—DAN ANSELMO

President’s Message

The CatchlineBULLETIN OF THE ASSOCIATION OF REPORTERS OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS

VOLUME XXX, NO. 3 NOVEMBER 2011

CONTENTS

Boston Recap ............................................................... 2-3

Oregon Reports Jeopardized ............................................ 3

Committee Reports .......................................................... 4

Henry Lind Honored ........................................................ 5

Anselmo Joins SCOTUS .................................................. 5

Allen Appointed Interim Executive Director ................... 5

ARJD Members Facebook Group .................................... 6

Digital Public Library of America ................................... 6

Boston 2011 Conference Photos .................................. 7-9

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The ARJD held its 30th annual meeting in Boston,Massachusetts, from August 4 to 8, 2011. The meeting washighlighted by the presentation of the Henry C. Lind Awardto Professor Daniel R. Coquillette (author of a set of tomeson Josiah Quincy, Jr., who pioneered law reporting inAmerica) and featured highly informative and thought-provoking educational programs, a reorganization ofthe ARJD committees, and fun-filled outings generouslysponsored by Thomson Reuters West, LexisNexis, andWolters Kluwer.

Members and their guests renewed old friendships andstarted new ones at various social events led off by a dinneron August 3 at the Union Oyster House, America’s oldestrestaurant. Daniel Campbell (United States Court of Inter-national Trade), Erica Eschbach (Guam Compiler of Laws),Rosalie Fox (Supreme Court of Canada), John Juroszek(Michigan Supreme Court), Petronella Mukaindo (KenyaLaw Reports), Nicholas Okemwa (Kenya Law Reports),David Power (Supreme Court of Canada), Michael Slayton(Supreme Court of the United States) and Daniel Spurling(Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court) attended their firstof what will hopefully be many ARJD meetings.

On August 4, Chief Justice Roderick I. Ireland of theMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court warmly welcomedeveryone to Boston. He urged us to have a productive meet-ing and to explore and enjoy historic Boston.

The educational programs held from August 4 to 6, whichincluded a wide range of subjects and led to lively discus-sions, are covered elsewhere in this issue of The Catchline.

Thomson Reuters West took us to fabledFenway Park to watch the Boston Red Soxplay the Cleveland Indians and to enjoy theambience of one of two remaining old-styleballparks. LexisNexis hosted a reception,at which we prepared school supplies forneedy students, before taking us on anentertaining “Duck Boat” tour of Boston and its harbor.Wolters Kluwer took us on a spectacular whale-watchingboat trip to the Stellwagen Bank Marine Sanctuary.

Four committees—Annual Meeting, Communications,Education, and External Outreach—were formed in Bostonin an effort to streamline and rationalize committee func-tions. Elsewhere in this issue of The Catchline you willfind the committee chairpersons’ accounts of the objec-tives of their respective committees and introductions ofthe members who stepped forward to join the committees.

The Boston meeting was a huge success thanks to theefforts of immediate past president Ralph Preston (who

organized the meeting), Cliff Allen (who put togetherthe educational programs), Kevin Loftus (who spearheadedsite selection), Thomson Reuters West representativesTom Leighton and David Spencer, LexisNexis representa-tives Anders Ganten, Leslie Ostrander, Lawrence Striley,and David Wagoner, and Wolters Kluwer representativeSue Rogers.

The next meeting of the ARJD executive board will beon November 18, 2011, at the United States Supreme Court

building in Washington, DC. Everyoneis welcome to attend and participate inthe board’s discussion of: (1) the eventsplanned for the 2012 annual meeting inChicago, Illinois; (2) site selection for the

2013 meeting; (3) new developments in the committees; (4)initiatives aimed at attracting new members; and (5) anyother issues that may arise.

Don’t forget to save the dates of August 1 to 6, 2012, forthe annual meeting in Chicago.

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The educational programs and business meetings held inBoston from August 4 to 6 covered a wide range of subjects andled to lively discussions by ARJD members and their guests.

