Legal Research

Audio search

By Shaunna Mireau

Lawyers often need to know what people are saying. This became apparent to me today when gathering material for sentencing submissions and I was asked to gather material on the scope of publication of the offence.

I looked at the usual suspects:

• Canadian Newsstand - a ProQuest database available to me through my public library
• Infomart
• Google (web and blog search)
• Facebook groups
• Twitter

During my peek I found a couple of text articles on radio station websites. I know that Slaw readers will share my Ah Ha moment.

The web is filled with different types of media, including streaming audio. Yahoo Audio Search led me to some sites and methods to carry out my task, and voila, audio files were found.

I realize this is somewhat anecdotal, but I hope that my little research Ah Ha helps you out.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on April 02, 2009 (boomark / email).