2007 SWALL ANNUAL MEETING
Desert in Bloom: Cultivating Information Access
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 5:00-7:00 p.m. - Registration, Hotel Foyer Thursday, April 19, 2007 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Registration, Lower Foyer 1:00-5:00 p.m. - Exhibits Open, Lower Foyer 10:30-11:30 a.m. - 2008 Local Arrangements Committee Meeting, Lower Foyer
8:30-11:00 a.m. - Offsite Pre-Conference Program, Carnegie Library/Arizona State Library (Separate Fee) PC1 - Basic Legal Research for the Non-Law Librarian Coordinators: Elizabeth Schneider, Plattner, Schneidman & Schneider 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 statutes, the court system and cases, legal resources available on the internet, and conducting legal reference interviews.
Noon-1:15 p.m. - Opening Luncheon, Grand Ballroom AB Sponsored by Thomson West Speaker: Don Doyle, Storyteller
1:30-3:00 p.m. - Concurrent Programs A1 - Wikis and WebFeeds Junior Ballroom A (2nd floor) Moderator: Cynthia Burress, Texas Wesleyan University This educational session focuses on RSS feeds and Wikis, and how the use of these tools makes the access of information easier, faster and more efficient for our patrons and ourselves. First you will learn how to locate and utilize RSS feeds; then we'll examine how to integrate them into your firm's intranet or portal. The next part of the session includes an examination of various Wiki applications and illustrations of how they are used in a law firm environment. A2 - Cyberterrorism Junior Ballroom B (2nd floor) Moderator: Sharon Blackburn, Texas Tech University The Cyberterrorism presentation will address the emerging threat of cyberterrorism and will explain the relationship between micro-actors and cyberterrorism. The program will discuss the hidden dangers of cyber-techniques, terrorists' everyday use of the Internet.
3:00-3:30 p.m. - Afternoon Break, Exhibit Area, Lower Foyer
3:30-5:00 p.m. - Concurrent Programs B1 - Finding Hidden Intelligence in SEC Filings Junior Ballroom A (2nd floor) Moderator: Angela Kubala, Thompson & Knight, LLP Leave no stone unturned! Discover new ideas and techniques for finding competitive intelligence gems buried within securities documents. Want to know Bill Gates's salary or what boards Michael Dell sits on? Learn how to locate executive compensation figures, corporate affiliations, merger agreements, severance agreements, private placements and more. Dig deep using both free and fee-based resources for key information on public companies, their executives and directors, and even non-profit corporations and private companies. B2 - Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal Scholarship Junior Ballroom B (2nd floor) Moderator: Eileen Cohen, University of New Mexico Open access, i.e., making scholarship freely available to the public via institutional repositories (IR's), is a natural fit for law given our tradition of making legal information available to citizens. Legal scholars have enjoyed the benefits of open access to working paper repositories such as SSRN for years - even if they have not thought of this practice as "open access." It is a natural progression for legal scholars to now archive published articles as well, and they are beginning to do so as awareness grows of the many reasons to do so. Open access generates new audiences for scholarship and the publicity and download counts generated by open access provide new ways to measure scholarly impact and reputation. IR's can also be used to publish student scholarship, empirical data, teaching materials, and original historical documents uncovered during the research process. Approximately 40% of U.S. law schools now have some form of IR.
6:00-9:00 p.m. - SWALL Reception, Desert Botanical Garden Hummingbird Pavilion Sponsored by LexisNexis Buses will depart from the front of the hotel at 5:45.
Friday, April 20, 2007 8:00-10:00 a.m. - Registration, Lower Foyer 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. - Exhibits Open, Lower Foyer
Breakfast on your own (breakfast is included as part of room cost)
8:00-9:00 a.m. - SWALL Board Meeting, Boardroom 300
9:00-10:15 a.m. - Plenary Session Grand Ballroom A Speaker: Robert J. McWhirter, Maricopa Legal Defenders Office From Testicles to Dragnet: How the Fifth Amendment Protects All of Us
10:15-10:45 a.m. - Midmorning Break, Exhibit Area, Lower Foyer
10:45 a.m.-Noon - Concurrent Programs C1 - Collaboration: Partnering with Attorneys to Provide Access to Justice Grand Ballroom A Moderator: Lisa Rush, Travis County Law Library Sara Galligan is the chair of the new AALL Special Committee on Pro Bono Partnership. She will spotlight cooperative efforts between law librarians and the providers of pro bono legal assistance. Lisa Rush will describe her library's experience of collaborating with Texas Bar and legal aid community to create state-wide legal forms. C2 - Administrative Law: Don't Let it Scare You! Junior Ballroom A (2nd floor) Moderator: Anna Teller, Texas Wesleyan University Do you need to gain a better understanding of state administrative law resources? Then this program is for you. This session is designed for librarians conducting state administrative law research. This presentation will cover free electronic resources as well as print materials and pay databases. Attendees will walk away with a comprehensive list of administrative law resources for all eight SWALL states.
