{"id":247,"date":"2006-10-31T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T14:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/31\/best-practices-to-find-the-best-legal-i"},"modified":"2006-10-31T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T16:22:45","slug":"best-practices-to-find-the-best-legal-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/31\/best-practices-to-find-the-best-legal-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Practices to Find the Best Legal Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law librarians, while they can\u2019t give advice, are great sources of information on legal information.\u00a0 They can evaluate or find ways to evaluate resources to determine when they are helpful and when they are not.\u00a0\u00a0So here is a librarian&#8217;s tip on how to evaluate legal sites on the Internet.\u00a0 The American Bar Association has published \u201c<a title=\"ABA Best Practices\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abanet.org\/elawyering\/tools\/best_practice_guidelines.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Best Practice Guidelines for Legal Information Site Providers<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 These are for providers but they also show what you should expect from a\u00a0legal information site.\u00a0 With these in hand, you will be able to better evaluate legal information web sites and separate the wheat from the chaff\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law librarians, while they can\u2019t give advice, are great sources of information on legal information.\u00a0 They can evaluate or find ways to evaluate resources to determine when they are helpful and when they are not.\u00a0\u00a0So here is a librarian&#8217;s tip on how to evaluate legal sites on the Internet.\u00a0 The American Bar Association has published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896,897],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer","category-resources-practitioner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}