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Newsletter Webwatch Special

The following is a selection of sites that I find helpful as sources of current awareness. These may seem like obvious sites, already in your bookmarks or favourites, but the key to current awareness is not so much knowing where to go, as how often you go there...

BIALL
http://www.biall.org.uk
Obvious, yes, but it really should be on your regular visits list. Diaries of events, publisher news and reports of Committee activities are all there and real benefits only come by checking on a regular basis.

CLIG
http://www.clig.org
I’m the Editor: I had to include it. If you look at nothing else though, keep an eye on the newsfeed and the calendar of events.

CILIP
http://www.cilip.org.uk/aboutcilip/newsandpressreleases/
News and press releases from the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals..

Freepint
http://www.freepint.com
Articles, events, jobs and a whole community of information professionals lending each other a hand. It’s amazing how much you can learn by accident when browsing through this site.

Inner Temple
http://innertemplelibrary.wordpress.com
Current Awareness from the Inner Temple Library.
A selective current awareness weblog, intended to provide up-to-date information regarding new case law, changes in legislation, and legal news. The content is selected and updated daily by information professionals on the staff of the Inner Temple Library.

Law Society
http://www.lawsociety.org.uk/productsandservices/libraryservices/currentawareness.law
The Library Current Awareness Bulletin is produced on a weekly basis by Library enquiry staff. It contains details of new cases, legislation, practitioners' texts, websites and other items of legal information for current awareness purposes, drawn from a variety of sources. Sign up at the above link.

Legal Technology Insider
http://www.legaltechnology.co.uk
Insider looks at legal IT in general, from new services that have hit the market to the movements and activities of various legal IT providers. A particularly useful source for finding out which organisations are taking what software (including library and knowledge management systems).

Legal Week
http://www.legalweek.net
The latest news about happenings in legal business, and a fair bit of gossip to boot. You may well already cast an eye across the hard copy each week, but here you have it updated daily (and there’s an archive back to 1998 should you need it). Includes links through to other publications such as Legal IT (http://www.e-hub.com/gpm/legalit/new/).

Lexis Nexis Butterworths Tolley
http://www.butterworths.com and http://www.lexisnexis.co.uk
The online catalogue is a valuable tool and includes “Hot off the Press” and “Coming Soon” sections. The Looseleaf & Encyclopaedia Updates & Prices page provides a handy Looseleaf Chart with information on current and forthcoming issue releases on both 'Pay As You Go' and annual subscription looseleafs.

Linex Legal
http://www.linexlegal.com
Linex Legal is a subscription service which monitors the Websites of leading law firms, governmental bodies and organisations, alerting subscribers when new content becomes available. Weekly Email Alerts are available for the UK, Australia, China, Canada, South Africa, Ireland and New Zealand, as well as specialised services covering International Arbitration, Product Liability, UK Employment Law, EU Competition, and UK Planning and Construction Law.
Linex’ services can help librarians and information specialists in law firms keep up to date with articles and opinions about developing legal issues.

Managing Information
http://www.managinginformation.com
A useful source of news on librarianship in all sectors (although you can look specifically at legal). It’s also possible to have headlines delivered in a weekly email.

Sweet & Maxwell
http://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk
The Catalogue section of the site has a “Looseleaf Checklist” and “Sweet & Maxwell Publishing Programme” which can be useful in keeping in keeping your collection up-to-date.
(Editors note: this part of the site seems to be experiencing some technical problems at the moment, October 2006)