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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2
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3:00 – 10 P.M. REGISTRATION
Marriott Lobby
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8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. REGISTRATION
Marriott Lobby
7:45 A.M. – 8:45 P.M. EXHIBITS
Mill Creek Room
(PC-1) 8:15 – 11:45 A.M.
PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAM: BASIC LEGAL RESEARCH FOR THE NON-LAW LIBRARIAN
Sponsored by SWALL’s Legal Information to the Public Committee
Location: Southmoreland Room
Coordinators: Elizabeth Schneider, Librarian, Plattner, Schneidman
& Schneider, P.C. and Peggy Martindale, Assistant Director, Tarrant
County Law Library
Designed to introduce public, special, and academic librarians to the
primary sources of state law they are likely to encounter in responding to
legal reference questions. Presenters will discuss Kansas and Missouri
statutes, case law, and court systems, legal resources available on the
Internet, and conducting the legal reference interview.
12:00 – 1:30 P.M.
OPENING LUNCH
Location: Grand Ballroom F & G
Plenary Speaker: Stephen McAllister, Dean and
Professor of Law, Kansas University School of Law
Coordinator: Sharon Wayland, Director, Tarrant County
Law Library
Dean McAllister specializes in constitutional litigation
and has appeared before the Supreme Court of the United States several
times in recent years. He served as the first State Solicitor for Kansas
and his Supreme Court briefs won Best Brief Prizes in 2001 and 2002 at the
annual summer meeting of the National Association of Attorneys General.
(A-1) 1:45 – 3:15 P.M.
CAN YOU VOUCH FOR ME? HOW TO REQUEST AND GIVE EMPLOYEE JOB REFERENCES
Location: Southmoreland Room
Speaker and Coordinator: Anna Teller, Associate Director, Texas
Wesleyan Law Library
Speakers: Susan Phillips, Director of the Library and Associate
Dean, Texas Wesleyan Law School and Joan Stringfellow, Catalog
Librarian, Texas Wesleyan Law Library
Find out about the etiquette, politics and legalities surrounding
asking for and giving references. Who should you ask to be a reference
and when should you ask them? What can you say, what should you say and
what might you be forbidden to say when giving a reference? The presentation will also provide a brief look at the related topic of letters of reference.
(A-2) 1:45 – 3:15 P.M.
REACHING YOUR MARKET: THE PUBLIC, LAW FIRMS AND STUDENTS (Download PowerPoint file)
Location: Brush Creek Room
Speaker: Amy Hale-Janeke, Reference Librarian/Media Coordinator,
San Diego County Public Library
Coordinator: Peggy Martindale, Assistant Director, Tarrant County
Law Library
Many law libraries offer wonderful programs, materials, and
reference help from professionals, but this information is often
inadequately marketed to the targeted users. How can you get the
information to your target efficiently and effectively? This program will
discuss the various methods of marketing to your audience and will provide
a demonstration of the newest marketing trend – an electronic
newsletter. See an example of the type of e-newsletter we will be covering
at: www.sdcll.org/newsletter/e-Newsletter.html#archives.
3:15 – 3:30 P.M. BREAK
Location: Mill/Brush Foyer
(B-1) 3:30 – 5:00 P.M.
JUST SAY OHM: STRESS MANAGEMENT THROUGH MEDITATION
Location: Southmoreland Room
Speakers: Jon and Linda Caswell, Southern Methodist University
Coordinator: Sharon Wayland, Director, Tarrant County Law Library
Sit still, do nothing and improve your life! Meditation is widely
recognized as a leading stress reliever. People who practice meditation
daily report extraordinary results, like calm, peace of mind, diminished
irritation and more time. In this class you will learn an easy, three-step
meditation technique, refreshing reframes on attitude, many practical
benefits of meditation, how-to’s for creating a daily practice,
user-friendly techniques for quieting mind chatter, and practical
understanding of what meditation is (and isn’t).
(B-2) 3:30 – 5:00 P.M.
