HEADLINE: Introducing LIBClient: The Legal Research Internet Search Engine
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 21, 1997. The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is proud to announce the launch of LIBClient, an Internet search engine that helps legal researchers retrieve relevant documents from the World Wide Web faster than any other searching device.
Created by Bert Dempsey (School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Robert Vreeland (Coleman Karesh Law Library, University of South Carolina) and funded by a generous grant from the AALL/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant Program, LIBClient is the most accurate search engine available for legal documents. Most Internet search engines provide inordinate numbers of marginally relevant "hits" for most queries. These engines cover most of the sites on the Internet but they do not index the contents of every searchable database reachable on the Web, such as archives of judicial opinions. Many of the most important legal documents cannot be located without running separate searches at several sites.
LIBClient allows users to search databases from a variety of categories, such as Case Law, Legislation, Regulations, Historical Documents, and Treaties, and then to search for information on a state, federal or international level. The LIBClient software is found by simply loading the Web page at the following URL:
http://www.ils.unc.edu/~vreer/libclient/index.html
Currently, LIBClient will only run under the Netscape Navigator 3.0 (or higher).
LIBClient is the result of the first year of funding from the AALL/Aspen Law & Business Research Grant Program (formerly the AALL/Little, Brown and Company Research Grant Program), a two-year program designed to support the Association's Research Agenda. The AALL/Aspen Law & Business grants are dedicated to funding projects of practical value to a large segment of those professions who create, disseminate or use legal and law-related information.
The American Association of Law Libraries was founded in 1906 to promote and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public communities, to foster the profession of law librarianship, and to provide leadership in the field of legal information. Today, with 4,700 members, the Association represents law librarians and related professionals who are affiliated with a wide range of institutions: law firms; law schools; corporate legal departments; courts; and local, state and federal government agencies.
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