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Picture by Sara Witman taken at AALL Annual Meeting
A Chapter of the Amer ican Assoc iat ion of Law L ibrar ies
President’s Message
La w L i br ary Ass o c iat i on o f M ary la nd
BY JEAN HESSENAUER Librarian Tydings & Rosenberg LLP
Our first meeting of the year will be a recap of the summer conventions. The conventions provide an opportunity for discussion with librarians across the country. The casual networking with others can often be more beneficial than the planned pro‐grams (especially if the networking is over a beer in a brewpub). Hopefully LLAM can have a casual evening get‐together at one of the local watering holes sometime this year. If you have never been to an AALL Convention, you are missing some fun and some learning ex‐
PORTLAND PICS Check out some photos from the 2008 AALL Annual Meeting……..……………..…… 4
LEGEND OF THE LOST LAW John Cannan goes on an adventure with the Maryland Constitution......... 10
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND Katherine Baer describes the Chesapeake Project, an effort to pre‐serve web‐born legal information ……………….…. 12
SLA IN SEATTLE Andy Zimmerman reports from the 2008 SLA Convention …………………….…….. 13
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periences. As the AALL Convention (and the SLA Convention) will be in DC next year,a more peo‐
Greetings from Portland Pictures, reports and more fun from the 2008 Annual AALL Convention (page 4)
The AALL Research & Publications Committee is accepting applications through Monday, November 3, 2008 for research grants from the AALL/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grants Program, totaling up to $5,000. The committee will award one or more grants to library professionals who wish to conduct research that supports the research/scholarly agenda of the profession of librarianship. The grants program funds small or large research projects that create, disseminate, or otherwise use legal and law‐related information as its focus. Projects may range from the historical (indexes, legislative histories, bibliogra‐phies, biographies, or directories) to the theoretical (trends in cataloging, publishing, or new service models in libraries) to the practical (implementation
Archives Committee ‐ Joe Bennett Government/Vendor Relations ‐ Joan Bellistri Membership Committee ‐ Pat Behles Newsletter Committee ‐ Sara Witman Placement Committee ‐ Tonya Baroudi Program Committee ‐ Joanne Dugan Public Relations Committee ‐ Catherine McGuire & Anne Morrison Publications Committee ‐ Maxine Grosshans Technology Committee/Webmaster ‐ Kurt Meyer
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Standing Committee Chairs 2008—2009
September 2008
President ‐ Jean Hessenauer Vice‐President/President Elect ‐ Joanne Dugan Secretary ‐ Susan Herrick Treasurer ‐ Bijal Shah Immediate Past President ‐ Janet Camillo Elected Board Member ‐ Glen Spangler Elected Board Member ‐ Thea Warner
Board of Trustees 2008—2009
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AALL/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grants Program seeks applications for $5,000 in research grants
models for collection, personnel, or infrastructure management). To apply for the grants, all applicants must provide resumes and statements of their qualifications for carrying out their projects. The applications must demonstrate experience with research projects and an understanding of the dissemination and use of legal and law‐related information. Priority will be given to individual AALL members or AALL mem‐bers working in partnership with other information professionals. The grant application and complete guidelines are available at: www.aallnet.org/about/wklb_grant_application.asp. For more information about the grants, please con‐tact Annmarie Zell, chair of the AALL Research & Publications Committee, at [email protected].
BY AALL RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
November Digital Content Management: Critical Deployment Issues in Process & Personnel SLA Click U Live! November 5 & 12, 2 pm— 3:30 pm K. Matthew Dames of the Seso Group LLC will present these two beginning to intermediate level sessions which are geared toward infor‐mation managers who are planning their first content management system deployment; in‐terviewing prospective vendors to guide a content management deployment; or are be‐coming involved in an existing content man‐agement process for the first time. Go to the SLA Click U website for registration informa‐tion.
