Just thinking out loud:
What about a scenario where the researcher
needs the information urgently and doesn't
have time to do much solo investigating? If
he or she judges that someone in
law-lib-land may know the answer without
having to research it, would that be an
appropriate use? Should the request be
prefaced with a statement such as "Don't go
out of your way, but in case you happen to
know...?"
I'd be interested in hearing other thoughts
on this.
Chris
Christopher Carr
Library Services Manager
Howard, Darby & Levin
1330 Avenue of the Americas
New York NY 10019
212 841 1085
>>> Terry Cullen <tcullen@seattleu.edu>
06/29/98 11:58am >>>
Laura Orr wrote:
To the extent that we ARE a legal research
service, we are actually a
Last Resort research service (not just legal
either - we have lots of
expertise among our subscribers :-) for each
other. It is the Last Resort
phrase that is key. I have no objection
(and in fact enjoy hearing about
the types of research others are doing) to
hearing from students,
writers, lawyers or anyone else who has hit
a legal research dead end
.... as long as that person has done his or
her homework before posting
to law-lib.
Is the law library list
LAWLIBREF-L@lawlib.wuacc.edu no longer
active? It
still appears on the list of lists. Since
I'm seeing a lot more use of
law-lib for reference/ILL questions, I
wonder if some of the traffic
shouldn't go to lawlibref-l instead.
TC
Terry Cullen
Electronic Services Librarian
Seattle University Law Library
950 Broadway Plaza
Tacoma, WA 98402-4470
253-591-7092
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