Paul Lomio and the librarians at Stanford have an excellent blog, and a recent post titled, Happy Days No More, caught my eye. The post concerns the library’s unenviable task of dealing with the “sea change in library collections…forced by changing budgets.” In ordinary times vendor price increase can have a big effect, but in [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Library Budget’
May 15, 2009
Cost Recovery Practices Called into Question in Lawsuit
Last week a lawsuit was filed alleging that law firms overcharge for computerized legal research. You may be asking, “Are we profiting from online legal research?”
The May 7th edition of the National law Journal reports that New York’s Chadbourne & Parke faces litigation regarding allegedly using online contracts to create profits. Firms are reacting [...]
May 12, 2009
2009 Technology Trends
In a recent post, Dennis Kennedy laid out his technology trends for 2009. I’m especially intrigued by the first one, as it echos what we have been talking about in the library world.
1. Technology Budgets Get Decimated. At many firms, technology spending has crept up to be a substantial line-item on the firm’s budget. If [...]
