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Information Professional Update
Issue 8, August 2007

• Spotlight On ... 1) Survey 50 States’ Laws and Regulations;
  It Only Takes One Click at lexis.com® 2) Need to Compile Current State Laws? Here’s How with LexisNexis 50-State Surveys of Legislation & Regulations
• FYI Flash ... More Than 100 Blogs Join the LexisNexis Newstex Line Up
• Knowledge Exchange ... Some “Tried ’n True” Resources are Worth Remembering
• For IPs Only ... 1) Federal Law Librarians Get Customized Resources Through Special Info Pro Blog 2) LexisNexis® Fall Associates Program
  Set for Law Firms
  

Survey 50 States’ Laws and Regulations;
It Only Takes One Click at lexis.com®

The client is launching a new business—one that will operate in multiple states. They need to understand each applicable state’s laws on a specific topic … let’s say, worker safety.

Suddenly you envision your lunch hours over the next week—researching statutes and regulations state by state, pinpointing terminology and requirement differences as you go and double-checking to make sure you didn’t miss anything. It’s time-consuming, complex research.

But it doesn’t have to be. Now simplicity is the key to state law surveys: One research source … one mouse click … no search necessary.

With new LexisNexis 50-State Surveys of Statutes and Regulations, you can view the general statutory and regulatory provisions on a specific topic for all 50 states. They’re all compiled for you in one report. Now over lunch—even before you can finish your sandwich—you can click on Employee Safety & Health and download a survey, already in a Microsoft® Excel® spreadsheet. States are listed alphabetically. There are defined sections for codes, regulations and even court rules that may address your topic—complete with the citations you need. Click and link to the full-text documents. Add notes, collaborate and share the information with colleagues and clients.

LexisNexis 50-State Surveys of Statutes and Regulations are compiled by experienced LexisNexis® editors who carefully study the laws of each state to identify those that are most relevant for each topic. You save countless hours and still have confidence that you’re looking at all relevant law on a given topic.

Topics for these general areas of law are now available: (Tap into a variety of surveys for each topic. Plus additional survey topics will be added weekly throughout the year.) 

• Attorneys
• Business
• Criminal Law
• Domestic Relations
• Education
• Elections       
• Environment
• Food & Agriculture
• Gaming & Gambling
• Health
• Human Resources
• Insurance
• Labor
• Occupations
• Real Property
• Taxation
• Torts (including a 50-state survey on punitive damages) 

Need to Compile Current State Laws? Here’s How with LexisNexis 50-State Surveys of Legislation & Regulations

LexisNexis 50-State Surveys of Legislation & Regulations offer an overview of legislation, regulations and even court rules that may address a particular topic. No other information provider offers all of this content in one survey. And access is simple.

Here’s how to request a survey:

1. Find LexisNexis 50-State Surveys of Legislation & Regulations where you locate other state statute and legislative materials.
   Go to: (Additional source paths will be added later this year.)
   
   Legal > States Legal - U.S. > Combined States > Statutes & Legislative Materials 
   
   
2. This source is displayed automatically when selected.
   
   
3. Scroll through the topic list and click a survey link, e.g., Employee Safety and Health. (Note: you must have access to Microsoft Excel to display survey results.)
   
   
4. That’s it. Your 50-state survey is displayed in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

Once the survey spreadsheet is displayed, you have a variety of options. You can:

• Browse through the spreadsheet and click any link to move to the full-text documents, e.g., click 8 CCR 330
  et seq If your organization has subscription access to this statute, you connect to the full text without additional charge.

  If you’ve saved your LexisNexis® ID and password, you’ll move directly to the document. If not, you’ll be prompted to enter your ID and password.

  Tip: While viewing the full-text document, use Browse Book to move to sequential sections without charge.) 

  To return to your spreadsheet, close your lexis.com window.

• Download the survey spreadsheet using your browser’s standard SAVE AS function.

  The spreadsheet is a read-only document until you download it.

  Downloading unlocks the spreadsheet. Now you and your colleagues can add notes, links to additional materials, etc. Or share the information via e-mail. Even create a final report for transmission to clients.

