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By Mark Bernstein, 2011 Local Arrangements Committee Chair

While we are enjoying the majesty of the Rocky Mountains and the 2010 Annual Meeting in Denver, it is not too early (really it’s not!) to start thinking about the 2011 An-nual Meeting in Philadelphia. As law librarians, what better place to hold our annual meeting than the city where the Declaration of Independence was signed and the Constitution was written. With all due respect to other cities that helped frame our country, it is Phila-delphia where the laws we still are governed by, teach to our students, and research for our clients were established.

So, it is clear that Philadelphia will provide us with a great histori-cal setting for our meeting. History abounds in Philadelphia, and we hope that you can take some time away from the conference to visit some of the landmarks such as the

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Plan now for the 2011 annual conference and join the 2011 An-nual Meeting Program Commit-tee’s Open Forum today at noon in CCC-Room 606.

Today’s Open Forum provides the opportunity for all members to ask questions about the pro-posal process and to learn more about the key elements that make a successful proposal. The An-nual Meeting Program Commit-tee (AMPC) values questions and suggestions from the newest to the most experienced law librar-ians. Special interest section education committee members are especially encouraged to at-tend because of the unique role that SISs play in the proposal process.

2011 is the year of no theme. The Annual Meeting has always

Ev e r y y e a r, t h e S o c i a l Responsibilities Special Interest Section, Legal Information Services to the Public Special Interest Section,

AALL Returns to Philadelphia in 2011Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, and Betsy Ross’ house to name a few.

If you are coming with children, there are many kid-friendly things to do. The Philadelphia Zoo is the old-est zoo in the country. The National Constitution Center and Franklin In-stitute provide some great exhibits

and interactive ways to learn about history. Don’t miss the walk-through heart and the climb-on, full-size

train at the Franklin Institute.One of the best things about

Philadelphia is that it is a great walking city and the convention center is within only a few blocks of the historical sites mentioned above, as well as a feast of culinary choices. Right nearby is the Reading Market. This one-time train terminal for the Reading Railroad (remember Monopoly) has sights, sounds, and aromas of almost any type of food one can think of, including, yes, those famous Philly cheesesteaks! Just around the corner in Chinatown are several blocks of shops and restaurants in one of the largest and oldest Chinatowns in the United States.

The regional rail and public trans-portation system make it easy to navigate the city. It is a short sub-way ride to University City, home of the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University featuring the two

Have Program or Workshop Ideas? Attend Today’s Open Forum

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been considered our premier educational event. We’ll give you help in shaping your program and workshop proposals. In Philadel-phia we will be using program tracks based on the updated Competencies of Law Librarian-ship to assist members in finding the programs that best suit their needs. There will be six tracks in the areas of:

• Library Administration and Management

• Research, Reference, and Cli-ent Services

• Information Technology• Collection Development and

Cataloging• Teaching• General or Core ProgramsFellow law librarians under-

stand the challenges we face and the accomplishments we achieve better than anyone else. Your proposals will tell us what types of programming will assist you

Joint Roundtable on Library Services to Pro Se Patrons and Prisoners

and State Court, and County Law Libraries Special Interest Section co-sponsor a very popular Joint Roundtable on Library Services to Pro Se Patrons and Prisoners. Our roundtable this year will be on Monday, July 12th, from 12:00 - 1:15 p.m., in the Convention Center, Room 604 (lunch provided).

We’ll have two speakers this year. Brian Huffman, Washington County law librarian from Washington County (MN) Government Center, will report on the Public Libraries and Access to Justice Conference that was held in Austin, Texas, last January (sponsored by the Self-Rep-resented Litigants Network of the National Center for State Courts). He’ll share his experiences and take-aways from the conference, including related activities post-con-ference. Kimberli Morris, assistant law librarian, reference, Penn State Dickinson School of Law, will discuss her experiences as a corrections librarian in the Baltimore County Detention Center. She will also be outlining her current research, which analyzes inmate requests for legal information and the capacity of free web-based legal resources to re-spond to those requests. Amy Hale-

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Cathy Lemann and the AALL Executive Board mark the opening of the Exhibit Hall Sunday.

