e-LiRN Resources Guide

Guide to the e-LiRN Suite of Resources

LiRN’s home page includes a helpful table for lawyers to see at a glance what they can access at their local courthouse library as well as remotely.   It also has links to detailed information about each e-LiRN resource for their information.  This can be shared with your lawyers who may be looking for additional information.

Print Titles available on e-LiRN – Consolidated List

LiRN has assembled a useful resource for organizing and promoting the e-LiRN titles. The Consolidated List of Print Titles on e-LiRN has filters and tabs by publisher which we hope will make it easier for staff to label their collections or create attention-grabbing dummy books.  Current as of Dec. 1, 2025.

e-LiRN Vendor Contact Information

Lexis+

  • Customer Service / Sales:  Irina Roudenko <[email protected]>
  • Trainer:  Gordon Brough  <[email protected]>
  • IT Support:  Please contact Irina to get you in touch with their IT team.

rangefindr.ca

  • Customer Service Rep / Owner / Training / IT Support:  Matthew Oleynik <[email protected]>

vlex

Westlaw (CriminalSource / EstatesandTrustsSource  / FamilySource)

  • Customer Service Rep / Sales:  Len Sparks <[email protected]>
  • Trainer:  Teresa Verhoeven <[email protected]> – Please contact for custom group or individual training sessions
  • IT Support:  Please start with Christalla Kakarelis <[email protected]> who will put you in touch with their IT Team

Library Staff Passwords – Remote Access

Library staff have individual passwords so that you can access the e-LiRN suite remotely.  Please contact the each of the e-LiRN Vendors to change a password if you are a new staff member.  We review the email addresses used and cut-off old library staff passwords so it is important that this is up-to-date.

Training Sessions

Please contact the training contracts for individual or group sessions for your Association. These sessions are accredited for LSO – Professionalism hours (not vlex).

Please see the LiRN wiki page for further information about training resources for e-LiRN.

Please check our public Calendar to see when the next training session is available for e-LiRN resources.  This information can be shared with your lawyers.  Please contact each vendor to set up a group training session for your lawyers.  It is often LSO CPD Accredited – Professionalism.

Introduction to e-LiRN suite of resources

Pia Williams (WLA) & Betty Dykstra (YRLA) hosted an e-LiRN introductory session on LwL YouTube in 2022, and provided some great sample questions & answers to demonstrate how to use the new e-LiRN resources!  Chat record from the recording.   Some of their tips:

  • Call a friend!   Librarians are a collegial profession and often like to help each other out
  • AccessCLE (LSO CPD), Halsbury’s, CED (great starting points for research questions)
  • Quantums (e.g. employment, criminal sentences) – how much notice, severance?
  • It’s OK not to be perfect and there is no such thing as a stupid question, it’s a question that needs help answering which applies to all of us at times

They also created a helpful e-LiRN Resource cheat sheet by Topic, Resources, Checklists, etc.

Setting up e-LiRN resources on your lawyer terminals

Static IPs

LiRN has asked all libraries to create static IPs for access to the e-LiRN suite of resources.  Everyone provided their static IPs to LiRN in March 2022.  Please contact LiRN if you need your static IP address.  Please contact LiRN if you Static IP address has been changed.  For example, if you get a new router, please find out the new Static IP and let us know to request new customized URLS for each e-LiRN vendor.

The static IP is in place to ensure that lawyers do not accidentally log in with individual credentials and change the password, which would block access for everyone else. Using a static IP allows access to be managed at the organization level instead of through personal logins, preventing unintended disruptions.  Every library has a customized URL from each e-LiRN vendor for their library’s access utilizing your static IP.  Please contact LiRN who has this list for your library’s custom URL for Westlaw or Lexis+.  For vlex and rangefinder.ca, they have our list of static IP addresses and have whitelisted your static IP so that you can access them from the lawyers terminals without a password.

e-LiRN Suite of Resources on your Lawyer Computer

We suggest you place these icons in the middle of the computer screen for ease of access.  We would like to see icons for the following resources.  LiRN has vendor icons as well if you need them.

  • Westlaw – CriminalSource, FamilySource, Estates and Trusts Source
  • Lexis+ includes Practical Guidance
  • vlex includes Irwin Law & Emond
  • rangefindr.ca  –  Also lawyers can access remotely via GL using their LSO #
  • Library catalogue – customized by the GL to your library’s holdings
  • LSO CPD content (formerly Access CLE)
  • CanLII – not officially part of e-LiRN but a valuable free resource
Instructions using Google Chrome
  1.  Go to the URL you wish to create a short cut for.
  2. Click the 3 dots at the top right hand corner. Then choose ‘More Tools’ from the drop down.
  3. Click ‘Create Shortcut’.
  4. LiRN has icons (aka favicons) to use for each e-LiRN resource.
To install/ change the Icon on the lawyer desktop using vlex as an example:
  1. Contact the vendor for the Icon file.  Example:  vlex
  2. Save the attached icon file to your desktop.
  3. Right click the created shortcut icon and select Properties.
  4. Under the Web document tab choose Change icon.
  5. Select desired icon from saved items.
  6. Type the Location of the item:  app.vlex.com
  7. Hit Next button in the bottom corner
  8. Name your shortcut:  vlex Irwin Law
  9. Click Finish

 

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