Program I-6: The Frugal Librarian: Pinching Pennies (Relatively) Painlessly in Your Law Firm Library

摘要

As defined by speaker Michael Saint-Onge, "frugal" is practicing economy with others' money. In the "death time slot" (right before lunch), this long-time AALL participant and team leader for LexisNexis Librarian Relations set out a number of relatively painless ways to pinch pennies in response to flat or falling budgets. Quickly identifying budget as the number one challenge for all types of law librarians today, he used his own expertise and responses from e-mails received on the Private Law Libraries online discussion list to illustrate the paradigm shift from formerly rigorous purchasing practices, complicated by staff downsizing and lost space.