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The BIALL Law Firm Library Survey 2022

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2023

Catherine Bowl  and
Diane Miller
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Abstract

It goes without saying that few things are more important to information professionals than data, all the more so when that data relates to their own profession. Which is why this third edition of BIALL's Law Firm Survey is so welcome, providing, as it does, data on a range of different information departments working in the library space, while also drawing comparisons from the results of earlier surveys. Here Catherine Bowl and Diane Miller explain the process of compiling the survey, its findings, and the interesting trends it has highlighted.

Keywords

law firm librariessurveyslegal information professionals
Type
Surveys
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , March 2023 , pp. 8 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

1 The 2022 survey is available to BIALL members at <https://biall.org.uk/membership-resources/law-firm-library-survey/>.

2 The Full Time Equivalent (FTE) rate is used to compare part-time workers' hours against those working full-time. The standardised figure is 1.0, which refers to a full-time worker. 0.5 refers to an employee that works half of full-time hours.

3 The State of the Nation 2021 survey is available to BIALL members via <https://biall.org.uk/covid-follow-up-survey/>.

4 The “mean” is calculated by adding together all of the budget figures and dividing by the number of firms and the “median” is the middle value when the budget figures are ranked in order of size.