CRIV CONNECTION

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

  • Update on Recent Changes to the Thomson Reuters Westlaw Homepage

    Ashley Newton, CRIV Chair, Acquisitions and Metadata Librarian, University of California – Irvine This post provides an update regarding recent changes to the Thomson Reuters Westlaw homepage. Approximately two weeks ago, Thomson Reuters implemented changes that included removing certain content types and placing an “AI Deep Research” section more prominently on the homepage. Following the… Continue reading

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  • State Solutions to Equitable Access to E-books

    Jackie McCloud, Research and Instructional Services Librarian, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law  Years of licensing e-books and audiobooks at three to five times the cost of consumer pricing, coupled with shrinking budgets, culminated in an inflection point for public libraries. The digital collections public libraries were carefully building were not sustainable, nor were they able to keep up with… Continue reading

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  • Succession Planning in Library-Vendor Relationships

    Author: Laurel Moran, Assistant Director, San Diego Law Library Recently, I attended an excellent online seminar sponsored by the AALL Library Systems & Resource Discovery Special Interest Section (LSRD-SIS). This webinar was titled, “Getting the Information You Need from Vendors: A Panel Discussion.1 The speakers focused quite a bit on documenting vendor communications. This resonates… Continue reading

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  • Behind the Exhibit Hall Table with Practising Law Institute

    We’re hearing from Alexa Robertson from the Practising Law Institute about what it’s like on the other side of the exhibit hall table. We’ll be discussing how PLI prepares for conferences, their experience once there, and other insider info AALL members will be interested to know. Continue reading

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  • 5 Questions to Ask Before Renewing a Digital Resource Subscription

    Author: Ashley Newton, Acquisitions and Metadata Librarian, University of California, Irvine. The task of renewing subscriptions can come with varying challenges, from navigating budget constraints and competing priorities to managing the expectations of patrons and stakeholders. Rather than simply defaulting to autorenewals, however, it is important to make data-informed, strategic decisions when deciding whether to… Continue reading

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