Below is a list of programs that will be sponsored by ALL-SIS at the annual meeting in New Orleans in 2007. Ten programs will be included in the AMPC programs, including one workshop, and two will be run as alternate programs, for a total of twelve ALL-SIS sponsored programs.
AMPC Programs
A-1: Public Services in the 21st Century: Beyond Traditional Reference Service
Sunday, July 15, 1:30–2:45PM
Competency: Reference, Research and Patron Services
Target Audience: Public services librarians in academic, public and firm libraries
Level: Intermediate
As institutions strive to meet patron needs in innovative ways, the culture of the reference interview is changing from a face-to-face and one-on-one transaction to a quick I.M. or an impersonal query of reference bot. This panel discussion features law librarians from academic, public, and firm libraries who authored chapters exploring the future of reference service in the forthcoming book: Public Services in the 21st Century: Evolution and Innovation. Speakers will share their experiences providing high-quality reference service through novel means in different types of libraries. The balance between cutting edge technology and the preservation of important aspects of the traditional reference transaction in the electronic environment will be explored. The book's co-editor will relate innovation in other aspects of public services to the 21st century reference interview.
- Lee F. Peoples, Coordinator and Moderator, Oklahoma City University Law Library
- Roy Balleste, University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke Law Library
- Barbara A. Bintliff, University of Colorado Law Library, William A.Wise Law Library
- Anna Cherry, Minnesota State Law Library
- Mark E. Estes, Holme Roberts & Owen LLP
A-7: Librarians, Vendors, or Both? Who Should Be Teaching Westlaw® and LexisNexis® to First-Year Law Students?
Sunday, July 15, 1:30–2:45PM
Competency: Teaching
Target Audience: Primarily academic law librarians, but also other law librarians who work with law students
Level: Intermediate
Law librarians who teach legal research are confronted with an important question: Who should teach first-year law students about Westlaw® and LexisNexis®. A recent informal survey suggests that law schools are almost evenly divided between using vendor representatives, relying on library staff, or a combination of both. What are the factors that predispose a school toward one of these approaches? What works, what doesn't? How can librarians evaluate the effectiveness of the competing approaches? This program will address these critical questions.
- Stefanie Pearlman, Coordinator and Speaker, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Marvin & Virginia Schmid Law Library
- Matthew Novak, Moderator, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Marvin & Virginia Schmid Law Library
- Joseph Gerken, The University at Buffalo, State University of New York
- Ronald E. Jones, Jr., University of Cincinnati College of Law, Robert S. Marx Law Library
- Sheri H. Lewis, University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library
B-1: They Rose to the Challenge: Public Librarians Take On the USA PATRIOT Act Through Doe v. Gonzales
Sunday, July 15, 3:00–4:00PM
Competency: Core Competencies for Law Librarianship
Target Audience: Law librarians who are interested in Constitutional privacy issues; government documents librarians who are interested in lawsuits involving the federal government; librarians who may receive questions concerning privacy of library records
Level: Advanced
Four Connecticut librarians were recipients of a National Security Letter (NSL) demanding library records. Such letters are accompanied by a perpetual gag order, preventing the librarians from talking about the impact of Section 505 of the USA PATRIOT Act on library users. They became plaintiffs in Doe v. Gonzales, argued by the ACLU before Federal District Court Judge Janet C. Hall. The Department of Justice (DOJ) subsequently dropped the request for information. Participants in the legal battle will discuss the gag order, the case and the USA PATRIOT Act's Section 505.What is the significance of the DOJ dropping the request for information?
- April L. Schwartz, Coordinator and Moderator, Touro College
- Melissa Goodman, ACLU
- George Christian, Library Connections Inc.
B-7: Blogs, Working Papers, Electronic Publishing: Will Changes in Legal Scholarship Affect the Future Development of Library Collections?
