Gale Training

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All right, good morning everybody and welcome

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to our discover Gale LegalForms.

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Uh, webinar, I'm Stacey Knibloe

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your Gale trainer from Massachusetts

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and glad to be with you virtually

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today to take a look at this really

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um exciting resource for your

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libraries. This is one of the additions

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to the Massachusetts contract this year.

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So, um,

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we wanna make sure you're comfortable with it

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and feel good, uh, sending your,

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your patrons and uh, uh,

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any other users to it, we're

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gonna spend most of our time live in the resource.

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But I thought to get started, we just give a quick

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review of what's available in Massachusetts

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from Gale uh, through the statewide library

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program. And then just a slide,

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uh, one slide about Gale LegalForms

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kind of let you know what's there. But then of course we're gonna,

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go right into it and show you what's

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there. Uh, and then as always, we'll wrap

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up with support, both the support you can

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get from Massachusetts library system, but also

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from gale, we want to make sure you've got all

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your avenues covered and have no shortage

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of places to go for help. So as

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we're going through, do feel free to ask

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questions anytime. Um

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use the chat or the Q and a and actually

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let me double check the chat because it had been

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set

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Yes, Sorry folks, I'm having to reset it every

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webinar so now you can chat with me.

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I apologize. I should have checked that earlier.

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It keeps defaulting to not letting you chat with

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anybody.

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Uh but now you should be able to uh chat with

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the host. So

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uh I think we're in good shape

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All right,

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Sorry, I wanted to double check that, but do feel free to ask

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questions there, but also just give any feedback

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or if you see something on the screen you want to know more about.

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Just let me know as we go through.

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Um I will mention there's some work

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being done on my street. So I apologize if

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you're picking up any background noise, I'm right

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in front of my window, so hopefully

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it's not uh, squeaking through, but

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uh, I apologize in advance if it is

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All right, so let's go ahead and dive in.

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And again, wanted to give a quick overview of

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what's available from Gale through the Massachusetts

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um statewide library program and

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you have a lot of resources that have been available

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for years and then some new additions

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of Gale LegalForms being one of them.

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Uh but wanted to give just this quick slide

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uh to speak to uh everything.

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You've got a wide variety of content,

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you know?

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really. Something for everybody. Uh So

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we're of course gonna focus on the one but

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uh do feel free if there's anything you got

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questions about it, you can certainly ask today or

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you'll get my follow up email tomorrow and we'll have

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all of our contact info and lots of good links

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for uh information.

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pardon me.

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samples.

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Here we go. So to find uh your

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links for all the resources, whether the

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ones you've had or just the new ones, you can of course

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always visit the M. B. L. C. Site.

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They've done such a nice job, kind of making

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it easy to get all your links. There's a troubleshooters

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guide uh can reach out with questions

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and then of course the um links

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that you get here offer the

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geo authentication so that

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if your users are in Massachusetts when they

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click these links, they're just gonna land right

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in the database there no other form of authentication

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is required. So a really

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handy feature, you can then use

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these links of course, wherever you like.

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They're of course, you know, a good fit on your web pages.

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But uh, libraries often tweet them or

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maybe you put them on Q. R. Codes around the library

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to send folks to resources. So that

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might be a nice idea for the LegalForms resource

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if you've got a section in the library. uh

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around legal help. Great

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idea to point users to this resource. So

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all of that, you know, still kind of the same paths

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you've been taking

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with the statewide resources.

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Uh Just of course has the new additions

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All right, so let's get in here and talk

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about Gale LegalForms.

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So this database is very well made.

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That's exactly what it's made up of

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is legal forms. We partner

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with a third party U. S. LegalForms

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dot com that out in kind

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of the commercial world, offers a subscription

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based tool for these, these legal forms, but

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we partner with them to provide it in libraries.

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So there's no cost to your end user

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and you get access to these forms

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that have been used by attorneys then

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used in the courts and folks can

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find these, fill them

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out and kind of save themselves

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maybe on some lawyers fees and take

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care of issues on their own.

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You've got a blend of forms here that

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are kind of nationwide or multistate

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and then those that are state specific as

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well. So you all have the Massachusetts

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version of this resource of course. And

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I'll point out how you can tell the difference between

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those

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along with all of the legal

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forms themselves. You also have a lot

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of other types of forms in the resource.

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So there are,

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Even things like employment applications,

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checklists, sample letters.

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Um, so along with the things that always have to

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do with legal matters, there are other things that kind

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of come along with that, uh, but also

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just could be used, say by a small business owner.

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Um or really, you know, lots of other purposes.

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So we'll explore those as well.

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and then I think what is really

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one of the most helpful places of the database

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is, you know, legal issues are tricky.

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I remember being at the reference desk and it seemed

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like folks are basically looking for legal advice

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and that's not really, you know, the role

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of the library. So

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you'll find lots of guidance here. There are lots

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of legal overviews. There's a, like

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a legal dictionary, there's even

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a Q. And a tool where you can see

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questions that have been submitted to U.

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S. LegalForms and the answers provided.

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So, There's a lot of help around

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this content in the database for what can be,

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you know, kind of a tricky area.

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So this is a great place

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for you to be able to kind of avoid having

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to give legal advice and point users

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in the right direction to this resource and

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all the support it provides. So

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we're gonna get in there and look around. We

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don't want to spend too much time here in the power point.

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So let me go ahead and move on.

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and get logged in.

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Now let me actually make I'm gonna make

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my screen a little bit bigger for your end of the

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webinar.

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Um

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The home page. Really like

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a lot of Gale databases gives you the option

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of diving right in with a search or browsing

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around.

