Legal Vendors
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Caribbean Legal Resources
I recently became a member of the Caribbean Association of Law Libraries (CARALL) and I am enjoying collaborating with law librarians working in this region. In this post, I will highlight two important online resources and a forthcoming print resource that are available for in-depth Caribbean legal research. The first resource is the Caribbean Court… Continue reading
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Reading the fine print: what did we just agree to?
There is a database that has been on my wish list since my first weeks as a law librarian. This summer, with the arrival of new faculty expressing strong interest, we finally entered into negotiation for access. Regrettably, we could not make it work when the non-negotiable fine print included an obligation we could not… Continue reading
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Active/Passive Vendor Reps
I started learning Japanese last year, and one thing I’ve absorbed is that there are different forms for transitive and intransitive verbs. For instance, the verb in the sentence “I opened the door” (開ける—transitive —takes a direct object) would be different than the verb in the sentence “The door opened” (開く—intransitive—does not take a direct… Continue reading
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CRIV / Bloomberg Law Semiannual Call
Date: Friday, July 7, 2023 Participants: Jeanne Frazier Price (CRIV Liaison to Bloomberg Law), Lauren Kaplan (Head of Strategy, Bloomberg Law), Vani Ungapen (Executive Director, AALL), Madeline Cohen (Library Relations Director, Bloomberg Law), and Ross Pendley (Customer Experience Manager, Bloomberg Law) The second semiannual meeting of 2023 with representatives from Bloomberg Law took place on… Continue reading
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Clarification on Wolters Kluwer Titles Removed from Westlaw
This past April many of us received notice that a list of Wolters Kluwer (WK) titles would no longer be licensed to Thomson Reuters (TR) and would only be available via the WK VitalLaw platform. In August notice was posted to the AlmaLawSIG discussion list that all 157 WK/CCH titles in the Westlaw secondary sources… Continue reading
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