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Too Many Cards on the Table? Practical Ways of Improving Your Current Awareness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2022

Clare Brown
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Abstract

This article by Clare Brown is based on a presentation given at the BIALL Online Annual Conference in June 2021. It takes the form of a case study that illustrates how library and information professionals can control the flow of information so as to avoid users being overwhelmed by news.

Keywords

law firmslegal informationcurrent awareness
Type
Five Papers from the BIALL Online Annual Conference 2021
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 21 , Issue 3-4 , December 2021 , pp. 192 - 195
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

1 Brown, Clare. (2021). ‘LIDA 2021 Conference Keynote: In a world of information ubiquity, knowledge is the most valuable asset.’ Vable. https://www.vable.com/blog/in-a-world-of-information-ubiquity-knowledge-is-the-most-valuable-asset accessed 12 August 2021.

2 McGillivray, Glenn. (2020). ‘Coronavirus is significant, but is it a true black swan event?’ The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-is-significant-but-is-it-a-true-black-swan-event-136675 accessed 12 August 2021.

3 Baram, Marcus. (2020). ‘Why the coronavirus crisis is a ‘gray rhino’ and not a ‘black swan.’ The Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/90475793/why-the-coronavirus-crisis-is-a-gray-rhino-and-not-a-black-swan accessed 12 August 2021.

4 ‘Yakima woman remembers Spanish flu of 1918, compares outbreak to coronavirus.’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LP2YDHplOXE accessed 12 August 2021.

5 Greene, Jenna. (2021). ‘The silence is deafening from top law firms on back-to-office plans.’ Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/silence-is-deafening-top-law-firms-back-to-office-plans-2021-08-11/ accessed 12 August 2021.

6 https://www.vable.com/client/-bedell-cristin-client-case-study accessed 12 August 2021.

7 https://www.vable.com/client/wfw-case-study accessed 12 August 2021.

8 Ibid. Accessed 12 August 2021.

9 Brown, Clare. (2021). ‘Is it time to rethink your automated current awareness solution?’ Vable. https://www.vable.com/blog/is-it-time-to-rethink-your-automated-current-awareness-solution accessed 16 August 2021.

10 https://www.vable.com/client/reed-smith-case-study accessed 12 August 2021.

11 https://www.vable.com/client/dinsmore-case-study accessed 12 August 2021.

12 https://www.vable.com/client/lex-mundi-testimonial accessed 16 August 2021.

13 Brown, Clare. (2021). ‘What is branding and why is it important to the library service especially during COVID-19?’ Vable. https://www.vable.com/blog/what-is-branding-and-why-is-it-important-to-library-services-especially-during-covid-19 accessed 12 August 2021.

14 Worley, Loyita. (2015). ‘Branding and Promoting Law Firm Libraries’. Legal Information Management, 15(3), 165-167CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

15 Ibid.

16 Kenneway, Melinda. (2006). ‘Branding for libraries: communicating your value to increase reader awareness and usage of the library service’. Serials: The Journal for The Serials Community. 19. 120-126CrossRefGoogle Scholar. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/250060875_Branding_for_libraries_communicating_your_value_to_increase_reader_awareness_and_usage_of_the_library_service accessed 19 August 2021.