60 GADGETS IN 60 MINUTES (Download PowerPoint file)
Location: Brush Creek Room
Speakers: Barbara Fullerton, Manager of Library Services, Locke,
Liddell & Sapp, LLP and Susan Skyzinski, LexisNexis
Coordinator: Yvonne Chandler, Associate Professor, University of
North Texas School of Library and Information Sciences
Thousands of technology gadgets fill the marketplace every day. In
today’s world technology gadgets are everywhere: the workplace, home,
stores, churches, schools and government. Come and hear the Gadgeteers
(Barbara Fullerton and Susan Skyzinski) show you new technology gadgets
including PDAs, small printers, mini-disks, digital cameras, phones, pc
tablets, handheld scanners, wireless devices, hard drives, and other itsy
bitsy teeny weeny high tech gadgets. Participants can view the gadgets and
ask questions of the speakers. Warning: Not all of the gadgets are
library-related. Some are just plain fun. For a preview of the fun go to http://www.llrx.com/features/gadgets2.htm
or http://www.llrx.com/features/wacky.htm.
5:00 – 6:00 P.M.
SWALL BOARD MEETING
Location: TBA
6:00 P.M. – 12:00 A.M.
SWALL DINNER:
A Taste of Kansas City – an Evening of
Bar-B-Q and Jazz Tour
Location: Meet in the Marriott Lobby. Bus leaves at
6:00 p.m.
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FRIDAY, APRIL 4
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8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. REGISTRATION
Location: Marriott Lobby
8:00 A.M. – 5:00 P.M. EXHIBITS
Location: Mill Creek Room
8:30 – 9:30 A.M.
BREAKFAST AND SWALL ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
Including Report from Ann Fessenden, AALL Executive Board
Location: Seville Ballroom
Coordinator: Kathryn Fitzhugh
Sponsored by LexisNexis
9:45 – 10:45 A.M.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Location: Southmoreland Room
Speaker: Sylvester James, Jr., Sly James Firm
Coordinator: Mon Yin Lung, Assistant Director and Head of Public
Services, Florida International University Law Library
Mr. Sylvester James specializes in personal injury and nursing home
negligence. He is currently President of the Kansas City Metropolitan Bar
Association, a member of the Board of Governors of the Missouri
Association of Trial Attorneys (MATA) and a Director of the Kansas City
Bar Foundation.
10:45 – 11:00 A.M. BREAK
Location: Mill/Brush Foyer
Sponsored by Wm. S. Hein
(C-1) 11:00 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.
PLEASE, PLEASE, DON’T PUT ME IN A NURSING HOME – ARE SUCH
SENTIMENTS JUSTIFIED? HOT TOPICS IN LONG TERM CARE
Location: Southmoreland Room
Speaker and Coordinator: Elizabeth Schneider, Librarian, Plattner,
Schneidman & Schneider
Having to go to a nursing home is one of the greatest fears of growing
old. As baby boomers age, they are concerned not only for their parents
but also for themselves. While cost is always a concern, the larger issue
is quality of care. The quality of care provided by nursing homes has been
a topic of debate for decades. This program will look at new initiates
proposed to improve quality of care and evaluate their success.
(C-2) 11:00 A.M. – 12:15 P.M.
LAW AND LITERATURE: TWO BIG PICTURES
Location: Brush Creek Room
Speaker: Joyce Cray Pearson, Director, University of Kansas
School of Law Library and James Owen, Law Student, University of Kansas School of Law
Coordinator: Mon Yin Lung, Assistant Director and Head of Public
Services, Florida International University Law Library
This program will explore two themes in our legal system – law and
order. Professor Pearson will focus on the law and the female perspective
and how characters in legal text and film find or construct solutions to
personal dilemma. Mr. Owen will concentrate on the film Minority
Report, an important movie which examines future notions of legal
order as they pertain to search and seizure, the absence of due process in
our society, and other legal issues.
12:15 – 2:00 P.M.
LUNCH
Location: Main Street Grill
Sponsored by West Group
(D-1) 2:00 – 3:15 P.M.
