CRIV CONNECTION

The official PUBLICATION for the AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors

  • Time-Saving Collection Development Tip: Review BLS Library’s Digital Book Displays

    Author: The team at Brooklyn Law School Library Each month, BLS librarians meet with Associate Dean Dominique Fowler and Brooklyn Law School (BLS) Communications staff to learn about upcoming cultural heritage observances and other key BLS events. We now have a year’s worth of related BLS Library Digital Book Displays that you can review. These… Continue reading

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  • Bloomberg Law Semiannual Update

    Author: Deanna Barmakian, Research Librarian, Harvard Law School Library Madeline Cohen, library relations director at Bloomberg Law met with CRIV on May 5, to update AALL membership on platform developments and content enhancements. The conversation centered on the new Legal Profiler Center, new In Focus collections, and a discussion about the generative AI feature roll… Continue reading

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  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Ending Commercial Products

    Author: Rebecca Mattson, Director of Operations and Scholarship, Penn State Dickinson Law Montague Law Library The Social Science Research Network (SSRN), a popular location for pre-prints and works in progress, is ending commercial subscriptions at the end of 2026 in order to strengthen its free preprint model. What This Means for You Institutional research paper… Continue reading

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  • Usage Statistics in Decision-Making and Vendor Conversations

    Author: Ashley Newton, Acquisitions and Metadata Law Librarian, University of California, Irvine. As library budgets continue to shrink, librarians are increasingly reevaluating spending and bolstering justifications for maintaining certain subscriptions. Usage statistics provide a valuable way to assess subscriptions while clearly demonstrating their value to both stakeholders and vendors. If you are not already receiving… Continue reading

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  • Behind the Exhibit Hall Table with Steve Roses from Hein

    Author: Deanna Barmakian, Research Librarian, Harvard Law School Library CRIV asked Steve Roses from W.S. Hein & Co. to share some insight into the conference experience from a vendor’s point of view. GETTING TO KNOW YOU Starting off easy, what is your title, and how many years have you been with Hein? I’m director of… Continue reading

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