Sunday, July 15, 3:00–4:00PM
Competency: Core Competencies for Law Librarianship
Target Audience: Academic law librarians
Level: Advanced
Legal scholarship once consisted of treatises, monographs, and law review articles. Today, scholarship finds its audience first on the Internet as working papers and then in open-access law reviews; scholarly dialogue is carried on in blogs rather than in symposia. More law professors write for a larger audience—other academics and the public, as well as the law school tenure committee. How is this environment changing legal scholarship and the responsibilities of law libraries to make a permanent record of it? A law professor and a law librarian will address these issues from the perspectives of the writer, law school and library. Participants will be able to analyze changes in the production and publication of legal scholarship and assess needs for revision in collection development policies in response.
- Margaret A. Schilt, Coordinator and Moderator, University of Chicago D'Angelo Law Library
- Gordon Russell, Charleston School of Law
- Lawrence B. Solum, University of Illinois College of Law
C-4: Rising to the Leadership Challenge Outside Your Library: Being a Leader in the Larger Organization
Sunday, July 15, 4:15–5:15PM
Competency: Core Competencies for Law Librarianship
Target Audience: All librarians
Level: Advanced
Librarians, especially those with supervisory and management responsibilities, are leaders within their libraries. The skills used to run the library transfer well within the larger organization. Two librarians who have assumed significant leadership roles within their organizations—a large law firm and a major university—present case studies of their expanded responsibilities and how their training as librarians created and supported these new opportunities. They will demonstrate their decision-making processes that led to their accepting the new responsibilities, and critique the outcomes of their decisions.
- Carol Bredemeyer, Coordinator and Moderator, Northern Kentucky University, Salmon P. Chase College of Law Library
- Barbara A. Bintliff, University of Colorado Law Library,William A. Wise Law Library
- Marianne E. Maher, Plunkett & Cooney, PC
D-7: Instructional Technology in Teaching Legal Research: Tricks of the Trade in the Real and Virtual Classroom
Monday, July 16, 8:45AM–10:15PM
Competency: Teaching
Target Audience: Academic law librarians who teach introductory or advanced legal research; private law librarians involved in training and/or CLE
Level: Intermediate
Librarians are all teachers. The range of teaching activities extends from organized law school research courses to working with individual lawyers and students in mastering new databases and search techniques. Instructional technologies present many new formats and opportunities for meeting the research training needs of students and professionals. Such technologies can also help librarians address the problem of not having enough staff to do all the desired teaching. This session will feature the approaches taken by several librarians to implement new technologies in various instructional settings. The panelists will address and demonstrate asynchronous learning methods such as Web-based courses (TWEN or Blackboard) using techniques including CALI lessons, Captivate/Camtasia or similar presentations, alone or in combination with synchronous methods such as videoconferencing and virtual office hours. The panelists will also discuss the issues that arise in supervising and evaluating course work in distance education courses.
- Susan Herrick, Coordinator and Moderator, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Thurgood Marshall Law Library
- Judith Ford Anspach, Indiana University School of Law–Indianapolis
- Kristen M. Baginski, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Thurgood Marshall Law Library
- Maryanne Gerber, Golden Gate University, School of Law Library
E-1: Rise to the Challenge of Publishing
Monday, July 16, 10:30–11:30AM
Competency: Core Competencies for Law Librarianship
Target Audience: Academic directors, those aspiring to become directors, and all law librarians interested in publishing
Level: Intermediate
Publishing in the professional literature is an expectation for academic law library directors and others seeking promotion and tenure or its equivalent. Publishing also represents a service to the professions in which many librarians would like to participate. This program will provide information from the experts on topic selection, developing the topic and writing the article, where and how to submit papers, and what to expect during the editorial process.
- Barbara A.West, Coordinator and Moderator, Western New England College School of Law Library
- Michael G. Chiorazzi, University of Arizona College of Law Library
- Penny A. Hazelton, University of Washington Gallagher Law Library
- Frank G. Houdek, Southern Illinois University Law Library
I-4: Responding to Legal Process in the Library—a Post-PATRIOT Act Primer
Tuesday, July 17, 2:45–3:15PM
Competency: Reference, Research and Patron Services
Target Audience: Law librarians in all job environments
Level: Intermediate
For this session, two speakers will address the provisions of the reauthorized USA PATRIOT Act in terms of the impact on libraries. The discussion will cover the scope and effect of the revised or existing provisions for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) orders, national security letters, and related legal process to secure library records. Recent cases involving libraries will be examined, and statistics on the use of legal process in libraries will be discussed.
