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Librarian News Digest

Vol. 2, No. 37

Building a new intranet is my full time job right now, so my reading list tends to lean in that direction. Luckily, for all of us, there are three articles this morning from LLRX and FUMSI on intranets and SharePoint. Read more at:

• The social intranet – white paper, case study, webinar and a PR stunt – Martin Belam, FUMSI
• SharePoint do’s and don’ts – James Mullan, FUMSI
• Help with SharePoint is on the way in The Adventures of SharePoint Reading Bee (c) Animated Series – Lorette Weldon, LLRX

Librarian News Digest

Vol. 2, No. 37

Full disclosure, I worked with Kingsley – who seems to have risen to one name fame – while at Dorsey and Whitney. Back then, both of us trudged our way through one transactional document after another. My job was looking for unique clauses, Kingsley’s job was building model documents. I moved on but Kingsley never gave up on perfecting the system for building and using model documents to do transactional work. You might even say he has a passion for it.

While working at Thomson West, Kingsley met Trace Liggett – one of the brains behind West km. They formed a partnership and kiiac was born. I’ve since spent time with Kingsley learning about kiiac and have to say that the ACC couldn’t have picked a better solution/partner for its members. Read more about ACC/kiiac at Toby Brown’s 3 Geeks and a law blog post, ACC Brings the Future to its Members or The ACC KIIAC System Goes Live. Note: If after reading the post, you think kiiac is a system of model documents, think again. A demonstration of the product (ACC/kiiac or kiiac on its own) will show you it’s a system for practicing transactional law.

Librarian News Digest

Vol. 2, No. 37

I usually agree with Jason Wilson, VP at Jones McClure Publishing, and blogger at rethinck. His understanding of current practices in publishing and what access to information will look like in the future makes for interesting reading. Today though in his 3 Geeks and a law blog guest post, Flattening Content: Why Legal Publishers Will Shun Customization, he misses the point that Jean O’Grady intended in her recent Dewey B.Strategic post. What do you think?

Librarian News Digest

Vol. 2, No. 36

“After many years of planning, last June, the Canadian Association of Law Libraries/Association canadienne des bibliothèques de droit presented a week long program called the New Law Librarians’ Institute.” So says Karen Sawatzky’s Slaw post, A New Law Librarian’s Institute. The emphasis here changes depending on you interpretation of “new.” In this case the law librarian is new to her work. Karen reports on two librarians in their motive’s for attendance and the experience that follows.

Librarian News Digest

Vol. 2, No. 36

I was first introduced to legal KM in 1986 when a visionary library director convinced her firm to support a program where four “information specialists” went about the work of collecting the knowledge held by firm members. Part of her program included charging clients a discounted flat rate for the work that was based on the hours worked to create the agreement, brief, etc. that was being reused. It was an innovative program in its time that challenged the four of us who were hired to do the work. Did the plan for charging clients work? No. Blame it on the billable hour that was strong then and trying its best to hold on now. Read more about the billable hour and its effect on legal KM in Chris Boyd’s ILTA KM post, Challenges For Law Firm KM: The Billable Hour Model?