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Link roundup: future of law libraries, Google?s Intranet, CI in law firms

By Jason

I have not had time to write full posts on all these items, but think they’re important enough to note.

• Nick at Binary Law posted a great summary of a discussion about law libraries going on in the blogosphere. The discussion is over a report of firms downsizing law libraries in the Birmingham Business Journal. As Nick notes, the truth of this depends on your definition of law libraries. As I have mentioned in the past, law firm librarians are going to have to expand into new areas of service (like KM, CI, and Personal Information Management) to remain relevant in the future.
• Steve Matthews had an interesting post over at SLAW about Google’s internal applications. The original post he links to at Google Blogscoped has a detailed description of all the internal applications covered at a KMWorld Magazine web seminar. Some of these projects look really cool. I particularly like the concept behind Google Ideas where employees rate each others ideas and suggestions.
• Dennis Kennedy posted about competitive intelligence this week. He put together an interesting roundtable discussion of CI, available at Law Practice, which is a must-read for anyone interested in this service in law firms.

Full post as published by Jason the Content Librarian on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).