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(iii) The NCSC Library: The Library is a 30 day lending library        [PP48]
   for the judiciary, with inter-library loans available for others.
   It has the largest collection on court administration in the US,
   over 30,000 volumes.
   

Conferences, meetings and training


(i) The Forum on Court Technology (FACT): The NCSC has organised a consortium
   of courts and companies entitled the Forum for the Advancement of Court
   Technology (FACT), the goal of which is to exchange information on (i) the
   needs of the courts for automation and technology and (ii) the
   technologies, products and services available in the private sector. It
   holds regular meetings, which OAT representatives also attend.
   
(ii) Training and Conferences: The NCSC's Institute for Court Management,
   formerly situated in Denver, organises training for State Courts. Its 1992
   Curriculum for Technology in the Courts listed twelve courses taught at
   various locations throughout the USA. The ICM also organises the NCSC's
   Conference on court technologies, the third of which was held in 1992.
   

Other projects in the USA


The American Bar Association (ABA) operates a Legal Technology Resource Centre
in Chicago (see Vol 3(2) Court Technology Bulletin), which has organised
meetings of an ABA Litigation Support working Group to develop Draft
Guidelines for Litigation Support Software. 'Under a contract with IIT
software testing laboratory, the ABA tests law specific software against the
guidelines to insure that the products offered to its members are suitable,
high quality and effective for law practice' (from the preamble to the
Guidelines, contained in Staudt and Keane (1992) Appendix C). The Guidelines
are discussed in Chapter 5. The ABA has also developed guidelines for minimum
standards for judicial workstations (see Chapter 2 at 2.7 for the current
guidelines, and Kalian (1992)). The National Shorthand Reporters Association
has conducted various experiments with real-time computer-aided transcription
(see Chapter 4).



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