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LLAGNY / AALL Program: Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age: Is Online Legal Information Trustworthy?

By David Badertscher, PLL

<p><font size="2">On Tuesday November 6, 2008 the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY) presented in conjunction with the Electronic Legal Information Access and Citation Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) a program at the New York County Lawyers Association in New York City regarding how findings of the 2007 authentication report published by AALL and its ELIAC Committee can be adopted in the State of New York.</font></p> <p><font size="2">The program consisted of a panel of representatives of AALL, its Electronic Legal Information Access and Citation (ELIAC), and two agencies of New York state government, the New York State Reporting Bureau and the Office of General Counsel of the New York State Department of State discussing the AALL Authentication Report, published in 2007 and approaches, strategies, and challenges to adopting its findings to authenticating and otherwise validating in accordance with accepted standards New York State primary source legal information published on the web.</font></p> <p><font size="2">We are receiving enthausiastic and positive feedback regarding the program and queries as to how other, similar programs can be organized for a broader audience of interested and concerned people</font></p> <p><a href="http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llagny/REV_LLAGNY_Online_Legal_Info_Program.pdf" target="_blank"><font size="2">Click here to see program details.</font></a></p>

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on November 07, 2008 (boomark / email).