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Events Calendar September
Review of the Conventions Wednesday, September 24, Noon University of Baltimore Law Library 1415 Maryland Ave, Baltimore, MD Hear about and discuss the 2008 summer con‐ventions, including AALL, SLA and ALA. Come prepared with questions about sessions you might have missed or information about programs/exhibits that caught your interest. Drinks and desserts will be provided at this brown bag lunch program. UB is accessible by light rail and is a short walk from the State Center subway stop. Parking will be available in the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall parking ga‐rage; on‐street parking is limited. RSVP to Joanne Dugan at [email protected].
October Stephen Abram “The Challenge of Our Age: Preparing Our Enterprises for New Information Strategies” Thursday October 16, 5:30 pm—8:30 pm Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Kossiakoff Center At this professional dinner meeting, SLA President Stephen Abram will give a 90 min‐ute presentation on the expanding capacity of our libraries to adopt new technologies and web innovations. Abram is also Vice President Innovation for SirsiDynix, a frequent colum‐nist in Information Outlook, and author of the library‐related blog Stephen’s Lighthouse. The meeting includes cash wine bar, hors d’oeu‐vres, and full dinner buffet. Tickets are $37 for
SLA members (rate is ex‐t ended to ALA, MLA, AALL, ASIST, AIIP, and ARMA members); $25 for students currently enrolled in graduate library & infor‐mation science programs; and $50 for non‐members.
C. Fraser Smith Baltimore Bar Library Lecture Series Tuesday, October 14, 5pm Baltimore Bar Library Courtroom 400, Mitchell Courthouse 100 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD C. Fraser Smith, author of Here Lies Jim Crow will take part in the Bar Library’s Lecture Se‐ries. Mr. Smith, a columnist for the Baltimore Sun, also serves as a political analyst for Baltimore’s National Public Radio station, WYPR. He is also the author of William Donald Schaefer: A Political Biog‐raphy. There will be a wine and cheese reception held in the Bar Library immediately following the presentation. If you would like to attend please e‐mail the Library at [email protected] or telephone at 410‐727‐0280.
Paypal/credit cards and checks are accepted. Register by electronic form. Registration closes Wednesday, October 8d. For more informa‐tion, see http://units.sla.org/chapter/cmd/events/AbramEvening08.htm
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Pictures from Portland A collection of AALL Annual Meeting photographs from John Cannan and Sara Witman. (For a report on the Convention, see page 8.)
Founding LLAM member Beverly Rubenstein retires Founding LLAM member Beverly Rubenstein retired from the library at the Office of the Attorney General of Maryland. Her last day was July 31, 2008. For her service as LLAM President, Board Member, Committee Chair and Archivist, Beverly was recently honored with the first Service to LLAM Award. Until a permanent replacement is found, Natalie Ellis will be filling in part‐time at the library of the Attorney General’s Office.
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Four LLAM members honored as “Unsung Legal Heroes” The Maryland Daily Record recognized four members of LLAM as Unsung Legal Heroes. Trevor Rosen, Librarian at Shaprio Sher Gui‐not & Sandler, received top honors from the publication. Other recognized heroes included Tonya Baroudi, Law Librarian at Prince George’s Circuit Court Law Library, Bernice Bernstein, Acquisitions Librarian at Maryland State Law Library, and Ronelle Manger, Head Librarian at DLA Piper US LLP. Congratula‐tions to our accomplished members! C
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Member News
Professional Updates Trevor Rosen, Librarian at Shaprio Sher Gui‐not & Sandler and founder of the Maryland Law Blog, will be taking a leave of absence from the field of law libraries while he pursues an interest in Jewish studies for the next six months to a year. His last full‐time day was on August 26. At the Maryland State Law Library (Updates from the State Law Library Director ) Mary Jo Lazun, the State Law Library’s Head of Electronic Services, presented a poster ses‐sion, entitled “Crystal Balls and Digital State Publications” at the 2008 Innovative Users’ Group conference in Washington, DC. At the AALL Annual Meeting in July, Mary Jo spoke on a panel for the program, “The Chesapeake Project: One Model for Digital Preservation.” Both presentations focus on the State Law Li‐brary’s efforts to preserve “born‐digital” publi‐cations. In large part because of the efforts and creativ‐ity of the Outreach Services Librarian Cath‐erine McGuire, the American Association of Law Libraries gave its 2008 Law Library Publi‐cation Award (Print Division) to the State Law Library for its Fiscal Year 2007 Annual Report. This publication, along with other promotional materials, fosters awareness about the State Law Library as a valuable resource for legal and historical research. The Maryland Daily Record honored State Law Library Acquisitions Librarian Bernice Bern‐stein, a long‐time staff member, as one of its “Unsung Legal Heroes.” At the Library, Ber‐
nice is in charge of processing and arranging payment for most of the incoming publica‐tions. Indeed, because of Bernice’s commit‐ment and service ethic during the last 42 years, the Library’s collection is much richer.
