Susan Hackett, The CEO of Legal Executive Leadership
kicked off the  2014 Private Law Libraries Summit with a bang. This year’s theme was  “The Voice of the Client” and  Hackett delivered a powerful message which
focused on “Re-engineering the Role and Value of  Private Law Librarian:  Practical Strategies for Leadership in Serving
Corporate Clients.”

Library Week has brought us a
gift from “the land downunder.” The Australian Law Librarians’ Association
(ALLA)  and 3 other Library
organzations (The
Australian Library and InformationAssociation (ALIA), Health Libraries
Inc (HLInc),Health Libraries Australia
(HLA)) collaborated on a study
to measure the Return on Investment of Australian special libraries.The partners commissioned
award-winning firm SGS Economics

Maximizing the value of library staff activities can be achieved by enhancing the ability of information professionals to be put to their “highest and best use” in support of client related activities. One key strategy for liberating knowledge professionals to support client work is reducing the volume of administrative work which they must perform or oversee.