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  • October 19, 2026

    A Law Librarian’s Guide to Planning a Platform Migration

    Author: Syd L. Stephenson, Technical Services & Systems Librarian, Thurgood Marshall State Law Library A time many librarians dread has arrived: a platform you are using, whether it’s an Integrated Library System (ILS) or an institutional repository, has outlived its usefulness and it’s time to start considering a migration. No two migrations are alike. An… Continue reading

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    CRIV General

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    library service platforms, platform selection


  • October 19, 2026

    Oxford Legal Product Transitions

    Author: Deanna Barmakian, Research Librarian, Harvard Law School Library  Since the release of Oxford Law Pro in May 2025, a great deal of Oxford legal content has migrated into one of its five, separately priced, modules. The following is an attempt to summarize completed and upcoming Oxford product changes since CRIV’s update in July 2025.… Continue reading

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    Legal Vendors

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    Oxford Law Pro, Oxford University Press


  • October 7, 2026

    Request for Assistance: Thomson Reuters CoCounsel AI Assistant 

    Author: Rebecca Mattson, Director of Operations & Scholarship, Montague Law Library, Penn State Dickinson Law CRIV received a request for assistance asking for more information on the Westlaw user experience now that CoCounsel AI Assistant has been removed. We received the following response.  Continue reading

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    CRIV General, Vendor Relations

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    CoCounsel, Practical Law, Request for Assistance, westlaw


  • September 28, 2026

    Resources for Negotiating Privacy in Vendor Contracts

    Author: Rebecca Mattson, Director of Operations and Scholarship, Montague Law Library, Penn State Dickinson Law Librarians have always been concerned with protecting patron privacy. It is a tenet of librarianship and part of the American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights. As libraries have moved away from print resources in favor of electronic, it’s important… Continue reading

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    CRIV General, Vendor Relations

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    contracts, privacy


  • September 10, 2026

    Request for Assistance: Westlaw My Accounts

    Author: Becky Mattson, Director of Operations and Scholarship and Professor of Legal Research, Penn State Dickinson Law CRIV received a Request for Assistance regarding recent changes in the Westlaw My Accounts page. The requesting librarian noted that information about managed accounts and locations was missing in My Accounts after a recent update.   CRIV reached out to Thomson Reuters for assistance and… Continue reading

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    CRIV General, Updates, Vendor Relations

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The AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors shall facilitate communications between information vendors and the members of the Association by monitoring complaints and providing constructive suggestions to vendors of information in any format. The Committee shall educate members on constructive ways to communicate with information vendors.

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