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- Watch the Hein Online interview with Frank Liu, Director of the Duquesne Law School Library, for the "Oral History of Law Librarianship."
- The program planning committee is lots of fun, very important, and promises not to take-up too much time. Contact Cindy if you want to talk about it.
- Law Firm Librarian Roundtable
Brown Bag Lunch at Pepper Hamilton July 23 12N BNY Mellon Building - 500 Grant St. - 50th floor. Allegheny Room.
What would you like to find out from other librarians – how to get attorneys to attend research refreshers? how to reduce your legal research expenses or perhaps how to get attorneys to bill clients for their research? Do you have nitty gritty contract negotiation questions? We all have these type of questions! Let’s get together to get tips from others and mutual support.
- It's time to renew your WPLLA membership for 2013-2014. Click on the same link even if you are joining for the first time.
- Congratulations to Patrick Parsons, winner of this year's WPLLA scholarship contest to attend AALL. Patrick is from Pittsburgh and graduated from Pitt Law, but is now studying library science at the University of Arizona. WPLLA friends, please keep an eye out for Patrick while you're in Seattle and make him feel welcome to join you for events and meals.
- Here is the Spring 2013 WPLLA Newsletter.
Hightlights include:
Spring Cleaning Your Computer
Lincoln the Lawyer (a resource guide)
New Strategies at the Government Printing Office
and Please Just Say What You Mean (an article about reference internviews).
- The WPLLA holiday dinner and show were lots of fun.
Look at the photos.
- Visit our new Facebook page to see phtos from our events and follow our news.
- Congratulations to WPLLA members Joel Fishman and Dittakavi Rao who received "The Connie E. Bolden Publication Award" for their 2010 co-authored work, Navigating Legal Research & Technology: Quick Reference Guide to the 1,500 Most Common Questions About Traditional Online Legal Research. The award was presented to them July 22, 2012, at the American Association of Law Libraries Conference in Boston, during the Academic Law Libraries--Special Interest Section Reception and Awards Program.
- Whether you enjoyed or missed The Stosh and Susanna Show: Cool Tools and Slick Tricks, you can now experience a modified webinar version of it online via the Special Libraries Association. See also John DiGilio's Bubbling Under program for leads to other interesting tools.
- Thank you for participating in the BLOOD DRIVE in honor of WPLLA member Bob Sullivan
Read Bob's story in this flyer.
- Here is the 2012 Annual Report.
- Do you have an independent study project for a library science student? If so, post a description on the wplla list and our student members will get in touch with you.
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