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  • Documentary Tool

    Hierarchical Display of Documentary tool Education And Communications > Documentation > Document Documentary tool Concept of Documentary tool See the dictionary definition of Documentary tool. Characteristics of Documentary tool [rtbs name=”xxx-xxx”] Resources Translation of Documentary […]

  • Thesaurus

    A Thesaurus is an online database or a book of synonyms and near-synonyms in a written language, usually arranged conceptually, although dictionary arrangement is not uncommon. The first thesaurus of the English language, published in 1852, was compiled by Peter Mark Roget. For an online […]

  • Law library

    Law library or Law Libraries A law library is a type of special library with a collection consisting primarily of materials for Legal Research and study, including case law, federal and state statutes, international legal agreements, treatises, reference works, legal periodicals, and […]

  • Law library

    Law library or Law Libraries A law library is a type of special library with a collection consisting primarily of materials for Legal Research and study, including case law, federal and state statutes, international legal agreements, treatises, reference works, legal periodicals, and […]

  • Linked Data Principles to Legal Information

    Linked Data and Law (Legal Information) Note: see the Encyclopedia’ Linked Data project at Lawi Metadata Bob DuCharme discussed the value of linked data in United States law. DuCharme notes, “At a recent W3C Government Linked Data Working Group working group meeting, I started thinking more about the role in linked data of laws that…

  • Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research

    Boolean and Free-text Searching for Legal Research Richard Delgado and Jean Stefanic, in “Why Do We Tell the Same Stories?: Law Reform, Critical Librarianship, and the Triple Helix Dilemma”(42 Stan. L. Rev. 207, 214 (1989)), wrote that “Some scholars note that the inability of lawyers to follow the development of the law either nationally or…

  • Legal Thesaurus

    A legal Thesaurus is an effective tool for the organization of legal materials. The UNCITRAL Thesaurus on the CISG,[1] provides a helpful outline of the contents of each Article of the Sales Convention. The Roget’s Thesaurus provides a list of synonyms. But they are not a controlled vocabulary, containing all the possible preferred terms and…

  • European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies

    European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies The European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies has approximately 8,400 descriptors, and numerous non-descriptors. It provides a wellstructured and wide-ranging ” terminological tool” of controlled vocabulary with which to describe the subject content and format of all kinds of literature and material (books, reports, essays,…

  • KF Modified

    KF Modified Classification (Canada) KF Modified is the short form for KF Classification Modified for Use in Canadian Law Libraries and is a classification suitable for legal collections in any common Law library . Generally, and contrary to the Library of Congress (LC) classification scheme, KF Modified organizes legal information by topic first and then…

  • Thesaurus of Law Genre/Form Terms

    Thesaurus of Law Genre/Form Terms Subject headings have traditionally been assigned to describe the content of the work. Genre/form terms, on the other hand, describe what an item is, not what it is about. The subject heading Famous Cases, with appropriate subdivisions, would be assigned to a book about famous cases. A cataloger assigning headings…

  • Comparison of Library of Congress and Dewey classifications

    Library of Congress vs. Dewey classifications about Law This is a comparison chart showing how the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress Classification schemes work in Law. 340 K Law KB Religious law in general. Comparative Religious law . Jurisprudence KD Law of the United Kingdom, Ireland, America. North America 340.971 KE Law of Canada…

  • Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Materials

    Moys Classification and Thesaurus for Legal Materials The Moys Classification Scheme is a system of library classification for legal materials. It was designed by Betty Moys and first published in 1968. It is used primarily in law libraries in many common law jurisdictions such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. Schedule The…

  • Classification of Law Materials

    Classification of Law Materials General Genre/form The Library of Congress (LC) added, in 2015, the much-anticipated “general genre/form terms” to the Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), and they are live in the authority file. The project to develop these general genre/form terms was a partnership between LC’s Policy and…

  • Cataloging for legal materials

    Cataloging of law materials Most libraries use LC (Library of Congress) or DDC ( Dewey Decimal Classification ). Some law libraries use other classifications in conjunction with these. Like a library serving a medical school may not use LCC’s R (Medicine) but rather NLM’s (National Library of Medicine) W and late Qs, legal Canadian libraries…

  • Legal Bibliography

    Legal Bibliography Some legal researchers emphasize classic bibliographies of the past, while others look at how the legal bibliography is used by the legal information specialists. According to Peairs (in “Legal Bibliography: A Dual Problem”), already in 1949 legal bibliography was a “purely mechanical subject, as are its procedure”. As a syllabus of a law…