I know it is harder for public law libraries to think in these terms,
but firms surely can. A few years ago I would never have dreamed our
firm would cancel all West reporters in one office and all copies of
CJS, but we have done without those West products for a number of years
now (not one single, solitary complaint). (Those un-necessary CJS
volumes were the last straw with me.) I am much more inclined to think
at this juncture that we could do without a number of other titles.
Attorneys are frequently just as "bottom-line oriented" and "pocket-book
conscious" as West, and I have been preparing for a number of months now
to point out to mine just how much West is charging us for other
reporter volumes and some particularly high-priced treatises. West
may think (and hope) that we will then all be forced to access Westlaw
for what we have relinquished in print. 'Tain't necessarily so. Who's
to say we won't be encouraging our attorneys to pull that material from
Lexis instead.
Opinions express herein are my own and not necessarily those of the law
firm.
Teresa Neaves
Librarian
Mitchell, McNutt & Sams, P.A.
P.O. Box 7120 (38802)
105 S. Front St.
Tupelo, MS 38804
662-620-6254
662-842-8450 (Fax)
tneaves@mitchellmcnutt.com <blocked::mailto:tneaves@mitchellmcnutt.com>
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
Behalf Of Frye, Nanna
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 11:40 AM
To: Lee Warthen; Kendall F. Svengalis; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: RE: Svengalis on West pricing
I think for a boycott to be effective here, one would have to boycott
the product itself, not the freebies or the exhibits. Which of us can
boycott West's products?!?
Nanna Frye, Law Librarian
Court of Appeal
San Diego, CA
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