Here’s the editorial and Table of Contents from the latest edition which goes out to subscribers tommorrow…
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Editorial
Dear Readers,
Welcome to issue 183 ?of Law Librarians News / excited utterances
? ?????Snap I Found It
? ?????Project Utah
? ?????Project Cobalt
The above might not mean much to you now but once the sales teams are out in force you?ll certainly be aware.
Bloomberg announced last week that they intend the? change the face of legal research in the 21st century? and ?Snap I Found It? (we presume this phrase has already been TM?d) is what we?ve all been waiting for. We really can?t tell you much more about ?Snap I Found It? except that it is ?Fabulous?, ?. Because they?ve provided a soft launch but not much else in terms of information.
Meanwhile TR West are halfway to Roswell with projects Utah & Cobalt.
We can?t really go into the details of these projects as our only hint of them comes from a report by Scotia Capital (see story in our news section). There are lots of words like leverage, architecture, accounts etc. As far as we can work out it?s all about integrating the legal, financial and news products together in one seamless offering. Good idea.. but probably a much better idea in 2005 than it in 2009.
We imagine that ?TR West probably only saw Lexis as the competitor when it set these projects into motion. Now that Bloomberg have come to the party and Wolters Kluwer are picking up their game in the US as well as international markets we imagine the TR West sales team are going to have a very hard sell job ? especially if the new integration means higher prices to customers to pay for the investment.
And talking of Lexis one of our most reliable sources on the company tells us that ?in the UK LN have hired two competing consultancy teams, one from the US and one from the UK to ?
develop competing approaches to outsourcing and offshoring. ??Does this mean that In effect, it?s a competition between these two consultancies to identify the “most effective” scheme ?for moving the business out of the UK. ?LLN presumes we shall see early to mod next year.
In other news Joy ?references an article in KIM Legal Magazine ?entitled entitled Retrieving Legal Knowledge.. here?s the introductory extract
Given the current legal services environment, where costs are scrutinised and competition is strong, law firms are increasingly relying on knowledge management to streamline processes as well as to help to attract and retain clients. Professor Georg Disterer and Thomas Fleischer explore intranet and search engine user behaviour ? and how both processes can be optimised.
Thanks as always ?for reading and we look forward to seeing you again in the next issue of LLN/eu
Best wishes Sean & Joy
excited utterances
Articles
In Defence of a Chief Knowledge Officer
Retrieving Legal Knowledge
Social Business Design
Automating the Sales Contracting Process: Dow Jones and DLA Piper
Legal Professionals and Web 2.0 – ALLA presentation
Books
Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities
LLN News Stories
Project Utah ?Project ?Colbalt
Bloomberg Law Is Here … Well Sort Of ?
BIALL Working With CILIP To Produce An Article On Effect Of Recession On Legal Librarians & KM?s
BIALL Call For Papers 2010
Features / Vendor Articles
In our new section vendor articles/features we will feature pieces written by employees at legal publishing, legal technology, legal KM ?and ?legal web 2.0 companies. If articles have been paid for we will always let you know
Jordan Furlong :Law 21 – ?Size & The Legal Media
Conferences and Events
ASLIB Negotiating Online Subscriptions (half day workshop), 16 October 2009 (pm), at Bonhill House, London
The Commercial, Legal and Scientific Information Group (CLSIG) invite you to their latest seminar: Marketing Matters ??
EUDUG (European Databases User Group)
SLA Europe – Free vs. Fee – The Future of News ?
Internet Librarian International 2009 London, UK
Legal Information Technology Conference (LIT-Con) Orlando, Florida
Taxonomies, Search and SharePoint How-to (via teleconference)
Hitwise
Australian Business and Finance – Legal ? All sites ? Monthly rankings for the month of September, 2009 ? Ranks by ‘Visits’
Charon QC
The Supreme Court Is Open For Business
Blogs Du Jour
Article: Is the iPhone Ready for Law Firms?
Article: 5 Reasons for Lawyers to Use Social Media.
Blog Article: The private sector follows the Marines into the “cone of silence” by banning social media at work.
Blog Article: Lists from Twitter: Nests of Tweeps
The RECAP Project: Princeton (USA)
Website: Data Australia
Website: Lexwiser
Websites: Useful USA Info
Trawling
Article (Referenced Via Linked In Group): Organization of Legal Professionals for e-Discovery Launches
Article: CIAB Teaming With LexisNexis To Create Insurance Exchange
Article: LexisNexis Introduces Transparent Semantic Search Technology for Patent Research
Blog Article: While West “Salutes” Law Librarians During “These Tough Economic Times,” Law Librarians’ Economic Agendas Have Real Consequences
Blog Article: Keeping Up with the USSC
Blog Article: Martindale-Hubbell ? irrelevant
Blog Article: Size and the Legal Media
Blog Article: How Might the Advent of E-Readers Affect the Creation and Distribution of Legal Textbooks?
Blog Article: Legal Informatics Resources
Blog Post: More On Social Media & The Courts
Discussion / Comments Linked In: Does anyone have any hands-on experience with the Google Wave? Anyone start thinking about how apps like this may affect the legal industry? I would appreciate any input. Thanks!
Institute Of Advanced Legal Studies (UK) News: The latest IALS Library News is now available on the IALS Library
Interview: The Editor interviews John Lipsey, Vice President, Corporate Counsel Services at LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell.
Legal Technology Insider News
US State Bar Recognises Attorney Internet Advertising Is Different
Neil Cameron Consulting – small firms not spending enough to survive?
Law Librarians, Legal KM & Legal Publishing Jobs Board
Law Librarians Of Leisure Jobs Listings (USA)
Records Manager, Law Firm, Boston, MA <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/14/records-manager-law-firm-boston-ma/>
Law Librarian, Hunter Maclean, Savannah, Georgia <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/14/law-librarian-hunter-maclean-savannah-georgia/>
Senior Conflicts Analyst, Davis, Polk & Wardwell LLP, NY <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/14/senior-conflicts-analyst-davis-polk-wardwell-llp-ny/>
Reference Librarian, Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/13/reference-librarian-marian-gould-gallagher-law-library-university-of-washington-school-of-law-seattle-washington/>
Mid-level Research Analyst, Library Associates Companies, D.C. <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/09/mid-level-research-analyst-library-associates-companies-d-c/>
Library Assistant IV/Acquisitions/Cataloging Assistant, University of San Diego Legal Research Center, CA <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/09/library-assistant-ivacquisitionscataloging-assistant-san-diego-legal-research-center-ca/>
Head of Research Services, UC Irvine School of Law Library, CA <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/08/head-of-research-services-uc-irvine-school-of-law-library-ca/>
Director of Library and Research Services, Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, Philadelphia, PA <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/08/director-of-library-and-research-services-stradley-ronon-stevens-young-llp-philadelphia-pa/>
Director of the Law Library, Saint Louis University School of Law, MO <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/08/director-of-the-law-library-saint-louis-university-school-of-law-mo/>
Director, Dorraine Zief Law Library, University of San Francisco School of Law, CA <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/07/director-dorraine-zief-law-library-university-of-san-francisco-school-of-law-ca/>
Supervisory Librarian, U.S. Tax Court, D.C. <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/05/supervisory-librarian-u-s-tax-court-d-c/>
Head of Research and Reference Services, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Denver, CO <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/02/head-of-research-and-reference-services-u-s-court-of-appeals-for-the-tenth-circuit-denver-co/>
Reference Librarian, Ohio Northern University Law Library, OH <http://lawlibrariansofleisure.com/2009/10/01/reference-librarian-ohio-northern-university-law-library-oh/>
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Library Assistant
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