• Be confident your information is accurate. New survey topics will be added on a weekly basis throughout the year, and existing surveys will be updated twice a year.

More Than 100 Blogs Join the LexisNexis Newstex Line Up

If you’re tasked to explore content outside mainstream media channels, blogs are probably tops on your list. Many blogs are written independently by experts in their field.

Newstex continues to license influential blog content across a wide variety of subjects, and LexisNexis continues to add Newstex blogs of interest to its subscribers. For example, LexisNexis recently added 24 blogs, compiled and provided to Newstex by Nielsen Business Media, Inc. (fka VNU eMedia)—all focusing solely on the advertising, entertainment, retail & marketing industries.  

Each source below is available as a separately searchable source. Plus they are all available together in a special group source, which goes by the short name NEWS;VNUBLG. And the sources are available in blog groups sources (NEWS;BLOGS, NTMKT and NEWSTX) and other news group sources (NEWS;ALLLNG, ALLNWS, ARCNWS, CURNWS, 90DAYS, 60DAYS, MEGANW, ALLMGA, CURMGA and 90DMGA)

AdFreak Blog (short name NEWS;ADFREK)—Find news, opinion and commentary on the advertising industry from the staffers of Adweek, featuring coverage of ad campaigns, agencies and personalities.

Backstage Cues (NEWS;BCKCUE)—Get news and commentary on stage actors and the live theater business from the editorial staff of Backstage.

Backstage Cuts (NEWS;BCKCUT)—Covers casting, production and business developments in the television and film industries.

Brandweek NRX (NEWS; BRDNRX)—Find Drug Marketing’s Most-Watched Metric: News and commentary on the marketing and advertising of pharmaceutical drugs.

Brandweek Short Takes (NEWS; SHRTAK)—Get a humorous, cynical, snarky and disbelieving look at some of the ill-conceived, amateurish and generally bizarre marketing efforts that flood one editor’s in-box on a daily basis.

CSN at the Show (NEWS;CSNATS)—The NACS Show is the convenience store industry’s largest event, bringing together approximately 20,000 retailers and suppliers. The staff of Convenience Store News has developed this micro Web site to help attendees plan and navigate through the show.

CSNews Spare Change (NEWS;CSNSPC)—Hosted by Convenience Store News, Spare Change is the convenience store industry’s first blog covering a range of topics and issues. Posts by Convenience Store News staffers discuss industry trends, opinions, and newsmakers.

Incentives Daily Perk (NEWS;DLYPRK)—Offers readers access into the world of incentives.

Inside Video Games (NEWS;INVIGA)—Find data pulled from Nielsen’s Interactive Entertainment, GameFly and GameStop, and aggregated from B-2-B information on the Web on the intersection of video games, advertising and Hollywood.

Jaded Insider (NEWS;JADINS)—Get music industry news, gossip and commentary from the jaded insiders of the Billboard editorial staff.

Meetings Industry Gurus (NEWS;MINDGR)—Meeting industry experts sound off on hot issues.

Meetings Industry Soapbox (NEWS;MINDSB)—Find a daily digest of professional observations and informal industry discussions created by the editorial teams of Successful Meetings and MeetingNews.

My American Artist (NEWS;AMRART)—Here’s the online version of American Artist magazine.

National Jeweler 10X (NEWS;10X)—This blog covers hot issues of the jewelry industry.

Past Deadline (NEWS;PASTDL)— Hollywood Reporter columnist Ray Richmond offers perspectives and commentary on the entertainment scene.

PDN EDU (NEWS;PDNEDU)—Provides news about photo awards, scholarships and internships for student photographers as well as advice on photographic techniques.

Reel Pop (NEWS;RELPOP)—Covers online media and technology in the entertainment industry.

Retail Design Diva (NEWS;RETDDV)—Hosted by DDI Magazine and GlobalShop, Retail Design Diva is the industry’s first blog covering developments in retail design. Posts by DDI staffers discuss industry trends, opinions and newsmakers.

