{"id":821,"date":"2018-01-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hub.findingsimple.com\/au\/resources\/resource\/law-libraries-digital-revolution\/"},"modified":"2020-06-03T08:05:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-03T08:05:21","slug":"law-libraries-digital-revolution","status":"publish","type":"insight_resource","link":"https:\/\/insight.thomsonreuters.com.au\/legal\/resources\/resource\/law-libraries-digital-revolution","title":{"rendered":"Law Libraries&#8217; Digital Revolution [Whitepaper]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro-paragraph\">Law librarians around the world share their experience moving from printed law books to eBooks and digital law libraries.<\/p>\n<p>When Marta Hern\u00e1ndez Alvardo, who runs the Legal Information Center at Cuatrecasas (a law \ufb01rm with more than 900 lawyers in 26 of\ufb01ces in Spain and worldwide), began moving her \ufb01rm from printed law books to digitised online versions of them, she had a surprise: no complaints from the lawyers.<\/p>\n<p>For better insight into why global law firms are adopting digital library solutions, download our free whitepaper.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900\"><strong>The benefits of digital libraries:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Advanced search capability<\/li>\n<li>Ease for end-users<\/li>\n<li>Consistency of access and lawyer training across multiple offices<\/li>\n<li>Personalised links and annotations<\/li>\n<li>Current legal materials<\/li>\n<li>Less real estate needed for book storage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u201cFor those who were responsible for library services over many of\ufb01ces, we have seen that digital books have a lot of advantages in administrative cost, availability without our managing a lending system, cost savings on photocopies and policing of the licensing\u201d<\/em> <strong>&#8211; Jennifer&nbsp;McNenly, Director of Library and Information Services, Fasken Martineau, Toronto (Canada)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law librarians around the world share their experience moving from printed law books to eBooks and digital law libraries. 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