Alison --
The issue of posting questions on Internet has been discussed by our
Library Committee, for the very reasons you outline. We are a corporate
legal department and this is the way we decided it should be handled:
Whenever I receive a request where I feel it would be benficial to post a
question on Internet, I explain to the lawyer making the request the
potential advantages of posting the question, while at the same time
alerting them to the confidentiality issue. I then ask them if they feel
I should post the question. Sometimes they are not concerned with
confidentiality and tell me to go ahead (and I am able to dazzle them with
the results!); other times they will decide that it would be better not
to. The thing is, this way it's their call.
Hope this helps.
>The question of how reference is provided, and to whom, is an interesting
>one. I have a similar, related question for the list. I have worked in
>several libraries where I was adjured to *NOT* post any reference
requests
>to the list. I wasn't told I couldn't subscribe or read, but the firm or
>company didn't want any other law libraries knowing what we were looking
>for, in case of breach of confidentiality. This actually came up at a
>nonprofit library too, not just a law library.
>
>Has anyone else encountered this problem? How did you deal with it?
Judy Bird jbird@qc.bell.ca
Law Librarian Tel: (514) 870-6550
Bell Canada Law Department Fax: (514) 876-4497
1050 Beaver Hall Hill, 15th Fl.
Montreal, Quebec, CANADA, H2Z 1S4
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