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Breaking News: Thomson Reuters and Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Joining Forces on Current Awareness
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Law Libraries Transformed:Crowded Collaboration and Social Solitude (The Apple Store vs The Commons)
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| Crowded Collaboration c.c. |
In a recent Bloomberg interview, I speculated that in the future, law libraries may look like Apple Stores. My point was that while we may replace law books with desktop virtual libraries, the need for spaces for research consultation, collaboration and “just in time learning” will continue. As I mentioned in an earlier post on strategic
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ALM 2012 Law Library Survey: Budgets, Billables, Insourcing and Outsourcing Up. Online Cost Recovery Down. Embedding and eBooks Emerge
The ALM research staff has worked closely with the Private Law Library community to improve the precision and relevance of the questions presented in this survey. I look forward to the release of the American Lawyer article interpreting the data and the commentary received
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The Future of Libraries, eBooks, Siri, iPads, KM, New Research Platforms
Other articles include:
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A Trip the to Supermarket, an iPad, a KM Strategy and a Carton of free eggs!
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| Safway’s New Customization Initiative |
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Fastcase Should Fastrack to Advance Sheets 2.0
1. Faster to the ebook market. Once again Fastcase has leapfrogged over many well established legal publishers by jumping into the eBook market. Last year at AALL, only the two largest legal publishers LexisNexis and Thomson Reuters, were
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A Shake Up at Dow Jones! Can a Shake Up in Law Firm Access to the Wall Steet Journal and Factiva Be Far Behind?
Today Dow Jones released a routine “snooze” of a press release on executive changes. A roster of names I had never heard before were appointed to key positions reporting to CEO Lex Fenwick . Toward the bottom of the list there was a name familiar to the legal community.
“Dan Hayter has been named head
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“Climbing the Value Ladder: Rethinking the Law Library on the Road to 2020” Discussed by Jordan Furlong Keynote Speaker at PLL Summit
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| Jordan Furlong |
Our keynote Speaker is Jordan Furlong who will address “Climbing the Value
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Next Generation of Legal Research Platforms Survey: Call for Academic, Government/Court and Private Law Library Participation

Academic, Government/Court, Private Firm and Corporate law libraries are invited to participate in a survey about their organizations adoption of LexisAdvance,Westlaw Next and Bloomberg Law for the upcoming AALL program
The New Generation of Legal Research Databases
on July 22, 2012 in Boston.The Deadline for the survey has been extended to June
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