On Thursday morning, August 4, former ARJD President RalphPreston opened the meeting by thanking Cliff Allen for organiz-ing another great educational program. Ralph then introducedCliff, who welcomed attendees to Boston and presented the Hon-orable Roderick L. Ireland, Chief Justice of the MassachusettsSupreme Judicial Court. The Chief expressed his appreciationfor the work of reporters, stating that we ensure the accurateand timely publication of decisions on which judges, lawyers, andthe public rely. He then discussed the rich history of Massachu-setts, the “cradle of liberty,” and the Commonwealth’s Reporterof Decisions, commending Cliff personally for his fine workin that position and noting that Cliff’s contributions have provedso valuable that he was recently named the Supreme JudicialCourt’s Interim Executive Director (see separate story in thisissue of The Catchline.)

Next, John R. Ellement, a reporter for the Boston Globe and anadjunct professor at Boston University, discussed the subject oflegal blogging. As the online reporter for www.boston.com,Mr. Ellement makes extensive use of Cliff’s Web site, checkingits 8 a.m. list of cases scheduled for release on release days,taking no more than 30 minutes to pre-write a story on any (usuallycriminal) decision likely to be of interest to Bostonians, polishingthe story within a minute after receiving Cliff’s 10 a.m. e-mailrelease notice, and submitting the story to an editor who proof-reads it and publishes it online within a few more minutes. Mr.Ellement says that Reporters of Decisions should reach out to thelocal news media to ensure that online bloggers know how to ac-cess pertinent information on particular cases. This makes onlinecoverage more accurate and balanced and helps to educate a pub-lic keenly interested in gleaning its news from the Internet.

After a break, Richard Ross, a charter member of the ARJDand the association’s fourth president, gave us a retrospective onhow his work has evolved in his almost 35 years as Kansas’Reporter of Decisions. When Richard started work in 1975, theKansas Reports were printed from hot lead, which had to be resetby the printer every time the Reporter’s Office submitted correc-tions. At his arrival, the office staff consisted of the Reporter,another attorney, and a part-time law student. Richard regaled uswith stories about his predecessor, an interesting character withodd habits who operated a side business as a parking lot mag-nate. Although this individual had been on the job for 30 years,Richard soon replaced him in 1977. Richard is now on his 71st

volume, which includes both Supreme Court and Court of Ap-peals opinions. Over the years, hot lead printing evolved intoword processing, which was then replaced by a system utilizingPCs configured in a LAN. In 1996, Kansas went online withpublished opinions. However, times are tough and the Stateis studying ways to cut costs. While the Kansas Reports areprobably safe from tampering, even their elimination would notdoom the Reporter’s Office, which now employs Richard, fourattorneys, and a secretary. That is because the Supreme Courtis pleased with the work of the office, about 90% of which re-lates to pre-publication editing. Finally, Richard spoke movinglyabout the many friends and adventures he and his kids,Bobby and Kristin, have had during their years attending ARJDconferences.

Thursday morning’s business meeting revealed, among otherthings, that:

● The Las Vegas meeting overspent by about $8,500;

Boston Recap● Although a Kenya meeting will not be feasible for 2013, our

colleagues there are still considering an international symposium,to which ARJD members will be invited;

● Washington, DC will be the site of the July 31 - August 5,2013 meeting; and

● 13 former ARJD presidents were present at this meeting, theassociation’s 30th anniversary meeting: Louise Meagher, KevinLoftus, Wilma Grant (two terms), Barbara Kincaid, Bilee Cauley,Frank Wagner, Charles Ashe, Peggy Polacek, Cliff Allen, Chris-tine Fallon, Lloyd Hysan, Richard Ross, and Tom Merritt.

On Thursday afternoon we toured the historic John AdamsCourthouse, where we visited the Reporter’s Office and theSocial Law Library. We also presented the Henry C. Lind Awardto Boston College Professor Daniel R. Coquillette for hismultivolume collection of the writings and case reports of JosiahQuincy, Jr., arguably the first Reporter of Decisions in America.Beginning in 1762, Quincy recorded cases argued and decided inthe highest court of colonial Massachusetts. However, due to hisuntimely death, Quincy’s work was not published until Prof.Coquillette undertook the task. This is the sixth time in 30 yearsthat the Lind award has been presented. The prior recipients wereJustice Harry A. Blackmun in 1989, Edgar J. Bellefontaine in 1991,Brian A. Garner in 1994, Judge Abner J. Mikva in 1999, and JudgeAlex Kozinski in 2004.