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I'm always a fan of browsing. I think

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it's handy particularly for library

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staff so you can kind of get an idea of what's here

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and when you want to use it,

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But I think it's especially important in the legal database

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because we don't know what we

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don't know. And the browse tool

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really lets you see what's

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available for all of these different legal

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issues. So you might discover something

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you didn't know you maybe needed, uh

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which is I think really handy. So

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we're definitely gonna take advantage of the browse.

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Uh, but just explain the layout here a little bit.

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you've got that extra help

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over here in the upper left hand corner.

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This will follow us through the resource so

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we can jump right in to say the um

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uh legal definitions tool if we need it

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when we're looking at a form. Uh always

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just a click away.

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Uh, I am not gonna start with a search because that's

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how folks tend to start in any resource.

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They see a search box and they go for it. They know what

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they're after. Uh, so we're gonna dive

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in right there and just look for

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Elise and

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the database is organized. The results

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I should say are organized.

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by categories.

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So you'll see, I kind

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of scrolled down a bit more so you can see a bit

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more of the forms that are offered,

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The categories are a bit more general

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and I think a bit more natural language

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where the form itself is gonna kind of have

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to use that legally is the

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categories are more what you might think to search

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by. Uh So I appreciate kind of

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the uh options here. What we're also

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gonna see is the brows tool uses

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these categories as well. So you can kind of drill

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down into them

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and it's a really thorough search. It

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will help you out if you maybe misspell

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or have a typo um, it

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is searching both the category names

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and the form names and

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along with those form names.

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Let me point out. they're all assigned

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a control number here. Now, that

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number doesn't really mean much out in the

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world. It's kind of how they get kept

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track of in the database, but

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it does tell us something important about

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the form, any of these that start

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with an M. A.

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Have been used or prepared

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for Massachusetts.

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Ok, what you'll see later

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in the results. Let me get rid of those circles

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so I can actually show you I'm just gonna

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move ahead a few pages. Well,

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several pages, I'll go ahead. So you can see them

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is the forms that are multistate

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are gonna start with the U. S. We

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always push the state specific

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forms to the top of your results and

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then the multistate come after. So

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of course lease is a pretty common term.

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So we've got over 900 here

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we can make it of course much more specific with a

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search but

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wanted to give you an idea. This does

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a really, you know thorough search,

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but it also is taking into account

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what state you're in and your results to push

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those that might be more relevant to

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the top of the results.

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Right? So something to keep an eye out for. Should

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you ever have a Question about a specific form.

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If you if you give us that control number, it makes

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it easiest for easy for us to make sure

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we know which one you're talking about, but it

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doesn't really have any other impacts elsewhere.

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You know, it's not going to get recognized

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kind of outside of LegalForms.

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So looking at this search, you

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can see, I've of course got a lot of leases.

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I was thinking, you know, kind of landlord tenant,

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but there are lots of other leases out

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there. My favorite, the one that comes up

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um here, we always have

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a lease agreement. So should

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you need that, We've got it,

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and if we scroll around again, looking at the categories,

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we have lots of legal forms.

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But then check these other options. So like landlord

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tenant applications, we have a salary

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verification form. So,

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you know, maybe not a legal form per se, but

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you know, something you might need as a, as

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say, a landlord or need to fill out

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as a tenant, that type of thing.

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So you have a variety

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here. We can break down commercial leases versus

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say residential and just throwing

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extra search terms in will help and narrow this

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down or again, if we came through the browse

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tool.

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But I wanted to give you kind of an idea

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of the scope of the resource. So there's

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a lot of kind of interesting things here. So,

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So we've got some landlord tenant

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disputes notices and letters here.

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So we've got a tenant who's maybe

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up to something and we want to give them

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a uh warning that their lease could be terminated.

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We've got a form for that. So

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often I start with a really broad

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search. So you

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so I can see kind of what's here relating

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to this topic, but then you can always throw

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in more search terms and make it more narrow. But let's

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go ahead and take a look at this form.

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and the forms are always

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gonna come with a description

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which is written for me as a regular

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person because the form itself

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of course may of course may have legal language

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in it might be um you know

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maybe a lot more words than I would think to say

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something. Uh So the description is

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a nice way to kind of get a brief

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description or actually it could be a couple of paragraphs,

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depends on the form, but

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written for me is the non lawyer and

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you can always get a little preview which I like because

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if we download, it's gonna open up in word

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or you know, wherever we may choose. P. D.

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F. Takes a minute. The preview is nice.

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It just loads really quickly so you can get a quick look to

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decide if it's the thing you're looking for.

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And then related definitions are also available.

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So we can kind of open these up.

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and they're just coming from the legal definitions tool.

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So some additional helps to understand the form

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you're working with

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but of course we move on the real forms.

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So you will see

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um Spanish language versions of

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various forms popping up.

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Um We do have a current list but

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they're adding this content in all the time. So

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it's you know probably something we'll start

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to update.

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Um

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uh what, not as frequently as they're

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adding new forms just because it's happening so fast.

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Uh but I'm certainly happy to make kind of that first version

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available to you right now,

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there isn't a way to specifically look

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for forms in Spanish, although

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some of them their titles are

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in Spanish so you can search in Spanish and

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find them, but uh they

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are looking uh to create

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a browse tool around the Spanish language

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form. So something to keep an keep an eye

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on. So

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we're never done with our databases at Yale. Always

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new things coming to them. But that's a more recent

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addition and uh, functionality

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will start tying into it soon as well. So content

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is available in Spanish and then we're gonna

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again make some additions so you can find it

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um more easily, but it will just

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kind of pop up with the other forms

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here. and the forms

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are gonna be available usually

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in a couple of different formats. We

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have usually Microsoft

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word, rich text and you'll see

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P. D. F. As well.

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the nice thing about the rich text

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and the M. S. Word and even some of the

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uh, P D. F. S is

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you can actively edit them.

