After 3 years of hard work by our Board members and staff, the Cleveland Law Library published a written Strategic Plan in December of 2014. This Plan contains the Law Library's new Mission, which reads as follows:

"The Cleveland Law Library's mission is to provide high quality legal research, education, reference and other related services to its various constituencies in an efficient and cost-effective manner utilizing its extensive collection in print and electronic format.

It is organized and managed by two entities, the Cuyahoga County Law Library Resources Board (CLLRB) and The Cleveland Law Library Association (CLLA). The CLLRB is a public body constituted under the Ohio Revised Code to serve county government, municipalities, the courts and the general public. The CLLA is a private, not-for-profit membership organization whose members are law firms, lawyers and businesses in the greater Cleveland area."

The Strategic Plan also identifies the following 8 priorities to guide the Law Library's future:

1. Promote continued cooperation between the CLLA and the CLLRB for the benefit of the Cleveland Law Library's diverse patrons.
2. Clarify the Cleveland Law Library's mission to support the delivery of services its patrons need in an ever-changing digital landscape.
3. Continue to integrate technology into the Cleveland Law Library's operations and services.
4. Develop new marketing strategies to promote the Cleveland Law Library, its services and its collection.
5. Enhance communication with the Cleveland Law Library's members, partners, and other interested stakeholders.
6. Explore new sources of members and venues for programming.
7. Introduce new products and services to enhance the Cleveland Law Library's value to patrons.
8. Explore collaborations with local partners who share the legal community.

For details about how the Law Library is implementing these goals, please read the full Strategic Plan online.

To help fulfill your legal research needs, we have leveraged the power of new cloud-based technologies to create a Virtual Classroom of free, online legal research webinars. Many of you have participated in live classes that we have held at the Law Library over the past several years. Now, however, you can take a research class from us anywhere without having to come downtown. All you will need is a computer, laptop, tablet or other device with a mic and speakers that can access the Internet and open files in Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Our current course catalog includes the following class options for members:

Webinar	Date	Time
Cleveland Law Library Resources*	Thurs., February 26, 2015	10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Evaluating Your Case: Searching Verdicts and Settlement Databases	Thurs., March 26, 2015	2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Finding Expert Information	Tuesday, April 14, 2015	10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Save Work With Sample Litigation and Transactional Forms	Thurs., June 25, 2015	2:30 - 3:30 p.m.
Docket Databases Made Easy	Tues., September 15, 2015	10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Signing up for a class is very simple. Just go to our catalog, and register for a webinar by entering your contact information and either a membership card number or the Cuyahoga County agency/department for which you work. You will then receive an email confirming your registration and a reminder closer to the date of the program. When the time for the program comes, just click on the link in one of the emails you received, and follow a few simple instructions to connect online with us.

Do not worry if you want to take a class but you are not available when it is currently scheduled. We will be taping all of our classes, and we can replay them for you at a later date. Just call or email us, and we will set it up.

We also plan to add new classes on additional topics. As a result, if you have a particular legal research subject that you would like to learn about, please let us know so that we can customize a new webinar to meet your research needs.

Members can now scan documents for free at the Law Library. We have installed scanning software on the computer in our lobby that will allow you to scan documents to PDF or JPEG formats. You can then print your documents, save them to a flash drive, or email them to yourself using a web-based email program. Our scanner is easy to use, and it will even feed a stack of documents so that you do not have to scan 1 page at a time. Please enjoy using this new service.

Every year, libraries across the United States celebrate National Library Week to recognize the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. This year, National Library Week is being held the week of April 13th. Come celebrate National Library week with us on the 13th between 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. for tours of our facility and information about our resources. Light refreshments will be served.