[LAW-LIB:57961] RE: The Greening of Legal Information - A CRIV request

From: Lorelei Broskey (LoreleiBroskey@lehighcounty.org)
Date: Tue Feb 03 2009 - 08:57:04 PST

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    Provide libraries an opt-out option for unsolicited mailings! YES!
     
    This is one of my pet peeves. The sample newsletters that don't even
    relate to our court really get me. See photo of a pile from last year.
    I've been calling publishers requesting my accounts be put on the no
    mail adverts lists for years. I would get one copy of an ad for every
    one of my Judge and office accounts. Sometime we'd get an entire bin of
    junk mail mixed in with real bills and it would take precious time just
    to open and sort it out.
     
    Now I only get one ad from each publisher, not upwards of 20. My daily
    mail is much easier to handle. But it really should be easier to opt
    out. And no one should be mailing a zillion sample newsletters. Since
    it's the marketing people who send the ads, there is often a real
    disconnect between the customer service people on the phone and the
    people who mail the stuff.
     

    Lorelei A. Broskey, MLS
    Director of Library and Information Services
    Lehigh County Law Library
    Phone 610-782-3308

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    From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
    Behalf Of Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki
    Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 10:45 AM
    To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
    Subject: [LAW-LIB:57959] The Greening of Legal Information - A CRIV
    request

    Hi Law-Libbers,
    CRIV received a great idea from the library staff at Fredrikson and
    Byron, P.A., in Minneapolis. The library director there, Rebekah
    Anderson, held a brainstorming session with the staff to think about
    ways the library could 'go green' to support the firm's green
    initiative. The group came up with the idea of contacting CRIV to see if
    we might help develop and promote some 'best practices' with legal
    information publishers and vendors. CRIV unanimously agreed that this
    was a perfect match for our charge and we'd like to develop a green best
    practices document to distribute to libraries and vendor/publishers. We
    need your ideas. How could information providers improve their carbon
    footprint? How might they support sustainable practices? Are you
    adopting environmentally friendly practices in your library? Please
    share your ideas with us by responding via e-mail to
    tracy.thompson@yale.edu.

    To get your creative juices flowing here are some of the ideas generated
    during the Fredrikson and Byron session:

    * Reduce packaging whenever possible; use recycled packaging
    material
    * Reduce the distribution of paper brochures and catalogs

            * provide e-mail links instead
            * ask staff of a particular library if they'd prefer to
    share a set of brochures and catalogs, rather than distributing a full
    set to each staff member

    * Provide libraries an opt-out option for unsolicited mailings
    * Provide donations to charity on behalf of customers, rather than
    cheap, gimmicky giveaways
    * Provide preferred pricing to customers to encourage electronic
    formats over print

    We look forward to hearing from you!

    Cheers,
    Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki, Chair
    Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV)

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    Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki, Executive Director
    New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO)
    55 Main St.
    Keene, New Hampshire 03431
    www.nellco.org
    <http://www.nellco.org/> 603-357-3385 (voice)
    603-357-2075 (fax)
    tracy.thompson@yale.edu

    "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." Ralph Waldo
    Emerson


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