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And this year’s Excellence in Marketing Award goes to . . .

The K&L Gates library newsletter, AsktheLibrary!

Ellen Bowman, our intrepid newsletter editor, and frankly the lead writer too, accepted the AALL for Excellence in Marketing Award for Best Newsletter at this year’s annual meeting.

AsktheLibrary, our quarterly K&L Gates library newsletter, is a great medium for communicating our value to our lawyers. Our firmwide newsletter includes news about the firm’s print and electronic resources, free and low-cost resources available on the web, links to our online training guides  and other tools for navigating the information landscape. Congratulations to Ellen and the library staff at K&L Gates for winning this award.

by Jennifer Hill

Saturday, July 10, 2010:

Arrive at Sea-Tac after ride with parking lot shuttle driver who spent the entire drive gleefully describing to me all of the explosives he created and detonated for July 4th. Why he thought I was an explosives kind of girl, I don’t know. Get through long, slow moving curbside check-in line, then security and I’m off to Denver on a comfortable 2 ½ hour flight.

Check in to Marriott City Center and take off for Convention Center to pick up my badge and tote bag. On the way, meet up with some old friends from UCLA Law Library and meet some new UCLA law librarians as well. Make arrangements for dinner with my UCLA friends and head over to Blake Street for a delicious dinner at India House. Stuff myself with a vegetarian’s nightmare, Tandoori Mixed Grill and head back with the group to the Convention Center for the Opening Event in the Korbel Ballroom. The Ballroom was huge, allowing plenty of room to walk around and sample all of the different desserts available without knocking into people along the way. I’m not a big dessert person so instead I visited the bar stations which were well-stocked with beer, wine and even a signature cocktail: “The AALL”, a yummy peach martini. By 9:00 p.m. I was running out of steam and ready to call it a night. Back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep. Continue reading »

by Tina Ching

It is an excellent time to be involved in AALL policy related activities.  Various events held at the AALL annual meeting in Denver highlighted some of the issues that are important to us as law librarians and demonstrated how at the state level you are needed to help advance the objectives of our organization.

AALL Vision 2010-2013 states, “Law librarians, possessing unique education and training, have the special responsibility to promote permanent public access, authentication, and preservation of public domain government information.”  There were several programs at the annual meeting this year, related to this part of our organization’s strategic direction that reflected the movement in this area and the need for involvement from our members.  Here are just some of the highlights: Continue reading »

by Jill Allyn

Receiving a scholarship from AALL and LLOPS to attend the annual meeting this year was exciting. Not only did it help persuade the firm to send me, but I had never been to Denver before. We flew in Friday evening; that way, we could go to the PLL reception and Mort could attend Chapter President Leadership training Saturday morning. The reception included a mariachi band and margarita slushies that hit the spot. I met a newer librarian from Rochester, NY who had questions about software, serials management, databases, contracts and all that goes with managing libraries. Continue reading »

by Erin Hoffrance

In 2008, I attended my first AALL conference in Portland, OR. During my time there, I sat in on the Gen X/Gen Y Caucus meeting. I have been on their email list and have been enjoying the newly established newsletter, Minding the Gap. In the Spring 2010 edition, there is an article about Lawberry Camp, held at Harvard Law School during the 2010 mid-winter session.

Lawberry Camp is an “unconference” that included topics such as library mash-ups, resource tracking, mobile apps, information literacy, and research guides. Organized by members of the Gen X/Gen Y caucus, Jason Eiseman, Sarah Glassmeyer and Meg Kribble, this conference is different from others in its open exchange of ideas and the fact that “much of the days’ activities were streamed on the Internet so that people who could not attend in person could still participate via chat or Twitter. Videos and archived tweets appear on the Lawberry Camp website.” The organizers and participants created a great forum in which to share ideas and technologies and also provided a way for information professionals to connect. I am entirely intrigued and wish I could attend the upcoming Lawberry Camp at the 2010 AALL conference on Saturday, July 10. I encourage you to read the entire article (written by Jason Eiseman, Librarian for Emerging Technologies at Yale Law School), because it is a new look and feel to the way we as librarians can keep the profession moving forward.

Interested in promoting equitable, no-fee, permanent public access to authentic online legal information? Concerned about support for public law libraries? If so, consider going to the AALL Annual Meeting a day early to learn how to advocate for these two issues. 

Barbara Bintliff, Reporter to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws’ Drafting Committee on Authentication and Preservation of State Electronic Legal Materials, will be the Guest Speaker. Ms. Bintliff will share her unique perspective on the importance of digital authentication and preservation.

Get a Free Year of AALL Membership with Nonmember Annual Meeting Registration

New this year AALL is offering nonmembers a complimentary one-year membership when they register for the AALL Annual Meeting and Conference, held July 10-13 in Denver. The membership includes:

• Career resources, such as the online AALL Career Center and continuing education to help you learn new skills to advance in your career
• Access to specialized information created just for law librarians, such as the AALL Biennial Salary Survey and the AALL Price Index for Legal Publications
• Subscriptions to the monthly magazine, AALL Spectrum, and quarterly journal, Law Library Journal, to help you keep up on the latest trends in law librarianship
• The opportunity to network and connect with other law librarians from across the country who share similar interests and are facing the same challenges
• Discounted rates on all AALL products and services, such as publications, webinars, and online job postings

Annual Meeting registration opens February 17. Be sure to take advantage of this special offer for nonmembers.

by Kristine Lloyd

If you haven’t heard about the AALL Award our chapter won for the 2008 Professional Development Workshop, then you truly are living under a rock. Here is Robyn Hagle accepting our award. The award is nice and all, but check out how pretty in pink Robyn looks. Way to liven things up with color!

by Richard Jost

I was fortunate enough to attend the “Cool Tools” workshop this July, one of the pre-AALL Annual Meeting workshops sponsored by the CS-SIS. The workshop, held at the Georgetown University Law Library, had about 25 participants from a variety of library backgrounds (technical services, public services, electronic/computing resources) mainly from academic law libraries. Continue reading »