October 2015

LPMT BITS & BYTES BY CATHERINE SANDERS REACH New Online Library for Chicago Bar Association Members

www.chicagobar.org/howto To help you get the best return on your invest- ment in technology, the CBA’s Law Practice Management & Technology Division regularly sponsors demonstrations of hardware and software geared to legal professionals. In an hour or less, you will learn how to use common technologies to be more productive, efficient, and tech savvy! Live demos are held in-person at the CBA or join us virtually fromyour desktop. Can’t make the class? Watch videos listed in the archives any time! Complimentary for CBA members. $50 Nonmember. No MCLE Credit. Law student members and associate members are welcome. Categories Users can browse or restrict search results by 60+ substantive categories, which are based on and expand upon committee names. Check out the User Guide linked from the landing page for instructions on searching and browsing by category. Advanced Search Options The CBA Library has sophisticated search functionality including proximity search, fuzzy search, synonym search and sounds like search. You can use easy check boxes that explain each option once you click on “Advanced Search” at the top of the screen. Or see the User Guide for the Boolean operators for those who prefer to build search queries like a pro. Library Always Growing The CBA Online Library is hosted by BlueTie Vault, an online document storage and search platform that syncs digital files and emails to a shared online searchable repository. The library will continue to grow, so check back frequently.

Catherine Sanders Reach is the Director, LawPracticeManage- ment & Technology at the CBA. Visit www.chicagobar.org/lpmt for articles, how-to videos, upcoming training and CLE, services and more. Getting Started Using the library is as simple as 1, 2, 3: • Log in the CBA website and navigate to Resources–Online Library. Click T he Chicago Bar Association provides over 100 Continuing Legal Educa- tion courses and holds hundreds of committee meetings each year. The CBA Record is published seven times annually. A major benefit of the CLE courses, meet- ings and the publication is that they all generate great content for CBA members. In the past accessing this content required checking different resources on the website, or locating and downloading individual files. Well, no longer! To make it easier for members to access the great content from our programming we are proud to announce the CBA Online Library. With more than 1000 files, the Chicago Bar Association Online Library includes selected articles, checklists, slide decks and sample documents culled from the past two years of Continuing Legal Education courses, committee meetings and the CBA Record. As a CBAmember you can search, view and download substantive content from experts near and far and make the most of your membership.

on link to access “The Chicago Bar Association Online Library”… • Enter your search terms in the search box and click on the green search button on the right… • In the search results click on a file to get a preview and read online; you can also download or print the files. Search Options Are you a super searcher? The Online Library has plenty of sophisticated search options and a handy user guide to help you learn how to get the most out of the database. Similar to Google or Bing searches, if you type in keywords like “mortgage backed securities” in quotes you will get an exact phrase match in the results. Use Boolean connectors such as dogs AND “service animals” or enter simply keywords such as lawyer stress relief and the default and expression will be applied to your search. Once you have searched you will see your results appear below the search bar. They are sorted by relevancy (upload date is currently the same for all files) by default. Each file name contains the category, followed a descriptive document type, the document name and the year it was provided to the CBA. To preview a file simply click with your mouse on the file name. It will open (in most browsers) in a PDF viewer. You can read through the document, using Ctrl + F to locate a word in the document, and if you want to download or print the document use the PDF viewer’s built in capabilities to save the document locally or print it.

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