Michael Saint-Onge, Team Lead for the LexisNexis Customer Consulting Group, highlights some things to keep in mind for the law librarian of the future in the LexisNexis Librarian Relations Group Monthly Column for March 2009 entitled: Law Librarian 2.0: Building the Law Librarian of the Future.
Here's an excerpt:
Understanding the difference between merely tinkering with what is there and re-thinking it from scratch makes “Web 2.0” or Library 2.0” sound particularly intriguing, doesn’t it? What would those two things look like if we rebuilt them from scratch knowing what we know now?
That got me thinking about what the- “Law Librarian 2.0” might look like. What features will the new librarian need? (An interesting aside: what marketing language would we need to use so that lawyers and law firms will be inspired to upgrade?) While this list isn’t meant to be exhaustive, here are some features that are simply “must-haves” for Law Librarian 2.0: CLICK TO READ FULL COLUMN.
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