A new subcommittee of the PLL-SIS is the Consumer Advocacy for Private Law
Librarians committee or CAPLL. In addition to writing articles on a
regular basis for PLL Perspectives we may be issuing what I will call CAPLL
Advisories.
Someone this week has been discussing the problems they have been having
with Shepards on their network as well as asking for evaluations of KeyCite
vs. Shepards.
I would like to encourage you to run the same citation check in BOTH
services as part of your evaluations. I will give you citations to two
cases to aid in this process. You will note that the results are not
identical between the services. I asked my Westlaw rep about this and she
indicated that KeyCite only lists the documents which *are available on
Westlaw.* Therefore, if a law review is not on Westlaw, it may still show
up on a Shepards result. For an example of this, run the services for 118
NYS2d 867.
You will see a similar puzzlement if you run the services for 528 So 2d
1244.
I had it in my mind, correctly or not, that KeyCite might well replace
Shepards and that we would only have to run ONE of the services. I am not
sure this will be true, especially if we are looking for secondary
materials. Depending on what you are looking for, you may have to run both
KeyCite and Shepards.
Kathie Sullivan, CAPLL Chair
Library Director
McNamee, Lochner, Titus and Williams
75 State Street P.O. Box 459
Albany, New York 12201-0459
ph: 518-447-3266
fax: 518-426-4260
email: sullivan@mltw.com
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