To put this discussion in perspective, note that Thomson West is a legal
publisher, one of only a handful of major conglomerates servicing the
research/reference needs of lawyers in this country. Thomson West
publishes law books -- for lawyers, written by lawyers -- and part of
the value of these books lies in the name recognition of their lawyer
authors. In general, lawyers buy books written by legal experts, not by
non-lawyer subject matter experts. In the area of records management,
we've made a lot of headway in marketing books written by subject matter
experts because lawyers hadn't written anything on the subject. The
area of electronic discovery is different, because there are already so
many legal treatises written by leading lawyers on this subject. It's
not likely that a new book on electronic discovery written by a records
manager would get much attention in the legal market. Just my two
cents, as someone who spent the past 25 years buying books for lawyers!
--Lee
Lee R. Nemchek, MLS, CRM
VP, Records Management
Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Greg Johnson
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:31 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: New RIM resource
I read an interesting article in Chemical and Education News (my wife
is a chemist) about how some courts are no longer allowing chemists to
act as expert witnesses because they judges can't understand the
chemistry that these experts are discussing. Based on these postings,
it seems like its not too long before this starts happening to records
managers as well. Brings up the interesting, and terrifying to boot,
question of what are the credentials of persons writing our textbooks
and journal articles....
On Nov 16, 2007 11:23 AM, Sharon Burnett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Jeeze - the more I see books like this that are written by folks that
are not records managers the more I realize that I should be writing a
handbook on this topic. My experiences of the last few years may be of
deeper value to the profession than I thought.
>
> Now how to find the time...I need a co-author to keep me on track :)
>
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