We were also dismayed at this news, and I took the statement about
contacting clients with a grain of salt.
In related news, I was contacted by my RIA rep that we may want to take
another look at their web product since RIA will be discontinuing some of
their print products and only putting them on the web. In a recent article,
I read that in an effort to reduce costs the trend among scholarly books
publishers is to include the footnotes or bibliographies with the hardbound
book but post these to a website. For how long future scholars interested
in following up the research may or may not be able to find them there is an
open question. We have case volumes in our collection dating from the 18th
century, I wonder how many of these websites will be up and running in 200
years?
I can't help feeling that we are entering into a new dark age where
information will no longer be housed in brick and mortar libraries and solid
books but in the ephemeral world of cyberspace with all of its dead-end
links and fickle access.
David Leone
Librarian
Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis PLLC
511 Union Street
Suite 2100
Nashville, Tennessee 37219
Phone: 615-244-6380
Fax: 615-244-6804
Email: dleone@wallerlaw.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Smith, Virginia [mailto:smithv@chaffe.com]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 3:59 PM
To: 'Frank Drake'; law-lib; Lawlibref-l; Privatelawlib-l
Subject: RE: BNA Tax Management IRS Forms
No Frank, you're not the only one. Our set of BNA tax forms is heavily used
also. It makes me nuts when the publishers make these unilateral decisions
(I know...they SAID they'd asked patrons, but I don't really believe it) and
then try to tell us it will make our lives easier. My tax attorneys will use
the web, but many of the other attorneys, as well as the staff, rely on the
forms set. :-(
Virginia L. Smith
Law Librarian
Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy
2300 Energy Centre
1100 Poydras Street
New Orleans, LA 70163-2300
Phone: 504-585-7211
FAX: 504-585-7075
Email: smithv@chaffe.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Drake [ mailto:arnstein@mcs.net <mailto:arnstein@mcs.net> ]
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 2:07 PM
To: law-lib; Lawlibref-l; Privatelawlib-l
Subject: BNA Tax Management IRS Forms
I recently received a letter from BNA informing me, as a subscriber to the
Tax Management Portfolios, that they were no longer updating the IRS forms
set which was included with the series. They stated that after talking
with many subscribers they determined that the series was not much used.
When I informed my tax paralegal he was most displeased, and he tells me
that our chief tax partner was very unhappy to hear the news. IN our
office, according to the paralegal, the set is used almost daily.
Clearly BNA never contacted our office regarding the use of the forms.
Yes, the forms are available electronically, especially via the web, but
most of my attorneys find it quicker to copy the from from the looseleaf
set than to go to the internet and downlaod.
Am I living in a vacuum and am the only one whose office makes such use of
the BNA forms?
What do other libraries use other than the web?
Many thanks.
FRANK DRAKE
Arnstein & Lehr
CHICAGO
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