From On Firmer Ground:

Recently while speaking at the Ark Group’s Best Practices & Management Strategies for Law Firm Library & Information Service Centers conference in New York, I said something that seemed to really resonate with the audience. I was talking about methods for driving resource utilization and optimization, when I shared my opinion that there is little room in the law firm information industry for passive librarians. What we need to survive and thrive as a profession, I postulated, are true activist librarians. Judging by the discussion after my presentation and the tweets I saw online, my point hit home.

What is an “activist librarian” you ask? It’s usually not what many of us were taught to be and definitely not what most folks envision our roles to be. There was once a time when firm librarians, when not shelving books, could bide their time at their desks waiting for the work to come to them. That is not to say that we have not always been busy. But the nature of the beast that we call law firm workflow has changed. Reference desks, physical libraries, the things that anchored us in days gone by are going away themselves. If we want to avoid going with them, we have to get out and get upfront with our services and our skills.

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