The BIALL/Lexis Nexis Awards are a new set of awards designed to honour the work and achievements of the UK's top law librarians. Following online voting, the inaugural awards were presented at a ceremony at Lincoln's Inn in October 2005. The categories of the awards are as follows:
Taxonomies are becoming trendy! What do you, as a legal information professional, need to know about them? Do you already know a good deal because they appeared under the guise of classification schemes when you were studying librarianship or information science? In this article an attempt will be made to explain in comprehensible terms the place of taxonomies in current thinking about information retrieval, and in particular their relevance to your work as a legal information manager.
In the 1970s London law firms realised just how useful law librarians could be and there was a huge growth in their number during the 1980s. The first co-operative venture began in the mid-70s when we produced a Union List of Holdings and from that grew the City Law Librarians Group. By 1986 there were at least 60 firms in London employing over 150 professional law librarians. Provincial law firms were generally smaller but by the same date firms in Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, Norwich and Bristol were employing law librarians.
The following articles were written by law librarians employed by a variety of organisations in response to a questionnaire sent out by the Editorial Board. The aim of this brief survey was to try and find out what the key issues are facing librarians who operate in such situations. We were unable to get a contribution from an academic library operating a multi-site system. Some of the articles have followed the format of the questions posed in the survey and others are more discursive, but the Editorial Board hopes that readers will find useful nuggets of information in these different accounts. They certainly offer interesting organisational schemas.
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