AALL Centennial Celebration Committee
Annual Meeting Programs
2005 - San Antonio 
"Now Serving at the Centennial Cantina: Margaritas, Nachos, and AALL
History"
Program B-5
Sunday, July 17, 2005, 2:45-4:00 p.m.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: This program will help raise awareness of AALL's Centennial celebration in 2005-06, and offer an informal, informative, and entertaining session of "living" oral history with some of AALL's most valued members. Five or six AALL "veterans" will sit together as if at a table in a hotel bar and chat about their experiences in AALL and law librarianship. As the discussion freely flows (like the margaritas) from topic to topic, the audience will 'eavesdrop" on the relaxed exchange as if they were at the next table in the bar. Similar programs using this format were presented in 1989-92, and 2004, and "Overheard at the Bar" has become synonymous with gathering oral history in a way that is both informative and amusing.
COORDINATOR & MODERATOR: Frank G. Houdek, Law Library Director and Professor of Law, Southern Illinois University School of Law Library.
SPEAKERS: Dan J. Freehling, Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Information Services, Boston University, Pappas Law Library; Margaret A. Leary, Director of the Law Library, Librarian, and Adjunct Lecturer, University of Michigan Law Library; Melody Busse Lembke, Technical Services Librarian, Los Angeles County Law Library; Judith Meadows, Director, State Law Library of Montana; Richard J. Spinelli, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, William S. Hein & Co., Inc.; Kay Moller Todd, Senior Legal Researcher, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP.
SPONSOR: AALL Centennial Celebration Committee.
"Values, Video, and Vignettes:
Using Video Oral History Techniques
to Document the Unwritten Histories of AALL"
Program L-3
Wednesday, July 20, 2005, 3:00-3:30 p.m.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Many aspects of an organization or profession's history are not recorded in formal written records, such as articles or meeting minutes. The values and visions that underlie key decisions can often only be clearly identified through discussions with the decision makers and their colleagues. Video technology offers the opportunity to preserve, and broadly disseminate, these discussions for the future. In particular relevance to AALL's upcoming Centennial Celebration, this program will offer basic training in planning an oral history project and selecting appropriate video technology for law librarians who are interested in preserving the history of our Association and profession.
COORDINATOR: Robert Mead, Head of Public and Faculty Services, University of Kansas, Wheat Law Library.
MODERATOR: Frank G. Houdek, Law Library Director and Professor of Law, Southern Illinois University School of Law Library.
SPEAKER: John Pedini, Director of Media Services, Social Law Library.
SPONSORS: Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section; Micrographics/Audiovisual Special Interest Section.