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SharePoint: A Librarian's Most Versatile Tool of a SharePoint list for your collection development projects or a project task sheet for the team. As Lisa Ennis and Randy Tims describe in their June 2010 article "Harnessing the Power of SharePoint for Library Applications" for Information Today: "The product does so much and you can configure it in so many different ways that deciding the best route to take is daunting." If you need a nontechnical starting point, a concise and insightful overview of terms can be found in an April 2011 article for the Montague Institute by Jean Graef, where she includes 10 things librarians need to know to help their organization increase the return on their SharePoint investment. If you want a bit more technical detail, reference the March 2012 Information Today "Help Central" article by Ennis and Tims. And if you are really adventurous, just jump in and get your hands dirty as we did at Fox Rothschild (with some training from MindSharp). SharePoint at Fox Rothschild When SharePoint first started gaining ground in law firms, Fox Rothschild decided to experiment with it and created the firm's intranet, FoxNet, in 2002. At that time it was a collaborative effort between several administrative departments. Shortly after the first upgrade in 2003, the KM group took full ownership of both content and architecture. We were being asked to produce more targeted solutions for attorneys that capitalized on internal expertise, such as brief banks and standardized forms. KM was also tapped to see how content could be shared across offices and how information could be pooled together into directories for attorneys and experts. This evolved into our outside counsel and expert databases. At the time, Fox Rothschild was experiencing rapid growth with the addition of three West Coast offices, and it was deemed critical to be able to capture and share this type of information firmwide. FOXNET: EXPERT AND OUTSIDE COUNSEL DATABASE EXAMPLES AALL/ILTA White Paper 17