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1 Trends L. Libr. Mgmt. & Tech. 1 (1987-1988)

handle is hein.journals/ttllmt1 and id is 1 raw text is: Trends in Law Library Management and Technology Vol. 1, No. 1 July-August 1987 From the Editor By DENNIS J. STONE M any of us would like to keep informed of important developments in management and technology. To do so requires sifting through mountains of newsletters, announcements, tech- nical magazines and professional journals. Trends seeks to do some of the shifting for you and provide articles that are timely and of immediate value to the legal information and management specialist. Contributors from around the country will present viewpoints from all types of law libraries and legal information providers. Included in the immediate future will be articles on space plan- ning, low-end cataloging software, spreadsheet templates for library management, executive workstations, techniques in records management, law firm networking, and legislative and judicial information systems. Manuscripts on related topics are welcome and should be sent to Dennis J. Stone, Professor of Law and Law Librarian, University of Connecticut Law Li- brary, 120 Sherman St., Hartford, CT 06105- 2289. 2 Implementing a Microcomputer Center in the Library By JUDITH ANSPACH T he majority of academic law libraries will set up a microcomputer center in the near future, if they have not already done so, in response to the computer revolution in legal education and the practice of law. Computer centers currently in operation run the gamut from one microcomputer to IIT Chicago-Kent's three student laboratories with seventy-five PCs equipped with hard disks or network servers. Financial limitations prohibit most law libraries from setting up computer facilities approaching that of Chicago-Kent's labs, but a more modest model described below would provide students with needed personal computing facilities and could be expanded gradually as funding became available. Identify Purposes and Clarify Administration The first step in establishing the center should be to identify its purposes since these purposes will impact subsequent decisions such as choice (Continued on page 2) A publication for school, firm, corporate & government law librarians.