Mark Your Calendar: Professional Legal Management Week, October 4-8 
Three AALL 2010 Programs Free on AALL2go
AALL was proud to offer this year free live webcasts of three great educational programs from this year’s Annual Meeting and Conference in Denver. These programs will also be available for free to all AALL members in AALL2go, your online center for professional development.
Opening General Session with Keynote Speaker R. David Lankes
D6: Research Guides 2.0: Creating Guides that Patrons Love
I1: Ten Things Every Law Librarian Needs to Know About Copyright
AALL2go Pick of the Month for September
AALL’s Continuing Professional Education Committee presents the AALL2go pick of the month: Information without Borders? Copyright, the Internet and Librarians.
This 54-minute MP3 recording features William F. Patry, author of Patry on Copyright and Patry on Fair Use. Beginning with an overview of his career path and the growth of his interest in copyright law, Patry relates how his experience of research—and specifically research for his books—has changed through the growth of the internet.
His premise is that access to information is far greater now through the internet than through the physical law library, allowing differing perspectives on legal topics. He finds this increase of information from sources beyond the standard law library leads to more interesting legal writing.
Patry goes on to address the misconception that the internet is not bound by any country or any country’s laws. He discusses how countries are able to regulate the internet by blocking access and enforcing local laws and even regulate outside their own borders by enforcing judgments over other countries. Copyright law is one example of how the internet as a borderless entity is an illusion.
Find this and more than 60 other free continuing education programs and webinars for AALL members on AALL2go!
Mark Your Calendar: Professional Legal Management Week, October 4-8
Professional Legal Management Week (PLMW) provides a forum for recognizing those in legal management for what they do and the roles they play in the success of their organizations. AALL is one of 11 associations co-sponsoring the event with the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA).
AALL members are encouraged to plan and promote events for the week. The Professional Legal Management Week Web site includes resources to help you set up events, including a fact sheet, suggestions for planning events, a flyer, logos, and advertisements.
2009 AALL Price Index for Legal Publications
The 2009 AALL Price Index for Legal Publications is now available in the Members Only Section of AALLNET. The table-based report includes details for the mean cost of titles and percentage increases over previous years for serial publications, legal periodicals, loose-leaf services, commercially published court reporters, and supplemented treatises.
The purpose of the Price Index is to provide members with comparative information about past price changes in order to help with budgeting and collection development decisions. In gathering information for the Price Index, the AALL Price Index for Legal Publications Committee asks publishers to provide their pricing. If a publisher declines to do so, its pricing is not included in the index.
