and will they pass the then incurred cost savings onto the consumer due to the lack of multiple printing and mailing?
Scott Burgh
Chief Law Librarian
City of Chicago Department of Law Library
--- On Tue, 2/3/09, Kathie Sullivan <sullivan7132001@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Kathie Sullivan <sullivan7132001@yahoo.com>
Subject: [LAW-LIB:57966] RE: The Greening of Legal Information - A CRIV request
To: "Lorelei Broskey" <LoreleiBroskey@lehighcounty.org>, "Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki" <tracy.thompson@yale.edu>, law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 10:12 PM
not just being able to opt out....but what about not getting mulitples of each mailing? that is...clean up the mailing lists, make them current, then allow opt outs.
Kathie
Kathie Sullivan, B.S., M.L.S.
Principal
Sullivan Information Management Services
194 Valleyfield Drive
Colchester, Vermont 05446
Kathie@sullivaninfo.com or sims713@hotmail.com
www.sullivaninfo.com
802-655-7673 (ph)
802-238-0934 (cell)
From: Lorelei Broskey <LoreleiBroskey@lehighcounty.org>
To: Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki <tracy.thompson@yale.edu>; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 11:57:04 AM
Subject: [LAW-LIB:57961] RE: The Greening of Legal Information - A CRIV request
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
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
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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