A/P department?
Jim
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Janet Fischer <jfischer@ggu.edu> wrote:
> I don't know about the headnotes, but I do know that they've outsourced
> their A/P dept. to India, and it's been a disaster. At least from where I
> sit.
>
> Janet
>
> Janet Fischer
> Collection Development/Government Documents Librarian
> Golden Gate University Law Library
> 536 Mission Street
> San Francisco, CA 94105
> phone: 415-442-7826
> fax: 415-512-9395
> email: jfischer@ggu.edu
> http://www.ggu.edu/lawlibrary
>
> >>> "Brian Baker" <bbaker@sjcl.edu> 3/11/2008 4:43 PM >>>
> In 2004 there was a lot of discussion on law-lib about Thomson West
> outsourcing a portion of their headnote/digest writing to another
> country - India, I believe.
>
> Does anyone know what happened with that experiment. Did it take hold,
> or get dropped, and when?
>
> I am curious about whether the practice was successful and fully
> implemented.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Brian
>
> Brian L. Baker, JD, MLS
> Director of the Law Library
> & Professor of Law
> San Joaquin College of Law
> E: bbaker@sjcl.edu V: 559-323-2100 F: 559-323-5566
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> As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both
> instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
> unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of
> change in the air however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of
> the darkness.
> Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)
>
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