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KEN'S PRESIDENTIAL PONDERINGS

Ken Hirsh, President

SoutheasternLaw

LibrarianVolume 32, Issue 2 Spring 2007 SEAALL Home: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/seaall

Who are we? Who we are. Who do we

wish to be?

It is my honor and pleasure to writethis, my first column as SEAALL president. Iwill strive to meet your expectations in thisnew program year. I am looking forward toan exciting year; one in which theorganizational structure can work to bettermeet the needs of our members; and one inwhich each of you feels empowered as amember to participate to the limits of yourability to do so. Together we shall accomplishgreat things.

At our annual meeting, we typicallyhave 200 – 240 members in attendance. Thisfigure fluctuates from year to year.Attendance figures are affected by severalfactors; among them are the location of themeeting and availability of transportation; thestate of a member institution’s or individual

member’s finances; the relevance of theprogramming to each member; conflictingschedule obligations for a given member;and, no doubt, others I have not listed. So,at any annual meeting you attend, you havethe opportunity to meet approximately one-third of our membership, which currentlystands at 623.

Just as you would see at an annualmeeting, if you were to peruse themembership list, you would see a diversegroup. Men and women, varied racial andethnic backgrounds, and different workenvironments. Perhaps you’d like moredetailed information about us. First, whereare our members? Alabama (44), Mississippi(13), Georgia (71), Florida (103), SouthCarolina (25), North Carolina (88), Virginia(72), Washington, D.C. (33), West Virginia(6), Kentucky (43), Tennessee (25), andPuerto Rico (26). We have several membersfrom outside the region as well.

We work for law firms (101), lawschools (426), court and governmentalagencies (64) and other institutions. Wehave a few student members.

So far I’ve asked and answered twoof the title questions in this column. Thethird requires your input: “Who do we wantto be?” An organization is the weighted sum

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total of its membership. What I mean bythat sentence, is that an organizationcarries the qualities and characteristicsits members choose to give it by theiractive participation. It gives back tomembers the resources the othermembers contribute to it. Organizationleadership can – and should – help guidethe organization’s efforts. Members pickand choose how to spend the finiteamount of time they can devote toorganizational efforts.

As you might guess from the abovedescription of SEAALL, with such a variedmembership, our members share somecommon needs from their professionalassociation, and some need somethingdifferent or unique. So, this year I’d liketo focus on meeting those needs. Forsome time our executive boards havebeen gathering information in preparationfor strategic planning. This year we willmove forward with a strategic planninginitiative. I will appoint a specialcommittee on strategic planning in lateJune. If you are interested in serving, orwould like to suggest the name of another,please contact me at ken@law.duke.edu.If you have suggestions for thecommittee’s charge, I’d like to hear thatas well. The strategic plan is documentthat will set forth “Who we want to be.”As I said, together we will do great things.

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I will put on my former hat as chair oflast year’s program committee toacknowledge the assistance of key people

whose efforts made the meeting in BatonRouge a success. Charlene Cain and RandyThompson headed an outstanding effort bythe local arrangements committee. TimCoggins organized a terrific institute. JimHeller and Sally Wiant put in extra effortorganizing several great programs. Jim’swork included setting up the bluesperformance on Saturday morning. Thanksagain to all of you.

SOUTHEASTERN LAW LIBRARIANThe Southeastern Law Librarian(ISSN 0272-7560)is the official publication of the SoutheasternChapter of the American Association of LawLibraries. It is published quarterly and isdistributed free to all SEAALL members. Editorialcomments or submissions should be sent to:

Lisa Smith-Butler, Assistant Dean & AssistantProfessorNova Southeastern University, Shepard BroadLaw CenterLaw Library & Technology Center3305 College Ave.Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33314(954) 262-6211smith-butlerl@nsu.law.nova.edu

Submissions may be sent in hardcopy or electronicformat. Direct transmission via electronic mail ispreferred, but all standard size diskettes areacceptable, if delivered in IBM-based Wordperfect,Word, or plain ASCII format.

Newsletter Deadlines are:Winter January 30, 2007Spring May 15, 2007Summer July 31, 2007Fall November 30, 2007

The opinions in the columns are those of theauthors and do not necessarily represent those ofSEAALL. The Southeastern Law Librarian is notcopyrighted; however, permission should besought from the authors and credit given whenquoting or photocopying materials from thepublication.

