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Vendor Liaison: the Canadian Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2011

Shaunna Mireau
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Abstract

This article by Shaunna Mireau contains a brief update on the activities of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries Vendor Liaison Committee and shares the unique features of the relationships between Canadian law librarians and the vendor community.

Keywords

vendor relationsCanadaCALL
Type
Vendor Relations
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , March 2011 , pp. 24 - 26
Copyright
Copyright © The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 2011

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Footnotes

1 Canada is the 2nd largest country when ranked by landmass. We are very geographically far flung and our vendors often have huge territories. We are also complicated by having a bijural, bilingual and federal legal system.

2 See the TALL website at http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/tall/governance/publishers.asp

3 Source: Statistics Canada, The Daily, Wednesday September 29, 2010 http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/100929/dq100929b-eng.htm

4 Source: Federation of Law Societies of Canada, http://www.flsc.ca/en/pdf/statistics2007.pdf

5 Source: http://thomsonreuters.com/about/

6 Source: Macleans magazine, Top 100 employers 2009 http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/10/14/the-top-100-2009/2/

7 Source: http://www.lexisnexis.ca/en/about-us/

8 Available on the CALL/ACBD Vendor Liaison Committee site via http://www.callacbd.ca/index.php/publisher/articleview/frmArticleID/386/

9 Available on the CALL/ACBD Vendor Liaison Committee site at http://www.callacbd.ca/images/File/Vendors%20SIG/call_final_goodpractices.doc

10 Available on the CALL/ACBD Vendor Liaison Committee site at http://www.callacbd.ca/images/File/Vendors%20SIG/guidelines.doc

11 Available on the CALL/ACBD Vendor Liaison Committee site via http://www.callacbd.ca/index.php/publisher/articleview/frmArticleID/386/

12 Available on the CALL/ACBD Vendor Liaison Committee site at http://www.callacbd.ca/images/File/Vendors%20SIG/VLC_checklist(4).htm

13 News Release regarding acquisition of Canada Law Book by Thomson Reuters http://www.canadalawbook.ca/corporate-news.html