CRIV BLOG

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

  • Licensed Resources, Interlibrary Loan Requests, and Content Sharing

    We probably all know the frustration of not having immediate access to information that a user requests. We do all the things a librarian does to find the item in our organization’s information resources, on the open web, and through document delivery services or interlibrary loan. Then we might phone a friend, ask a vendor… Continue reading

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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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  • Selecting the Right Product or Service for Your Users

    Over the past few months, I have been the point person at my firm for needs assessment, evaluation, and product selection for seven information-related resources. This compressed period of product evaluation and contract negotiation gave me a chance to consider best practices and what has worked well for me. As you have probably experienced, some… 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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