This article by Blair Kauffman, the Director, and Mary Jane Kelsey, the Associate Director, of Yale's Lillian Goldman Law Library offers a brief overview of the direction being taken by one of America's better-known research libraries. The library has staked out a leading position in its innovative use of technologies while continuing its commitment to building and preserving collections in all of the formats demanded by its diverse clientele.

It is a very great honour to be invited to give this lecture in memory of Willi Steiner. I was not privileged to know him personally but I have long been aware of the enormous contribution that he made to the development of the Squire Library in Cambridge and the library of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, of which I have been a grateful user for many years. I am also very aware of Willi's contribution to legal scholarship in general and in particular to comparative law. His work on the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is just one example. I hope and believe that the topic on which I am going to speak tonight would have interested him.

Janice Edwards, Librarian at Maclay Murray & Spens, and Chair of the LIM Editorial Board, looks at the responses to the Pages to Clicks questionnaire distributed to members via Lis-Law in the Summer, and its implications for the future provision of legal information.

Margie Jones, from medium-sized law firm Lester Aldridge, has documented her experiences in incorporating online legal information into the firm's Library and Information Service (LIS). This article covers general issues in the print v electronic debate and subsequent issues of LIM will cover other aspects.

Ruth Bird of the Bodleian Law Library identifies useful resources for US legislative research. The Bodleian Law Library (BLL) has extensive, current holdings of the majority of these resources in its collection, which are identified in the course of the paper. References to online locations for the titles and resources are also included.

This article by Dean Mason looks at the retrieval effectiveness of the online legal research tools Lexis Professional and Westlaw UK and is the result of research carried out for his Masters Degree in Information Science.

The modern Library or Information Service (IS) cannot, and should not, operate in isolation from the strategic planning of its wider organisation. Most IS units already tie their aims and objectives to the organisation's strategic mission, but how can the IS move from the confines of its traditional role to have greater influence and responsibility within the wider organisation? How can building relationships with key individuals/departments strengthen the overall role of the IS?

Roger Cook of Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw has produced a guide to the most important and accessible sources of US law reports which is aimed at those of us who do not necessarily need constant access to such sources.

Let's face it librarians have until relatively recently had a pretty stereotypical image which occasionally, perhaps justly, is one of quiet resolve where the library is your domain and those that enter should do so quietly and should not remove your materials. This image is reinforced by adverts, television, films and even dolls.

Paper presented by Barbara Allan at the 37th BIALL Annual Study Conference in Brighton, June 2006, covering the human resources aspects of project management; project life cycles and project planning and implementation.

Catherine Pease of the Law Society Library guides us through the very popular recent exhibition of peculiar legislation.

Paul Norman passes on the benefit of his many years' experience of researching US law at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

Jill Halford, who is the Library and Information Manager at Charles Taylor, was the Document Management Representative on the Business User Team on the project to implement SharePoint and she explains the processes involved in moving several thousand documents to the new system.

This article by Susan Mansfield describes a number of techniques, which can be used in isolation or together, to demonstrate the value of an information centre.

Paper presented by Tony Simmonds at the 37th BIALL Annual Study Conference in Brighton, June 2006, describing the design process for, and key features of, the i-Tutorial software introduced at the College.