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Uh, in some cases you'll see samples, those

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might be more in P. D. F. So you can just

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get a look at them. But usually a few

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different formats. Rich text will open

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with any type of word formatting

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or sorry, word processing, uh, software,

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Microsoft word though very popular. So most

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of the forms are gonna be available in that too.

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and you just click there's unlimited downloads.

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So no worries around that

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download and open forms

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as needed.

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let me bring this one over. So you can see it

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and the forms are

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again they're to be customized and

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used. So you can fill in the blanks here on

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the form.

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If someone's using a library computer,

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they're probably gonna want to put that, Save it maybe to

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a flash drive or upload it to the cloud

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or something to kind of take it with them. Or

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even just print it out if, if that's all they need.

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Uh if they're on their own devices though, of course they can

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keep this form, file it away, keep

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it where they need it.

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Uh, but very simple. You just,

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you know, fill in the form

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And again, if you've got questions, you can

[00:14:23.168]
always pop back to the resource.

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Sorry, let me get back to the resource.

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Take advantage of the legal definitions

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tool. The law digest can be helpful in that

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way too.

[00:14:33.009]
The legal life articles, we're gonna look at all

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of these, but

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there's a lot of additional help for kind of questions

[00:14:38.570]
around what folks are using

[00:14:40.408]
and what you'll also see

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go back out to the results here.

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Oh no, sorry. I think I jumped all the way back to the home page

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back to the results

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something you'll also see. Let me scroll

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up. I think we had an example up front here

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You might see a couple different versions

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of a form

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So commercial building or space lease Massachusetts?

[00:15:04.460]
Commercial lease package,

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which of these do I need? It's really

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gonna be up to the user. Now, the packages

[00:15:10.389]
are nice. Let me pop into this so I can show these

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they group together forms. You may

[00:15:14.908]
need multiple forms. You may need, or

[00:15:17.418]
different options, um, or even

[00:15:19.788]
a couple different versions of the form.

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So you have,

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this kind of wealth package as they call it.

[00:15:26.440]
It's again, well named here in the resource,

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um, a package of forms to work with, so you

[00:15:30.869]
don't have to go looking elsewhere. So this

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is the other type of thing I like when they're grouping

[00:15:35.288]
the forms together is you get things like the questionnaires,

[00:15:37.899]
letters, those flow into here too.

[00:15:40.379]
So again, you kind of discover content

[00:15:42.940]
uh, using the browse tool, but also

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in the package components, because it's just putting together

[00:15:47.379]
things you might use all together

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so there are all, well, you know

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what, let me, let me put a pin in that we'll come back

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and talk about the uh online versions

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of the forms uh a little later.

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but

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again, really handy. The packages put

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together a nice group. So,

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but again, you can always search for something more

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specific. So say we're looking to lease a condo

[00:16:10.369]
or create a, a lease for a condo.

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I can search on that and of course that cuts

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our heads way down. I think we had over 900 before

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now. We've just got nine.

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And what it's also gonna

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do is I mentioned before, it helps with spelling.

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It also uses implied truncation.

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So, I searched on condo it found

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condominium, so really helpful search

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engine here.

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So we've got um a boat dock

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lease if we need it in a condominium but

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uh going through again, which one do

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I need? That's when you get the users to kind of jump

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in and take a look and pick

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the one that's right for them. And again, because

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they're all editable

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Just open this one up

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you know, of course, things like names, dates,

[00:16:56.590]
all of that have got these blanks so you can fill

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them in, but

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you know, you can adjust other things as well if there's,

[00:17:02.558]
you know, an additional,

[00:17:04.390]
you know, rule you have for the condo,

[00:17:06.459]
you can always add on to these. It's again

[00:17:08.509]
all completely editable. So

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yours to work with as needed. Or your

[00:17:13.410]
users were uh needs uh met

[00:17:15.759]
as well.

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So it's pretty straightforward working with the

[00:17:21.799]
forms. Oh and good. And we've got another one in

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Spanish here. So let me just actually show open

[00:17:25.989]
that up and give you a look

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So these will pop up more and more.

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The other thing you're gonna see more and more of

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back to the database here,

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I don't think we have too many for Massachusetts

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right now but you'll start to see them flow in

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our um

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completed samples from real

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uh cases. Um they,

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you know, block out identifying details

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generally, but often the completed,

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the other completed samples you'll find are

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just examples, but they're building

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in and I apologize. I'm forgetting the name for them.

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I think I've got it in my notes here. Let me double check.

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Still pretty new.

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Oh no, it looks like I don't have it here.

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Um, but

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you'll see more of these in the resource. So

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it's, you know, examples of things that

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have actually kind of gone through the legal process

[00:18:19.779]
uh in real life. So those

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will pop up here too as they, as they've come

[00:18:23.828]
into the database. Um, Oh

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I do remember what they're called. Sample cases where

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you'll actually see it. Let me go back

[00:18:30.469]
out to the results list is you'll actually

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see sample cases listed in the header.

[00:18:35.890]
So these are very new. They just started

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loading them uh, within the last

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month or so. So didn't have

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one to show you for um, for Massachusetts,

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but where they'll pop up is again, you'll see them

[00:18:46.689]
in a category. Uh, sample case

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is the designation they're using.

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All right. So let's take a look

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at some of the other content and the research. Oh,

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there we have something in the channel.

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What is E. S. P. News? Oh, I believe.

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Let me pop back into that form.

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I you know what I'm not gonna say just in

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case I haven't opened those ones, those

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ones in a while as you go to the I think

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you just get

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just make sure

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Yeah, it's in both. That's what I thought

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it was. But I wanted to double check. You get it in both

[00:19:23.779]
English and Spanish. So you get both versions.

[00:19:25.890]
So say maybe you're the landlord

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you speak Spanish, you've got the form in that

[00:19:30.189]
maybe you're renting someone who speaks English, you've

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got it in both versions here

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and these are, I should mention, these

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are hand translated. This

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isn't something that a machine has translated.

