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56 Law Libr. Lights 1 (2012-2013)

handle is hein.journals/lll56 and id is 1 raw text is: Ac emi nd La Fr Perspectives. Kristin Geiss It's been a couple of years now that academic and firm librarians have been teaching the newoogle-styleresearch platforms: WestlawNext, Lexis Advance, and Bloomberg Law. These new platforms have the potential to change the way we teach electronic legal research - dramatically - and some might say that they already have. In the following piece, three academic law librarians, two private firm librarians, and an associate from a large, D.C.firm discuss over email the challenges and opportunities that these new platforms bring when training new researchers. Here we talk about choices made when we have the opportunity to teach four to five platforms, how we structure and roll out training plans, how we work with vendors to assist in training, the strengths (and inevitability) of the new single-box search and the fate of Boolean searching, some pitfalls that the new platforms present, and some thoughts on the future of electronic legal research. What are the main takeaways? Each person in the conversation has worked closely with vendors to introduce these new products to their users - but not everyone has been satisfied with the rollout of tj Law~ Abrary igts V 56 Number I 2012 Teaching LegaI Research on the New Platforms Kristen Ggiss Editors fotvmn Melnnie Knapp The Myth ard the Madness of Cost Effective Researth Jean O'Grady President's Cotumn ScottfBailey MemberSrpotlight Melanie Knapp & Scott Bailey Book RvIew Dawn $ohls fm Sust aril Sue Ann %ini Tech Talk Rgeqr V Skalbeck 1 12 14 17i 20 23 25 sp-