Today’s Daily Journal at p. 4 has an article by Gina Lynch and Jane Metz, “Law Libraries’ Tech Tools Give Firms a Handle on Vast Information Universe” (password may be needed).

Talk to any information professional today, and they will tell you that their biggest challenge is taming the information glut and sifting through the hundreds of technologies now available to slice and dice this data.

The article discusses current awareness services and how “LexisNexis in partnership with Ozmosys. . . created TotalAlert – a software product that consolidates multiple sources of electronic information into one daily e-mail.”

With this tool

the library team can create practice-, industry- and client-specific searches in commercial databases such as Lexis, CourtLink and Westlaw. These searches can be captured by Ozmosys. In addition, Ozmosys provides a long list of free Web alerts and can capture premium electronic subscriptions held by the firm. Librarians use the Ozmosys software to consolidate these various resources into practice-specific topics and create e-mail distribution groups.

 

The article also addresses:

Creating an Interactive Intranet: Applets and Custom Views

Turbocharging the Library Portal: More Than Just a Catalog

Facing New Frontiers