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This is actually written uh

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you know, with

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a Spanish speaker,

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All right,

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Oh, good question.

[00:19:53.809]
All right, So let's explore some of the other content.

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Again, the forms

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we hope pretty straightforward.

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You know, some help for using them with

[00:20:02.598]
the description. But really you just download the

[00:20:04.699]
form and fill it out and make use of it.

[00:20:07.729]
So the Brunel tool, again, a favorite

[00:20:10.239]
spot of mine in the resource.

[00:20:12.299]
The most popular searches are often

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handy as well because they kind of bring

[00:20:16.729]
back groups of documents too. So

[00:20:18.769]
say we're, you know, starting to explore

[00:20:20.789]
putting together a will we go into wills

[00:20:23.130]
and estates you get.

[00:20:26.318]
you know,

[00:20:27.390]
a pretty good rather than a search

[00:20:29.660]
where just searching on will is gonna bring back tons

[00:20:31.969]
of hits. The popular searches are

[00:20:34.059]
almost organized a bit more like a subject heading

[00:20:36.608]
or search for more like a subject heading.

[00:20:39.180]
Uh, so you kind of see all the, the

[00:20:41.219]
different options. Again, the categories

[00:20:43.930]
are where I think,

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uh,

[00:20:46.858]
You just get a better explanation. So, for

[00:20:49.078]
wills for people with Children, if I've got Children

[00:20:51.380]
that's, you know, I'm gonna want to look at those if I don't, I

[00:20:53.400]
can kind of move on and see what the next categories

[00:20:55.489]
are. So people without Children. So

[00:20:57.650]
these are forms you might consider.

[00:20:59.578]
So the categorization, the

[00:21:01.789]
organization of the resource is really well

[00:21:03.910]
done. And that

[00:21:05.969]
brings me to brows. So this

[00:21:08.189]
is gonna work almost like an outline.

[00:21:11.289]
uh, when you're browsing for content

[00:21:13.539]
and let's say, I'm starting a business

[00:21:15.578]
with a partner, so I might want to explore partnerships.

[00:21:19.568]
and here we have a

[00:21:21.729]
breakdown. So partnerships forms relating

[00:21:24.009]
to accounting agreements, dissolution,

[00:21:27.199]
new partners, different

[00:21:29.318]
types of partnerships you just kind of break

[00:21:31.509]
down like subject settings really and just

[00:21:33.568]
follow the path.

[00:21:35.078]
So this is um,

[00:21:37.088]
also again where you get exposed to that content

[00:21:39.380]
that maybe isn't quite a form. So

[00:21:41.549]
for example checklists

[00:21:44.250]
So if we're putting together a partnership agreement,

[00:21:46.750]
here's a checklist of things I might

[00:21:48.868]
need to think about.

[00:21:50.838]
And again, I'm just gonna pop into the preview rather

[00:21:52.989]
than downloading

[00:21:54.828]
You don't know what, you don't know. So is

[00:21:56.838]
something not crossed our mind in starting

[00:21:59.180]
a business together and not everything may apply,

[00:22:01.739]
but it's useful to have a

[00:22:03.868]
starting point rather than having to work,

[00:22:06.420]
you know, coming up with things from scratch

[00:22:09.910]
and

[00:22:12.660]
the browse. Again, we have to put together packages

[00:22:15.219]
of forms for you. So I really

[00:22:17.660]
love this kind of organized way of coming

[00:22:19.779]
into the content, content. So

[00:22:21.969]
let's say we're looking for forms relating

[00:22:24.279]
to, um,

[00:22:26.118]
you know, kind of general partnerships jump

[00:22:28.578]
in. There's a general partnership package.

[00:22:32.439]
and it's gonna pull together. Again,

[00:22:34.858]
some of those things we might need,

[00:22:37.568]
as we're building a partnership and

[00:22:39.809]
I love this example too because this can be

[00:22:41.930]
a great resource for your

[00:22:44.150]
small business owners, your entrepreneurs.

[00:22:46.880]
This is a database that can help

[00:22:49.009]
with a lot of those issues. There's

[00:22:51.189]
a lot of content in here, say after the business

[00:22:53.549]
is up and running, hiring and firing

[00:22:55.890]
procedures, things like that dealing with

[00:22:58.039]
employees. Um again, applications

[00:23:00.949]
in the resource,

[00:23:02.979]
There's a lot of great stuff here. They can just kind

[00:23:05.098]
of take advantage of rather than say going

[00:23:07.160]
to staples and you know, buying a package

[00:23:09.420]
of forms, they can come here and create one

[00:23:11.509]
that's really custom to their business.

[00:23:13.769]
So really excellent resource

[00:23:15.838]
for your small business community, uh,

[00:23:17.930]
uh, with your library,

[00:23:21.059]
So, and I think fun too. I know this database

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is uh you know, kind of really popular

[00:23:25.539]
in public libraries, but could have some, you know, great

[00:23:27.799]
use and others as well.

[00:23:30.578]
All right. So let's browse through a few more things Just

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gonna jump back to the home page.

[00:23:35.449]
and the, um, resources here

[00:23:37.719]
again, the browse, I think is a good

[00:23:39.789]
way to get comfortable with what's here to know

[00:23:41.848]
what's in the resource. So,

[00:23:43.689]
you know, it kind of sparks if someone should come in

[00:23:45.989]
and is looking for

[00:23:48.000]
you know, help with uh

[00:23:49.880]
um, well adoption, things

[00:23:51.900]
like that. This is a database to

[00:23:53.979]
things to come to and you know, kind of explore.

