Comments Off on iSchool Love Connection Attention LLOPSters
Spotted: Fred Hanson and his lovely bride, Ellen, featured in the iDo section of the UW iSchool news. Who knew library
school was the place to meet a lady? Not Fred!
Pop Quiz: What do you get when you cross a Library of Congress acronym with a popular hangout just off campus? The perfect place for love to bloom. Looks like the secret is out!
See you at the CIP.
xoxo
Ms. President
The UW Gallagher Law Library has been selected as the Spotlight Depository by the US Government Printing Office.
The first law library so designated, Gallagher was chosen for “its strong support of public access to Federal depository legal and other information resources.”
Coordinated by documents librarian Peggy Jarrett, many of the Gallagher staff contribute to the Library’s successful participation in the federal depository library program. From processing materials to creating and maintaining catalog records, from printing copies of online documents to directing users to relevant government information sources—the Gallagher team’s services embody the new tagline for the FDLP: Free, Dedicated, Limitless.
Visit the Gallagher page on United States Government Publications for more information.
October 9th, 2009 will forever be known as Black Friday in the annals of LLOPS, for we are saying goodbye to two wonderful colleagues today, Rita Kaiser and Ann Hemmens: two past-Presidents, two reference divas, two people dedicated to our profession.
Goodbyes can easily descend into desperate and maudlin affairs, so let’s instead part with laughter rather than tears. Here are a few fond memories from fellow LLOPS members and colleagues.
Comments Off on Brenna Louzin Recalling Heller's Last Days by Kristine Lloyd
Last September’s news reports were full of economic carnage, but most of it seemed to take place in the faraway world of Wall Street. That is, until the collapse of Washington Mutual and Heller Ehrman hit us locally. Even though Heller was a San Francisco-based firm, the dissolution had a huge impact on Seattle’s legal community.
Take a look at this recent Law.com article quoting our own Brenna Louzin about the fall of Heller. And thanks to Fred Hanson for alerting me to it.
by Lori Fossum
This past June, I attended the CALI Conference for Law School Computing: “Tools for Change” in beautiful Boulder, CO. While geared mostly toward academic law librarians and information technology professionals, the conference spoke broadly to other types of law librarians and even law professors interested in integrating electronic resources into their teaching. I attended sessions on authentication of online documents and finding low-cost and free web-based legal resources, to name just two. Conference attendees all seemed to agree that we librarians ought to collaborate more, that all of us are asked to do the same work with fewer resources, and that we all wish things like PACER were free and easy. Of course, we didn’t all agree on everything, and I found it fascinating that the overflow room for the plenary speech filled before the main auditorium did. The speaker, Harvard Law’s John Palfrey, noted that many conference attendees chose to sit in the overflow room so they could use their various electronic gadgets in peace during his speech. And he seemed perfectly comfortable with that. Continue reading 'CALI Conference Lowdown: The Adventures of a New Law Librarian'»
by Kristine Lloyd
LLOPS’ own Rita Dermody was featured in a recent Seattle Times photo, for an article about the potential flood risks posed by the Howard Hanson dam in Kent. Departments like the King County Law Library, which are housed in the Maleng Regional Justice Center, are preparing for a possible dam failure this fall. One wonders if Aerosoles, J. Jill and Hot Topic are engaging in the same kind of rigorous disaster planning at the Kent Station mall nearby.
Disaster planning has been a hot topic in recent years, but how many of us have devised a disaster plan with the threat of real disaster looming, as opposed to “I should do this because it’s good for me and librarians are a prepared people” hypothetical disaster planning? Let’s hope KCLL does not have to implement their plan, but we know they’ll be ready if the water starts to rise.
Check out Rita D. in action here. And read the article here.
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