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36 SCCLL News 1 (2010)

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View From The Chair
Anne Matthewman, SCCLL Chair
For a number of reasons it took me a long time to get this Chair's message
written. January is always an extremely busy time administratively for the To-
ronto Lawyers' Association. On top of that the Library was busier than usual
for January. A busy library is a good thing, allowing us to market our services
and keeping the statistics on an upswing. I find there is something energiz-
ing about the constant movement - it just makes me wish there were more
hours in the day.
My original plan had been to write about influence as I attended an excellent
program in September which covered influence and how to make it work for
you on the job. It is obvious to me that influence is critical in keeping the
concerns of SCCLL type libraries on the radar screen of our patrons, funders
and other supporters. However, there are a few other things I want to report
to you now so I will leave the theories and practicalities of influence for an-
other time.
In early January, Kathy Carlson and I had a telephone conference with Mark
Schwartz of West. This conference call was part of a continuing dialogue
which SCCLL and West have had for a few years. This dialogue was instituted
so that West could learn about the concerns of government librarians. When
we met with West during the conference in Washington three issues were left
on the table for further discussion: patron access and downloading restric-
tions on Westlaw, the status of LMAs, and the opportunity for focus groups
with government librarians. During the January call we learned that restric-
tions on emailing and downloading are the result of agreements which West-
law has with third party providers. Mark told us that West has been spend-
ing some time streamlining the process for Library Management Agreements
and that the contracts are now more flexible. West is interested in hearing
whether people are happy with these changes which should result in bigger
changes at the front end of the contract. Kathy and I suggested that the

A busy library is a good
thing, allowing us to mar-
ket our services and keep-
ing the statistics on an
upswing.

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