Good morning, LLOPSters:
We are excited to announce that this month’s meeting will feature AALL Executive Board Member Karen Selden, who is the Metadata Services Librarian at the University of Colorado Law Library in Boulder. Karen’s areas of expertise and research interests include cataloging, classification, and metadata creation for legal materials and her library’s digital collections. She presents and publishes articles on topics such as the future of the library catalog; cataloging internet-based resources; accessing electronic resources; and metadata creation for digital archives. She co-authored 2004 Law Library Journal Article of the Year “The Catalog vs. The Homepage? Best Practices in Connecting to Online Resources” and in 2019 she received the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship from AALL’s Technical Services Special Interest Section. In addition to serving on the AALL Executive Board, she was also the 2014-2015 Chair of AALL’s Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section. You can find out more about Karen here.
In addition, AALL generously provided us with one complimentary registration to the 2021 Virtual Conference to give away to a lucky LLOPS member. We will hold a raffle during the meeting to select the recipient. Note that this complimentary registration is only available to LLOPS members who have not already registered for the Virtual Conference.
Topic: Visit from AALL Executive Board Member Karen Selden (+raffle!)
Date: May 26, 2021
Time: Noon – 1:00 p.m.
Location: Zoom (see invite for link)
For everyone who did not make the meeting on today or who just wanted access to the slides and resources provided by our guest speaker, Sarah Larsen, please see the slides and links below:
Presentation Slides
Links to Resources Mentioned in the Presentation
Special Thanks to Sarah Larsen, Outreach Librarian at Minnesota State Law Library for speaking with us!
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!
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
The LLOPS Holiday Party will be Wednesday, December 7th from 5-8 p.m. at Perkins Coie LLP, 1201 Third Ave, Suite 4900. This is a members-only event but you are welcome to bring a non-member guest. Please RSVP by December 2nd.
This year LLOPS is collecting donations (checks or cash) for Legal Voice. Legal Voice “pursues justice for all women and girls in the Northwest, through groundbreaking litigation, legislative advocacy, and legal rights education.” Their work includes ending gender-based violence, ensuring access to health care, advancing economic justice, supporting all families, eradicating discrimination, and protecting reproductive freedom. Legal Voice envisions “a world where every woman and girl enjoys economic, social, and legal equality.” If you prefer, you can donate online.
Save the date for the May LLOPS Meeting on Wednesday, May 25th at 12 noon. In this meeting we will have a special guest: AALL President Keith Ann Stiverson. President Stiverson will speak about her term as AALL president, the rebranding project and the future of the profession. She is happy to take questions (use the RSVP form, if you’d like to submit questions ahead of time). |
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AALL Visitor, President Keith Ann Stiverson |
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May 25, 2016 |
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12 noon – 1 pm |
Event Type: |
Pizza lunch (provided by LLOPS) |
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William K. Nakamura Courthouse
1010 5th Ave (6th Floor)
Seattle, WA 98104 |
RSVP Required |
Use this link to RSVP by 5/23 at 5pm
(building security needs a list of names for entrance) |
Important notes:
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- Be sure to bring a government issued driver’s license or identification card, in order to enter the courthouse.
- Do not bring liquids into the courthouse. Sarah Griffith has kindly offered to procure beverages. Empty bottles and mugs are okay, to be filled once inside the courthouse.
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The LLOPS Holiday Party will be held on Wednesday, December 9th from 5-8pm at Tulio’s 1100 5th Ave, Seattle, WA 98101. This is a members-only event! You are welcome to bring a non-member guest. Please RSVP at http://lawlibrariansofpugetsound22.wildapricot.org/event-2070348 .
by Grace Feldman
If you missed the LLOPS meeting last week, this blog post (and its embedded cuteness) may serve as consolation.

Molly B (a Courthouse Dog) with LLOPS member, Mary Whisner
Foster Pepper hosted the meeting and invited Celeste Walsen, DVM and Ellen O’Neill-Stephens, JD of the Courthouse Dogs Foundation to speak to LLOPS members with their courthouse dog, Molly B. Their presentation covered how Ellen O’Neill-Stephens came up with the Courthouse Dogs Foundation and its touching impact across the country and beyond! The Courthouse Dogs Foundation was recently nominated for a HiiL ( Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law) Innovating Justice Award – winners will be announced next month! If you’d like to learn more about the Courthouse Dogs Foundation, visit their Facebook page and check out their website for more information!

Molly B with Courthouse Dogs Foundation founder, Ellen O’Neill-Stephens
If you’re still dying for more Courthouse Dogs (and who wouldn’t be?), consider attending the 2013 International Courthouse Dogs Conference in Seattle on November 8!
Title: November Special Meeting
Description: Special meeting
Start Time: 12:00
Date: 2010-11-17
End Time: 13:00
Last week, during our March meeting, many LLOPS members had the
honor of meeting our AALL President, Catherine Lemann. In addition to particpating in a panel discussion on disaster planning, Ms. Lemann also congratulated our chapter on its 20th anniversary. Happy Anniversary LLOPS!
Click on the photograph to view a larger version of our lovely Executive Board with AALL President Catherin Lemann.