Personal Announcements Jenny Lind Smith, librar‐ian and law student at the University of Mary‐land School of Law, and Matthew Kyle Rensler, consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton in Wash‐ington, DC, were married June 14, 2008. Pastor Bill McKinney officiated the ceremony at Grace EP Church in Davidsonville. Jenny, who changed her name to J enny L ind Rensler and her work email address to [email protected], is a graduate of South River High, Western Maryland College, and University of Michi‐gan. Matt graduated from Arundel High and from Mercer University in physics, and served as an officer in the Navy. The couple honey‐mooned in Bermuda before residing in Balti‐more. Do you have news you’d like to share with your LLAM colleagues? Please send any professional or personal news you’d like to share to Sara Witman at [email protected]
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Before heading off to my first AALL Annual Meeting, I received one piece of advice more than any other: leave lots of room in your luggage for all the free stuff you’ll get at the exhibitors’ floor. Well, I completely ignored the suggestion. I didn’t feel like checking in a suitcase at the airport, so I crammed everything into a carry‐on bag with just enough room to bring back some edible treats for my co‐workers. But it turns out I didn’t need room in my luggage to take back valuables from the convention, and the things I wanted to take back the most would never fit in my suitcase. What I brought back from the AALL Annual Meeting in Portland: • A crush on keynote speaker David Pogue Having read some of his columns in the New York Times, I was actually looking forward to hearing David Pogue speak, and his ta lk about “Disruptive Tech: What’s New and How it Will Change Everything” exceeded my expectations by about ten‐fold. The entire audience giggled through most of the presentation which covered the present and future of blogs, wireless, voice to
text, and other trends with some serious enthusiasm. His comment about having re‐searched something exten‐sively (“Seriously, I spent like six minutes on Google!”) had the crowd in roaring. I have already added Pogue’s Posts to my RSS feed list; it’s awesome.
After the talk, David Pogue broke out a keyboard and played some of his parody hits, such as “RIAA” (sung to the tune of “YMCA”). Thanks to
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Report from the 2008 AALL Annual Meeting BY SARA WITMAN Research Librarian Gordon Feinblatt Rothman Hoffberger & Hollander
YouTube, you can hear the medley online. (Want more? Check out his iPhone music video. I love this guy.) • New websites to check out and use I tend to think I’m web‐savvy, but the fast‐paced program “30 Critical Technology Tools: Free and Inexpensive Software to Help Your Daily Life” opened my eyes to a bunch of useful resources I had never heard of before. Roger Skalbeck from Georgetown University Law Library, Barbara Fullerton of 10K Wizard, and Susan Skyzinkski at Greenberg Taurig tracked down some hidden gems. A list of all of the presented tools are available at delicious.com/tag/AALL2008‐TechTools. High‐lights include zotero.org, a Firefox extension for collecting and managing re‐search cites, and ponyfish.com, which allows you to create an RSS feed from a site that doesn’t already have one. Another neat tool was 7‐zip.org, zip software that you include on a flash drive. That way, you don’t have to worry about a public com‐puter having the appropriate programs to extract and decom‐press your zipped files. • The ability to put faces to email addresses A lot of my daily interaction with people happens online or over the phone — and that’s not a bad thing. (Heck, I even reach my husband by instant message at home when he’s one floor away.) But there’s something to be said about meeting some‐one face to face. I met a number of LLAM mem‐bers for the first time, and it was great to put faces to some the other newsletter editors’ names.
