What do the experts have to say about trends and developments in legal research?
Below are the thoughts and insights of some of the trendsetters in world of legal research and legal publishing on the web, and in print. Cheryl Nyberg, reference librarian at the Gallagher Law Library at the University of Washington Law School, is the author and co-publisher of the bibliographic series, Subject Compilations of State Laws. Cheryl was the 2001 recipient of the Association of College and Research Libraries’ Marta Lange/CQ Award for this publication. As a distinguished author as well as an experienced teacher/reference librarian, Cheryl had some interesting insights into trends in legal research. When she began the Subject Compilation series, she believed that the development of sources on Lexis and Westlaw would make state survey bibliographies such as hers obsolete. This has not been the case. In fact, a trend in legal research sources has been the continuing need for these sources and an increase in the numbers of book-length treatment of state survey topics. Nyberg se
