Dear Colleagues:
Many of you have inquired regarding the status of the Legal Information
Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual 2002. I am pleased to announce that it
will be available on June 2d. I beg your indulgence in posting the
following announcement to the list:
Rhode Island LawPress is now taking advance orders for the Legal
Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual 2002.
This Joseph Andrews Award winning reference tool has been completely
updated and revised for 2002.
The 2002 edition of this essential reference book includes a number of
great new features, including:
Legal Acquisitions Toolbox, a brand new chapter 23 providing detailed
annotations of dozens of the most useful acquisitions tools in the field
of legal bibliography, both current and retrospective.
Dozens of new treatise titles in, now, chapter 27, as well as listings
of additional publishers who publish titles each of the 60 subject areas
covered in this chapter. By itself, this chapter is the most complete
annotated bibliography of the legal treatise literature available. Many
of the listings include valuable cost-saving tips for
consumers.
A unique spreadsheet in Appendix I listing the historical caselaw
coverage of ten CALR vendors.
Descriptions of alternative CALR vendors, including the most significant
new player, Casemaker.
More than 1,000 hours of editorial work went into updating the complete
text to reflect new developments in legal publishing, as well as new
titles, editions, prices, 2001 and 2002 supplementation costs.
Our invaluable 35-page spreadsheet allows you to track the prices and
1998-2001 supplementation costs (2002 for Matthew Bender titles) for
more than 1,300 legal treatises and other specialty titles covered in
chapter 27. This feature alone will prove an enormous time-saver
whenever you are conducting a comparative evaluation of legal specialty
titles. You will get a quick over of author, title, edition. year of
publication, number of volumes or discs, cost, and 1998-2002
supplementation costs. And while the spreadsheet includes
supplementation costs for the five most recent years, we have retained
supplementation costs for prior years with the entries in chapter 27,
many of them going back to the early 1990's.
Our State Publications chapter has been completely updated to reflect
current titles, CD-ROM products, prices, and Web sites.
Overall, the text has grown from 579 to 636 pages, all in an attractive
and easily browsable dual-column format.
The Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual has received
dozens of laudatory reviews. It has been variously described as a
"monumental resource and the product of rare expertise and scholarship"
(Donna Bausch in Law Practice Management), "the law publishing event of
the year" (Richard Sloane in New York Law Journal) and "the most
comprehensive single-volume guide to legal information resources
available today" (David Bachman in Law Books in Review). Sharon
Peregrine Johnson wrote: "if you have limited funds and can only
purchase one book a year, this is a must. Svengalis' book, an annual
publication, is a wonderful collection development tool." (Legal
Information Alert). In addition, I have received dozens upon dozens of
unsolicited E-mails from satisfied customers who have told how essential
this book is to their work as law librarians, whether in reference,
acquisitions, budgeting, or teaching.
Written by a law librarian FOR law librarians and other legal
information consumers. It is the only publication on the market which
describes and analyzes legal information from the consumer’s
perspective. It is also one of the few publications many law librarians
keep on their desktops for quick access. Facing budget restrictions?
The Legal Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual 2002 is the only
publication guaranteed to help you confront budgetary issues and make
informed purchasing decisions.
At a time when skinny pocket parts to single-volume legal treatises from
major publishers can cost more than $100.00 annually, the Legal
Information Buyer's Guide & Reference Manual 2002 is priced at just
$105.00--the same price as last year. We have also provided a special
incentive to our many customers who order multiple copies. Additional
copies shipped to the same institution and address are available for
$85.00 each.
A CD-ROM version is also available for $105.00, or $35.00 to purchasers
of the print edition. This is a great way of printing out selected
chapters for internal or educational use.
The book will be available on June 2nd. Orders can be placed by
E-mailing Rhode Island LawPress at:
rilawpress@ids.net or calling (800) 955-4089
Our mailing address is: P.O. Box 331, Westerly, RI 02891
Having left the R.I. State Law Library after more than 26 years, I am
now devoting my full attention to the Legal Information Buyer's Guide &
Reference Manual and the needs of my many customers. As always, I
welcome your comments and suggestions. I can be reached, in North
Stonington, Connecticut, at (860) 535-0362. FAX: (860) 535-0378.
Thanks for your attention,
Ken Svengalis
Rhode Island LawPress
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