Yale Law Journal has joined Standford Law Review and Harvard Law Review in making available issues in multiple eBook formats published by Quid Pro Books. Starting with vol. 121, no. 1, dated October 2011, YLJ is now available for Kindle…
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TR Legal’s Format Switcheroos: From Loose-leaf Sets to Pamphlet Editions to Bringing ProView eBooks to Market
09
Nov
Shaun Esposito, CRIV Chair, 2011-2012 and Head of Public Services at the University of Arizona College of Law Library, asked about the format change TR Legal has been executing from loose-leaf to pamphlet editions because “Several AALL members have asked…
Creating Video Tutorials of Today’s Online Search Services: The example of Fastcase endorsing best practice videos authored by law librarians
07
Nov
Got to hand it to Fastcase for calling attention to video tutorials created by law librarians: We recently came across a series of well-crafted Fastcase Video Tutorials created by our partners at the Jenkins Law Library. We were impressed with…
Some BNA Content Showing Up in Google News
02
Nov
Maybe I’ve been missing something all these years with BNA. I was surprised to see some BNA news reports showing up in Google News. I was even more surprised when I discovered that the referenced text was completely accessible without…
Taking the Pulse of WestlawNext Sales
02
Nov
According to Thomson Reuters’ 2011 3Q financials released yesterday WestlawNext sales increased by approximately 5,000 customers since 2011 2Q and now represents 46 percent of Westlaw’s revenue base. This means since WLN’s launch in February 2010 approximately 54 percent of…
The Patron-Driven Licensing Model: Turning the law library into a demand center for law eBooks
02
Nov
On Inside Higher Ed, Steven Kolowich reports: The [Education] Advisory Board report, a thick primer covering a range of trends in digital librarianship, predicts a shift in the way academic libraries provide book content to their patrons that mirrors a…
Law Library Information Budget Estimates Decline by 21.7% According to 2011 AALL Findings
01
Nov
The 2011 edition of The AALL Biennal Salary Survey and Organizational Characteristics is now available. While the salary survey findings may not be very useful in the private and government sectors, the findings of organizational characteristics with respect to information…
Librarians, Vendors and AALL: Is anyone really asking (or expecting) AALL to do their jobs for them when conducting business with vendors?
31
Oct
In calling upon AALL to doing something in terms of consumer advocacy for its institutional buyer members in the commercial marketplace, some, well at least one, professional law librarian, apparently thinks law librarians are not performing their jobs: Asking AALL…
