Technology has profoundly affected how people do legal research and how our Library operates. Incredibly enough, some of our statistics have actually gone down recently. The answer is that the Internet and other online resources require a brand new approach, in fact a more holistic approach, to serving our patrons and tracking Library use with statistics. For example, we are now able to determine how many times a specific webpage has been accessed. It's clear the Internet has been an incredible boon to libraries in providing information and services, but it has also in many ways blurred the distinction between library departments.
Administration also oversees special programs sponsored by the library.
A few of these occurring in 2000 follow. The Third Branch , a video that introduces judicial concepts to junior and senior high school students. The Court Information Office estimates that over six thousand students watched the video that day. The video was part of a three-year observance and celebration of the Minnesota Court System and was funded by the Minnesota Courts Sesquicentennial Committee with a substantial grant from Hubbard Broadcasting. In Honor Of Wahl In June, the Library presented retired Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Wahl with The Social Justice, Legal and Judicial Career of Rosalie Erwin Wahl .