- Susan Nevelow Mart, Co-coordinator and Speaker, University of California, Hastings College of the Law Library
- Leah Sandwell-Weiss, Co-coordinator and Speaker, University of Arizona College of Law Library
J-6: Alumni: The Forgotten Patron Group
Tuesday, July 17, 3:30–4:00PM
Competency: Core Competencies for Law Librarianship
Target Audience: Academic librarians who have a strong commitment to customer service
Level: Intermediate
The focus of most services and programs in academic law libraries is on the school's faculty and students, with little attention being spent on alumni services. Yet these same schools are quite dependent on financial contributions from their alumni for various projects, such as capital campaigns and student scholarships. Hear a discussion about the services a library can provide to alumni with the intent of strengthening the relationship between these individuals and the school. The library's role in raising funds for a library construction project will also be discussed.
- Kim Clarke, Coordinator and Speaker, University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Gordon D. Schaber Law Library
- Michele Finerty, Moderator, University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Gordon D. Schaber Law Library
- Margaret Arnold, University of San Francisco School of Law
W-3: How (and What) to Podcast
Saturday, July 14 (full-day workshop)
Competency: Teaching
Target Audience: Law librarians in all types of libraries interested in reaching library users and would-be users through the technology of portable audio on demand
Level: Intermediate
The Oxford American Dictionary chose "podcast" as the Word of the Year in 2005, but many librarians remain unfamiliar with podcasting and what it can do for them. For such an intensely text-based profession, that may not be surprising. But podcasting is continuing to grow, with tens of thousands of podcasts now available. Interest in podcasting is generating everything from conferences with thousands of attendees to informal "meetups" in dozens of cities across the country.
This will be a practical, hands-on workshop on the basic techniques of audio podcasting. The instructors will discuss and demonstrate a variety of hardware and software tools for producing podcasts. Topics will cover recording and editing audio, hosting services, syndication using RSS, and creative ways to use podcasting in library work. Participants will take part in a live, on-site recording of an episode of the Check This Out! podcast, as well as share ideas and critiques for developing their own library podcasts.
- James G. Milles, Coordinator, Moderator and Speaker, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
- Connie Crosby, WeirFoulds LLP
- Rita A. Kaiser, King County Law Library
- Diane Murley, Southern Illinois University Law Library
- Lee F. Peoples, Oklahoma City University Law Library
- Dongfa Zhou, William Mitchell College of Law
Alternate Programs
Rising to the Challenge of Relevance in Legal Research Training
Monday, July 16, 2:00–3:15PM
Competency: Teaching
Level: Intermediate
An experienced legal research instructor will articulate the common and justifiable student perception that legal research classes seem unrelated to the doctrinal concepts they are learning and lack immediate and practical application to their course work. A doctrinal faculty member will describe his motivation for creating a focused research class and course book in public international law in collaboration with the international law librarian. The law librarian will describe the benefits of this collaboration for the students, faculty, and library staff. The speakers will propose guidelines for creating similar collaborative courses.
- Mary Ann Archer, Coordinator and Speaker, William Mitchell College of Law, Warren E. Burger Library
- Anthony S. Winer, William Mitchell College of Law
- William Jack, William Mitchell College of Law, Warren E. Burger Library
Filling the Seats: Marketing Legal Research Instruction with a Certificate of Excellence Program
Monday, July 16, 10:30–11:30AM
Competency: Teaching
Level: Intermediate
Academic law librarians spend hours planning instructional programs and workshops only to have no students show up. Texas Tech Law Library set out to remedy this problem by creating a Certificate of Excellence in Legal Research to motivate students to attend classes. This program will describe the steps taken and the hurdles overcome at Texas Tech to create this program including designing a curriculum, planning courses, obtaining administrative approval and faculty support, and designing a sophisticated registration and record-keeping system.
- Teresa Conaway, Coordinator, Texas Tech University School of Law Library
- Sharon Blackburn, Moderator, Texas Tech University School of Law Library
- Arturo Torres, Texas Tech University School of Law Library
- Gayle Dixon,