Noon-2:00 p.m. - Luncheon and Business Meeting, Grand Ballroom B Yvonne Chandler, SWALL President, presiding
2:00-3:15 p.m. - Concurrent Programs D1 - Alternatives to Westlaw and Lexis Junior Ballroom B (2nd floor) Moderator: Jill Henderson, Taylor County Law Library Introduction to alternatives to Westlaw and Lexis full subscription services. Emphasis on free and low cost electronic sources including National Law Library and Quicklaw America. D2 - Historic and Current Problems in Information Access Grand Ballroom A Moderator: Katherine Greene, University of Kansas Throughout history, people have struggled with retrieving and using legal information. This session addresses the traditional perception that there is too much law and the problems as well as the solutions identified by lawyers and legislators in dealing with vast amounts of legal information.
3:15-3:45 p.m. - Afternoon Break, Exhibit Area
3:45-5:00 p.m. - Concurrent Roundtables County Law Librarians/Texas County Law Librarians Chapter, Junior Ballroom B Private and Solo Law Librarians, Grand Ballroom A Academic Law Librarians, Junior Ballroom B Library Students, Grand Ballroom A
4:30 p.m. - Reception and Tour, Phoenix School of Law Sponsored by Phoenix School of Law Buses to Phoenix School of Law will depart from the front of the hotel at 4:30 and 5:00 p.m.
8:00-10:00 p.m. - Dine Around Tempe/Phoenix Dine around Phoenix and Tempe following reception. Sign up in Registration Area.
Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:00-9:00 a.m. - Registration, Lower Foyer 8:30 a.m.-Noon - Exhibits Open, Lower Foyer
9:00-10:15 a.m. - Concurrent Programs E1 - The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence: A Handbook for Implementing Great Service in Your Organization Junior Ballroom A (2nd floor) Moderator: Yvonne Chandler, University of North Texas Book talk on The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence. E2 - Licensing and Copyright: Negotiating Licenses Rocky Balboa Style Junior Ballroom B (2nd floor) Moderator: Anna Teller, Texas Wesleyan University When the Copyright Act of 1976 was drafted, Congress could not foresee the digital revolution, a world where accessing information has become more common than owning it. The Copyright Act's protections for users and libraries for the most part attach to works that a library owns. Fair use, the library exemption, and other rights can disappear when the library accesses a work via a license. Jim Heller will discuss the intersection of copyright law and licensing, and provide tips on negotiating a license that gets the library and its users what they need. Don't experience the Perils of Pauline when you negotiate licenses with vendors. It's time for Rocky.
10:15-10:30 a.m. - Short break
10:30 a.m.-Noon - Concurrent Programs F1 - Virtual Reference Junior Ballroom B (2nd floor) Moderator: Jennifer Murray, Superior Court Law Library, Maricopa County Does virtual reference have a place in your law library? Let our speakers with virtual reference experience help you decide whether this unique method of providing library service is right for you. This 360 degree discussion of virtual reference will include the good, bad and ugly of implementing virtual reference in all types of law libraries. Through a combination of lecture, panel discussion and audience-driven question and answer, the speakers will address questions about virtual reference and equip attendees with the knowledge necessary to decide whether virtual reference is something to seriously consider or keep on the back burner. F2 - Filling the Seats: Credentialing Legal Research Skills as a Means of Marketing Library Instructional Services Junior Ballroom A (2nd floor) Moderator: Joan Stringfellow, Texas Wesleyan University This program will describe the hugely successful "Certificate of Excellence in Legal Research" program initiated at Texas Tech Law School as a way of marketing library instructional resources to law students. We will cover every aspect of creating the program, getting it approved by the law school, selling it to law students, administering registration and transcripts, and marketing. This program should be beneficial to academic and law firm librarians who are looking for ways to motivate users to attend educational programming.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT! The 49th SWALL Annual Meeting is made possible through the generous contributions from the following companies and law schools: BNA, Inc.
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