(pictured below ) that we passed on our hike. The long weekend was not all beer, doughnuts and beautiful scenery, though. There were a num‐ber of informative sessions. One of my faves: Flashlights, FOIA and Advocacy: Tools for the Explorer in Search of Disappearing and Re‐stricted Federal Documents Anne Klinefelter from UNC Chapel Hill Law Li‐brary and Susan Nevelow Mart from UC Hastings Law Library gave an excellent presentation on what kind of information has recently been disap‐pearing from the web for reasons of national secu‐rity or political policy. Although the tips they pro‐vided on how to locate this information under‐lined how difficult it can be to track some of it down (FOIA, listservs, lawsuits), the presentation ended on an energized note of advocacy. Sug‐gested reading: Susan Nevelow Mart’s 2006 Law Library Journal article, “Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed from the Internet Be Reclaimed?” available at: www.llrx.com/features/reclaimed.htm. Unfortunately, I missed the programs by Univer‐sity of Baltimore’s Harvey Morrell on Web 2.0 and Virtual Reference Services (which I hear were awesome). Hopefully we can talk him into doing a LLAM program on these topics.
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What I wish I could have brought back: • A case of McMenamins Hammerhead ale
With more local brewer‐ies than any city in the country, Portland is a beer town, and I am happy to report that many LLAM members (including yours truly) dutifully tasted a sample
of the native brew. An informal survey of LLAM attendees found that the McMenamins Ruby, a light raspberry ale, ranked as the overall favorite. Personally, I fell in love with the Hammerhead pale ale. Yum. • A case of Voodoo Doughnut’s maple bacon bars (notice a trend here?) Confession: I seriously considered moving to Portland after one bite of the maple bacon dough‐nut. You read that right — a doughnut topped with maple frosting and a slice of bacon. Bacon. It
is the most delicious and deca‐dent food I’ve ever eaten. A ba‐con doughnut. I’m embarrassed by how much I loved it. LLAM member Stacey Digan caught me dipping bacon into maple syrup at breakfast one day, and brought the delicacy (pictured left) back from a visit
to Voodoo Doughnut downtown. Thanks a lot, Stacey; I’ve been dreaming about that doughnut ever since. • The landscape Current LLAM president Jean Hessenauer rented a car and drove us out for some sightseeing of the gorgeous Pacific North‐west. Stacey, Jean and I hiked up to the top of Multnoma Falls and took a ridiculous number of beautiful pictures. If we thought we could get away from legal citation out in the wilderness, we were clearly mistaken, as evidenced by the sign
Program materials from the 2008 AALL Annual Meeting in Portland are available for download as PDF files at: programmaterials.aallnet.org
publications for the con‐ventions and Constitutions of 1774‐1776, 1850‐51, 1864 and 1867 (as well as the defeated constitution from the convention of 1967‐1968). Using these resources we can navigate history just as Indy did in the tortuous trap‐laden cavern hiding the Holy Grail (in the not‐so‐memorable Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.) Here is the informational treasure we found. The 1776 Constitution required the State trial courts to meet on the eastern and western shores at “such times and places as the future legislature of this ftate fhall direct and appoint.” The 1851 Constitu‐tion stated that courts were to meet “in each county composing their respective circuits” and the 1864 Constitution said, “[O]ne Court shall be held in each county of the State.” While the Con‐
stitutions never prescribed where the trial courts were to meet, the debates suggest that convention delegates assumed that circuit courts would meet at their respec‐tive county seats. And yet like having four Sankara Stones (a very strained reference to Temple of Doom … but it’s too late to abandon my Indiana Jones theme now), this answer is still unsatisfying; wouldn’t there be word of such an understanding in
some law book somewhere? Remembering that the General Assembly used to govern local mat‐ters and intrigued by the language of the 1776 Constitution, I wondered if Annapolis ever legis‐lated where the trial courts heard cases. For this purpose, I wandered through old volumes of the Laws of Maryland. (Our set goes back to 1826 and you can get everything earlier from the State Ar‐chives website.) I found when the legislature cre‐
and the Legend of the Lost Law
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The Law Librarian
BY JOHN CANNAN Assistant Law Librarian Montgomery County Circuit Court Library