YOU DON’T LOOK LIKE A LIBRARIAN! LIBRARIANS’ VIEWS OF PUBLIC
PERCEPTION IN THE INTERNET AGE
Location: Southmoreland Room
Speaker: Amy Hale-Janeke, Reference Librarian/Media Coordinator,
San Diego County Public Library
Coordinator: Sharon Wayland, Director, Tarrant County Law Library
Do you look like a librarian? The stereotype from the person on the
street is "An older woman, with her hair in a tight bun, wearing
glasses, a cardigan, and sensible shoes who says ‘Shh’ a lot."
But the Internet and the information age have changed who we are and what
we do. So why hasn’t it changed how we are perceived? Or has it? Come
see the latest evolutions in our image!
The original program about images of librarianship can be accessed here.
PDAS IN THE LAW LIBRARY: SALAD SHOOTER, MICROWAVE OR STAINLESS STEEL
GAS-FIRED RANGE? (Download the PowerPoint presentation)
Location: Brush Creek Room
Speakers: Sharon Blackburn, Head of Reference and Instruction,
Texas Tech University School of Law Library and David King, Web and
Project Manager, Kansas City Public Library
Coordinator: Stephen Good, Texas Tech University School of Law
Library
PDA’s (Personal Digital Assistant) and wireless technology may be a
paradigm-shifting, earth shattering movement which redefine library
collections and re-write job descriptions and organizational charts. Or
not. David King was sent on a mission to find out and he’s come out of
the hi-tech jungle with a report. Sharon Blackburn thinks that PDA’s are
really cool and that she’s got one on her desk somewhere, maybe under
that copy of Law Office Computing…
3:15 – 3:30 BREAK
Location: Mill/Brush Foyer
3:30 – 5:00 P.M.
CONCURRENT ROUNDTABLES & COMMITTEE MEETINGS
Roundtables Location: Brush Creek Room
County Law Librarians; Private Law Librarians; Academic Law Librarians;
Solo Law Librarians
Committee Meetings Location: Southland Room |
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
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Programs held at the University of Kansas School of Law,
Green Hall, in Lawrence, KS.
Bus leaves from Marriott at 8:00 a.m. and leaves
Lawrence at 12:00 p.m.
8:00 – 9:30 A.M.
BREAKFAST
Pick up brown bag in the lobby and eat breakfast on the
bus trip to Lawrence.
Breakfast sponsored by LexisNexis. Transportation
sponsored by Kansas University School of Law.
(E-1) 9:45 – 11:00 A.M.
RARE, MEDIUM RARE, WELL DONE, AND BURNT: RARE LAW BOOKS, GIFTS,
EXHIBITS AND PRESERVATION
Location: TBA
Speaker and Coordinator: Robert Mead, Head of Public and Faculty
Services, Kansas University Law Library
Speakers: Michael
H. Hoeflich, John H. & John M. Kane Professor of Law, Kansas
University School of Law, Lynne Fothergill, Reference and Information
Services Librarian, Kansas University Law Library, and Laura Vannorsdel,
Cataloging Assistant, Kansas University Law Library
This program will examine the challenges of safeguarding the physical
record of American legal history. The speakers will highlight the
interplay between collection management and collection development,
especially as it relates to developing policies for rare books, collection
conservation, and the acceptance of books as gifts. Further, the speakers
will look at the public relations aspects of highlighting collections and
gifts of rare law books as exhibits.
(F-1) 11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
KANSAS UNIVERSITY LAW LIBRARY TOUR AND RECEPTION
Sponsored by University of Kansas School of Law.
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Sponsors
THE 45TH ANNUAL MEETING OF SWALL
IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE GENEROUS CONTRIBUTIONS
FROM THE FOLLOWING COMPANIES AND INSTITUTIONS:
Emporia State University School of Library and Information Management
William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
Kansas University School of Law
Research Institute of America
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Committee Members
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Program Committee: Sharon
Wayland, Chair; Diane Busbey; Yvonne Chandler; Stephen Good; Mon Yin Lung;
Peggy Martindale; Elizabeth Schneider; Anna Teller
Local Arrangements Committee: Mon Yin Lung, Chair; Katherine
Greene; Lynn Fothergill; Robert Mead; Mike McReynolds; Janet McKinney |
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