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Each year, AALL, with the sponsorship of LexisNexis conducts a Call for Papers competition to recognize librarians who author signifi cant works of scholarship. This year’s winners will discuss their papers in "Session F1: The Librarian as Author." Lee Peoples, director of the Oklahoma City University Law Library, will offer introductory comments draw-ing upon his signifi cant experiences balancing the demands of writing and job responsibilities.

A Baobab Grows in Brooklyn: Training U.S. Law Students To Work in a South African Legal Aid Clinic

search training that she provided to intrepid Brooklyn Law School students who worked in a 2009 pilot program at the University of the Western Cape Legal Aid Clinic in Cape Town, South Africa. She will incorporate the students’ com-ments and present a publicly ac-cessible web guide highlighting free sources, subscription databases, and “hidden gems” such as a clinic manual developed for South African law students.

Call for Papers Session Fetes 2010 WinnersWinning the Open Division was Carol

Parker (University of New Mexico), who wrote on the need for consistent and rigorous standards for librarian tenure. Daniel Baker (University of Houston) won honors in the New Members divi-sion for his study of Wikipedia citations within law review articles.

The Student Division award this year is shared by Benjamin Keele (now at William and Mary), who examined the feasibility of law review citations including digital object identifi ers, and Deborah Shrager (soon to graduate from the Catholic University Library Informa-tion Science School). Shrager is being recognized for her empirical study of which Web 2.0 tools are actually being incorporated into law library services.

Speakers will highlight their ex-periences completing these excel-lent papers, and offer their insights for other librarians planning a writing project. “The Librarian as Author” will be held Monday, July 12 at 10:45 a.m. in CCC 102-106.

Janeke, head of reference services for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Library, will moderate the program and speak briefl y on the the Fifth Circuit Law Library’s experience with handling prisoner letters.

Please join us for this year’s roundtable. It promises to be as interesting and relevant as those in the past.

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Roundtable

Keynote Speaker: R. David Lankes “The best days of librarianship

are ahead of us,” declares R. David Lankes, director of the Information Institute of Syracuse and an associ-ate professor in Syracuse’s School of Information Studies. He adds that this future would not arrive if librarians

don’t take an active role in its creation. In order to inform these shifts, Lankes suggests a mission that places the responsibility for community improve-ment on librarians, not libraries: “The mission of librarians is to improve society through facilitating knowl-edge creation in their communities.” He suggests we ask our users what they’re doing. What are the problems they are grappling with? He used the

example of the Department of Jus-tice prosecutor who needed to fi nd information about an expert witness. Now the librarian who helped fi nd the information is teaching a class called “Character Assassination 101.”

Lankes suggests we think about what we do, take our mission into the community and help to shape it. Lank-es gave us a boost toward our future on Sunday morning – pass it on.


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Why did Wyoming State Court Justice Fred Blume work in his spare time to produce an annotated Eng-lish translation of the Code of Jus-tinian? Why did other common law lawyers and jurists, including Ros-coe Pound and Oliver Wendell Hol-mes, write on Roman law? Why did Justice Stevens cite Roman law in a 2005 opinion? What other Roman

Navigating Your Way to the Classroom: Law Librarians Teaching New Law School Classes

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The 2007 Carnegie Report on Legal Education could potentially result in greater teaching opportunities for law librarians. Three librarians who teach upper-level legal research courses will guide participants through the design, approval, and implementation of a new course and the design of a syllabus with learning goals and assignments. They will identify the skills and practices necessary for building one’s credibility as a professor.

geographically closest law schools in the country) not to mention an abundance of ethnic restaurants. The Philly Phlash stops right out-side the Convention Center and will take you to most of the famous sites.

Our local arrangement commit-tee will be and is already hard at work ensuring you will have a great meeting in Philadelphia. Bring the

family and if you have time, extend your vacation. The city is within two hours of such interesting places as Lancaster, Hershey, Sesame Place, and of course the shore.

