Greetings LLOPSters,
Please save the date for the January LLOPS meeting on Wednesday, January 29th at 12 noon. This is a Business meeting with committee update reports.
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Business Meeting and Committee Updates |
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January 29th, 2020 |
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12 noon – 1 pm |
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Brown Bag Lunch with treats provided by LLOPS |
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Baker Hostetler
999 3rd Ave #3600
Seattle, WA 98104 |
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We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Your LLOPS Program Committee Crystal & Maya
For those of you who could not make it, and those of you whose curiosity and sense of concern were peaked by Cass and Kian’s great presentation yesterday, I have uploaded and linked the presentation slides below.
LLOPS Presentation-GovInfo-Oct2019
Enjoy!
Please join the LLOPS Social Committee for happy hour at the Yard House on Wednesday, October 16th from 4:30-6:30 pm. LLOPS will cover happy hour fare and members will be responsible for their own beverages.
We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Your LLOPS Social Committee – Jessica, Mort, and Carly.
Greetings!
The LLOPS Holiday Party will be held at Fado Irish Pub on Thursday, December 5th from 5-8pm.
Please save the date! An RSVP will be sent out later this month.
Thank you and we hope to see you there!
Carly
Greetings, LLOPSters!
Please save the date for the October LLOPS meeting, which will be held on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 at 12 noon. This meeting will feature a presentation from University of Washington librarians Cass Hartnett and Kian Flynn and will address the following:
University of Washington government documents librarians Cass Hartnett and Kian Flynn reflect on current public access (or the lack thereof) to federal government information. Come hear highlights from their article, “Cutting through the Fog: Government Information, Librarians, and the Forty-Fifth Presidency” https://journals.ala.org/index.php/rusq/article/view/6608, as well as updates on Government Publishing Office initiatives and activist projects such as the Sunlight Foundation’s Web Integrity Project. This session aims to give government information and law librarians an overview of the current federal government information landscape as we move forward in serving our patrons.
Topic: Current Access to Federal Government Information
Date: October 30, 2019
Time: 12 noon – 1 pm
Event Type: Brown bag lunch with treats courtesy of LLOPS!
Location: Stokes Lawrence, 1420 5th Ave Suite 3000 Seattle, WA 98101
AALL is now accepting nominations for the Emerging Leader Award. This award recognizes newer members who have made significant contributions to the profession and have demonstrated the potential for leadership and continuing excellence. Self-nominations are accepted and encouraged.
Selection criteria
The nominee must:
- be a member in good standing of AALL
- have 10 or fewer years of law library experience
- have made a significant contributions to the Association and/or the profession
- have shown outstanding promise for continuing service and leadership (please provide specific examples of his/her continuing activities)
- not have previously received an Emerging Leader Award
The nomination deadline is January 31st. Letters of recommendation can take some time to gather and holidays are approaching, so we encourage you to begin the process as soon as possible in order to meet the deadline.
More details on the award, including a link to the Nomination Form, can be found here: Emerging Leader Award (https://www.aallnet.org/community/recognition/awards-program/emerging-leader-award/)
If you would like to see all that LLOPS was up to during the 2018-2019 year, you can access our annual report here.
Congratulations to the LLOPS grant recipients attending AALL and SLA 2019! We look forward to their reports on the events and programming at the 2019 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference: Capitalizing on Our Strengths.
AALL:
Crystal Alberthal, Serials & Research Services Librarian – University of Washington – $695
Stephanie Wilson – Head of Reference Services – Seattle University – $670
SLA:
Karen Whitney, Library Operations Supervisor – Perkins Coie – $635
Greetings LLOPSters,
Please join us Wednesday, April 24th at 4:00 P.M. for a special presentation by UW Law Professors Karen Boxx and Lauren Sancken on Marijuana Law.
Topic: Meeting with Happy Hour to follow
Date: Wednesday, April 24th
Time: 4:00 p.m. (Marijuana Law Presentation)
5:00 p.m. Happy Hour to immediately follow presentation
Location:
Marijuana Law Presentation
UW Law School
Gates Hall – 4293 Memorial Way Northeast
Room 115
Seattle, WA
Happy Hour
Big Time Brewery
4133 University Way NE
Seattle, WA
We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Your LLOPS Program Committee Mary, Ashley, Maya and Brenna
Please join us Wednesday, March 27th at noon for a special presentation by Philippe Cloutier and Nicole Partridge.
Topic: Grow, Experiment & Learn: Microsoft Library Evolution
Microsoft has gone through one of the greatest corporate transformations in history. Find out how the Microsoft Library team’s commitment to community, data, and trust has evolved the 35-year-old library and developed habits to experiment, fail fast, and learn fast. Get lots of ideas, strategies, and tips for evolving your library!
Date: March 27th
Time: 12 noon – 1p.m.
Event Type: Brown Bag Lunch
Location: Stokes Lawrence, P.S. 1420 Fifth Avenue, Suite 3000 Seattle, WA 98101-2393
We hope to see you there!
Sincerely,
Your LLOPS Program Committee Mary, Ashley, Maya and Brenna
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