OBS & TS Gateways to Leadership: An AALL Conference Schedule

Saturday, July 15:

  9:00-4:00 p.m. -- Electronic Licensing Agreements (Workshop W2)
  4:00-5:00 p.m. -- TS 1999/2000 Executive Board Meeting 
  4:00-6:00 p.m. -- OBS 1999/2000 Executive Board Meeting
  6:00-7:30 p.m. -- TS/OBS/RIPS/CS-SIS Joint Reception

Sunday, July 16:

 11:45-1:00 p.m. -- OBS/TS Research Roundtable
  1:00-2:00 p.m. -- How Will the Law Library Work in a Paperless
                    World? The Impact of Electronic Data
                    Interchange (EDI) on Library Management
                    (Program B-1)
  2:15-3:45 p.m. -- The Alphabet Soup of Cooperative Cataloging:
                    Leading Through Participation in NACO, SACO,
                    BIBCO and CONSER (Program C-1)
  4:00-5:00 p.m. -- TS Business Meeting
  5:00-6:00 p.m. -- OBS Business Meeting

Monday, July 17:

  7:00-8:30 a.m. -- TS Cataloging & Classification Committee Meeting
  7:30-8:30 a.m. -- TS Acquisitions Committee Meeting
  7:30-8:30 a.m. -- TS Preservation Committee Meeting
10:15-11:45 a.m. -- Instant Gratification! The Z39.50 Gateway
                     to Searching and Cataloging and ILL
                     (Program D-3)
  5:00-6:00 p.m. -- OCLC/WLN Committee Open Discussion
  5:00-6:00 p.m. -- 2001 Annual Meeting Program Selection
                    Committee Open Forum
  5:00-6:00 p.m. -- TSLL Board Meeting
  5:15-6:15 p.m. -- TS Serials Committee Meeting

Tuesday, July 18:

  7:30-8:30 a.m. -- TS Heads of Technical Services Roundtable
10:45-12:15 p.m. -- Core Competencies for Support Staff:
                     Librarians as Departmental Leaders
                     (Program G-5)
10:45-12:15 p.m. -- Gateways Through the Vendor Maze: Using
                     Technology – and other Tricks – to Manage
                     Legal Publishers (Program G-6)
10:45-12:15 p.m. -- Religious Law in a Secular Setting: A
                     Cataloging and Classification Approach
                     (Program G-7)
 12:15-1:30 p.m. -- OBS Education Committee
 12:15-1:30 p.m. -- TS Preservation & Binding Roundtable
 12:30-1:30 p.m. -- TS Cataloging & Classification Issues Roundtable
  3:45-5:15 p.m. -- The Text Encoding Initiative and Legal
                     Electronic Texts (Program I-3)
  5:15-6:15 p.m. -- TS Heads of Cataloging in Large Law Libraries
  5:30-6:30 p.m. -- TS Acquisitions Roundtable

Wednesday, July 19:

  7:30-8:45 a.m. -- OBS 2000/2001 Executive Board Meeting
  7:30-8:30 a.m. -- TS 2000/2001 Executive Board Meeting
 11:45-1:00 p.m. -- OBS Local Systems Committee Open Discussion
 12:30-1:30 p.m. -- TS Education Committee Meeting
  2:00-3:00 p.m. -- What I like, Who Has It and Can I Have It?
                     An Update on Library Integrated Systems
                     (Program K-7)
  3:15-4:15 p.m. -- Acquisition and Control of Electronic
                     Legal Resources in the 21st Century
                     (Program L-4)

TS & OBS Program Descriptions

How Will the Law Library Work in a Paperless World: The Impact of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) on Library Management (Program B-1); Coordinator: Joan Liu. Date & Time: Sunday, July 16, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Libraries and vendors can now exchange orders, invoices, and claims over the Internet. These exciting developments are made possible by EDI, Electronic Data Interchange, a technology that performs exchange of business data in standardized electronic format between systems. EDI has greatly improved the efficiency and quality of library services. However, it is still unfamiliar to the majority of law libraries. What impact will it have on a law library’s management when acquisition and serials processes occur in a paperless environment? An information specialist and EDI expert will review the latest developments on the technical integrity of all EDI standards. A law librarian will present her research on this technology. A subscription agent will share his knowledge of incorporating EDI messages into the Library of Kansas State University, the first library to load annual serial invoices via the EDI interface.

The Alphabet Soup of Cooperative Cataloging: Leading Through Participation in NACO, SACO, BIBCO, and CONSER (Program C-1) Coordinator/moderator: Ellen McGrath. Date & Time: Sunday, July 16, 2:15-3:45 p.m.

Tight budgets and staff shortages make cooperative cataloging efforts essential. Unrealized cooperative work exists in many of our local systems. Why not share it? In the past, only major research libraries could afford to contribute "authoritative" records to shared national files. The Library of Congress now enlists all types of libraries to join in its cooperative work. The expertise law catalogers possess in dealing with certain types of bibliographic and authority records would have a great impact on these cooperative efforts. This program will assist law librarians in assessing the value of PCC component programs with regard to work taking place in their library. Speakers will present an overview of the PCC and how its component parts fit together. They will discuss training, the impact on daily workflow, and the benefits to be gained both by users of our library catalogs and by law catalogers.

