CRIV CONNECTION

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

  • LexisNexis Semiannual Update: January 2026

    Author: Leanna Simon, Director, Research and Intelligence, Honigman LLP On December 5, 2025, AALL’s Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) conducted its semiannual call with LexisNexis Legal & Professional. This update covers significant product enhancements, strategic partnerships, and critical considerations for law librarians managing vendor relationships and AI implementations. As CRIV’s charge emphasizes facilitating… Continue reading

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  • New Year, New Way to Access Wolters Kluwer Sources at Brooklyn Law School

    Guest Author: Hannah Freeman, Technology & Reference Librarian, Brooklyn Law School Library Brooklyn Law School (BLS) Library began to use OpenAthens as our authentication provider in August 2025. After a few months, we learned that our subscription with Wolters Kluwer (WK) products, VitalLaw and Kluwer Arbitration, were incompatible with OpenAthens. Initially, OpenAthens authentication worked with both products, but later broke down. BLS patrons use VitalLaw to access legal treatises such as Farnsworth… Continue reading

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  • Machine Translation Options

    Author: Deanna Barmakian, Research Librarian, Harvard Law School Library Attorneys and students are increasingly working with foreign legal materials, causing librarians to license and troubleshoot foreign legal databases and add foreign titles to collections without fluency. Like it or not, machine translation is a necessary crutch. There were already good free/freemium tools and now GenAI… Continue reading

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  • Professional Development Planning: 2026 CRIV Related Programming and Conferences

    Author: Laurel Moran, Assistant Director, San Diego Law Library This year, I have decided to be more intentional and focused on my professional development. Perhaps it is because I sign up for webinars that I too often fail to attend, do not have time for, or forget to calendar. Last year left me feeling distracted… Continue reading

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  • Getting Up to Speed with Vendors and WCAG

    Author: Syd L. Stephenson, Technical Services & Systems Librarian, Thurgood Marshall State Law Library The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are an especially hot topic with the WCAG and ADA Title II compliance deadline coming up in April 2026. Law librarians are working diligently to ensure that the resources they provide to patrons meet these… Continue reading

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