[00:23:56.750]
So lots of good stuff here. Let's

[00:23:58.868]
go ahead and pop in to say

[00:24:00.299]
bankruptcies, folks may need some help

[00:24:02.380]
with that. Again, the browse is

[00:24:04.489]
just gonna work like this outline and break

[00:24:06.640]
down the different types of forms and tools that are here

[00:24:10.189]
And if we jump on the same packets.

[00:24:13.430]
See what's available.

[00:24:16.140]
Hmm. All

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right, so lots of good stuff. Let me check my

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list.

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uh we have um

[00:24:26.779]
Let's see. We've done that. So, I got I got a little

[00:24:28.939]
out of order from my guidelines here.

[00:24:31.500]
I think we're good.

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yeah all right so

[00:24:37.049]
I want to explore the um

[00:24:39.239]
help that's here. I've kind of looked at my

[00:24:41.368]
on my kind of search recommendations and best

[00:24:43.380]
practices and browsing and the like

[00:24:45.640]
so let's look at the support that's offered. We

[00:24:47.769]
already saw with each legal form. You're getting that

[00:24:50.578]
um

[00:24:51.750]
description and with many of them you're actually

[00:24:53.809]
getting some legal definitions tied to it.

[00:24:55.880]
But should you need that, it's always just a click

[00:24:57.920]
away here in the upper left hand corner.

[00:25:00.439]
and you can, you know, browse

[00:25:02.598]
it just using the alphabet or if, you know the term

[00:25:04.818]
you're after,

[00:25:07.150]
I understand, you know, complaint has different

[00:25:09.469]
connotations and, you know, life

[00:25:11.568]
versus the legal world.

[00:25:14.439]
So we can see all the different terms

[00:25:16.680]
that you or all the yeah, sorry, all the different terms

[00:25:19.229]
that use complaint within them.

[00:25:21.689]
And we've got some general ones,

[00:25:23.699]
but then some more specific ones

[00:25:27.108]
And it's written from that legal point

[00:25:29.259]
of view. Right? So we see the difference between

[00:25:31.328]
that and, you know, kind of general complaint

[00:25:34.348]
uh in life and it's a little

[00:25:36.519]
more, you know detailed than say, a dictionary

[00:25:38.660]
definition where things get really

[00:25:40.858]
detailed though is if you go into the law

[00:25:43.039]
digest, I always think of the legal definitions

[00:25:45.289]
as kind of an extended dictionary

[00:25:48.189]
the law digest is more like an

[00:25:50.338]
encyclopedia. So I could certainly look

[00:25:52.400]
up complaint there too. But

[00:25:54.779]
if we I'm actually gonna browse here so you can

[00:25:56.789]
kind of see the broad idea, it talks about different

[00:25:59.140]
legal um issues and terminology

[00:26:02.068]
but it also has, you know, biographies

[00:26:05.969]
uh, for various lawyers, it's got

[00:26:08.209]
overviews of, of particular cases.

[00:26:11.118]
It's really, um, you know, much

[00:26:13.150]
more extended than the legal definition and

[00:26:15.529]
uh, the uh, legal definition section.

[00:26:17.750]
So if we wanted to read more about the glass

[00:26:20.059]
Stegall Act, which I'm not familiar

[00:26:22.318]
with. We'll find out right here. This

[00:26:24.390]
is also interlinked so it speaks

[00:26:26.549]
to the new deal so we can go out and read about

[00:26:28.598]
that. All of these are, you know, quick

[00:26:30.838]
ways to kind of jump around and discover

[00:26:33.009]
more details about.

[00:26:34.500]
the stock market securities.

[00:26:38.219]
kind of goes through.

[00:26:39.779]
But, nice

[00:26:42.219]
overviews.

[00:26:43.709]
Hm So

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those are gonna be more general help,

[00:26:48.529]
where things can get really specific

[00:26:50.759]
is in the legal Q. And A.

[00:26:54.430]
And in the legal life articles, we're gonna look at those

[00:26:56.709]
too. The legal Q. And a.

[00:26:58.868]
One of the services they provide out

[00:27:00.880]
at the commercial site for U. S. Legal

[00:27:03.068]
forms is folks can submit a question

[00:27:05.469]
and get an uh well not always, but they can submit

[00:27:07.699]
a question and hopefully get an answer back. Uh depending

[00:27:10.250]
on what they publish what we get

[00:27:12.299]
are kind of the results of that. All of the published

[00:27:14.789]
questions with answers and

[00:27:16.969]
we break them down by category here.

[00:27:19.670]
And go ahead and jump into one.

[00:27:22.279]
you can see the state they're associated

[00:27:24.318]
with because that's often gonna of course have an

[00:27:26.348]
impact on the answer. Um so

[00:27:28.489]
that can be important

[00:27:30.858]
but if we're in a similar legal situation

[00:27:33.219]
and someone is asked a question you can,

[00:27:36.910]
click in and view the answer again, could be

[00:27:38.989]
different, say in Massachusetts versus you

[00:27:41.328]
know, the answer that we have for Texas, something

[00:27:43.519]
to explore, but at least kind of gives you an idea

[00:27:46.519]
and you can browse through these and see

[00:27:48.640]
if anything applies.

[00:27:51.529]
um So

[00:27:53.949]
the legal Q. And A. Is really I will

[00:27:55.979]
also say kind of fascinating some of the questions

[00:27:58.729]
um that get asked. So it's interesting

[00:28:01.009]
to browse and read some of the

[00:28:03.420]
uh questions but

[00:28:05.509]
pardon me

[00:28:07.078]
again, can give folks an idea of where to start

[00:28:09.880]
and help you avoid having

[00:28:12.088]
just one minute

[00:28:17.009]
I mean, and kind of avoid

[00:28:19.189]
putting you in the hot seat uh to

[00:28:21.289]
give, to give legal advice

[00:28:24.670]
now. Another good place to start

[00:28:26.809]
is the legal life articles when

[00:28:28.858]
folks come in with an issue.

