Author Archives: Andrew Plumb-Larrick

Facebook and Information Finding

Facebook has endured and grown as not just a closed-universe “social network” but by allowing social connections to direct user attention to online content.

Is Starbucks a Library?

Isn’t shared access to paid content what we do?

eBook sales from Google coming soon?

Google tells a publishers’ forum that Google Editions should be online very soon.

Visualizing Consolidation in the Legal Information Marketplace

Law librarian bloggers make it visibly clear just how consolidated the industry has become.

Making law in a “webby” world — what’s in it for libraries?

Is a “library model” the best approach for online legal -information and legal-practice tools?

On the Last Day of Legal Research Class

And how legal research teaching now is more about teaching ways to think about legal work-product than about specific mechanical approaches to research tools.

Seven questions about eBooks and the Library

From an email in July 2009, a discussion of major questions about ebooks and library business models.