Margie Jones, from medium-sized law firm Lester Aldridge, has documented her experiences in incorporating online legal information into the firm's Library and Information Service (LIS). This article covers general issues in the print v electronic debate and subsequent issues of LIM will cover other aspects.

Catherine Pease of the Law Society Library guides us through the very popular recent exhibition of peculiar legislation.

Jill Halford, who is the Library and Information Manager at Charles Taylor, was the Document Management Representative on the Business User Team on the project to implement SharePoint and she explains the processes involved in moving several thousand documents to the new system.

This is an overview by Jon Beaumont of the results of his dissertation which examined the impact of changes in copyright law. It also contains a brief history of copyright law and discusses the more significant effects of the Copyright Directive 2001/29/EC.

The City Legal Information Group celebrated its 30th anniversary in February 2006 by holding a party in the Queen's Room at Middle Temple and some photos from this happy event appear below.

The BIALL Code of Good Practice for Law Publishers was launched at the 2005 BIALL Conference. Support for the Code of Good Practice is growing and demonstrates a commitment by legal publishers to respond to the rapidly changing publishing environment. James Mullan Chair of the BIALL Legal Information Group (LIG) provides a history of the Code to date.

The Estonian legal system has over the last decade and a half undergone a tremendous change. Quite often we have had to start from almost nothing and to develop our law very fast compared to societies with long lasting traditions of stable and well established democracy where similar reforms have taken hundreds of years instead of ten. The years that have passed since the reestablishment of Estonia's independence are characterised by reforms of the legal system, preparation for them, and finally their implementation. All these activities have stemmed from a single underlying idea - to develop a legal order appropriate to a democratic state based on the rule of law. Reforms in public and private law as well as in penal law were finalised ten years after the entry into force of the Constitution of the Republic of Estonia in 1992.

Victor Monakhov and Anita Soboleva analyse the current development of legal standards in the area of access to information and protection of personal data in the Russian Federation. At the end of 2005 Russia ratified the Convention for the Protection of Individuals with regard to Automatic Processing of Personal Data. At the same time several new laws, intended to harmonize national privacy legislation with this Convention and to define the legal status of different databases, which are being created by the state for the purposes of registration of population and identification of persons, passed the first reading in the State Duma. The article reflects the ongoing debates on the scope of the right to know and the right to keep secret in the Russian context.

The second part of this comprehensive bibliography edited by Tibor Kövér, Tamás Böszörményi, Eszter Horváth and Krisztina Orphanides covers the publications of specific legal bodies and useful addresses and internet sites.

This paper formed the basis of a seminar given by John Furlong and Susan Doe at the Canadian Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference in St Johns, Newfoundland in May 2005.

This article in the From Our Own Correspondent series comes from the Netherlands and features the Dutch Foundation of Law Firm Librarians, with information supplied by Paul Bartelings, who is its current chairman.