[00:28:31.390]
this takes on some of actually you can see

[00:28:33.469]
some of the most popular legal form searches.

[00:28:35.779]
That's a bit how they determine what's gonna be in the

[00:28:37.858]
legal life articles just by what's popular

[00:28:40.170]
in the database. What are the things that kind of come up the

[00:28:42.229]
most

[00:28:43.299]
and it starts from

[00:28:45.118]
a, here's what you'll need to do kind of point of

[00:28:47.180]
view. So hang on, I think I've got something in

[00:28:49.189]
the chat

[00:28:50.489]
Is there a way to browse Q. And A by state? There

[00:28:52.618]
is not currently,

[00:28:54.598]
but let me make a note and

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that's something we can uh

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and I don't think oh let me double check,

[00:29:05.769]
let me pop back for a second

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yeah there isn't let me just scroll to the bottom. I don't

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think we've added one but let me just be sure.

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Yeah there isn't a way to search either

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here. You've really just got to browse by category

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so let

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me make a note to pass that on to our product

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manager.

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um And then oh good question Captain who is asking

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and who is answering the questions the

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lawyers that work with U. S. Legal

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forms are uh answering the questions

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and I think actually let me pop into one.

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Oh no, I thought sometimes they had

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a, Maybe I'm thinking

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of somewhere. Oh no you know what I think I'm thinking

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of the law digest. Sometimes it gives an author.

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Um

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there is

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under the about

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I feel like there was a decision help,

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yeah thank you

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apologize folks, I feel like I've seen something about

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this in the database.

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but

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pardon me I could be mistaken.

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They have a who is LegalForms but that doesn't

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really give

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what I was looking for

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for me.

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always a tickle in your throat when you're on a webinar.

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Um

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Let me I can get kind of a more formal answer

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for you. I thought we had something in the database about

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that but

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I mean yeah

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Uh

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get something more formal for you and then

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I'll if I can I'll include it in the Q. And A. Or

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the follow up email that

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comes to you tomorrow. Um If I don't get

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the answer though, until after that comes out. I'll

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just send a separate email with an answer

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uh So back to the legal life articles

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back in. Oh, you bet. No problem.

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Um, let me jump back into the legal life articles.

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So again, this takes kind of a

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starting point of view. So say, like

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we say, we're trying to put something together.

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You know, a lot of us have aging parents.

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What should we starting to do?

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Start to do, you know, advice for cared givers.

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Things you wanna, you know, kind of just be aware

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of. So again, this database, you

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know, is named Well there's lots of legal forms

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there, but there's all this additional help as well.

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And what I like about it is they keep it really

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simple. I mean you can see this is a fairly lengthy

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article but you know something

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someone can print out, you know, take home

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read over time and go it doesn't

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make things too complicated but gives

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you a lot of good pointers for things you may need

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to think about uh when, when dealing

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with any of these issues so

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Uh The list of these will grow over

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time again. Just kind of looking at what's being

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searched for in the database and what folks are

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using. So

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A really good place to get started when

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folks are coming in. Maybe they want to handle

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their own divorce

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and jump right in and start into the legal

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life articles. So again, great starting

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point, uh, when folks are unsure just

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what they need to do,

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Hmm. All right,

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so there's some other tools here. Tax forms,

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you know with the start of the year. Might

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find some need for these and uh just

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point you where to find those on the various states

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and uh federal sites uh which

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is handy. There's an attorney directory

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and these are often attorneys that are working

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with U. S. LegalForms or firms

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that they've worked with. It isn't though. As you'll

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see of course there's a disclaimer, there's

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not really an endorsement but say we're looking

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for an attorney in Maryland.

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This will break down different practice areas

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and then give you a list of attorneys who specialize

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and what I like about this is,

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You know, you're you haven't gone and done to search

[00:33:05.130]
it. you know, google or something.

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So you're not getting a ton of additional ads and things

[00:33:09.598]
like that. So

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and kind of jump in.

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and find some starting points.

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All right, so good stuff over

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here on the left,

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the last thing I want to share. Let me just

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check my checklist. I think I've got everything I wanted to

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hear just for fun. And

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because we have a minute here,

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there are some fun things in the database.

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and I can't resist the tooth fairy letter

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So we have sample letters from

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a child to a tooth. The tooth fairy, but also

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a sample letter from the tooth fairy to a child.

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So should

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your tooth fairy be a little more uh,

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formal.

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let me go ahead and open this up

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We have some fun stuff here so

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you know, lets them know

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and great. Uh the tooth fairy

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is given a little history for why they collect

[00:34:06.630]
teeth. So some fun stuff.

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The letter from the child.

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Actually I'll just go into the preview

[00:34:14.159]
instead of opening it. But

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is kind of funny it. Um,

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they're uh negotiating. They, they

[00:34:21.340]
want a raise in uh what they

[00:34:23.349]
get for their teeth. So some fun stuff

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here too. There's some Santa stuff and

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you know, things like that. So good

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stuff. There are even, you know, kind of go to

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or uh complaint letters

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ready or you know, things like that.

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So again, just not having to start

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from scratch is often really handy. So

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you know, try a search for what you're in here.

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There's an example letter in here for someone who's unhappy

[00:34:45.369]
with the sunglasses they ordered. So really

[00:34:47.760]
lots of good stuff.

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Ok, usage statistics. Great question

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Wally. So we have

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usage stats for legal

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forms. Let me double check something though. I'm pretty

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sure this is the case but I wanted to just confirm

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it on our support site.

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Bear with me, just a second,

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I think

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you might have to,

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Yes. Ok. Let me double

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check something else though too.

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Yeah. Ok, so I'm gonna quick pop

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because we've got a couple of minutes here. I wanted to budget

[00:35:32.679]
enough time for questions. So let me also

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check something else.

