News Report

http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2009/february2009/wsjcloseslibrary.cfm
2/13/2009
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Wall Street Journal to Close its Research Library

On March 23 the research library for the Wall Street Journal was shut down. The news of this happening originally came out on February 5 when Leslie A. Norman, head of the library, announced that her and her colleagues received news that their jobs would be terminated. Leslie and her colleagues were responsible for doing research for reporters so that they could write their articles. Now that the reporters will not have someone else to do their research it will take much longer for them to do their jobs. They will be doing their own research by using a Lexis product called Due Diligence Dashboard and other databases including Factivia.

It is not alarming to me to see that this is happening and I am sure that this sort of thing is happening across the country with the economic crisis that our country is in. Before reading this article I did not know that reporters received much of their research information from someone else. Now it is interesting to see that they are going to be using databases similar to what we have been learning to use in class in order to gather information to write their articles.