ALL-SIS WEBINARS
2023
Improving Access to Our Collections With Alternative Controlled Vocabularies
Date: February 21, 2023
Speakers: Brinna Michael, Cataloging and Metadata Librarian at Pitts Theology Library, Emory University; Sofia Slutskaya, Head of Resource Description, Emory University Woodruff Library.
In recent years, libraries have begun work towards improving diverse subject access to their collections. A large part of this has been the integration of alternative controlled vocabularies into MARC records in addition to standard Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). This webinar held introduced a brief history of alternative vocabularies to LCSH, presented a case for the continued and retroactived use of these vocabularies, discussed how the use of such vocabularies in the library catalog can impact discovery layers and user experience, and showcased examples of the implementation of alternative vocabularies.
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2022
Teaching E-Discovery
Date: May 24, 2022
Moderator: Robin Schard, University of Miami School of Law Library
Speakers: Elizabeth “Eli” Edwards, Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library, UCLA; Rebecca Fordon, Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library, UCLA; Christina Glon, Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, Emory University
On May 24, the Academic Law Libraries (ALL-SIS) Continuing Education Committee hosted a virtual panel on e-discovery instruction. The speakers discussed best practices in teaching e-discovery from a legal information and legal technology perspective. They also shared advice and examples on what law students need to know and how best to provide that instruction.
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Hybrid Legal Research Instruction
Date: April 21, 2022
Moderator: Miriam Ann Murphy, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Speakers: Alyson Drake, Fordham Law Library; Genevieve Tung, Biddle Law Library at the University of Pennsylvania; Emily Barney, Chicago-Kent Law Library.
On April 21, the Academic Law Libraries (ALL-SIS) Continuing Education Committee hosted a virtual, informal conversation on teaching in a hybrid environment. The speakers shared lessons learned with advice on what to do and what to avoid in delivering hybrid education.
2021
Collaboration and Outreach: Supporting Community Legal Research
Date: June 17, 2021
Moderator: Anne Rajotte, University of Connecticut Law School
Speakers: Rebekah Maxwell,University of South Carolina School of Law Library; Sara V. Pic, Law Library of Louisiana (author of “Bridging the Gap Between Public Libraries & Law Libraries to Improve Access to Justice” in the March/April 2021 issue of Spectrum); Elizabeth Caulfield, California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District
The ALL-SIS Continuing Education Committee is happy to announce Inclusion: Teaching, Terms, and Community, a series of webinars focused on how specific issues of equity and inclusion are being recognized and addressed by academic law libraries.
The third event in our series was Collaboration and Outreach: Supporting Community Legal Research. The panelists shared how they developed collaborations and nurtured relationships with public libraries to provide needed legal research services to local communities. Programs such as the “Circuit Riders Outreach Program” and the online course “Creating Pathways to Civil Legal Justice through Public Libraries” were discussed.
THE U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT LAW LIBRARY SURVEY QUESTIONS: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
The first results using the new U.S. News & World Report survey questions for law libraries were released in late March and have not been without controversy. On Friday, June 11, 2021, the ALL-SIS Continuing Education Committee held a discussion of the future of the U.S. News law library metrics with a distinguished panel of experts.
A Conversation about Creating Equity and Inclusion in Our Metadata
Date: February 24, 2021
Moderator: Alicia Pearson, Albany Law School
Speakers: Grace Lo, Stanford Law School; Margarita Pérez Martínez, University of Miami School of Law Library; Cate Kellett, Yale Law School
On Wednesday, February 24, 2021, the ALL-SIS Continuing Education Committee held the panel “A Conversation about Creating Equity and Inclusion in Our Metadata,” the second installment of its series Inclusion: Teaching, Terms, and Community, a series focused on how specific issues of equity and inclusion are being recognized and addressed by academic law libraries.
What if a user was searching for information on immigration, and found that your library classified the information as related to “aliens” or, even worse, “illegal aliens”? Would that further isolate some of the people using your library catalog? This conversation with the experts discussed what can and should be done now to make our catalogs more inclusive to all, how we can make our metadata better now, and how we can influence others to do the same.
2020
LET’S TALK: A NECESSARY CONVERSATION ABOUT EQUITY AND INCLUSION IN REMOTE INSTRUCTION
The ALL-SIS Continuing Education Committee is happy to announce Inclusion: Teaching, Terms, and Community, a series of webinars focused on how specific issues of equity and inclusion are being recognized and addressed by academic law libraries.
The first event in our series is Let’s Talk: A Necessary Conversation about Equity and Inclusion in Remote Instruction. This conversation with the experts featured perspectives from within and outside of the law library in order to identify the challenges and successes of remote teaching in the context of equity and inclusion. What does it mean to have an inclusive online classroom? How do we ensure equity and inclusion when moving from in person to remote instruction? What are we doing right, and what do we need to improve?