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Feb. 23, 2009

Book Smarts

As library subscription costs soar, it behooves firms to reconsider their library expenditures, writes Cookie Lewis.

FORUM COLUMN

By Cookie Lewis

In these dour economic times, every managing partner or administrator is looking for ways to reduce the firm's expenses across all departments, including library and information services. While the prices of subscriptions and database services are steadily increasing, research costs can often no longer be recouped.

Clients increasingly object to reimbursing firms for the use of databases, arguing that the libr...

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