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Does it pay to hire a law firm Librarian?

"If you were designing a law firm today, would you even have a library? I think many, including me, would answer, ?Probably not.? As long as the Internet exists, information that was in a law library will be available online. So why bother, right?" Is the attention grabbing first paragraph of the rather interestingly named "Does it pay to hire a law firm Librarian?"

There are plenty of comments as you can imagine in response to this article and several follow up blog posts including the following;

• Do Law Firms still need Librarians?
• Debates on the value of Law Firm Librarians
• Who needs a Librarian anyway?
• A grain of salt and a teaspoon of sugar
• Librarians add value in Law Firms

If you read any of these blog posts you'll see that the original post by Patrick Lamb has created quite a hoo ha in the US and even though the blog posts all have a US focus the discussion can easily be applied to Law Firm Librarians in the UK.

Full post as published by The BIALL Blog on November 22, 2010 (boomark / email).