I heard that Harrison Ford, in the new Indiana Jones movie, tells an archeology student to get out of the library and into the “real world” where adventure “really happens.” (I have not seen it, as our Baltimore County Circuit Court friends have yet to review it in Pro Libris.) This is a shame be‐cause we law librarians know that many great adventures DO happen in the library. Take for example this odyssey through Maryland constitu‐tional history. A few weeks ago, someone wanted to know the legal authority requiring a Maryland circuit court to be located in the county seat. They had re‐searched the question thoroughly on Google [sigh!] and were unable to come up with this information. Could I help? [Cue Indiana Jones theme here.] The first place to look was the most obvious, the Constitutions article of the Annotated Code. Arti‐cle IV, § 20 does say that there shall be a circuit court in each county, but it doesn’t say that the circuit court has to be in the county seat. Did it ever? Did this provision exist at one time only to be lost to the past, much like the Ark of the Cove‐nant? Perhaps this challenge required some time travel into the history of the Maryland Constitu‐tion? A trove of information on Maryland’s Constitu‐tions is located on the Maryland State Archives website. Our archival brethren have done a great job digitizing reports, debates, texts, and other
Did this provision exist at one time only to be
lost to the past, much like the Ark of the Covenant? Perhaps this challenge required some time travel into the history of the Maryland Constitution?
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Message from LLAM President Jean Hessenauer
ple may have a chance to attend, even if for one day. It’s ten months away, but it is not too early to start planning, especially if you want your in‐stitution to pay for it. I will also put in a plug here for the 2009 Hein Fun
Run. If you are going to the Con‐vention, plan on participating. It’s either a one mile walk or a three mile run. Everyone can do a mile walk. Runners out there, start getting in shape. It would be fun to have a large contingent from LLAM participating. With‐out asking him first, John Can‐nan from Montgomery County Circuit Court Law Library will be our Race Coordinator − he’s a
super runner!! John, Joanne and I ran in the race
in Portland. This year, we will be changing our program schedule slightly. Instead of having a monthly brown bag program, we will skip a month or two and try to have a half day program. This should give librarians who are farther away more incen‐tive to attend. It may not be feasible to drive an hour for a one hour program, but it may appeal to more people to come to a two or two and a half hour program. I’m still looking for feedback on this idea − let me know what you think. One last thought. I would like to see LLAM in the local news at least once during the year for doing something in the community. If anyone has any ideas on this, please email me your suggestions. We also want to continue having a “LLAM Reads” program with a local author. If you know of a Maryland author that you particularly like, let either Joanne Dugan or me know.
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The casual networking [at the Conventions] can often be more beneficial
than the planned programs (especially if the networking is over a beer in a brewpub).
ated Montgomery County, it allowed the infant jurisdiction’s leaders to locate the court at a con‐venient place. Around 60 years later, the General Assembly authorized the county to raise funds for building a courthouse in Rockville. More impor‐tantly, the General Assembly several times in the 19th Century made public local laws setting the times and place that state trial courts were to meet. In Montgomery County’s case, they desig‐nated Rockville as the meeting place for the county’s circuit court. But what about now, does such a law still exist? Montgomery County embraced home rule with passage of its Charter in 1948. The Charter does not compel the circuit court to sit anywhere. A trip to our extensive local historical materials showed that the County Code had a provision for the circuit court to meet at Rockville, which stayed on the books until it was deleted “as obso‐
lete” in 1963. Incidentally, other counties, e.g. Prince George’s, still retain a code section desig‐nating their county seat as the place where their circuit court meets. Is this mystery then solved? Like any Indiana Jones ending there is always some menacing am‐biguity. Still, this is the best answer I’ve found (and if anyone has some additional information, I would be glad to hear it). Even without poison‐ous arrow traps, collapsing temples or huge roll‐ing granite boulders—all of which we hear guard the State Law Library’s basement storage—it has been an adventure through time, space and law. And it all hap‐pened in the library. Take t ha t , I nd i ana Jones!
• Items within the Archive were accessed 5,317 times; 43% of this access was by libraries participating in the Project.
• Through a sampling of the original URL’s har‐vested from the web roughly 8% of these had be‐come inactive in the course of the year.
