Ultimately, I believe the law library of the future is Knowledge Management.  If I'm right, this is terrific news for librarians who can adapt themselves to this role and ensure that the conversation with the executive committee about resource allocation is cast in terms of scholarship, professional development, client and business intelligence, and competitive advantage through astutely marshalling the firm's intellectual assets:  And not in terms of overhead, square footage, the price of subscriptions, headcount, and non-fee-earners. 

If so, the library of the future will evolve:

from a tactical to a strategic resource
from static repository to dynamic, on-demand portal
from one-way delivery of assets to home for communities of practice, and
from a "one size fits all" commodity to an adaptive resource tailored to the needs of your firm today.

The OED’s first example of the collective term lobby meaning “persons who frequent the lobby of the house of legislature for the purpose of influencing its members in their official action” is dated 1808.

The original lobby was the one attached to the chamber of the British House of Commons, in which members could meet and talk to outsiders. This sense (and function) is recorded from the middle of the seventeenth century and was adopted in Congress when it was established more than a century later.

While on the one hand e-mail encourages people to write, on the other hand it discourages people to write thoughtfully.

Mary Mitchell, author of The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Etiquette as quoted in “‘Yours Truly,’ the E-Variations,” New York Times, Nov. 26, 2006.