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So we have a tool called the usage dashboard

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which is an on demand

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uh tool

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to obtain usage statistics.

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We also have and many of you

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might already be receiving these uh usage

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portal. We call it you access it through Gale

[00:35:54.030]
admin

[00:35:55.168]
and that's where you can go to

[00:35:57.610]
um set up monthly reports

[00:36:00.059]
that come to you automatically,

[00:36:02.159]
I don't think.

[00:36:05.478]
LegalForms.

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Although we'll find out here in a second

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That's funny.

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My use reports aren't uh

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anything.

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Ok, so it could

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be an issue with just my account. It's a demo

[00:36:40.019]
account. It's not really like

[00:36:42.199]
a real library account but I can't log into

[00:36:44.418]
a real library account because for

[00:36:46.929]
a um

[00:36:48.510]
privacy concerns

[00:36:51.519]
So I don't think I'm gonna be able to see what I wanna

[00:36:53.579]
see here. Let me try the reports. What I want

[00:36:55.679]
to tell you. What I want to be able to tell

[00:36:57.820]
you is if

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The standard usage report that you'll get

[00:37:02.590]
will include

[00:37:05.579]
um

[00:37:08.750]
LegalForms

[00:37:11.389]
But I don't think I'm gonna be able to tell

[00:37:13.449]
you that with

[00:37:16.648]
my account acting up. So

[00:37:18.889]
bear with me.

[00:37:22.369]
Yeah, I can't even pick my

[00:37:26.958]
Yeah, I should be able to have more

[00:37:29.519]
options in there. Ok, one more thing I want

[00:37:31.659]
to check here in the list of reports. Yeah,

[00:37:33.719]
something's going on.

[00:37:35.208]
So um

[00:37:41.418]
Bear with me just a second. I'm gonna log in a different

[00:37:43.639]
way. see

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if we can get this answered Now.

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Ok. There we go. All right. I wonder might

[00:37:58.958]
as I get them the other way. Ok, so

[00:38:01.179]
let me go back over to the

[00:38:03.938]
filters and see if he performs

[00:38:06.340]
this here. It

[00:38:08.610]
is. Ok. So let me

[00:38:11.530]
let me see if I can.

[00:38:13.610]
do this and I get what I want.

[00:38:18.059]
yes. Ok. So this is one

[00:38:20.208]
thing I wanted to check if you are getting

[00:38:22.289]
the monthly reports from Gale already

[00:38:24.570]
or if you, you know, sign up to get them,

[00:38:27.398]
LegalForms will count in those

[00:38:29.559]
in that usage report, you'll see

[00:38:31.659]
sessions

[00:38:33.329]
searches and retrievals

[00:38:35.530]
however, what we often offer

[00:38:38.219]
and that's why I'm gonna go over to reports here.

[00:38:41.599]
Shoot, it's there. It is. Ok.

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So you can also see.

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Yes, this is what I want to show you.

[00:38:50.458]
So session searches and retrievals are always

[00:38:52.619]
handy. Good to know how many people are using the databases,

[00:38:55.070]
how many searches they are throwing, how much good

[00:38:57.090]
stuff they're finding with retrievals. But with

[00:38:59.159]
databases like LegalForms and

[00:39:01.329]
say, you know, your Peterson's resources,

[00:39:03.769]
the test prep and career prep. It's

[00:39:06.019]
good to see what they're actually using in there

[00:39:08.188]
because those databases are built on a specific

[00:39:10.320]
subject area and they can help with say collection,

[00:39:12.590]
development, programming, things like that

[00:39:15.280]
so you can see what forms

[00:39:17.530]
are actually being accessed. So it's not tied

[00:39:19.719]
to any particular user. I don't know who

[00:39:22.139]
looked up the checklist partnership agreement,

[00:39:24.938]
but I can see that someone did. So

[00:39:27.070]
you could kind of maybe see a theme in what people

[00:39:29.119]
are searching. And again, that could maybe

[00:39:31.168]
lead to a program in the library or

[00:39:34.250]
you know, bulking up any of your book

[00:39:36.449]
materials or things like that or other online

[00:39:38.668]
resources.

[00:39:40.199]
This can only be generated though

[00:39:42.329]
in the usage dashboard, this is not

[00:39:44.590]
a report, You can get out of that regular monthly

[00:39:46.938]
report that would come to you that just showed the sessions,

[00:39:49.628]
searches and retrieve levels. You've got

[00:39:51.824]
to use the usage dashboard

[00:39:53.954]
uh to access these and if there's

[00:39:56.195]
interest

[00:39:57.583]
we're happy to offer a session on the usage

[00:39:59.744]
dashboard. It's a really great tool

[00:40:01.945]
as you can see right off the bat you get these

[00:40:04.083]
nice visual displays of your content,

[00:40:07.155]
uh can use those in reporting and things

[00:40:09.184]
like that. You can compare time

[00:40:11.503]
period you can put in of course the time period that

[00:40:13.583]
you want to see.

[00:40:14.945]
Uh there's lots of good stuff.

[00:40:17.378]
when you come into uh the usage

[00:40:19.559]
dashboard and again, these

[00:40:21.699]
kind of extended reports

[00:40:23.929]
for various databases. You can

[00:40:26.070]
get a closer look at

[00:40:28.530]
uh kind of what's happening in those

[00:40:30.539]
databases. So this is my

[00:40:32.579]
demo account. So we're seeing a few that aren't available

[00:40:34.800]
in in Massachusetts. But um the

[00:40:37.050]
Petersons uh reports would be

[00:40:39.139]
really handy.

[00:40:41.070]
So. Ok. Great question. Um

[00:40:43.510]
Sorry, it took a minute to uh kind

[00:40:45.809]
of go on about the answer but I wanted to confirm,

[00:40:48.289]
I was kind of giving you the good info so

[00:40:50.648]
um

[00:40:52.199]
let me just check that I haven't missed anything.

