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April 8, 2022

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

Looking back at vendors and the AALL Annual Meeting Recently, registration opened for the 2022 AALL Annual Meeting (shameless promotion! Register here) and I began to think about past conferences. Luckily, and perhaps amazingly, AALL keeps a record online of all past conference locations going back to the first meeting in 1906 (help in Narragansett… Continue reading

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Legal Vendors

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AALL, annual meeting, French Lick Indiana, vendors
March 11, 2022

What makes a “good” vendor?

Deciding the criteria for a “good” vendor is a personalized and complicated question to answer. The needs and priorities of libraries vary tremendously even in the (relatively!) small world of law libraries. While the exact importance of factors may vary, I suggest that these are items we should be reviewing when we review vendors: Product.… Continue reading

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Legal Vendors

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evaluation, New Product, social justice, usage statistics, vendors
November 16, 2021

Inflation & CRIV

Recently inflation is in the news (see the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and AP). Rising inflation is a hot economic topic as the prices for many common items soar. Even bacon is 20% more expensive from 2020 to 2021. Bacon! So, what does this have to do with CRIV? Well, potentially nothing, but… Continue reading

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Legal Vendors

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inflation, negotiation, Vendor negotiation, vendors

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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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vendors

Let’s Do the Time Warp Again

What makes a “good” vendor?

Inflation & CRIV