Taking Canned Reports and Making Them Better - remaking commercial reports

Saturday, July 30, 2022

8:00 AM EDT

Speaker(s)

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Juli Stahl

Research Services Manager
Akerman LLP
Orlando, Florida, United States
Mark Gediman

Reference Librarian
Alston & Bird LLP
Los Angeles, California, United States

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Kevin Miles

Manager of Library Services
Norton Rose Fulbright
Dallas, Texas, United States

Do the canned reports provided by vendors on companies, judges, witnesses, and others look … problematic to you? Several information professionals review the concepts of good graphics and how to apply them critically to vendor produced reports. This program will delve into options for doctoring the turn-key reports to meet those criteria providing a better product and communicating the data more efficiently to the patrons.

Learning Objectives:

Attendees will be able to discuss and apply at least three criteria that are considered good graphics for deliverables.
Attendees will learn to compare graphics concepts against canned reports, rate the application of those principles to the reports provided and identify changes that can be made to improve them.
Attendees will be able to demonstrate three ways to modify canned reports to bring the reports into compliance with good graphics and make the reports more palatable for patrons.