How to File Looseleaf Services:
A Filing Manual and Reference Handbook

Now your filer has a practical manual to explain how legal looseleaf services are organized and how to file a variety of looseleaf services.

Table of Contents

Part I: The Nature and Organization of Looseleaf Services

1. Introduction to looseleaf services
2. What is a looseleaf service?
3. Types of looseleaf services
4. Who publishes looseleaf services?
5. Different physical types of looseleaf binders
6. General organization and format of looseleaf services
7. Publication schedules and supplement numbering systems
8. A systems approach to filing
9. Flowchart of filing procedures
10. Prototype of filing instruction sheet
11. Filing in interfiled services/hybrid services/looseleaf treatises
12. Filing in cumulative services
13. Report letters/publication updates
14. Checklist of current contents
15. Replacement contents, replacement binders, new contents, shifting contents
16. How long should looseleaf filing take?
17. Dealing with problems
18. Filer's claim record
19. Advice and suggestions from other filers
20. For additional information (selected resources)

Part II: Filer's Quiz and Answers

Part III: Selected Looseleaf Publisher Filing Instructions, Alphabetically by Publisher, with Annotations

Written by Elyse H. Fox, JD, MSLS, Law Librarian/Law Library Consultant, 1978-present. Practicing Attorney, 1975-1978. Legal Research Instructor, University of Michigan Law School, 1974-1975.

Ms. Fox has over twenty-five years of experience filing looseleaf services and training looseleaf filers. How to File Looseleaf Services: A Filing Manual and Reference Handbook has been purchased by law libraries and looseleaf filing services within the United States, in Canada, and abroad. Discounts are available on multiple copy orders (discounts begin at orders of two copies).

Copyright 2004, 100 pages, spiral bound, 8 ½ x 11", ISBN 0-941991-01-6.