Please stop by the Philadelphia Hospitality booth (near the regis-tration desk) during your stay in Denver. Come by and learn more about the sights and sounds of Philadelphia. While you’re enjoy-ing Denver and all it has to offer, remember next year’s meeting is right around the corner!!


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Roman Law Interest Group presents F.H. Blume’s Annotated Justinian Code: A Western Classic

law influences lurk in American law? Timothy Kearley, Director of the law library and professor of law at the University of Wyoming College of Law, will introduce the Code of Jus-tinian and share the story of Justice Blume’s work and the creation of the Annotated Justinian Code website. Lucia Diamond, Librarian for The Robbins Collection at the University of California, Berkeley, will highlight other Roman law influences in the United States.

in your daily work, inspire you to make changes in your profes-sional and private lives, or satisfy your curiosity about a particular area of the law or librarianship.

The online Program and Work-shop Proposal Collection site (http://proposals.aallnet.org) is already open for your input. The site will enable you to develop your proposal in your own work-space, share it with your col-

leagues and submit it online by the September 15, 2010 deadline (yup, the deadline this year gives you an extra month to complete proposals). Proposers should be sure to consult the Program Proposer’s Handbook, which also is available on the site.

Proposing a program or work-shop benefits the entire law library community. To find out more about the proposal process, join the An-nual Meeting Program Committee at the Open Forum, today at noon in CCC-Room 606.


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Paul HealeyUniversity of Illinois College of LawChampaign, Illinois “I enjoy seeing friends with whom I communicate all year through e-mail and phone. The face-to-face contact is very important.”

What Is Your Favorite Part of the Annual Meeting? A Program? An Event? A Non-Event?Convention Candids

Ian BurkeUniversity of Denver Library and Information Science Program, studentDenver, Colorado “I’m looking forward to the talks and roundtables, especially database technology and government documents. Today I’m especially interested in attending the LHRB-SIS Program on Alfred Packer.”

Ruth BridgesSchiff Hardin LLPChicago, Illinois “Every year I am excited to attend the Black Caucus dinner on Saturday night. We find a struggling restaurant owned by an African-American in order to make a difference for a small business; 35 members can help make a restaurant’s night. Plus, last night we were honored with a performance by Art from Ashes, a program that empowers struggling youth through creative expression.

Marielena FinaSutherland Asbill & Brennan LLPWashington, D.C. “My favorite part of the conference is the human connection.”


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Visit the AALL Member Services BoothStop by the AALL Member

Services Booth in the Exhibit Hall to explore your Associa-tion and learn what AALL can do for you; then take a break in the comfy lounge area and network with your colleagues.

The booth serves as a gate-way to the AALL Act iv i t ies Area, where you can find in-formation about AALL commit-tees, special interest sections, chapters, caucuses, and much

more. The new AALL Book-store, raffle drawings, Meet the Candidates forum, and awards recognition all take place in the booth area.

Stop by for a sneak peak of the new AALLNET redesign. And during Exhibit Hall breaks, catch a live demo of AALL2go, your online learning center for continuing professional educa-tion.

Chat with the AALL Editors in Denver

While you browse the Exhibit Hall in Denver, take some time to meet Law Library Journal Editor Janet Sinder and AALL Spectrum Editorial Director Mark Estes at the AALL Member Ser-vices Booth.

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Monday, 1-2 p.m. Tuesday, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Mark Estes is available on: Monday, 1:15-2:15 p.m. Tuesday, 1-2 p.m.

This year, all AALL Full and Program registrants will receive a complimentary set of 2010 edu-cational program audio record-ings as downloadable MP3 files, accessible through AALL2go. Stop by the AALL2go/Audio Recordings desk in the Registra-tion Area to see a live demo of AALL2go, your online learning center for continuing profes-sional education.

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AALL award winners can get their photos taken with AALL President Catherine Lemann today, Monday, July 12, from 1:15-2:15 p.m. in the Member Services Booth in the Exhibit Hall. If you’ve already received your award plaque, please bring it with you for the photo. If you haven’t yet received your plaque, it will be handed out at that time.


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