This document discusses how law firm libraries can partner with membership libraries like the New York Law Institute (NYLI) to share costs and provide just-in-time access to information resources. It notes that law firm libraries are moving from ownership to access models due to budget pressures. NYLI provides benefits like interlibrary loans, ebook access, remote access to databases, and research services through cost-sharing partnerships. This collaborative approach allows lawyers to access needed information when they need it, reduces costs for firms, and increases productivity for library staff. The document provides examples of how NYLI integrates its collections into member firm catalogs and libraries through tools like a seamless catalog module and SharePoint widget.
Partnering With Membership Libraries for Cost Sharing and Just-in-time Access to Information Resources
1. Partnering With Membership Libraries
for Cost Sharing and Just-in-time
Access to Information Resources
Best Practices & Management Strategies For Law
Firm Library & Information Service Centers
Ralph Monaco
Executive Director
The New York Law Institute
2. Just in Case to Just in Time Model
• Law firm libraries are migrating from ownership to access model
• Pressure to continuously cut the library budget
• Reduction of physical plant requires continued migration to
digital format
• Looking to collaborative technology to fulfill the information
needs of attorneys
• Continue same level or increase practice support service
3. Membership Libraries Provide a Cost-effective
Approach for:
• Real-time Interlibrary Loans
• Provide Access to E-books
• Remote Access to database collections
• Document retrieval
• Research services
• Support for branch libraries
4. Benefits of Collaborative Effort
• Lawyers have access to what they need when they need it
• Elimination of marginally used print treatises and other serials
• Further reduction in physical plant
• Increase productivity of Debevoise circulation and Research
staff
• Cost avoidance of acquiring databases provided by NYLI
• Library department seen as being responsive to the economic
challenges facing the firm and the legal industry
10. eBook Loans
Title Publisher
Attorneys and Expert Witnesses CRC Press
Beyond Common Sense : Psychological Science in the
Courtroom
Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Corporate Finance : A Practical Approach Wiley
Dark Web Springer
Islamic Commercial Law Wiley
Managing Country Risk : A Practitioner's Guide to
Effective Cross-Border Risk Analysis
CRC Press
Neuroeconomics : Decision Making and the Brain Elsevier Science
Oil and Development in Venezuela during the 20th
Century
ABC-CLIO
Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy Oxford University Press, USA
Private Equity : History, Governance, and Operations Wiley
Seduction by Contract : Law, Economics, and
Psychology in Consumer Markets
OUP Oxford
The Anatomy of Japanese Business Taylor & Francis
The Market Approach to Valuing Businesses Wiley
The Psychology of Eyewitness Identification Taylor & Francis
Whistle-blowing in Organizations Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
11. Curated List of Content Areas
Content Area Number of Titles
By EBL Category
Include "Law" 8381
Include "Pharmacy" 2621
Include "Engineering: Chemical" 3412
Include "Engineering: Electrical" 7117
Include "Engineering: Mechanical" 1175
Include "Engineering: Computer Science/IT" 2617
Include "Engineering: Environmental" 1476
By LC Class
Include HG - Finance 4244
Include HJ - Public Finance 446
Include HD - Industry/Labor (exclude Agriculture HD
1401-2210) 12194
Include HE - Transportation & Communications 873
Include HT - Communities, Classes, Urban Planning 1126
Include K - Law 5000
By Keyword
Exclude "for Dummies"
Include "genome" 1595
TOTAL 52277
12. • Seamless Catalog
• SharePoint Widget
• Webinars
Just in Case…NYLI is there…Just in Time!
Optimizing the Collaborative Effort
14. Seamless Catalog
• Embedding a library within a library
– The NYLI Seamless Catalog Module enables our member
libraries that use EOS to directly integrate our entire
collection, seamlessly within their own catalog
– The NYLI Seamless Catalog Module is a bridge between
NYLI’s sizeable print and digital collection and our users.
It embeds NYLI’s collection into the members’ OPAC
rather than necessitating that members come to our
website directly.
19. SharePoint Widget
• Our SharePoint widget will offer
integration of our collection to those
member libraries that don’t use EOS.
• Will offer both federated search and a
search of our OPAC.