The Legal Information Service to the Public (LISP) Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has put together a great resource called the Public Library Toolkit.  It was created “to help public librarians understand the process of legal research, effectively develop and use the information located within their libraries, utilize information located outside their libraries, with the end goal of helping the patron locate the legal information they need.”  The kit offers information on topics including researching a legal problem, finding known citations, keeping current, and collection development.

As of June, 2008, there were 25 state-specific tool kits, including Washington. The Washington page was written by Merrilee Harrell and Mari Cheney while they were working for us as interns through the University of Washington’s law librarianship program.