This is certainly not your standard library research website. Johanne Blenkin, Mandy Ostick and their team deserve full credit for their ‘out of the box’ thinking and creativity. There is a blog included as part of the site (called “The Stream”), a “New and Notable” section that can be organized by practice areas and “Practice Portals” (presently Civil Litigation, Family Law, Personal Injury, Practice Management & Technology and Wills & Estates) that recommend books, publications and news in these specific areas (which I expect will be expanded shortly).

The Search function is customizable (you can search everything or search specific areas such as BC Proclamations or News Archive or any combo of the 10 sources presently listed). If you wish, you *could* just search the library catalogue, but with the wealth of resources on their site, why would you? Chances are your search will be much more valuable by looking at the additional resources that Mandy and her team have built.

You can save your searches (after logging in) to save time if you continually look for information on specific topics. There are subject guides to aid in your starting out researching in such subjects as Federal Legislation or Pleadings or Costs and other 4 areas listed along with “How To” guides and video tutorials.

Hats off to the BC Courthouse Society for moving legal research and law libraries a quantum leap forward in terms of web site design, functionality and appeal. I feel in my heart that this is truly the start of something new…