[00:40:55.909]
all right. So while you let me know if you have

[00:40:57.938]
any kind of further questions about the usage

[00:41:00.110]
that leads us to though support.

[00:41:03.458]
So usage could be, you know something

[00:41:05.699]
you would come to Gale or M. L. S. For. So

[00:41:07.708]
let me make sure you've got all of

[00:41:09.760]
our contact info. So you have an excellent staff

[00:41:12.030]
at the Massachusetts library system to help answer

[00:41:14.269]
your questions about any of the databases,

[00:41:16.530]
both Gale or um you

[00:41:18.708]
know the other database as your provider or any of

[00:41:20.769]
the other, you know, numerous services that they provide

[00:41:23.750]
Um They've got a great database F A.

[00:41:25.809]
Q uh on their site

[00:41:28.090]
and lots of good info at the web guide.

[00:41:30.168]
So I'll include this info in my follow

[00:41:32.389]
up email that you'll get tomorrow,

[00:41:34.648]
but uh easily found on their website.

[00:41:38.030]
and then out at support dot Gale dot com

[00:41:40.389]
slash M L I N.

[00:41:42.489]
Uh This is our support

[00:41:44.579]
site for our Massachusetts libraries

[00:41:46.628]
and you can get lots of

[00:41:48.679]
great materials again, kind of legal

[00:41:50.958]
form, so you don't have to start from scratch. We have lots

[00:41:53.148]
of great marketing materials training materials

[00:41:55.489]
that you can take advantage of Many of them

[00:41:57.664]
are customizable as well. We've

[00:41:59.853]
got lots of tutorials which are really handy

[00:42:02.543]
uh for end users, we have training

[00:42:04.905]
decks for you all, so maybe you're gonna go out to

[00:42:07.063]
your Chamber of Commerce and talk about what the library

[00:42:09.344]
can do uh for your local businesses.

[00:42:12.284]
We've got a training decks for resources,

[00:42:14.864]
so you can go out and

[00:42:16.898]
Uh, you know, just let folks know we have

[00:42:19.139]
uh slides, you can customize

[00:42:21.188]
and, and, and again, I have to recreate

[00:42:23.469]
the wheel. The marketing materials

[00:42:25.510]
are really handy. We have social media posts ready

[00:42:27.688]
to go. So you can drive people into the resources.

[00:42:30.510]
Um, and then of course, lots of good, you know, access

[00:42:32.878]
info, Mark records, things like that.

[00:42:35.199]
So again, this will be in the follow up email

[00:42:37.398]
as well. Um

[00:42:39.530]
Oh well, let me not forget to

[00:42:41.539]
uh let you know about the rest of the webinars we're offering

[00:42:43.989]
available both through the calendar, at M L S

[00:42:46.309]
and on our bill support site. And again, I'll

[00:42:48.409]
put this in my follow up.

[00:42:50.418]
but when you want to talk to a person again.

[00:42:53.590]
You've got great support in M. L. S. Then feel free

[00:42:55.659]
to reach out to your Gale team as well. I'm

[00:42:57.898]
your trainer, I'm also a librarian.

[00:43:00.010]
So if I don't have the answer I know where to go to get

[00:43:02.128]
it. Uh Our customer success

[00:43:04.139]
managers will be great people to talk to

[00:43:06.309]
about usage. So if you

[00:43:08.320]
want to kind of dive deeper into your reports

[00:43:10.708]
or maybe if you're not even getting them and you would like

[00:43:12.869]
to. The customer success managers

[00:43:15.119]
are great folks to talk to about things like that.

[00:43:17.619]
Marketing the resources,

[00:43:19.769]
you know, product questions. They

[00:43:21.800]
are a good person to get to know at Gale

[00:43:24.300]
and they specialize by library type.

[00:43:26.708]
So if you're in a public library, that's

[00:43:28.889]
who they work with all the time and they also

[00:43:31.139]
specialize by location. So they'll

[00:43:33.300]
know Massachusetts, they'll know all the resources

[00:43:35.739]
you get.

[00:43:37.269]
So they're great people to work with and

[00:43:39.309]
if you visit

[00:43:40.599]
support dot Yale dot com slash M.

[00:43:42.610]
L. I N.

[00:43:43.860]
The first thing it will ask you to do is identify

[00:43:46.168]
your library and then the site customizes

[00:43:48.989]
to your library and you can actually find out who your

[00:43:51.000]
C. S. M. Is and make time on

[00:43:53.128]
their calendar, right from that page or

[00:43:55.280]
if you send an email to this address, it'll get routed

[00:43:57.648]
to the right person and they'll get in touch with you.

[00:43:59.688]
So really an

[00:44:01.829]
excellent resource. Um We of course offer

[00:44:03.969]
tech support. You can get us at the 800 number

[00:44:06.699]
uh really anybody at the company but of course

[00:44:08.728]
tech support. Uh and then if you're interested

[00:44:10.789]
in talking to your Gale rep, we have a rep

[00:44:12.809]
finder tool so you can easily identify

[00:44:14.918]
who you want to talk to. Uh if you're interested

[00:44:17.188]
in additional resources or anything like that.

[00:44:19.668]
So do reach out for help. Don't

[00:44:21.728]
suffer in silence. M. L. S. And Gale

[00:44:23.938]
are here for you.

[00:44:26.039]
So I will wrap up just by saying thank

[00:44:28.280]
you for tuning in today, I'm gonna stick around and see

[00:44:30.438]
if there are any questions, but

[00:44:32.320]
if you're all set, thanks so much for tuning

[00:44:34.570]
in, have a great week and hopefully we'll catch

[00:44:36.579]
you on another session down the road.