On Friday morning, August 5, we returned to the Social LawLibrary. Founded in 1803, the Library provides legal researchmaterials, training, and services to the judiciary and practicingbar of Massachusetts. Executive Director Robert J. Brink describedthe political struggle between the Federalists and the JeffersonianRepublicans in the early 19th century and explored the Library’srole in the Americanization of the English common law. Amongother things, the Federalists advocated the adoption of the com-mon law, while the Jeffersonians favored the creation of a codeof laws like the Napoleonic Code. The Social Law Library wasfounded to help settle the question by collecting English legaltomes and reporters and making them available to the colonialbench and bar. Today, the Library collects all domestic and inter-national primary and secondary sources. Bruce Shaw, Directorof the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives, and ChrisMathias, from the Court’s Conservation Department, followedMr. Brink. They discussed the creation of archival, preservation,and records management programs used to conserve and accessthe Archives’ extensive collection of pre-1860 paper-based recordsfrom various Massachusetts courts. A tour of the ArchivesDepartment ensued.

Friday afternoon began with a panel discussion on the topic“Digitizing Historic Printed Materials.” The panelists includedJerry Dupont, Executive Director of Law Library MicroformConsortium Digital; Stephen Chapman, Project Manager of theDigital Lab at the Harvard Law School Library; Michelle Pearse,Harvard Law School’s Librarian for Open Access and ScholarlyCommunication; and John Joergensen, the Librarian of the RutgersSchool of Law (Camden). They discussed the trend among lawlibraries to digitize and share case reports and other legal ma-terials, to then cancel or discard most of the original paperversions, but to keep copies of each for archival purposes. Thepanelists appeared to favor XML over ASCII, HTML, Word, andPDF for print, and to advocate use of TIFF (Tagged Image FileFormat) for images and multimedia. And they asserted that em-bedded metadata identifying the date of decision, court, judge, docketinformation, and subject matter is absolutely essential to a robustcollection that will survive the long term.

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Friday afternoon’s business meeting revealed, among otherthings, that:

● During the 2012 meeting at the Millenium KnickerbockerHotel in Chicago, members wish to examine, once again, thedecision by some States (Illinois, Arkansas, Oregon(?)) to re-place their print reports with online opinions;

● The Catchline is in transition, with Frank Wagner replacingCliff Allen as editor after a job well done, and the distributionfunction passing from Wilma Grant to the new CommunicationsCommittee (to be chaired by Frank);

● The Uniform Law Commission’s final version of the UniformElectronic Legal Material Act is watered down and lacks teeth toadequately police enforcement;

● Of the membership forms submitted during the June-Julyannual-dues cycle, 13 were from retired members, 21 from activereporters, and 20 from associate members;

● The membership approved the Executive Board’s recommen-dation that the old committee structure, which is overly compli-cated and duplicative, should be replaced by four committees, thatis Education, Communications, External Outreach, and AnnualMeeting (see separate articles in this issue of The Catchline); and

● The membership approved the Board’s recommendationthat, beginning with FY 2012-2013, ARJD dues will be raised to$60 for Reporters and $40 for associate members.

On Saturday, August 6, we were addressed by our old friend,Professor Ross E. Davies of the George Mason University Schoolof Law. Longtime members will recall that, in 2004, Ross spoketo us on Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis’ alternate role as a Re-porter, illuminating the presentation by handing out Curtis bobblehead dolls. This time, Ross used copies of unreported opinions,cited reported but unread materials, and presented another bobblehead in ably and convincingly making the case that Justice Will-iam Cushing was not an “incompetent old man” on the benchesof the early U.S. Supreme Court and Supreme Judicial Court ofMassachusetts.

