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		<title>Next-Generation Law Firm Libraries</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a post several weeks ago from 3 Geeks and Law Blog, bookmarked it and kept going back to it.  Several of the speakers mentioned in this Ark Conference review are law librarians I have admired and learned from in the past, and will no doubt continue to learn from into the future. When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=793&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online Records Doesn&#8217;t Always Mean Easy Access</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s Room for Knowledge Management in Open Records Over the past couple of months I have found myself doing a large amount of research in the realm of state legislation and regulations.  The one thing that is clear from this work is that while information is significantly easier to find than it used to be, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=799&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Song, A Coke and Scanning the World&#8217;s Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I despise duplication of effort.  Therefore, when it came time to begin the planning for the digitization phase of a current project I did a bit of research. Apparently, Google is not the only one that has been out there digitizing library holdings.  Granted Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive seem to be concentrating on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=745&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Best Practices: A Perspective After 6 Months of Research and 3 Months of Presentations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 03:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday I concluded my 2009 Kentucky Law Update presentations with Stuart Adams on Social Media in the Law.  I spent the 3 days prior to the presentation updating the work done for the first presentation delivered  in early September.    As I told each of the audiences in 9 cities, social media changes constantly and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=687&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Growth Spurts Strain Information Management Processes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many times, companies that grow organically continue to use their information management processes that were in place before their adolescent growth spurt.  Using different buckets for shared content and locking down content is sometimes an obvious answer to information security issues. Sometimes, those lock downs decrease productivity more than secure information.  Collaboration is an important [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=662&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Attorneys Can Learn Social Media Too</title>
		<link>http://answermaven.com/2009/10/29/attorneys-can-learn-social-media-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Librarians are agents of change and leaders in technology.  A few years ago librarians began applying social media into their information service offerings.  The history of how this initiative began can be found in the background related to the Public Library of Charlotte-Mecklenburg County&#8217;s 23 Things project. This is a simple program that can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=646&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malleson&#8217;s Connect &#8211; An Exercise in Client Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are Law Firms Ready for Transparency? an article by V. Mary Abraham published September 12, 2009 on LLRX.com describes an innovation in client communication and work product. Transparency is one of those stock business phrases that seems to answer customer clamoring and digital expectations.  Technology can take transparency from the wish list to the implementation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=605&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legal Services Innovate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve often thought that small and mid-size law firms have an edge, especially in tough economic times.  Apparently, I&#8217;m right.  Law.com reports on a select consortia of these same firms called Meritas. In using their search function to locate firms in Kentucky only one firm was listed.  So then I got curious about how firms [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=539&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lines and Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SLA 2009 was engaging and full of educational and networking opportunities.  I was scheduled to return home on Friday, unfortunately that did not happen. I did receive the unexpected opportunity for education and networking while standing in various lines for 3 plus hours on Saturday.  My original plans called for a flight home on Friday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=487&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>De-Duplication</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a firm librarian, one of the first things I came to understand was the importance of having primary research sources in duplicate formats.  That was in 1996.  In 2008 it was still important but the financial realities were beginning to impact the ability to keep items in duplicate formats.   Today I suspect this is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=answermaven.com&#038;blog=3765988&#038;post=444&#038;subd=answermaven&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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