Greetings All:
First, I want to thank all of you who sent me your thoughtful and
informative responses. I appreciate very much your taking the time to share
your ideas with me.
Also, there were several requests for me to post the responses that I
received. I have listed all those below, which were not posted to the list.
Thanks again!
Martha
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Martha D. Arthos, Legal Information Specialist
City of Austin Law Department
Phone:(512)499-6480
E-mail: Martha.Arthos@ci.austin.tx.us
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I created an intranet with the bookmarks I most frequently used to
answer reference questions. I also created a Librarian's corner with the
bookmarks I most frequently use, such as online library catalog lists,
publisher catalogs, etc. Only a few attorneys choose to use it, but it is
there in case you are not!
Staci Steadman
Librarian
Troy & Gould
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I have created a "firm bookmark list" (which I volunteered to do) on our
network on the S drive. The original list had 3 categories, Legal, which
had legal sites which I felt would be of interest to our attorneys;
Business, which included sites related to company, financial and news data;
Recreation, which was a "fun" list, with such things as sports, humor,
games, etc that may interest our employees.
We subscribe to approximately 5-6 Internet publications. I review these
publications for additional sites to add to the list. People within the
firm also send me sites to consider for inclusion on the list.
Interestingly, at this time, I am planning a major edit of the list. Sites
have disappeared or changed addresses plus the addition of new sites has
prompted this revision. The list is now large enough that I plan to
"subcategorize". For example, separate legal sites into practice areas. It
will be interesting to see how things turn out because this is the first
significant revision that has been done plus the original list was created
on Windows 3.11. We have since converted to Windows 95. I have already
discovered the editing process is totally different.
Overall, the list has been a success. Users don't have to remember website
addresses, which can sometimes be quite lengthy. They just click on the
link and away they go. Hope this helps.
Keith S Knopf
Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter
Columbus, OH
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I maintain a page on the firm's intranet of links organized by subject
matter.
Becky Wentz
Lukins & Annis p.s.
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At the moment my firm doesn't have an Intranet. However we have a firm
Yellow Pages. I created a Word Document (with the links) of the sites
that I thought would best meet my attorneys needs. I go in and edit it
regularly and I ask my attorneys to send me sites. I have some very
regular contributors.
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Martha:
We put ours on the Library intranet page. This relieves us of the burden of
having to copy over our bookmark files many times over.
Marlowe Griffiths
Howard Rice et al.
mgriffiths@hrice.com
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We've added to firm's intranet. Created a "research gateway" to the
internet, with about 20 different pages - employment law, securities,
general reference, "Find It!" (maps, phone numbers, Martindale-Hubbell,
etc.). A bit time-consuming, but worth the effort, we believe. We had
tried copying our bookmarks out to a network drive, then having users copy
them to their machine - but our users aren't all that computer-savvy.
One other approach is just to copy your favorites file to a network drive,
then have a link on an intranet page that just opens that folder - user sees
subfolders and bookmarked pages in a browser window (if you're using Windows
98 or NT).
Don't know if that helps, but wanted to share.
Angela Higgins
Library
Polsinelli White Vardeman & Shalton
700 West 47th Street, Suite 1100
Kansas City, MO 64112
816-360-4126 phone
816-753-1536 fax
ahiggins@pwvs.com <mailto:ahiggins@pwvs.com>
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There are several ways you can address this. For some individuals,
receiving the bookmarks on a disk allows them to pick and choose the sites
they want without a great deal of housekeeping. On our intranet, we post a
"Site of the Week" each week and the archive is available of all the
previous postings. This is an excellent eclectic list. We also maintain a
Virtual Reference Desk that categorizes many sites useful to all employees.
Lastly, we maintain reference lists for each practice group in our firm,
many times these also link back to our Reference Desk.
Jane M. McMahon
Brobeck Phleger & Harrison LLP
550 S. Hope St., Suite 2100
Los Angeles, CA 90071-2694
(213) 745-3406
fax (213) 745-3345
jmcmahon@brobeck.com
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Our firm's intranet solves that problem. If you have a network, you can
create an html page (like a webliography) and it can be located by using
file open command, Netscape & Explorer are each slightly different but they
are both file commands.
Bess Moffitt
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Bess R. Moffitt bmoffitt@mdbe.com
Technical Services Librarian
McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, LLP
Three Embarcadero Center
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 393-2491
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We have created a Internal Webpage with our links. It is mounted on a
server for all to use - they simply make it their default home page. I
consider it the beginning of our Intranet - as we not yet implemented one.
Rita Kaiser
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Rita Kaiser, Manager, Library Services
McKenna & Cuneo, LLP, 1900 K Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-496-7752 Fax: 202-496-7756
Email: Rita_Kaiser@McKennaCuneo.com
http://www.mckennacuneo.com
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I made mine into a group of intranet pages. This allowed me to
group them by subject matter, with a different page of links for each
subject. It also allowed me to add annotations for the links,
something that wouldn't be accomplished just by using a bookmark
file. The drawback is that people probably are more likely to go to
sites by using their bookmarks (as opposed to going to the library
intranet site).
-Larry Ross
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Lawrence Ross, J.D.
Librarian
Environmental Law Institute
1616 P Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 939-3242
(202) 939-3868 (fax)
<ross@eli.org>
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We put what we call the "Virtual Library" on our firm intranet with the
librarian's favorite bookmarks. It is arranged by area of law and gets a
lot of use. Having it on the Intranet allows us to easily keep it current
too.
Carol Bannen
Manager, Information Resources
Reinhart, Boerner etal
1000 N. Water St.
Milwaukee WI 53203-3499
414-298-8253
fax 414-298-8097
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One other, rather low-tech way of doing this with a minimum of effort: if
users are running Internet Explorer (don't know if it works on Netscape, but
worth a try), have users enter the file path of a bookmark folder on the
network.
For instance, they would enter: "N:\library\bookmarks" in the URL box of
their browser. This would open a file view of all bookmarked pages, and all
subfolders (users can click to open a subfolder, back-browse to return to
top-level folder). Users could bookmark this "page" (the file path to the
library bookmark folder) as "Library Bookmarks," and could open it like any
other bookmarked html page from their desktops without any installation or
further fuss.
You could periodically update this file by copying the favorites folder from
the C:\ drive of the librarian and pasting over the existing file on the
network drive, so bookmarks are updated automatically for all users.
Try it yourself - type "C:\windows\favorites" (if you're using internet
explorer), and you'll see a preview of how it works. Hope this helps.
Angela Higgins
Library
Polsinelli White Vardeman & Shalton
700 West 47th Street, Suite 1100
Kansas City, MO 64112
816-360-4126 phone
816-753-1536 fax
ahiggins@pwvs.com <mailto:ahiggins@pwvs.com>
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We put some of our links on the firm's intranet. We also use an address
program called Interaction, which I use to store both personal and
work-related links. I have created another file in this program that I
have granted others read access to and I can check off the links I want
copied into this file. Bit of a problem remembering to copy of the links,
but at least for myself it has made by bookmarks more manageable.
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