Products Liability Vertical File

Look two posts in one week! Remember when I said we might pop in with something brief but of interest? Here we are. The library has a number of "subject files" in our collection. These are hard copy files where we put news clippings, brochures, pamphlets etc. on various subjects related to insurance.

Today, The New York Times had an article that will likely end up in our products liability file. They also had this lovely graphic showing big settlements in drug cases:

Source: New York Times 10-27-10

New Year's Resolution

When you're in school you follow the academic calendar, with the year starting in September. When you're in business your year starts with the new fiscal year. Here at the library, it's not official, but I feel like the year starts again after The Insurance Professional of the Year Award Ceremony is over (I might be the only one here who feels that way).

We just completed another busy start to our fall season and had a very successful (we think) event on Friday. So I feel it is time to make some new resolutions about our coming year. I vow that the library blog will no longer sit sadly neglected. We will attempt to post at least once a week, if not more.

While I cannot promise that each post will be long and descriptive, we would like to see this space be a place where we discuss current happenings at the library and in the insurance field as a whole. It might be that we just pop in and mention a great article in the New York Times that describes Insurance Exchanges (with a helpful image for clients); that we announce that the library has started an insurance fiction section (we have the entire set of Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone Mysteries); or we might ask you to respond with suggestions/comments on events and offerings from the library.