Information Authority and Integrity: An Example ofProfessional Development on the Fly.

The article highlights the professional development tools for information professionals offered through online by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). The notice announcing a 2-week discussion on Information Authority and Integrity came from the weekly From the Desk of Susan Fox, the Executive Director of AALL e-mail that members receive. The discussion was scheduled to last just 2 weeks--plenty of time to get the issues out. Everyone in the world interested in Information Authority and Integrity, a topic of interest to all searchers but especially to legal librarians, could participate. During the course of the 2-week online discussion people shared their favorite articles. There were firsthand accounts of teaching authority in Legal Research classes and war stories about those who discovered dated and other damaged authority in print, online codes, and other materials. The discussion returned to published opinions in official reports being citable and unpublished opinions, which most courts will not accept as authority. West Publishing collects unpublished judicial opinions and publishes them separately from the officially published opinions in a set called Federal Appendix.