Welcome to the Alabama Legal Information and Research Weblog sponsored by the Alabama Supreme Court and State Law Library of the State of Alabama. 

The purpose of this blog is to share and discuss legal information and legal research in Alabama and to promote expertise in this discipline.  While this may not interest the average Alabamian, it may hold great interest to those who, on a daily basis, read, write, research, and interpret the law.  This includes not only law librarians, attorneys, judges, law students and paralegals, but also historians, public and academic librarians, and perhaps others.

This is an experimental weblog–we do not know what direction this blog will take or if it will be a success.  I do know that this forum will not be political. 

The site is intended as a tool to disseminate information to patrons of the library, and not as a personal forum.  We expect to provide through this medium useful information of benefit that might not otherwise be available.

I welcome positive suggestions regarding this site and, of course, posts relating to legal research and information.  Feel free to contact me anytime at my e-mail address:  director@alalinc.net.

Tim Lewis, M.L.S., J.D.

State Law Librarian