The nation's leading guide to the purchase of legal information in all formats, the Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual is the recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries' highest award for legal bibliography. It was also cited by Legal Information Alert (September 2004) as one of the top 20 innovations in the field of legal information in the past ten years. This annual 850-page, soft cover compendium provides detailed information about thousands of print, CD-ROM, and online legal information products, accompanied by critical cost-saving advice and strategies. Unlike standard bibliographies, it provides complete cost and supplementation cost information to help customers avoid financial pitfalls, including a detailed spreadsheet of more than 1,400 legal specialty titles with five year's supplementation cost data. An absolutely essential tool for any lawyer, law firm, or law library buying legal information from the highly concentrated legal publishing industry. The author, a former state law librarian, is the country's leading authority on cost-effective law library acquisitions. Guaranteed to save any lawyer thousands of dollars over the course of his or her legal career. Annual editions published in June.

The nation's leading guide to the purchase of legal information in all formats, the Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual is the recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries' highest award for legal bibliography. It was also cited by Legal Information Alert (September 2004) as one of the top 20 innovations in the field of legal information in the past ten years. This annual 850-page, soft cover compendium provides detailed information about thousands of print, CD-ROM, and online legal information products, accompanied by critical cost-saving advice and strategies. Unlike standard bibliographies, it provides complete cost and supplementation cost information to help customers avoid financial pitfalls, including a detailed spreadsheet of more than 1,400 legal specialty titles with five year's supplementation cost data. An absolutely essential tool for any lawyer, law firm, or law library buying legal information from the highly concentrated legal publishing industry. The author, a former state law librarian, is the country's leading authority on cost-effective law library acquisitions. Guaranteed to save any lawyer thousands of dollars over the course of his or her legal career. Annual editions published in June.

Around the world, legal information managers, law librarians and other legal information specialists work in many settings: law schools, private law firms, courts, government, and public law libraries of various types. They are characterized by their expertise in working with legal information in its many forms, and by their work supporting legal professionals, scholars, or students training to become lawyers. In an ever-shrinking world and a time of unprecedented technological change, the work of legal information managers is challenging and exciting, calling on specialized knowledge and skills, regardless of where in the world they practice their profession. Their role within legal systems contributes substantially to the administration of justice and the rule of law. This International Handbook addresses the policy and strategic issues with which legal information managers and law librarians need to engage in the context of the diverse legal environments in which they work. It provides resources, analysis, and considered studies on an international basis for seasoned professionals, those about to enter the field, and anyone interested in the evolution of legal information in the twenty-first century.

From the informative information contained in The Political Economy of Legal Information: The New Landscape, you will discover how you, as a librarian or other information professional, can comprehend, cope with, and even try to influence the factors which comprise the new legal information landscape. You will discover the great changes in the legal publishing industry that have occurred within the last few years and the new ways in which legal information is produced, stored, disseminated, and used. The Political Economy of Legal Information will provide you with valuable tips to help you make sense of this new landscape so your library can reap the benefits of this new age. This informative book provides you with a collection of essays that describe, asses, and evaluate the political economy of information in the changing realm of legal publishing to keep you and your library on top of this dynamic situation. Through The Political Economy of Legal Information, you will find valuable insight into how you can make adjustments to constant technological changes by: confronting the cost efficiency model which promises both lower prices and greater effectiveness to help you make informed decisions about your library's technology learning about the economic logic of copyright laws to safeguard your library's reliance on big-name databases exploring the new Legal Publishers’List that provides a roadmap to the mergers and acquisitions that have characterized the publishing industry in recent years in order to choose the best manufacturer of the legal products in your library exploring case studies to help you understand how educational institutions, governmental entities, and small publishers can successfully cope with the new information landscape and to keep you informed of all the options available to your library Written by a wide cross section of people who are working with legal information,The Political Economy of Legal Information provides essential information to assist you and your library in staying informed regarding the fast-paced world of legal publishing.