Risky Biz (NEWS;RISKYB)—Features news and commentary on the entertainment industry from Hollywood Reporter columnist and deputy film editor Anne Thompson.

Sales and Marketing Management SoundOff (NEWS;S&MMSO)—Sales & Marketing Management’s SoundOff blog is designed to provide its audience with an outlet for business idea swapping and opinion sharing.

Snackable Content (NEWS;SNKCNT)—Find bite-sized bits of mobile marketing news.

Training Day (NEWS;TRNDAY)—Training Day’s interactive forum gives insight to professionals in the learning, development and human resources fields.

Plus more than 120 blogs have been added to the Newstex group sources available through the LexisNexis services. While not available as separately searchable sources, they augment the topical blog group sources. 

50+Digital
A Dash of Insight 
Adam Smith Institute Blog
Aircrew Buzz
Aircrew Health News
Airline Bulletin
The Airline Hub
The Alpha Marketer
American Legends
An Animal-Friendly Life 
Ant and Sons: Word on the Street
The Antidote
Aviation Views
B2B Lead Generation Blog  
Bitch Ph.D.
The Biz of Coding
Biz Cradle
The Biz of Knowledge
BizzyBlog
BlogWrite for CEOs  
Branding Post  
Brutally Honest
Business Blog Wire
The Bull Trader  
Cabin Crew News
Career Super Star  
Celebrity Baby Names Blog  
Celebrity Dog Watcher
China Car Times
China Dialogue
China Herald
The Client Side Blog with Michael Seaton
Company Counselor  
CourtDocs
The Cranky Flier
Crime and Federalism
Curing Healthcare
Customers Are Always
CXO Advisory Group LLC Investing Notes
The Daily Brief
The Daily Headache
Daily Pundit
Dean’s World  
Dolittler
DummySpots
Eide Neurolearning Blog
Eldo Telecom
Ernie the Attorney  
FutureLawyer
Gates of Vienna  
Gearater  
Getting Attention
Good Recruits
GOP Vixen
Health Business Blog  
Health Care Vox  
HorsePigCow
Indian Raj  
Information Arbitrage
The Insurance Policy
ITech Tips  
Jane Genova: Speechwriter—Ghostwriter
Joe Wikert’s Book Publisher, Author and Online Publishing Blog
Just For Small Business  
The Kentucky Democrat
Landing The Deal  
Leader Notes  
Leadership Turn  
Learned On Women
Life, The Universe
Managers Realm  
Manuel L. Quezon III
Marketing Blurb
MauledAgain
MetsBlog  
Mid Market Maven  
The Mo’Kelly Report
Mortgage Vox
Multi Leveler  
My Name is Kate  
Office Stuffer  
Oklahoma Tales of TV, Pop Culture, Music, Life (and American Idol)
Online Ad Swami  
Our Bollywood  
Pan Asian Biz  
Patently-O: Patent Law Blog
Pet Connection  
PharmaGazette  
Phil’s Stock World
Plate of the Day Food Blog
Plenty
Productivity Goal
Professional Pilot News
The Publishing Spot
The Rantings Blog
Recess Monkey  
Religion Clause
Rick Sincere News and Thoughts  
Rising Sun of Nihon  
Road Gladiator
Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites
The Runaway Scoop
SharonCobb  
Shock Talk  
Sisters In Biz  
Small Biz Mentor  
Soccerati—Soccer Player Watch
SoccerLens
South Asia Biz
The Stockmaters 
StockRake
StocksandBlogs
Tennessee Talk
This is China! 
Top Lead Generators  
Treppenwitz
UmpBump.com
Watthead—Energy News and Commentary
Web Metrics Guru
The Wired GC
Workerette  
ZhongHua Rising

Some “Tried ’n True” Resources are Worth Remembering

By Danielle Francis, LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant

As a LexisNexis Librarian Relations Consultant (LRC), I have the pleasure, along with my fellow LRCs, of showing librarians new and enhanced features and content available through lexis.com. And while this new content is great, today I want to take a moment to remind you of some “oldies but goodies” when it comes to research:

RDS TableBase

When the information you are searching for is most likely to be found in a table
or chart included in a news/journal article, then TableBase is the place to start. It specializes exclusively in tabular data on companies, industries, products and demographics.

