Dear BC Lawyers: Please Help!

Dear BC Lawyers,

Do you have some opinions on what the future should look like for online legal research? Want to support BC law libraries? Well, now is the time to share.

The BC Courthouse Library Society is asking for your help to improve their website and serve you better. All you have to do is take this short 3-minute web survey!

Plus, and here comes the big sales pitch, you could win one of two 8G iPod Touch devices in the process. (see image, pretty cool, right?)

The BCCLS is a not for profit organization and a registered charity. Their funding comes from the Law Society of British Columbia, the Law Foundation of BC, the Ministry of Attorney General, and donations from around the province.

If you've used the Courthouse library's services in the past, you already know how committed these people are. They are also one of the biggest regional investors when it comes to new web technology - both as it pertains to legal research, and also how it supports the BC legal community.

Please show your support!

Kind regards,
Steve Matthews

JD Supra is Now Live!

As noted over on my Stem blog, JD Supra launched this morning, and is now open for business!

Please drop by & check things out. And please help spread the word! It's not just lawyers who benefit from work product sharing. Librarians also benefit from great repositories like JD Supra. Any website that provides access to authoritative legal documents, filings, decisions & research is another wrench in the law librarian's toolbelt!

As Bonnie Shucha mentioned a while back, websites that take document ownership seriously also provide a mechanism for authority evaluation & trust. Having the opportunity to see the lawyer or law firm that's behind a shared document certainly helps in that manner.

And finally, feedback from Law Librarians is definitely welcome & wanted! If you see a feature that could be added, a helpful addition, or something that isn't working quite right, please let me know!

thanks,
Steve