Preview the 2020 Benchmarking + Legal Information Services (BLISS) Survey results, learn how leading law firm 
libraries are using data to plan for 2021 and receive a special pandemic report.
The program will be facilitated by HBR Director Colleen Cable. I will be joined by two large law colleagues for a lively discussion of how
Next Sunday July 14th, I will be moderating a Hot Topic: Embracing Sustainable Innovation Initiatives to Build a Future-Focused Library. panel (11:30am in Washington, DC at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual 
Meeting and Conference. Ron Friedmann, (LAC), Marlene Gebauer (Greenberg Traurig) and Darrin Fox (University of Oklahoma) will be discussing
Westlaw Edge Analytics was voted best new analytics product in the 2018-2019 Dewey B Strategic Hits and Misses survey of DBS readers. Runners Up Included Lexis Context 2nd, Bloomberg Law Attorney Analytics 3rd, Fastcase Docket Alarm 4th and Lex Machina Contracts module 5th place respectively. Gavelytics deserves honorable mention as the product receiving the most
The major takeaway from the 2018-19 Dewey B Strategic Hits and Misses Survey is that consumers of legal information regard 2018 as “a miss.” The problem wasn’t so much the products—although products play an important role in triggering the discontent. The major problem is the 
behavior of legal publishers. Legal publishing is a mature
Last year I pleaded with ALM to change the name of their annual Library survey since they had been predicting the end of Library’s for about 14 years. It was time to stipulate that print collections are shrinking and move on to exploring the dynamic organizations which have emerged in their place.
This year The American Lawyer has finally renamed the annual survey as the Survey of Law Firm Management Library and Research Professionals. The accompanying articles have shifted gear as well. The articles are titled “Law Librarian? Trying Chief Knowledge Officer” by Mary Ellen Egan and ‘From Providing Data to Providing Insight.” by Lizzy McLellan
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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….
The report focuses on the evolving and expanding roles of marketing