RDS’s precision indexing and unique table titles make it simple to find the information you need. TableBase is indexed for topics such as market share, company and brand rankings, industry and product forecasts, production and consumption statistics, imports and exports, usage and capacity, number of users/outlets, trends
and much more. Some of the more than 1,000 publications covered by TableBase include American Banker, Business Week, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal.

To get a full list of publications, segments for searching and special index terms
in the online source description, click the   icon next to RDS TableBase on the
lexis.com menu screen.

Relevancy Searches

Retrieving too many hits about a company in your news search? Do many of them just mention the company because of their recent earnings call? How can you make your cite list better and a more manageable size when you have already used the COMPANY segment?   

Use LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology™ to add relevancy scores to your search request. For example, your original search is *ENTER: company(abc doughnut). Now try this: company(abc doughnut #90plus#).

You will only retrieve news articles about your company that are 90% or more relevant to your company. You can also use other percentages such as 80, 85 or 95.

Want to capture several name variations or related companies?  Use the PRE/n connector. For example, ENTER: company(GE pre/3 #90plus#).

This search will find GE Asset Management, GE Reinsurance Corp and GE Supply Company.

Want to know more about LexisNexis SmartIndexing Technology, go to the LexisNexis InfoPro Web site. Click the Research Tools for Librarians box and choose How to Use SmartIndexing. There’s even an Advanced Searching section that offers examples of relevancy searches. Find it at http://www.lexisnexis.com/infopro/smartindexing/advancedsearch.asp

ZIP Demographic Reports

Find these easily through LexisNexis® Total Litigator (under the Gather Intelligence Tab) or at lexis.com (News & Business > Market & Industry > Geo - Demographics > ZIP Demographics). Have a jury trial?  Need to know the demographics of a jury pool? You can search by zip code or county name to retrieve a full report based on Census data.Find out about:

• home values,
• income levels,
• population ethnic background, age, gender, occupation,
• industries of employment,
• households with a married couple, children and/or a single parent,
• how long people commute to work.

Even group living is described, including educational dormitories, prisons, barracks and nursing homes. Reports give you the data for current year on file (2006), five-year historical data (2001), and a five-year future projection (2011). And, even though the data is based on Census records, it is updated annually, using more than 1,600 local government and private sources.  

So even though your LRC loves to show you what is new and different at lexis.com, we can also offer some great tips on sources that have been an integral part of our research system for years. Please do not hesitate to ask us for assistance with all your research tasks.

*fictitious company name; used for illustration only

Federal Law Librarians Get Customized Resources Through Special Info Pro Blog

The Federal Info Pro Blog—available at www.federalinfopro.com —is dedicated to topics of interest to federal librarians. Find brief, informative posts on library trends, federal librarianship, state and local government topics, local and national library events, special LexisNexis programs, LexisNexis services updates, search tips and much more.

And because it’s a blog, you can also expect to find continually updated content and new resources.

Federal Info Pro is authored and maintained by LexisNexis Information Professional Consultant Marie Kaddell, MLS, MS, MBA. An experienced blogger—she was an official blogger at this year’s AALL, ALA and SLA annual meetings—Kaddell has more than 25 years in the library and information science field with a special focus on law librarianship and technology in libraries. Currently she supports government librarians across the country and is co-chair of the SLA Division of Government Information.

But you’ll find many contributors at Federal Info Pro, because it welcomes guest bloggers who would like to share their views and expertise. For example, right now at Federal InfoPro, you’ll find links to:

• Best Practices for Federal Libraries: Professional Development: Here’s a compilation of more than 40 articles (and Web site links) to help you plan your own professional development strategies. Find articles from federal librarians including:

  David McBee, Senior Reference Librarian, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Library;

  Bob Farina, Director, Trademark Law Library; Peggy Garvin, Chair, SLA Government Information Division;

  Blane Dessy, Director, Library Staff, Justice Management Division, U.S. Department of Justice Libraries; and many more.