Professor Davies was followed by a panel discussion of nextgeneration printing contracts in a rapidly changing publishingenvironment. David Spencer of Thomson Reuters West, AndersGanten of LexisNexis, and Sue Rogers of Wolters Kluwer repre-sented the commercial publishers, while Dan Anselmo, BrianRedmond, and Ralph Preston spoke for the ARJD. Few concreteconclusions were reached, and the consensus seemed to be that thesituation is too fluid to predict what the specific terms of a newcontract will look like. All agreed that many questions need to beanswered first. The publishers expressed support for official Report-ers and a willingness to tailor contracts to meet their evolving needs.

The business meetings on Saturday and Monday morningsrevealed, among other things, that:

● The Board will further discuss in the fall whether the ARJDshould adopt an alternative annual meeting schedule by, forexample, eliminating the final Monday morning meeting;

● The Board will also discuss in the fall the question of guestfees for the annual meetings and present its conclusions to themembership in Chicago;

● The Executive Board for 2011-2012: Dan Anselmo, Presi-dent; Leah Walker, Vice President; Tim Fuller, Treasurer; BillHooks, Secretary; and Ralph Preston, Past President;

● The consensus among the membership seems to be thatannual meetings should provide more opportunities to brain-storm, offer more skill-building sessions, and focus more ontechnological questions; and

● The Social Law Library sessions were recorded and Cliff Allenhas provided an electronic copy for use by interested members.

Boston Recap - (continued from page 2) Oregon Reports JeopardizedIn September 2011, Thomas A. Balmer, Associate Justice of

the Oregon Supreme Court, and Mary Bauman, Editor of the Or-egon Reports and Court of Appeals Reports, sent a heartfelt letterto members of the Oregon State Bar. The letter explained thatcontinued publication of printed copies of the reports is at riskdue to serious financial difficulties stemming from declining salesand increasing costs. It goes without saying that many ARJDmembers are having similar problems in this age of online publi-cation and tough economic times. Indeed, Illinois has recentlyjoined Arkansas in announcing that it is discontinuing printed re-ports in favor of Internet publication.

Justice Balmer and Ms. Bauman have taken a proactive ap-proach to the dilemma. Their letter explains that the Oregon courtsare examining all available options, ranging from discontinuingprinted publications entirely, to replacing the hardbound volumeswith more permanent softbound advance sheets, to maintainingcurrent services through internal funding. As they work toward amore sustainable business model, they ask bar members who relyon the convenience and availability of a printed state version ofthe appellate opinions to help with the continued publicationof the reports, which have a 150-year history, by subscribing tothe advance sheets and purchasing the bound volumes as theybecome available.

On September 15, ARJD President Dan Anselmo wrote to Ms.Bauman on behalf of the executive board to offer help. Dan pointedout that, in its May 2008 position paper, the ARJD cautioned that,at present, the publication of official government documents suchas appellate opinions exclusively online poses serious issues con-cerning their preservation, authentication, and certification. How-ever, despite the ARJD’s current preference for printed reportsover online reports, Dan recognized the realities of these tougheconomic times. In offering the assistance of the association’sofficers and members, Dan mentioned that some of its membershave experience with what Oregon is facing and expressed thehope that the ARJD would prove to be a valuable source ofinformation, insight, and counsel as Oregon assesses the futureof its reports.

Mary Bauman is a longtime member of the ARJD. Those of uswho attended the 2003 annual meeting in Portland remember heras a gracious host and a skilled and knowledgeable colleague. Ina telephone conversation shortly before this issue of The Catchlinewent to print, Mary stated that nothing has been decided as yetand that she and her court are still working through differentscenarios. However, she noted that “money doesn’t grow on trees,”and that the future may be pretty grim.

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Education CommitteeThe Education Committee will continue to serve the ARJD by

recruiting speakers for the annual meetings. Currently the com-mittee consists of Leah A. Walker as chair, Cliff Allen as chairemeritus, and Brian Redmond. Additional members are alwayswelcome!

