RE: Lexis gift - call me old fashioned

From: Davis, Barbara J. (DavisB@TAFTLAW.com)
Date: Mon Dec 22 2003 - 08:16:33 PST

Colleagues,

Maybe some of you don't remember the days when Lexis had trouble
recognizing the importance of our profession (it was their policy --
whether stated or otherwise -- that they dealt primarily with attorneys
on training and selling issues). The establishment of the Library
Relations Group was a major step forward and I know how hard they work
to keep us informed. It's not about the gift, folks! It's about their
work and ours.

Barbara J. Davis
Director of Library Services
Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP
425 Walnut Street Suite 1800
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-357-9403
E-mail: davisb@taftlaw.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Rumsey [mailto:rumse006@UMN.EDU]
Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2003 11:36 AM
To: Merring, Lynn; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re: Lexis gift - call me old fashioned

If a human being gives me a gift, I say thank you, but if a
multinational corporation sends me (and thousands of others) a
logo-encrusted, mass-produced, deductible-as-a-business-expense gift
that looks like a roach clip, I make fun of it.

Mary 

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Mary Rumsey
Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian
University of Minnesota Law Library
229 19th Ave. S./Minneapolis MN 55455
(612)625-2905

On 19 Dec 2003, Merring, Lynn wrote:
> But when someone gives me a gift I say thank you. If I don't like it, 
> I quietly dispose of it.
> 
> But, hey - that's just me.
> 
> Happy holidys - whatever you celebrate and whatever gifts you give.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Chiorazzi [mailto:michael.chiorazzi@law.arizona.edu]
> Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 2:45 PM
> To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu; lawlibdir
> Subject: Lexis gift
> 
> 
> It's Friday, exams are over, we just had our holiday party, and I'm 
> sitting here at my desk admiring my Lexis gift.  I don't know how many

> of you got this year's gift from the Lexis Library Relations group, 
> but it ranks right up there with my all-time favorites. =20
> 
> What better way to celebrate the holidays than with a desktop roach 
> clip!  Not to mention the floating pill thing.  It blew my mind...and 
> continues to do so.  =20
> 
> Hope everyone has a very mellow holiday season.=20
> 
> Peace.=20
> 
> Michael Chiorazzi
> Director and Professor of Law, Information Resources & Library Science

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