The recent growth in information technology has helped push salaries for law librarians at major firms up by nearly a third, according to a new survey.

The expansion of knowledge management systems and techniques has also moved law librarians towards the top in their firms, as their research and associated skills have grown in importance in an increasingly competitive legal world, according to the survey, by leading law publishing firm Sweet and Maxwell.

Pat Pritchard, national head of information services at leading law firm DLA, said: Certainly the law library function works very differently now to that of say 10 years ago. New technology and the Internet mean that our legal and business current awareness is bang up to date.

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Yes! Now we need to figure out how to do it in other settings.