Follow UsOn behalf of the 2008 WestPac Local Arrangements Committee
WestPac, WestPac, we love you,
To travel to Bozeman, MT we want to do!
For the annual chapter conference in the west,
We can't wait to have you as our guest!
You'll learn about fiction and law, and sacred sites,
In discussing Indian Law, we'll reach new heights.
There'll be talk of areas without roads or rules,
You'll leave this session with many useful tools.
We open at a museum filled with cool dinosaurs,
Music, drinks, and tasty snacks behind those doors!
Willy WestPac has a slide show he wants you to see,
Featuring many of our libraries--of course, the star is he!
Friday night, join colleagues for dinner and winer,
Our keynote speaker married a mountain climber!
On Saturday, plan for disaster and promote your stacks,
Then on to Yellowstone with wolves at your backs.
There's lots going on you don't want to miss,
Our Montana WestPac Conference will be sheer bliss!
Register quickly--your form needs to be seen,
Don't delay--early deadline is September 15!
2008 Annual Meeting, Bozeman, Montana*
Registration, hotel and Bozeman information!Program Schedule
Presentation Handouts (pdf)Evaluation (doc) (pdf)
Thursday, September 25, 2008
6:00PM -- Opening Reception at Museum of the Rockies
Friday, September 26, 2008
7:30 - 8:30 -- Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 -- Roadless Rules
9:40 - 10:30 -- Sacred Sites
10:30 - 10:45 -- Break
10:45 - 12:15 -- Indian Law Research and Sources
12:15 - 1:45 -- Lunch & Business Meeting
2:00 - 2:45 -- Yellowstone Librarians
2:45 - 3:10 -- Vendor Visits
3:10 - 4:00 -- Fiction and Law - Reading List (pdf)
Saturday, September 27, 2008
7:30 - 8:30 -- Breakfast
8:30 - 9:45 -- Disaster Planning, Training, and Recovery
9:45 - 10:00 -- Break
10:00 - 11:15 -- Promoting Your Library
11:15 - 11:30 -- Thank You, Parting Gifts
Roadless Rules
Presentation Video with Slides
Handouts
Doug Honnold, Earthjustice - Doug Honnold is an attorney at EarthJustince in Bozeman, Montana, a firm of environmental litigators who have taken the lead on litigating public interest environmental cases for more than 20 years. Some of Mr. Honnald's notable successes have included winning the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling reinstating the Forest Service Roadless Rule in December 2002; winning a federal court lawsuit that stopped a proposed gold mine just outside Yellowstone National Park and led to a buyout of the mining properties; stopping the Department of Agriculture’s effort to eliminate Forest Service administrative appeals and push through a 47,000 acre logging proposal on the Bitterroot National Forest; winning a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's grizzly bear recovery plan; overturning efforts to have Yellowstone and Idaho wolves killed; forcing the Forest Service to adopt binding road-density standards in grizzly bear habitat on the Gallatin, Targhee, and Flathead National Forests; and obtaining a 2-million acre ban on clearcutting to protect Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers in the southeastern United States.
Mr. Honnold is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley (1982). He received an M.S. from Stanford University (1977) and a B.A. from New College of California (1974).- Tom Rhode, National Forest Service, Northern Region
Sacred Sites
Barbara Sutteer - Barbara Sutteer served the Federal Government for nearly 33 years. She worked in Alaska for 17 years during implementation of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act and the Alaska National Interest Land Claims Act. Her tenures include ten years each in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Federal Aviation Administration, and over 12 years in the National Park Service. Ms. Sutteer was Superintendent at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. She worked on legislation that changed the name from Custer Battlefield National Monument and authorized establishment of an Indian Memorial, dedicated in 2003. While working in the Office of American Indian Trust Responsibility for the National Park Service, she facilitated the Tribal Consultation for the Site Location Study, Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in Colorado. Her responsibilities in the Park Service included an effort to protect sacred sites in Mount Shasta against encroaching roads. She is currently serving or has served on several Boards of Directors, including: 1998-2001 Colorado Historical Society; 2001-current, Mesa Verde Foundation; 2005-current, North American Indian Legal Services; 2005-current, National American Indian, Alaskan & Hawaiian Educational Development Center.
Indian Law Research and Sources
Presentation Video with Slides
Handouts
David Selden, National Indian Law Library - David Selden has been the Law Librarian for Native American Rights Fund, National Indian Law Library, in Boulder, Colorado, since 1998. He is responsible for the overall direction and management of the NARF and NILL library programs and services. Prior to this position, David was the Research Specialist/Law Librarian at a mid-sized law firm in New Hampshire. David's areas of expertise include legal research and instruction, digitization and web publishing. David serves on the Native Peoples Law Caucus of the American Association of Law Libraries as the project manager for the Tribal Law Cooperative project which seeks to improve access to tribal law. He also serves the state of Colorado on the AskColorado virtual reference Steering Committee. Mr. Selden has a Master of Library Science from Simmons College, 1987, and a B.S. in Music Education, Appalachian State University, 1983.
