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The trouble with secondary sources in WestlawNext

With WestlawNext (WLN) finally going live for law school faculty, librarians and staff yesterday afternoon, many law school librarians are finally getting permanent access to the much-hyped interface.

On professional communication and vendor relations

Last July, while traveling home from the AALL Annual Meeting, I had a layover in St. Louis. During this travel break I checked Twitter from my phone to see if anything conference-related had happened while I was in the air. Well, the best I could find was a vendor who had used a hashtag that some of my friends and I had used to identify our clique that week.

WestlawNext and the future of legal research instruction

As I mentioned in my previous post, I traveled to Eagan, Minnesota (on Thomson Reuters' dime) earlier this week along with several other writers to get a sneak peek at Thomson Reuters' new legal research product, West

Video discussion of WestlawNext

Thomson Reuters invited a group of legal information professionals, writers and thinkers to Eagan, Minnesota on Monday and Tuesday for a preview of its new product, WestlawNext. I was among those who made the trip.

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