So far, Chicago looks to be a great meeting as we have con-firmed Judge Richard Posner as a speaker, as well as WilliamBernhardt to provide a workshop on legal writing and editing tips.A roundtable on the online experience in Arkansas and Illinois,led by Susan Williams, is planned. At the suggestion of JohnJuroszek, a discussion of the details of how Reporters report theircourt’s opinions will be instituted. The idea is for two or threeReporters to talk about the details of their jobs: What they actu-ally do to get the product out, how they do it (what review opin-ions get at what stages, what kinds of corrections/suggestions theymake) with examples of final (or even intermediate) products. Ifyou are interested in volunteering to be on that panel, let me know!

Other speakers and roundtables are in the works. If you haveany ideas or suggestions please get in touch. In fact, I’d like totake this opportunity to remind every member that the EducationCommittee is here to help you get the most out of your time at theannual meetings. I would love suggestions on speakers, topics ofdiscussion, and general ideas on what each and every one youwould like to learn about. I’d like all ARJD members to considerthemselves Education Committee members and look forward tohearing everyone’s thoughts and suggestions.

—LEAH A. WALKER

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External Outreach CommitteeThe External Outreach Committee was formed at the 2011 an-

nual meeting in Boston. One of the committee’s objectives is toattract new members to the ARJD and the ARJD annual meetings.The committee members will also explore potential fundraisingopportunities. Initially, the committee will work toward develop-ing and enhancing ARJD relationships with other organizationsthat stand to benefit as members or partners of the ARJD, such aslibraries, law schools, vendors, and technology organizations.

Bilee Cauley and Jim Logue volunteered to serve on this com-mittee. The wisdom and experience that Jim and Bilee have tooffer as longstanding members of the ARJD will prove invaluablefor the challenges that lie ahead. I look forward to working withboth of them.

—SUSAN WILLIAMS

Communications CommitteeAt least initially, the ARJD Communications Committee

(ComsComm), created at the August 2011 Boston meeting,has three responsibilities: maintenance and enhancement of theARJD Web site; production and distribution of The Catchline;and creation of an ARJD members’ Facebook page, which willserve primarily as a replacement for the old chat room featureof the Web site.

ComsComm members (and their initial assignments) include:François Boivin (Catchline editorial and Web site maintenance);Sophie Debbané (Catchline editorial); Wilma Grant (Catchlinelayout and production); Bill Hooks (Catchline mailing list);Brandee Mooneyhan (Facebook page creation and administration);Daniel Spurling (Catchline distribution); Sandra Velazquez-Gomez(Facebook page creation and administration); and Frank Wagner(ComsComm chair and Catchline editorial).

To date, François (with the help of Barbara Kincaid, VictoriaHughes, and Catherine Brideau) has updated the ARJD Web siteto provide current information on the association, its membersand activities; François and Sophie have helped to edit thisCatchline issue; Bill, Wilma, and Dan have seen to the issue’slayout, production, and distribution; and Sandra and Brandee havecreated the ARJD members’ Facebook page (see separate articlein this issue).

—FRANK WAGNER

Annual Meeting CommitteeThe annual meeting committee formed at the August 2011

meeting in Boston will focus on organizing the annual meetingsof the ARJD. In the past, most if not all the work that went intoorganizing an annual meeting was done by the ARJD president.The committee, which will be led by the president, will relievethe current president and future presidents of some of the tasksinvolved in organizing the annual meeting. These include:selecting the meeting site, tending to all the details at the hotelthat hosts the meeting, accommodating attendees and theirguests, planning social events and outings with our sponsors,and nominating honorees for the Henry C. Lind award.

Andy Ashe, Tim Fuller, Helen Hannigan, Kevin Loftus, DavidPower, Sara Rocha and Richard Ross volunteered to serve on thecommittee. I look forward to working closely with them in plan-ning the 2012 meeting in Chicago and urge any other interestedmembers to join us in this endeavor.

—DAN ANSELMO

ARJD President

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Anselmo Joins SCOTUSOn Monday, October 31, 2011, ARJD President Dan Anselmo

assumed new duties as the Deputy Reporter of Decisions for theSupreme Court of the United States. In that role, he follows in thefootsteps of Chris Fallon, who was named the High Court’s Reporteron March 3, 2011.

