Transcript Loose-leaf Services - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

Loose-leaf Services
By
Connie Strittmatter
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What are loose-leaf services?
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Legal resource that brings together
a variety of information on a given
topic.
Usually kept in binders for easy
updating
Contains primary authority and
explanatory information
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Benefits of loose-leaf services
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Currency
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Comprehensiveness
– one stop shopping
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Types of loose-leaf services
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Interfiled
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Newsletter
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Combination of interfiled and
newsletter
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Electronic
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Interfiled loose-leaf services
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Updated by filing new pages and
removing superceded pages.
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Page numbering v. Paragraph
numbering
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Transfer binders
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Access Points for Interfiled
loose-leaf services
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Table of cases
Table of statutes
Table of regulations
Topical index
– watch for “layered indexing”
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Newsletter style loose-leaf
services
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Information is filed as a unit
Supplements previously received
materials
Simple pagination
Very good current awareness tool
Cumulative index every six months
to year
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Electronic loose-leaf sets
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Publishers of loose-leaf sets are
creating online libraries or CD-ROM
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Lexis and Westlaw
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Tips to using loose-leaf
services
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Read the instructions on “How to
use this service”
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Check all of the indexes
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Verify if index uses paragraph or
page numbering
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Tips to using loose-leaf
services
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Don’t confuse commentary with
primary authority
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Check the currency of set
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Be careful when removing pages
(a misfiled page is a lost page)
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Locating legal loose-leafs
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Legal Loose-leafs in Print
– Law Reserve KF1 .L42
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Browse the collection
Consult the Lexis and Westlaw
directories
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