On February 23rd  I spoke at
the Ark Conference on  Best Practices and Management Strategies for Law Firm Libraries and Information
Centers, which was held
at the SUNY Global Center in Manhattan.

Ron Friedmann of Fireman and Company and I co-presented “Developing
a Library Best Practices Framework :The Key Principles of Process
Analysis.” I  also delivered the conference wrap-up session
” Has the Librarian Ship
Sailed?: Inventing Your Future in a Post
 Library World.”

Ark has released a video montage of the conference including comments from
myself, Ron Friedmann and Tom Duggan. It is also a bit of a “Where’s Waldo” of
the legal information community.

The Video Montage See the
video and spot your friends and colleagues in the audience here.

Program topics included innovation, reinvention, process
improvement, new service delivery models and CI, analytics and big data
delivered by a veritable  “who’s who” of the legal information
community.

Speakers included John Alber, Practical
Futurist, Katherine Lowry,
Director of Practice Services, Baker
& Hostetler LLP, Michelle
Bramley, Global Head of Knowledge/Dispute
Resolution, Freshfields
Bruckhaus Deringer (UK), Cynthia L. Brown JD,
Director Research Services, Littler
Mendelson P.C.

Colleen Fitzgerald Cable, Director of Information Services,
Orrick, Herrington
& Sutcliffe LLP

Rachelle Rennagel, Director of Research and Information
Services, White
& Case LLP

Steven A. Lastres, Director of Knowledge Management
Services, Debevoise
& Plimpton LLP

Anne Stemlar, Managing Director, Research & Knowledge
Management, Goodwin
Procter LLP

Shaunna Mireau, CSSBB, Director of Knowledge Management and
Process Improvement, Field Law and Adam Ziegler, Manager
– Special Projects, Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School Library

Information industry participants included: Phil Rosenthal,
President, Fastcase, Nancy
Furman Paul, Commercial Product Manager, Bloomberg Law Business Solutions, Bloomberg BNA, 

Daniel Lewis, Co-founder & CEO, Ravel Law