Dan is a graduate of Michigan State University and Cooley LawSchool, and a member of the bars of the States of Michigan andWashington. He began his legal career as an editor in the Reporter’sOffice of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1985, where he editedCourt of Appeals opinions and wrote syllabuses and headnotesfor the opinions. In 2003, the Michigan Supreme Court appointedDan as Reporter of Decisions to supervise attorney-editors andsupport staff in the publication of the Michigan Reports andthe Michigan Appeals Reports. In that position, Dan sought bidsfor and negotiated the contracts for the printing of the reports byoutside legal publishers. He also edited Supreme Court and Courtof Appeals opinions and wrote syllabuses and headnotes.

In 2009, Dan was appointed by the Justices of the WashingtonState Supreme Court as Reporter of Decisions for that court. There,he oversaw the publication of the Washington Reports and theWashington Appellate Reports, supervised three editors employedby the court, reviewed the editorial work of two attorney-editorsand three editors employed by the court’s contract publisher, and man-aged the contractual relationship with the publisher. He recentlyextended that contract to 2014.

At the U.S. Supreme Court, Dan will assist Reporter of DecisionsChris Fallon in the management of the Reporter’s Office staff of 13and will edit opinions and prepare syllabuses for the United StatesReports. Dan and his wife, Fe, look forward to the Washington, DC,area, where their daughter, Amy, presently resides.

October 12, 2011, was Henry Lind’s 90th birthday. To honorthe occasion, ARJD Vice President Leah Walker and Frank Wagnervisited with Henry and Kay Lind in their North Springfield, VA,home. Henry was ebullient, regaling his visitors with stories abouthis career as the 14th Reporter of Decisions at the U.S. SupremeCourt, the Justices he had served, and the early years of the ARJD.Kay, as always, was the gracious hostess. As the visit drew to aclose, Leah and Frank presented Henry with a gift from the ARJD,a handsome pewter punch bowl engraved with the legend:

Henry Curtis LindARJD Founder

On Your 90th BirthdayOctober 12, 2011

They also gave Henry a 90th birthday card signed by the mem-bers of Chris Fallon’s staff at the Court. Henry seemed elated bythe visit and his gifts, and Kay claimed the punch bowl as herown. The Linds wish to thank everyone in the ARJD for honor-ing Henry on this auspicious occasion.

Henry Lind Honored

Cliff Allen AppointedInterim ExecutiveDirector

The Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Courthave appointed Cliff Allen as Interim Executive Director ofthe court, effective July 1, 2011. Cliff will continue his dutiesas Reporter of Decisions of the Supreme Judicial Court andAppeals Court, a position he has held since 1994. He joinedthe court in 1982 as Assistant Reporter of Decisions, after servingthe Appeals Court as an editorial staff attorney, and was appointedDeputy Reporter in 1987.

The Executive Director of the Supreme Judicial Court implementspolicies and programs set by the Justices and directs the dailyoperation and administration of the court. Cliff is also a memberof the court’s personnel committee, which is now conducting asearch for the new permanent Executive Director. You may assistCliff in returning to the days in which he filled one position, andplace him back on track to meet his planned retirement date ofJune 29, 2012, by viewing the complete job description atwww.mass.gov/courts/sjc and applying for the position.

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Prompted by former President Ralph Preston and withthe approval of the ARJD Board, Sandra Velazquez-Gomezhas created a Facebook (FB) group page for use by ARJDmembers in communicating with each other. The page isintended to serve primarily as a replacement for the old chatroom feature of the ARJD Web site. Brandee Mooneyhanjoined Sandra on this project in August 2011, and the twohave worked tirelessly to make the FB page a reality. TheAssociation owes Sandra and Brandee a profound debt ofgratitude for their dedicated, skillful, and selfless work.

If you do not have your own FB page, you must createone before you can join the ARJD FB group. Don’t bealarmed! Group members do not become each other’s FB“friends” simply by joining. No one you have not affirma-tively accepted as a friend can see your own “Wall” or anyphotos you have posted on your own page. However, allgroup members can see icons representing some of the “Info”you have posted on your own page (schools, interests, etc.),so don’t include any info that you don’t wish to share withall ARJD members.

