I'm concerned about the monopoly this creates. My experience with
Accurint is that the information is not as complete and "clean," i.e.,
lots of duplicates and misinformation. We always found Choicepoint to
be worth the slightly higher cost. The only alternative after this
acquisiton would be Westlaw.
Barbara
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
Behalf Of Hill, Byron C.
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:50 AM
To: Daley, Laurie; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: [LAW-LIB:54789] RE: Reed Elsevier to Acquire Choicepoint
I have one suggestion -- refuse to sign any vendor
contract that includes a confidentiality clause. As librarians, we
specialize in information and yet voluntarily restrict our ability to
share the most fundamental budgeting information with each other -- how
much does something cost? I would like to see AALL adopt a policy
against confidentiality clauses so that we do not have to battle this
issue individually. Confidentiality clauses are strictly and
completely for the benefit of the vendors -- they not only do us no good
at all, they significantly weaken our position as information consumers
and professional managers.
Byron
Byron Hill
Bowditch & Dewey, LLP
Worcester - Framingham - Boston, MA
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu
[mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Daley, Laurie
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 10:19 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: [LAW-LIB:54788] RE: Reed Elsevier to Acquire
Choicepoint
This is ridiculous. Pretty soon we are going to have to pay $99
for a report that used to cost us $1. It's pretty clear that AALL is
hamstrung on this kind of issue. What can we do about these things?
Do we as individual librarians need to take a more activist role? What
can we do?
Thanks,
Laurie Daley
Bullivant Houser Bailey
Portland, OR 97204
From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu
[mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Stephanie Huthmacher
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:49 AM
To: Weiss Judith; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: [LAW-LIB:54785] RE: Reed Elsevier to Acquire
Choicepoint
I know many people migrated from Accurint to Choicepoint because
of Accurint's outrageous price increases... expect the same outrageous
increases from Choicepoint... Monoploy is not just a board game...
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu
[mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On Behalf Of Weiss Judith
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2008 7:42 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: [LAW-LIB:54784] Reed Elsevier to Acquire Choicepoint
From a LexisNexis news release (2/21/08)
I am pleased to let you know that earlier today our parent
company, Reed Elsevier Group plc, announced its intention to acquire
ChoicePoint Inc., a leading provider of identification and credential
verification services to individuals, businesses, and governments.
ChoicePoint will be combined with our Risk & Information Analytics
Group, the unit that currently serves your business needs. (Additional
text omitted).
LN already owns Accurint...does this mean that Accurint and
AutoTrack will merge someday..?
Judith M. Weiss
Library Manager
Corporate Library, Suite 360
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation
1200 K Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20005-4026
202-326-4000, ext. 3091
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