Use of an Expanding Directory Interface for WWW Legal Resources

摘要

The Internet contains many legal resources which supplement more established online sources, but effective resource discovery tools are critical for end users [10]. The Directory of Internet-Accessible Legal Resources (DIALeR), http://legalsearch. ils. unc.edu/, was developed to aid in rapid discovery and navigation between high-quality legal sites. The resources in the DIALeR (MS SQL) database were selected by law librarians with an eye towards finding reputable WWW sites that are building significant repositories of public domain documents. The back-end DIALeR interface enables these librarians to easily build, modify, and customize a tree structure of legal topics. The current interface includes portions of the tree that closely follow long-established print indices of the law.