In order to facilitate joining, Sandra and Brandee havecrafted the following:

Instructions on how to join the ARJD Facebook Group:

1. Only ARJD members can join this group. To do so, amember must have his or her own FB account. If youdon’t have one, you must open one to join the group.This can be easily done: just go to FB Home Page(www.facebook.com) and follow the instructions.

2. Once you log into your FB account, enter “ARJD” in thesearch tool at the top of your personal FB homepage.Scroll down until you see the ARJD logo.

3. Upon opening the group page, you will see the option to“join the group.” Click on that and the group’s adminis-trators (Sandra, Brandee, and Frank Wagner) will receivea notification. Once you are accepted as a member, youwill gain access to the group page.

4. The ARJD FB group page is a “closed” one. That is,anyone can see the group’s description, but onlymembers can see the documents, photos, posts, etc.By becoming a member, you do not have to share yourpersonal information with other members nor be-come “friends” with them on FB. Also, you may chooseto limit your personal information using the FB settings.

5. In order to control what is published on the ARJD page,only the group’s administrators can post photos anddocuments. Any photo, video or document that amember wants to share or post on the group’s page shouldbe sent to members.arjd@gmail.com.

6. However, all members can share information by postingcomments, questions, greetings, etc. on the ARJD pagewall. That information will be accessible to all of thegroup members.

7. There is also an e-mail function that members can useto communicate with each other, members.arjd@groups.facebook.com, and a chat option that allowsmembers who are “logged on” to chat with each other(if they have turned that option on).

8. Contact Sandra at Sandra.Velazquez@ramajudicial.pr,Brandee at mooneyhan@nvcourts.nv.gov, or Frankat frawgn1@aol.com if you have any questions orcomments.

Digital Public Library of AmericaThose of you who attended the presentation entitled “Digital Access to Court Reports: Considerations for Looking

Back While Moving Forward” at the 2011 annual meeting in Boston might be interested in a Boston Globe article onSaturday, October 22, 2011, regarding a digital library project based at Harvard University. Two of our presenters, MichellePearse and Stephen Chapman, are a part of this effort.

Millions of books, images, and videos from public and academic libraries will be digitized and made available in theDigital Public Library of America. A service prototype will be available in April 2013. Grants from the Alfred P. SloanFoundation and the Arcadia Fund support the library. This effort will standardize the methods of digitizing, cataloging, andstoring the materials and make them available around the world through a single online location. At this point, only filesnot covered by copyright will be published. In the future, it is hoped that copyrighted material will be available for a fee.

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2011-2012 Officers

President: Danilo Anselmo, Supreme Court of the United States

Vice President: Leah Walker, Supreme Court of the United States

Treasurer: Truman Fuller (Ret.), Supreme Court of Washington

Secretary: William Hooks, NY State Law Reporting Bureau

Past President: Ralph W. Preston (Ret.), Supreme Court of Ohio

2011-2012 Committee ChairpersonsAnnual Meeting:Danilo Anselmo, Supreme Court of the United States

Communications:Frank Wagner (Ret.), Supreme Court of the United States

Education:Leah Walker, Supreme Court of the United States

External Outreach:Susan Williams, Arkansas Appellate Courts

The CatchlineEditors:Frank Wagner (Ret.), Supreme Court of the United StatesFrançois Boivin, Office of the Commissioner for Federal

Judicial Affairs CanadaSophie Debbané, Office of the Commissioner for Federal

Judicial Affairs Canada

Newsletter Publisher/Layout & Design:Wilma M. Grant, Supreme Court of the United States

Distribution:Daniel Spurling, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts

VOLUME XXX, NO. 3 NOVEMBER 2011

ARJD Contact Info

ARJD Web site:http://arjd.washlaw.edu/

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E-mail (to send documents, information or photos for postingon Facebook page):members.arjd@gmail.com

E-mail (to send communications directly to all ARJDFacebook group members via Facebook Wall):members.arjd@groups.facebook.com

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