But
as more and more online services are available to lawyers, especially individually - subscribed and practice - focussed services such
as Lexis's Practice Advisor and Westlaw's «
Source» products, courthouse libraries could provide a local venue for research - oriented seminars provided by either or both the
librarian and the
law publishers themselves.
As we move past the I, Robot
source material, we must move past the purely existential questions about who AI will replace among us (
law librarians or legal researchers?
As part of their professional ethos, law librarians (and to some degree librarians generally) have looked to certain markers of authority and quality in information sources that these sources may not have: famous authors, bibliographic access points such as indexes and tables of contents, authoritative publishers, and professional editin
As part of their professional ethos,
law librarians (and to some degree
librarians generally) have looked to certain markers of authority and quality in information
sources that these
sources may not have: famous authors, bibliographic access points such
as indexes and tables of contents, authoritative publishers, and professional editin
as indexes and tables of contents, authoritative publishers, and professional editing.
Primary
sources of
law being now available from different paying services and free public Web sites providing access to resources
as well, what will happen of
librarians?