Instant Gratification! The Z39.50 Gateway to Searching, Cataloging and ILL (Program D-3) Coordinator/moderator/speaker: Mary Jane Kelsey Date & Time: Monday, July 17, 10:15-11:45 AM

Z39.50 offers enhanced user service and technical processing. Speakers represent various parts of the Z39.50 world: librarians using Z39.50, representatives of major target databases and ILS developers. The speakers will address the function of the attribute settings, interesting uses for Z39.50 such as simultaneous searches on multiple databases, instantaneous acquisition of bib records, instantaneous generation of ILL requests, and the standardization issues yet to be resolved in the application of Z39.50. This program will address the likely result of various search strategies against LC, OCLC, and RLIN databases. The audience will be asked to react to the question, "Are there ethical problems associated with the ability to acquire MARC records from any database with a Z39.50 server?"

Core Competencies for Support Staff: Librarians as Departmental Leaders (Program G-5) Coordinator/speaker: Phyllis Post. Date & Time: Tuesday, July 18, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

An OBS-SIS task force, in recognition that the principles of core competencies are applicable to law library staff at all levels, not just law librarians, wrote sample core competencies for support staff in both technical and public services. These core competencies describe basic tasks that all support staff are expected to carry out in their daily work. Selected examples include being able to recognize how bibliographic information is presented, how library systems operate, and how legal materials are organized. Librarians who are managers can use these core competencies to be more effective leaders in their departments as they hire, train, and evaluate support staff. Speakers will include members of the OBS task force who wrote the sample core competencies being presented. The program will conclude with a practical, real-life example of writing and using core competencies from a librarian who has done so.

Gateways Through the Vendor Maze: Using Technology – and other Tricks – to Manage Legal Publishers (Program G-6) Coordinator: Sheri H. Lewis. Date & Time: Tuesday, July 18, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

The increasingly complicated world of legal publishing has created a maze for law librarians who develop their collections and acquire library materials. Technology resources are available to better navigate this maze in providing information, gateways for communication and time-saving procedures. Recognized acquisitions and collection development specialists and speakers from the Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) will cover the most useful librarian-created technology resources, including CRIV electronic resources and electronic products and services made available by vendors. They will also discuss the issues that arise when interacting with legal vendors and customer service departments.

Religious Law in a Secular Setting: A Cataloging and Classification Approach (Program G-7) Coordinator/moderator: Patricia Sayre-McCoy. Date & Time: Tuesday, July 18, 10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

This program will address several concerns with the new Theological Law classification, KB, currently in development at the Library of Congress. The program will explain the development of the KB schedules and their relationship to the former religious law sections of the B schedules. The speakers will examine what constitutes religious law and how to determine which classification schedule to use, and they will compare religious legal systems to state-based legal systems. They will also discuss subject headings related to religious law. Examples of actual cataloging will be presented.

The Text Encoding Initiative and Electronic Legal Texts (Program I-3) Coordinator/speaker: Kevin Butterfield. Date & Time: Tuesday, July 18, 3:45-5:15 p.m.

The Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) is an international project to develop guidelines for the preparation and interchange of electronic texts for scholarly research. Since the beginning of the TEI project, the need for standardized encoding practices has become critical as the need to use and, most importantly, reuse electronic text has increased for both research and industry. The growing diversity of applications for electronic texts include natural language processing, scholarly editions, information retrieval, hypertext, electronic publishing, various forms of historical analysis, and lexicography. The central objective of the TEI ensures that any text created can be used for any number of these applications and for more, as yet not fully understood, purposes. The speaker(s) will introduce the TEI and its metadata component, the TEI Header, and discuss methods, tools, and issues surrounding the production of electronic versions of primary legal texts that will support academic research and legal practice applications.

What I Like, Who Has It and Can I Have It? An Update on Library Integrated Systems (Program K-7) Coordinator: F. Tim Knight. Date & Time: Wednesday, July 19, 2:00-3:00 p.m.

Keeping informed of innovations and trends in the fast-paced world of integrated library systems is not easy. The constant give and take between the needs and demands of your users and staff and changes in the field affect the use and implementation of your library’s system. Is your vendor setting trends or reacting to them? Is your vendor receptive to your enhancement requests? What features do other library systems offer and what are some of the problems they are dealing with? Two nationally known library automation experts/practicing consultants will assess and compare existing library systems and answer questions about the latest trends and developments. This program will take participants beyond their own systems, enabling them to make better decisions when negotiating with vendors for changes to their existing systems or dealing with system migration or new purchase situations.

Acquisition and Control of Electronic Legal Resources in the 21st Century (Program L-4) Coordinator/moderator: Joyce Manno Janto. Date & Time: Wednesday, July 19, 3:15-4:15 p.m.

Law librarians have been struggling with the format transfer of serials from printing to digital. How does the library acquire and track these virtual resources? After the license agreement is signed, how do you manage licenses and contracts of those resources? Should electronic serials be controlled through local systems, and how would that be accomplished? How do you maintain the library holding statement for the serials that the library doesn’t physically own? What does the digital environment demand for technical services librarians and support staff? Two knowledgeable specialists will illustrate trends in legal serials development and provide strategies for the acquisition and quality control of electronic serials in the law library.

TS/OBS/CS/RIPS Joint Reception 2000