Muriel Anderson, former Librarian of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, died peacefully on the morning of 25 June 2006. Staff at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, where she spent much of her career, learned the sad news the next day and a brief notice was issued to the professional community.

Melanie Mancino discusses the implementation of a firmwide research and enquiry service at national law firm Eversheds. It explains why the decision was made to centralise the service, and how this was achieved, and goes on to explore why it was important for standardisation to take place. It ends by looking at the process involved in introducing an electronic enquiry management system and provides a summary of basic functionality. The benefits of the new service for the both the firm and the IS team are also highlighted.

Roger Cook met Karen on 27 November 2006, at the behest of the chair of the Editorial Board, to try and clear up some of the issues relating to the new LexisNexis Butterworths platform and to hear about some of the developments which will be happening during 2007. You will probably have seen some of these already, given the lead time between the interview taking place and the publication of this edition of LIM. He had been given some specific questions which had been raised by members of BIALL, but the conversation ranged beyond these to other areas.

Gerry Power was invited to go to the University of Jos in April 2006 to present workshops to the Law Faculty and other interested legal professionals on using the internet for legal research. He writes about his experiences in dealing with running online workshops whilst coping with electricity shortages and the incredible experience of Nigeria!

The authors, Karen Gray, Diane Miller, Karen Scott and Kate Stanfield, are experienced legal information professionals who are responsible both for designing and delivering in-house training sessions, and for running the BIALL Training the Trainer seminar for the last three years. The aim of this article is threefold: to explore the rationale for providing training; to examine the groundwork and preparation necessary to create the right training culture; and to offer practical guidance on how to deliver successful training activities.

This article by Thomas Shaw discusses the key findings of an MSc dissertation which examined legal information professionals' perceptions of what facilitates, and what impedes, the use of free and paid-for legal information resources. It also compares and contrasts the views of information professionals working in academia with those working in law firms. It is situated in the context of significant criticism of commercial legal publishing and the existence of many resources providing free legal information.

Diane Raper describes the ongoing project at the University of Kent to upgrade the free Lawlinks portal established nearly ten years ago by Sarah Carter. The emphasis is on ensuring linking is working, establishing new links, and generally making the site more user-friendly, both to Kent law students and the outside world.

Diane Gwynne-Smith writes about the project, which she managed, to create the most comprehensive and freely available online database of materials on social care. It can be found at: www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk

Philip Leith, who is a trustee of BAILII, explains its origins in the Society for Computers and Law's suggestion that the government should build a computerised database of English law, to its role today as a major free resource for legal information. He discusses the Australian model, AustLII; describes the current database and considers the interaction between legal publishers and addedvalue and free legal sources both now and in the future.

Heather Memess and Steve Whittle of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies describe the recently launched UK gateway to the internet via the Resource Discovery Network. Intute: Law (previously SOSIG) covers the best internet sources of law for the academic community. They are evaluated by experts at Bristol and IALS and cover a wide range of materials. Information on how to best exploit the system is given, together with details of additional services and functionality offered, including workbooks and an online legal research tutorial.

Laura Griffiths provides information about the portals or gateways of qualitatively evaluated links to legal information on the internet, including FLAG, INTUTE: Law and eagle-I, and repositories of information produced by IALS and its partners such as FLARE and the Current Legal Research Topics database.

At the 2004 BIALL Conference the Legal Online Resources Directory (LORD) was launched. The Legal Information Group (LIG) is currently developing the Directory to meet the needs of today's information professionals. James Mullan, Chair of LIG, gives a history of the LORD project and an outline of its possible future.

Liz Polding writes about her experiences of integrating e-learning resources into existing law courses at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice, and shares her experiences of how to ensure that their introduction and use is accepted by tutors who may not have much relevant experience. Resources used include open source options, such as Moodle, webcams, pod casts, interactive noticeboards, chatrooms and e-portfolios.

This paper by Nicola Wakefield was presented at the BIALL 2006 Conference in Brighton. The presentation discussed the formation of a working partnership between the School of Law Staff and the Law Library at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). The two parties have worked together successfully for many years to embed legal information skills training into all law teaching programmes. The paper looks at how collaboration occurred, what training materials have been developed, working methods, and the reasons for the project's success.

This checklist should be read in conjunction with the authors' article at page 20 of this issue, and includes points to consider which have come out of their experiences in delivering training.