I worked at 2 radio stations, one as a disc jockey, another as a board operator as well as the occasional commercial spot.
Both stations are feeds now.
Nowadays, you look cases up online. Sometimes, there’s a little flag next to the case heading. Yellow means there are cases that merely distinguish the holding; red means there are cases overturning the holding. Click on the flag and you get the list.
So, yeah, the manual task of looking the case up in Shepard’s is a thing of the past (but still necessary when I first clerked in the mid 1990s).
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I haven’t seen it mentioned, but tollbooth operator is a job that has been replaced by automation. I was looking at a parking garage budget the other day (long, boring story), and the payroll dropped in half in 2010, because they replaced the guys who sat in the booth with a payment machine and an automated arm.
Tollbooth operators are still in place at the Austin, TX airport. It’s a good thing too as we need an operator to pass us through (DH is a disabled veteran and gets free parking but a supervisor has to verify it and open the gate.) It’s true there are some automated lines but there have been at least three operators on duty each time I have been there.