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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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CRIV/Wolters Kluwer Semiannual Update
Author: Jean Davis, Associate Librarian for International Law at Brooklyn Law School Library Introduction The CRIV semiannual call with Wolters Kluwer (WK) occurred on May 12, 2026. The call included updates on: Kluwer Law International titles now available through certain VitalLaw subscriptions; VitalLaw’s expanded Academic Initiative; and VitalLaw Expert AI’s new features. It also included WK’s responses to CRIV’s product accessibility questions. This report concludes with recommended sources for further reading. Participants Jean Davis (CRIV member and liaison… Continue reading
CRIV CONNECTION
The official PUBLICATION for the AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors
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