Age: The Court and Technology
Roy M. Mersky and Kumar Percy provide insight into the Supreme Court's
recent cautious embrace of the Web, and perspective on the current
availability of the court's opinions online. 
 
Researching Australian Law
Nicholas Pengelley's comprehensive resource guide includes a wealth of
information on parliaments and laws, courts and judgments, treaties,
secondary resources, publishers and more. 

International Commercial Arbitration: Locating the Resources
Jean M. Wegner, of Cook County Law Library in Chicago, contributes an
extensively documented guide of online and print resources for researchers
on the complex topic of dispute resolution for international commercial
agreements. 

Columns:

Guide on the Side: Web Based Training - Click and Learn
With distance-learning such a hot topic, how do you get a more complete
picture of what it's all about? Marie Wallace has some good suggestions to
get you started. 

LLRXBuzz (http://www.llrx.com/buzz/buzz9.htm)
In this week's column, Tara Calishain reviews a new UK search engine;
clinical texts and journals available online; a new construction industry
directory; a web site on vaccination and vaccine preventable diseases; and
a New York state database of restaurant health inspection information.

Margaret Berkland's Latest Links (http://www.llrx.com/links/index.htm)
column offers information on:  Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S.
government; Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities; Lxquick
Metasearch; METAEUREKA; and Top Technology Trends for Libraries. 

LLRX Newstand (http://www.llrx.com/newstand/index.htm) features daily news
coverage of legal-related web issues including: Amazon's new patent;
Pennsylvania's new anti-computer virus law; Canada's discontinuation of a
huge database of citizen information; publishing giant Thomson selling off
its newspapers; Barnes and Noble's new online learning courses; digital
Congressional transcripts from Hearingroom.com; electronic filings and the
Edgar system; the fate of digital signature legislation and more...

Extras:

The Internet Roundtable #10: A Continuing Discussion of Law Firm Marketing
On the Internet 
Jerry Lawson, Dennis Kennedy and Brenda Howard discuss the key factors
that your firm should consider when they undertake hiring a web
designer/firm. 

Privacy Policies and Legal Web Sites
Michelle Ayers addresses the issue of privacy statements on legal web
sites in the context of the model pioneered by medical web sites. 

LLRX Discussion Forum - Low Cost Solutions for Online Catalogs
Join the discussion!  Among the topics being talked about are "Why Use MARC 
in a Law Firm Library", "REALLY Cheap Software", "The Future of Online 
Catalogs," and information on several low-cost software packages not 
disussed in the original article.  

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