11 May LAC awarded FEDLINK’s Library Services Contract
LAC Federal has been awarded a prime contract on a new five year Library Services Indefinite Duration/Indefinite Quantity (ID/IQ) Contract active through May 12, 2026. This multiple-award contract is open to all federal agencies and simplifies the acquisition of library professional services. This is the…
03 Aug The new normal — Library life in the cloud
For the past 11 years, I have served as a parttime Law Librarian to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, an independent quasijudicial federal agency that adjudicates disputes between employers and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In that decade plus, the Library, which…
14 Oct Valuing federal libraries
With so much information available electronically, libraries everywhere—whether law firm, corporate or government—are under the microscope and increasingly called upon to justify the precious real estate they occupy.
07 Aug Federal librarian as marketer and advocate
In the Information Age, where every person has in their hands a device capable of accessing the cumulative knowledge of mankind, libraries and librarians often seem to be a quaint anachronism. Libraries are still struggling to shake off the image of dusty card catalogs and…
25 Apr Day in the life of an inventory project manager
The Library of Congress is the research arm of Congress, home of the US Copyright Office, and the largest library in the world. We’re also proud to add “LAC Federal client” to the list, as we’ve provided library services and support for dozens of projects…
19 Feb LAC Federal at Catholic University LIS Symposium
On Friday February 8th, LAC Federal sponsored and presented at Catholic University’s Bridging the Spectrum Symposium for the fourth consecutive year. We’re always proud to support this day-long conference for working professionals and students to share their knowledge from across the spectrum of information services.…
06 Feb The linked data evangelist
One of the ways that LAC Federal’s librarians and information scientists add value to our clients is through their advice and recommendations for improvements. An example of this is the work of Acquisitions Metadata Librarian Amanda Xu, on assignment at the National Agricultural Library (NAL).…
12 Dec How librarians use bibliometrics to support leadership
As federal libraries continually search for ways to demonstrate their value, bibliometrics has emerged as a way to quantitatively assess the impact of federally funded and produced research. Bibliometrics is essentially the statistical analysis of written publications, such as books, reports and journal articles.
28 Nov Special library design trends
What we think of as “the library” is undergoing a revolution. Now that more information is available digitally, many libraries have been downsized and the need for floor space is greatly reduced. Most libraries that remain have greatly diminished their footprint. Like academic libraries, special…