We’re deep in the heart of Texas in San Antonio for the AALL Annual Meeting and Conference.
We’re busy hosting advisory breakfasts and talking to our fellow librarians about Practising Law Institute Discover PLUS but make sure you stop by our booth, # 218!
We have a raffle prize you won’t want to miss.
PLI is hosting a Librarian Advisory Lunch at the SLA 2014 Annual Conference in Vancouver and we would like to extend our warmest invitation to you!
The Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding a Librarian Advisory Lunch at SLA 2014. PLI is developing a taxonomy with the aim of making our content even easier to find and discover online and will showcase our prototype over lunch. We will demonstrate the exciting future enhancements that are currently planned for Practising Law Institute’s Discover PLUS, our eBook library containing our authoritative legal Treatises, Answer Books, Course Handbooks, Program Transcripts, and Forms.
Our lunch will take place on Monday, June 9th from 12:00 – 2:00 PM at the Convention Center. Please email libraryrelations@pli.edu to RSVP and we’ll include location details in your confirmation.
We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!
The American Library Association has released an extensive report that indicates data and library trends over the past year, and is made available as a free digital supplement during National Library Week!
Within this report you can peruse information on eBooks and other digital content; how public, school and academic libraries are evolving; how social media is increasing in libraries and which medias are most effective; and how libraries continue to provide public outreach.
The report can be found on the American Library Association website or by clicking on this link.
In honor of National Library Week, Practising Law Institute if offering librarians a discount to our Answer Books for today only (4/16/2014). The offer today is 65% off the entire 19 Volume Answer Book Series . Or a 40% discount off 1 Answer Book of your choice. This offer is $1,675 for the 19 Volume Answer Book Series, which is a retail value of $4,785.
The Library Relations team would also like to encourage you to access our online publications through a subscription to PLI Discover PLUS. A subscription to PLUS gives you access our Course Handbooks, Treatises and Answer Books. You can also search for PLI Forms to provide legal templates for your day-to-day tasks, and transcripts to many of our PLI programs and seminars.
From the Library Relations team at PLI, enjoy the recognition you and your library deserve!
The Library Relations team has created a page specifically for our newsletter, the Library Ledger. This page allows you to access the current and also previous editions of the Library Ledger. So you can keep up to date about the latest news on PLI Discover PLUS’s content, recent enhancements, search tips, research help, and important announcements!
PLI and LLAGNY have teamed up to offer free one-hour audio briefings for librarians, researchers, attorneys, and allied professionals. Last month we offered a session on moving from two legal database vendors to one, which is now available on-demand!
Our new economic world continually requires cost savings as a constant standard. Law Firms, Legal Departments and Government Libraries have subscribed to multiple major legal vendors since the 1980s. But currently, there are questions as to whether this should remain the standard. Can legal research be effectively performed with only one database? If a choice has to be made, how will that affect the efficacy of legal research?
Lecture Topics:
The program faculty members are: Nancy Hancock of CURRENT ISSUES: A Library Service; Susan van Beek-McKenna of Budd Larner, P.C.; and Tanya Whorton of Crowell & Moring, LLP.
This briefing, featuring instruction from experts in library management, was conceived and created in cooperation with the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY) and Practising Law Institute (PLI). This briefing is chaired by Janice E. Henderson, Patricia Barbone and Jill Gray.
Click here to listen to the on-demand program.
PLI and LLAGNY have teamed up to offer free one-hour audio briefings for librarians, researchers, attorneys, and allied professionals. Next up, we’re offering a session on changing from two legal database vendors to one.
Our new economic world continually requires cost savings as a constant standard. Law Firms, Legal Departments and Government Libraries have subscribed to multiple major legal vendors since the 1980s. But currently, there are questions as to whether this should remain the standard. Can legal research be effectively performed with only one database? If a choice has to be made, how will that affect the efficacy of legal research?
Lecture Topics:
The program faculty members are: Nancy Hancock of CURRENT ISSUES: A Library Service; Susan van Beek-McKenna of Budd Larner, P.C.; and Tanya Whorton of Crowell & Moring, LLP.
This briefing, featuring instruction from experts in library management, was conceived and created in cooperation with the Law Library Association of Greater New York (LLAGNY) and Practising Law Institute (PLI). This briefing is chaired by Janice E. Henderson, Patricia Barbone and Jill Gray.
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Please note this program has expired. If you are interested in current PLI Library Programs, please visit www.pli.edu/libraryaudiobriefings
On Monday July 15th 2013 at the 106th American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting & Conference, Practising Law Institute announced its lucky sweepstakes winner, Ruck DeMinico of Merlin Law Group.
Tell us a little about yourself, your work, and what a typical day looks like for you:
I started off my legal career as a trial attorney and litigated for the first dozen years, trying a couple hundred jury trials. I had always been interested in librarianship and decided to go back to get my degree and work at what I really enjoyed. I don’t know that there is a typical day – unless controlled chaos can be considered typical. Being a sole librarian for a firm with offices on both coasts and in seven states, research questions can come in on any jurisdiction and, as in any private firm, they are all considered rush/priority by the sender and can come at any time of the day or night. I also handle the traditional library functions, vendor relations, DMS/KM, edit and maintain the firm blogs, create handout materials and PowerPoints for presentations by firm attorneys at seminars, and along with the Managing Attorney and COO am a member of the firm’s Management team.
Have you kayaked before? Where will you take your Discover PLUS branded Kayak:
I have, in the Miami/Everglades area. I love canoeing and spend as much free time as I can on the rivers here in Florida. I’m looking forward to exploring the mangroves around Tampa Bay with the kayak and may take fishing back up now that I can maneuver in the mangroves.
What do you like most about your job as Knowledge Manager of Merlin Law Group:
The constant change in what I’m doing. Every day is different, with new challenges.
As an attorney and law librarian, what do you think are the most challenging issues/trends shaping the legal industry today?:
I would say ESI/e-discovery, especially for smaller cases that may still have large amounts of electronic data to provide – where the use of vendors may be cost prohibitive.
Are you familiar with Discover PLUS, PLI’s eBook library? Did you receive a demo at PLI’s booth at the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Conference in Seattle:
I did see the demo at AALL. I like the ‘all-inclusive’ business model, rather than having to choose which individual books to purchase or subscribe to.
Discover PLUS provides complete online access to PLI’s Course Handbooks, Treatises, Answer Books, Legal Forms and Program Transcripts.
We continue to make enhancements to Discover PLUS, and look forward to the evolution of the platform in the years to come. Click on the image to watch a web tutorial.
Questions? Contact the Library Relations Help Desk:
libraryrelations@pli.edu
877.900.5291
In just a couple of weeks, the Library Relations Team at Practising Law Institute will be in Seattle for The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Meeting (July 13-16). This year, we are proud to be the recipient of AALL’s 2013 New Product of the Year Award for PLI’s eBook library, Discover PLUS.
We know everyone’s conference schedules get booked fast with all the interesting sessions and networking events going on, but we look forward to meeting you!
We’re exhibiting at booth #116 where we will be raffling off a Discover PLUS REI Wilderness Systems Pungo 120 Kayak and Paddle. Sign up at our booth or online for a chance to win! And come join us for a “Lunch & Learn” on Sunday, July 14th. Our Director of Library Relations, Alexa Robertson, will demo Discover PLUS and lunch is on us! Please RSVP to libraryrelations@pli.edu and we’ll send you the location and more information.
See you in Seattle!