FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 1, 2000
CONTACT:
Judy Meadows
Jmeadows@state.mt.us
406/444-3660
Coordinating Legal Research Training - A Listserv Discussion
February 7 - February 18, 2000
Does it seem to you that resources for legal research change formats,
platforms, and versions so often and so quickly these days that it is almost
impossible to keep up? If we who are the experts in legal research complain
about the changes, then surely the attorneys with whom we work must find the
dizzying array of constant NEW options overwhelming. Meanwhile, law
students, already up to their eyeballs in trying to learn how the law of
contracts, torts, etc. works, are also being urged by us to experiment with
all sorts of ways of locating where and what the law is.
We librarians, working in whatever type of library, are trying our best to
provide the sort of education that will help law students and attorneys use
today's electronic products. Rachel Jones, Manager of Professional Education
at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, and Nancy McMurrer, Reference
Librarian at the University of Washington's Gallagher Law Library, will lead
the next discussion in our series.
The target audience for this listserv discussion are the librarians in
academia and in the real world of law firms, courts, government, and
corporate law libraries who teach students and lawyers to use electronic
legal research tools. Working together, we would like to develop a more
effective process in which academic librarians start to construct that
framework on which real world librarians can build.
Join Nancy and Rachel for what promises to be a lively and constructive
dialogue that will cut across all types of law libraries. To register for
Coordinating Legal Research Training, go to
http://www.aallnet.org/prodev/listserv.asp. The listserv will continue for
two weeks, at which time all subscriber addresses will be purged and our
discussion will end. Postings, however, will be archived on AALLNET.
The AALL Professional Development Listservs are designed to promote
information exchange on current issues in law librarianship. Each
discussion is limited to a set period and the listserv is purged at the end
of this period. A Web archive of earlier discussions is available.
The AALL Professional Development Program provides AALL members and
non-members with readily available, high quality and timely educational
programs, publications and services in a variety of formats, using all
available and future technologies in order to enable members to remain
current in the profession of law librarianship and to provide non-members
with comparable educational opportunities in our area of expertise.
The American Association of Law Libraries was founded in 1906 to promote and
enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public communities, to
foster the profession of law librarianship, and to provide leadership in the
field of legal information. Today, with over 4,600 members, the Association
represents law librarians and related professionals who are affiliated with
a wide range of institutions: law firms; law schools; corporate legal
departments courts, and local, state and federal government agencies. For
more information, visit AALLNET, the official AALL web site, at
http://www.aallnet.org.
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