• Ten Cool Technologies that Can Impact the PR Plan @ Your Library®. Get Kaddell’s wrap-up of this ALA presentation by SLA President-Elect Stephen Abrams. He discusses the profound effect of blogs, podcasts, wikis and more, including Second Life, Flickr and Twitter. Also get a link to the entire presentation on the ALA Web site.

• Federal Librarians’ Continuing Education. Cornell Winston, Law Librarian, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Central District of California and Executive Board Member of the AALL, lays out steps you can take to get the most out of continuing education.

• Professional Development and the Power of Peers. Adriana Younskevicius, Special Assistant to the Director, U.S. Department of Justice Libraries, brings you up-to-date on the AALL Federal Law Librarians Caucus—now ready to celebrate its first birthday. The caucus listserv has been generating discussions on federal library closures, embedded librarians—even a provocative thread on developing collaborative relationships for the purposes of research services, collection development and training. Join the caucus’ listserv at http://share.aallnet.org/read/ (or send an e-mail to owner-fllc@aallnet.org). Once you are a member, you can post to the listserv by sending an e-mail to fllc@aallnet.org. You do not have to be a member of AALL to join the caucus or the listserv.

Of course, you’ll find links to some helpful LexisNexis support sites, including the LexisNexis Searchable Directory of Online Sources, LexisNexis Online Tutorials and the LexisNexis Customer Support Knowledge Share and Knowledge Base Web sites.

But there’s more. Kaddell has also compiled Government Libraries Resources, a good list of sidebar links to take you to tools that will help you in your work. For example, link to the:

• Federal Library and Information Center (FLICC)
• FirstGov Directory of Links to Government and Public Libraries
• PDF of the FLICC Handbook of Federal Librarianship
• List of U.S. Government Podcasts
• Louisiana State University Libraries’ Federal Agencies Directory
• Government Innovators Network at Harvard University
• State Government Information from the Library of Congress
• U.S. Government Manual (Even search previous editions.)

Stop by and browse Federal Info Pro any time. You can also subscribe via a variety of popular Web-based and other news readers. And get e-mail updates.

Prefer a Podcast? Federal Info Pro Offers These Too!

Get short, targeted podcasts about topics of interest to federal librarians! The Federal Info Pro Blog offers informative audio podcasts produced and hosted by Marie Kaddell, LexisNexis Information Professional Consultant and peer resource for federal librarians.

Read the show notes and listen to episodes right from the blog. Or download podcasts and take them with you so you can listen—on your commute, at the gym or where ever and when ever you get the time. You can even subscribe via iTunes®.
Tune in today! Go to www.federalinfopro.com for more downloading details.

LexisNexis® Fall Associates Program Set for Law Firms

The LexisNexis Fall Associates Program is about to begin.

This year, as in the past, welcome packets will be provided for your Fall Associates. Either your LexisNexis representative will deliver individual packets as part of training, or the packets will be delivered in bulk to the firm towards the end of August. Please contact your LexisNexis representative if you have questions about the arrangements for your firm.

The 2007 welcome packets consist of quick-reference cards to help associates make the most effective use of the LexisNexis services while in the firm. Plus your LexisNexis representative will have additional cards (e.g., highlighting specific practice areas and providing more cost-effective tips, etc.) to distribute to associates when they meet for training.

Each welcome packet will also include a free gift—plus, for those firms that participate in the rewards program, LexisNexis Customer Rewards Points.

Participating Fall Associates will also be given the opportunity to earn additional Rewards Points through “Spin & Win,” open throughout the fall and early winter. Every time they participate in a variety of product training and other understanding activities, they earn codes to “spin” the electronic prize wheel.

Prizes will include additional LexisNexis Customer Rewards Points, LexisNexis®  Bookstore discounts, trial IDs for various products from the LexisNexis services, including LexisNexis Total Litigator, News & Business sources, LexisNexis® TotalPatent™, and more.

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