Since the evaluation, the collection has been mi‐grated over from OCLC’s Digital Archive into Con‐tentDM. There is now a preservation copy kept in a digital dark archive as well another digital copy for access. The three collections are searchable via the Chesapeake Project’s web site either separately or together and are accessible via OCLC Worldcat. Maryland’s collection is also available through our Library’s catalog. Maryland currently has over 1500 items within its collection and the majority of these items are in PDF format. You can find much more information on the Project, the evaluation methods and search the collections at the Chesapeake Project web site: http://cdm266901.cdmhost.com/index.php Feel free to give any feedback to: Katherine Baer, State Publications Librarian, MD State Law Library, [email protected]
The Chesapeake Project: Pilot project to preserve digitally‐born legal materials
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The Maryland State Law Library along with the Georgetown Law Library and the Virginia State Law Library are about 18 months into a two‐year pilot project aimed at preserving web‐born legal informa‐tion along with the idea of developing best practices for digital preservation that could be used by legal information professionals nationwide. This project was implemented under the auspices of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA). The Maryland State Law Library has focused on the preservation of state publication’s that are deter‐mined to have some impact on the policy & legal issues that face our constituency every day. In‐cluded in this are: task force reports mandated by the Maryland General Assembly; reports of guber‐natorial commissions and all publications issued by the Maryland Judiciary, as well as major reports issued by Maryland executive agencies and their divisions. Finally, the Law Library collects selected publications from Maryland community and re‐search organizations whose studies and reports fall into this realm. The first year of the project was completed in Febru‐ary of 2008 and at that time a project‐wide evalua‐tion was performed. Some findings were: • 2,705 items were harvested and archived into OCLC Digital Archive, representing over 1,200 titles.
BY KATHERINE BAER State Publication & Reference Librarian Maryland State Law Library
The 2008 annual SLA conference was held this June in unusually sunny Seattle. With nice weather, a modern convention center and an in‐teresting, walkable downtown, the Seattle setting was a sure‐fire crowd pleaser. Law librarians would feel right at home SLA 2008, not the least because LexisNexis was a lead spon‐sor. Lexis hosted a fine bash at the Experience Museum, under the shadow of the Space Needle, as well as the Law Division Open House. Lexis also sponsored law‐oriented sessions including “Web Tools for Legal Re‐searchers” and “Knowledge Manage‐ment Staffing Structures in Law Firms.” Other legal publishers were present as well. Wolters Kluwer sponsored a presentation titled, “The Impact of Globalization of Capital on Law Li‐braries,” and Thomson heavily pro‐moted their business and science offerings, though Thomson/West was nowhere in sight. The non‐legal sessions were also strong, and I particularly enjoyed “How to Meet Researchers’ Changing Expectations,” which detailed a Pro‐
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quest study of col‐lege students using their computers to complete homework assignments. I also enjoyed, “If I Knew Then What I Know Not: Tales from the Dark Side,” a panel of librarians‐turned‐vendor representa‐tives (Tip: Vendors hate it when we don’t call them back.) There were several sessions on business research,
competitive intelligence, marketing skills and Web 2.0 applications. The exhibit hall actually took up two halls, and both were packed. I learned a great deal from the ven‐dors (e.g., foreign company filings are available from 10K Wizard), although some of the news was re‐grettable (the Financial Times is pulling out of all aggregated data‐bases). I came home with a heavy
load of handouts, toys and business cards.
I particularly enjoyed “How to Meet
Researchers’ Changing Expectations,” which detailed a Proquest
study of college students using their computers to complete homework
assignments.
A LLAMer’s Report on the 2008 SLA Convention
BY ANDREW ZIMMERMAN Director of Library Services Gordon Feinblatt Rothman Hoffberger & Hollander
www.sla.org/content/Events/conference/ac2008/Conference/contribpapers.cfm
Program materials from the 2008 SLA Convention in Seattle are available for download as PDF files at:
Ewe talkin’ to me?
LLAM President Jean Hessenauer submitted this adorable lamb‐related pic taken at a recent com‐pany outing.
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