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Yes Libraries are Shrinking Now What?

Two weeks ago American Lawyer Media released it’s 2016 library survey with the unfortunate headline “Downsizing continues at  law firm libraries.”  The headline is problematic for two reasons: 1. Shrinking libraries are old news and 2. Information professionals are driving some of the most important new technologies into the practice of law….

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 Wolters Kluwer  has won the “Brexit  Legal Publishing Sweeps” with their  title “Britain Alone! Implications and Consequences of United Kingdom Exit from the EU”
When the citizens of the UK voted in favor of leaving the
European Union last week, they unleashed a firestorm of “news” and commentary consisting
to two major elements- a litany

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Last month LexisNexis 
announced a new release of Lexis Advance which offered customers enhanced news
services and legislative insights. Legislative Outlook offers predictive
analytics and data visualization for proposed legislation.  Legislative
Outlook will be available  at no charge to subscribers through November
30, 2016, except where a gratis subscription is precluded by law (e.g. Federal

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Earlier this month Sara Glassmeyer, Librarian, Lawyer and
Information Provocateur published an important new study outlining the
substantial shortcomings of “free” digital,  legal information in the United States. Glassmeyer has spent the past year as a Fellow at the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and has produced what I believe is the first comprehensive census on

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I didn’t see this one coming. Morningstar has announced
that it is shutting down Morningstar Document Service on August 31st. In what
seems to me, an unprecedented move, Morningstar is encouraging their customers
to migrate to the Intelligize  securities
research product.  Did Morningstar  lose interest in the legal market? Had SEC
document research become too

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Bloomberg is on an innovation roll. It was only two weeks
ago that BloombergBNA announced the

release of their new Banking Law platform. Today
they  announced the  release of Bloomberg Law: Bankruptcy Treatise
which  is now available to all Bloomberg
Law subscribers in the Bankruptcy Practice Center.  David
Perla, President of Bloomberg Legal  stated in

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