By: Guest Author Emilie Menzel, Collections Management and Strategies Librarian, Goodson Law Library, Duke Law School. In the world of collections and e-resources librarianship, shepherding a purchase request through the collection development cycle can often resemble coordinating a field day relay race. Lap 1: Faculty shares a resource need with their liaison librarian, who then… Continue reading

I just finished reading Roy Morris Jr.’s intriguing book Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876, so a blog post on presidential databases—in an election year at that!—seemed fun. Instead of listing several, I thought I would focus on two in particular that have captured my interest.… Continue reading

AALL now has an Antitrust Compliance Policy, which the organization encourages its members to read. The Antitrust Policy recognizes the changing landscape of antitrust enforcement in the United States in the context of professional association activities. The policy is inclusive and applies to “comments at any AALL meetings and on any AALL platform including webinars, Conference… Continue reading

The second CRIV/Bloomberg liaison call of 2023 took place (way belatedly) in February 2024. AALL/CRIV representatives Jeanne Frazier Price (CRIV chair and Bloomberg liaison); Michelle Hook Dewey (AALL Executive Board member); and Vani Ungapen (AALL Executive Director) met with Madeline Cohen (Bloomberg’s Library Relations Director).  Cohen shared product updates and enhancements and answered questions triggered by… Continue reading