I have to say this article makes me laugh as it was both of the big legal publishing companies over the past two decades who have been repeatedly telling firms that they didn’t need librarians so much any more because their products could go straight to the lawyers without those pesky librarians getting in the way due to increased efficiencies in their tech and content.
Of course the opposite has proven to be true..
I think i may have been reporting on this market for too long!
I have now seen the same arguments come and go at least a dozen times since the early 1990’s (yes that’s how lonjg I’ve been at this game)
Just remember kids, whenever you read “content” from these companies at the heart of what they write is a sales pitch for their products however it might be dressed up…
Here’s the intro to this latest TR influencer piece
As GenAI continues to work its way into the legal sphere, law librarians are working to find their place in the new paradigm, according to a panel from the recent AALL Conference
CHICAGO — It’s clear that the law librarian and information professional community are in a state of flux. On one hand, law firms and academic institutions are more aware of the value of their library and research than ever before, according to the Thomson Reuters Institute’s recent Staffing Ratio Survey.
The survey found that law firms have reversed a recent trend in law library personnel and associated costs, taking what had been a 4.7% decline between 2017-2022 in the number of library and research personnel as compared to the rest of the firm, and turning that into 5.3% growth in personnel over the past year. In fact, of all the individual roles measured by the survey, knowledge management professionals (+26.3%) and library & research management (+9.8%) saw the largest year-over-year growth in terms of full-time equivalent employees.
https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/technology/genai-law-libraries/
