Finding aid for the Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR) Papers


Title:
Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR) Papers
Repository:
Case Western Reserve University, the Judge Ben C. Green Law Library
Phone: 216-368-5206 (Reference)
http://law.case.edu/
Creator:
Ohio Bar Automated Research Corporation
Dates:
1966-1989
Quantity:
14.5 linear feet (25 boxes (7x10.5 x 15.5))
Abstract:
Similar to professionals and practitioners in other disciplines, the legal profession began exploring automated knowledge systems as a way to efficiently manage and access a burgeoning amount of information during the 1950s and 60s. This collection documents the history and development of the Ohio Bar Automated Research (OBAR) organization, a nonprofit subsidiary of the Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA). After crafting a service definition calling for a non-indexed, online, interactive service to search the full text of Ohio legal materials, OBAR contracted with Data Corporation, an Ohio based company, to develop a database that subsequently laid the groundwork for Mead Data Central's LEXIS, the world's first commercial online legal research service in 1973.
Identification:
Law Special Collections #3
Location:
Judge Ben C. Green Law Library Archive
Language:
The records are in English
Sample Image:
CWRU School of Law Recognized as First Law School to Install Lexis for Regular Use by Professors and Students [1971], presented by Jack W. Simpson, President, Mead Data Central 1982-93