(cross-posted)
It's the end of the month/beginning of the month and time to summarize
recent listserv discussions and point you to programs of interest at the
AALL Annual Meeting in Minneapolis. July is just around the corner.
Anne Ellis sent us information about West's acquisition of Findlaw. Anne
will be one of the speakers for Program I-6, "Who Ya Gonna Call?" Librarian
Liaisons in Legal Publishing. Librarians working for legal publishers will
be discussing their roles and how they facilitate communication between
their companies and the librarian community. This is a Partnership program
on Tuesday. And wasn't there an announcement about West partnering with an
e-book provider for law school textbooks in early January? Be sure to attend
Agent of Change program B-3 on Sunday: The New Reality of Integrating and
Acquiring Electronic Book Readers into the Legal Information World.
The World Economic Forum just completed their 2001 Annual Meeting in Davos,
Switzerland. The theme this year? Bridging the Digital Divide. You might
check out the selected comments from presentations there at
http://www.weforum.org <http://www.weforum.org> but you should make a
note to attend Program J-1, "The Digital Divide": Examining the Issues.
You'll hear about legislative initiatives, digital divide issues, and have a
chance to discuss the topic in depth at a follow-up roundtable. This is an
Agents of Change program on Wednesday.
Kathy Miller announced the new edition of her Advanced Legal Research
Exercises Manual, suitable for use as a main text or supplemental text in an
advanced legal research class. Many librarians are writing their own legal
research textbooks because they're not happy with the options available.
Hear from two librarians who have written texts by attending Teaching Roles
and Realities: Choosing the Legal Research Text That's Right for You.
Program C-3 on Sunday is a Practitioner's Toolkit offering.
A recent article in the New York Times discussed the "deep web" or the
"invisible web" and the large amount of information often missed by
traditional search engines. Have you felt you were missing links before? Or
conversely, have you retrieved so many hits you haven't known where to start
reading? You need to fine tune your power searching! Power
Search-Strategies for Successful Internet Searching is a Practitioner's
Toolkit program designed to help you increase the chances of finding what
you want and help you retrieve a manageable number of high quality
documents. Program A-1 is a Private Law Libraries SIS sponsored program on
Sunday.
Bob Berring recently reflected on the changes in information in the 20th
century in his recent essay on "Legal Information and the Search for
Cognitive Authority". Bob has been identified as one of several "forward
thinkers" who will be reflecting on New Realities and how to change and
accept new roles in Program K-3, New Realities: Forward Thinkers Will Point
the Way. Richard Boss, Information Systems Consultants, Inc. and Roberta
Shaffer, University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library and
Information Science will be the other visionaries sharing their thoughts.
Join them for a discussion of Reinventing Law Librarianship on Wednesday.
The newspapers are full of stories about public schools responding to the
new federal legislation requiring the installation of Internet filtering
software. Alison Alifano, coordinator for Program B-7 Pornography on the
Internet: A New Reality, has arranged for a speaker from the American
Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom to discuss filtering
software and its application to public law libraries.
Do you remember when we were searching for the Clinton White House page and
noticed the content had changed? Many of you found the data archived at the
National Archives and Records Administration ( NARA). Preserving Government
Electronic Information: Whose Job Is It?, program C-7 on Sunday, will
feature speakers from the United States Government Printing Office, NARA,
and Congressional Information Service, Inc., and you can offer your thoughts
on this issue. Be a part of the Partnership. You might also check out the
two part program New Agency Roles in Ensuring the Life Cycle of Electronic
Government Information moderated by the AALL Acting Washington Affairs
Representative, Mary Alice Baish.
Mindy Klasky asked and surveyed recently, "what do law firms have on their
Intranets?" I know she'll be attending Program E-4 on Monday and pulling out
her Practitioner's Toolkit. Nationally recognized Intranets and the
librarians who helped develop them will be showcased in Maximizing the
Firm's Technology Investment: Creative Intranet Applications.
Looking for job descriptions for IT positions? Sandra Gold was looking for
descriptions for a "technology support librarian" or an "electronic services
librarian" in January. The Computing Services SIS has a database of IT job
descriptions that might have helped in this situation and will be
highlighted in Program G-3 on Tuesday. It's a Practitioner's Toolkit you
can use for ideas: We're Hiring: Designing IT Job Descriptions to Attract
the Very Best.
Finally, for pure pleasure and vacation planning, I hope you saw the New
York Times Travel article on St. Paul in the January 7 edition. We won't be
there for Winter Carnival (I hope), but Mickey's Dining Car, the St. Paul
Grill, and 101 dancing Snoopy statues are options to think about for winding
down after programs.
See you in Minneapolis!
Kathie J. Sullivan
Chair, Annual Meeting Program Committee 2001
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