Judy Meadows, Montana State Law Library - Judy Meadows, Director and State Law Librarian of the Montana State Law Library, has served as both treasurer (1992–95) and president (1997-98) of the American Association of Law Libraries, as well as chair of the State, Court and County Law Libraries Special Interest Section (1991-92).
Nancy Carol Carter, University of San Diego School of Law - Professor Nancy Carol Carter holds a B.S. and M.S. in History and an M.L.S. and J.D. As a University of Oklahoma law school editor of the American Indian Law Review, she developed a lasting interest in legal issues relating to Native Americans and other indigenous populations. She has taught American Indian Law and at the University of San Diego and served as director of the Legal Research Center from August 1987-June 2008. She was named a Herzog Endowed Scholar (1998) and a University Professor (2001).
Her annotated bibliography, American Indian Law: Research and Sources, is a standard in the field of legal bibliography. A 2002 article, American Indians and Law Libraries: Acknowledging the Third Sovereign received the American Association of Law Libraries "Law Library Journal Article of the Year" award and was one of 30 publications selected from 99 volumes of LLJ for inclusion in The Essential Law Library Journal (2008). Other articles include: Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act: Law, Analysis, and Context (1999), American Indian Tribal Government, Law, and Courts (2000), Native Hawaiians: History, Law and Research (2002) and The Special Case of Alaska: Native Law and Research (2003); American Indian Water Rights: Law and Research (2008).
With an Irvine Foundation grant, Carter created and maintains USD's Native American Website” offering the first complete chronology of events affecting the original inhabitants of San Diego County. In 2004, she received an AALL research grant to construct a web-based guide for compiling a tribal legal history (online guide is available on the National Indian Law Library site).
Yellowstone Librarians
- Jessica Gerdes
- Jackie Jerla
Fiction and Law
Andrew King-Ries, Professor, University of Montana School of Law - Andrew King-Ries is an Assistant Professor at the University of Montana School of Law where he has taught criminal law, juvenile justice, white collar crime, and a fiction in the law seminar. Before coming to the university, he was a speechwriter for the Secretary of Education; a clerk for the United States Court of Appeals of the Eighth Circuit; and a prosecutor for the King County Prosecutor's Office in Seattle, Washington. Professor King-Ries graduated from Brown University in 1988 with a degree in History. He received his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where he was Order of the Coif and an editor on the Washington University Law Quarterly.
Reading List (pdf)
Disaster Planning, Training, and Recovery
Presentation Video with Slides
Handouts
Robert Genovese, University of Arizona - Robert Genovese is the Head of Technical Services, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. Robert Genovese joined the College of Law Library in 1985. He holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester, and an M.L.S. from the State University of New York/Geneseo. He developed an emergency preparedness program for the Law Library, which has been published in printed form with the title Disaster Preparedness Manual in multiple editions. He has also developed a web site called Design Features for Law Libraries examining various aspects of facilities design in law libraries across the United States.
Deb Person, University of Wyoming - Deb Person is an Associate/Administrative Law Librarian at the University of Wyoming, responsible for supervision of public and technical services and teaching an introductory course in legal research to incoming first year students. Though she has not lived through a catastrophic disaster in her professional career, she has attended classes in damaged resources recovery, authored the library’s disaster preparedness manual, and held training for the college’s and library’s staff. It is the result of this training on a creative and demanding staff that led to continuing training exercises for future preparedness.- Steven Brien, President and CEO of Envirocare, Inc. - EnviroCare has been an international service provider of environmental management services for 11 years. Services include:
- Document Restoration
- Disaster Management Services
- Emergency moisture management
- Indoor air quality
- Litigation support and expert witness testimony
- Document Restoration and Disaster Management
- Indoor Air Quality
- Bio-terrorism and Building Safety
- Proactive Environmental Maintenance Programs
- Katrina related disasters for Jefferson Parish and St. Bernard Parish
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
- US Navy
- General Services Administration
- USA, Public Health Service
- USA Occupational Health and Safety
- National World War II Museum
Promoting Your Library
Presentation Video with Slides
Jay Hite, McCracken County Public Library, Paducah, Kentucky - Jay Hite is the Technology Director at McCracken County Public Library, Paducah, Kentucky, where he bears responsibilities for the library’s many and varied local commercials and public relations messages, now available on YouTube.
