Just released by Crosby Group Consulting on my new website:
Quickscribe: A Comparison and Evaluation Report (White Paper) Released

[June 26, 2008] A new white paper comparing British Columbia legislative tracking services was released today by Crosby Group Consulting. The report titled, Quickscribe: A Comparison and Evaluation Report, was commissioned by Stem Legal Web Enterprises Inc. to objectively identify key differences between Quickscribe Services Inc. and the BC government offering QP LegalEze.

American Bar Association’s 2008 Legal Technology Survey Report is due out in May. I’m wishing at least the trend reports from 2007 were available for free.

I’m looking for a study with demographics about who uses online legal research systems (pref. North American/Canadian). Anyone seen anything like that?? Thank you!

Jan/Feb SLA Connections:

“A new reportfrom the University of Illinois and the Pew Internet & American Life Project, Information Searches That Solve Problems, reveals that 58 percent of respondents who experienced a specific problem (for example, health issues, tax matters, local government, legal questions) that needed to be researched turned to the Internet for assistance. Thirteen percent used the library for answers, and 64 percent reported that the use of the library was ‘very successful.’”

Twilight of the Books – The New Yorker, more on the To Read or … report

Dawn of the digital natives – Steven Johnson takes a look at the To Read or Not To Read study

From Keyword Search to Exploration: How Result Visualization Aids Discovery on the Web – HCIL report, only 50 pages long. Gonna read this tomorrow.