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Will £50m outsourcing deal end in-house LIS?

This is the attention grabbing news headline from the April 2009 edition of the Library & Information Update. The deal in question is the one between Osborne Clarke and Integreon which has seen 80 Business Services staff including Library Staff "transferred to work at a...delivery centre in Bristol"

The article describes the deal in more details including the details of the teams moved and the impact the deal with have on personal and professional development. The question is, this a good move and will we see more of this type of outsourcing?

For a law firm the idea of sharing services might seem appealing especially in the current financial climate. I would question whether for those people who were working at Osborne Clarke the deal is a good thing and what this might mean for any Law Librarians who firms are considering outsourcing. What do BIALL members think though?

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on April 01, 2009 (boomark / email).