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CONTENTS

Ken's Presidential Ponderings

SEAALL Officers

SEAALL Briefs

SEAALL of Approval

From the Editor

Notes from a Newbie

Financial Statement

National Library Week

Have You Checked Out...?

Service to SEAALL Award

Are you 2.0?

Dueling Banjos...

Business Meeting Minutes

SEAALL OFFICERSPRESIDENT

Kenneth J. Hirsh

Director of Computing ServicesDuke University School of LawBox 90366Durham, NC 27708-0366Telephone: (919) 613-7155Fax: (919) 613-7231Email: ken@law.duke.edu

VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-

ELECT

Amy OsborneForeign & Internaional Law SpecialistUniversity of Kentucky Law Library620 S. Limestone St.Lexington, KY 40506-0048Phone: (859) 257-8347Fax: (859) 323-4906Email: amyo@uky.edu

SECRETARY

Sally Wambold

Technical Services LibrarianLaw School LibraryUniversity of RichmondRichmond, VA 23173Telephone: (804) 289-8226Fax: (804) 287-1845Email: swambold@richmond.edu

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TREASURER

Paula Tejeda

Associate Law LibrarianCharles School of Law81 Mary St.Charleston, SC 29403Phone: (843) 329-1000 x312Fax: (843) 329-0491Email: ptejeda@charlestonlaw.org

IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

Anne Klinefelter

Associate Director and Clinical Professor ofLawKathrine R. Everett Law LibraryUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillCampus Box #3385Chapel Hill, NC 27599Telephone: (919) 962-6202Fax: (919) 962-1193E-mail: klinefel@email.unc.edu

MEMBERS-AT-LARGE

Grace M. Mills

DirectorFlorida A & M University, College of LawLibraryOne North Orange AvenueOrlando, FL 32801Telephone: (407) 254-3271Fax: (407) 254-3273Email: grace.mills@famu.edu

Nancy Adams

U.S. District Court LibraryNorthern District of Georgia75 Spring St., SW, Room 2356Atlanta, GA 30303Phone: (404) 215-1319Fax: (404) 215-1320Email: nancy_adams@ca11.uscourts.gov

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SEAALL BRIEFS

compiled byKarin Den Bleyker, Director of TechnicalServices/Interlibrary LoanMississippi College of Law Library

DBleyker@mc.edu

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

American University

John A. Smith has joined the libraryfaculty at the Pence Law Library, WashingtonCollege of Law, American University asAccess Services Librarian. Smith graduatedfrom Catholic University School of Libraryand Information Science in 2006. John wasformerly the Serials and Technical SystemsCoordinator at the Pence Law Library.

Ripple L. Weistling has also joinedthe library faculty of the Pence Law Libraryas Reference and Electronic ServicesLibrarian. Weistling graduated from CatholicUniversity School of Library and InformationScience in May 2007 and formerly workedas an attorney specializing in environmentallaw.

FLORIDA

Florida A&M University Law Library

Grace M. Mills, Florida A&MUniversity, College of Law, visited Beijing,Guilan and Shanghai during her trip to Chinathis past November 11-18, 2006. She wasa professional delegate for the U.S.-ChinaJoint Education Conference held in Beijing

co-sponsored by People to PeopleAmbassador Program and China EducationAssociation for International Exchange. Inaddition to the scheduled visits to severalChinese educational institutions andlandmarks Grace had the opportunity to visitthe China University of Political Science andLaw. She met Professors Yang Yuguan andZeng Er-Shu and Officers Li Chi and TangYan to discuss the similarities and differencesin Chinese and American academic lawlibraries. While there Grace also visited theirlaw library facility and several Beijinglandmarks. Professor Frank Y. Liu, ofDuquesne, graciously facilitated theseprofessional law meetings. Grace now hasa Chinese name given to her by her Chineselaw colleagues.

Nova Southeastern University, Shepard

Broad Law Center, Law Library &

Technology Center

Meg Kribble, Nova SoutheasternUniversity, Shepard Broad Law Center,submitted an entry, Day in the Second Life,to the AALL Day in the Life photo contest.In this photo, NSU law librarians are busybuilding a virtual library on the island ofCybrary City II in the Second Life InfoArchipelago. Meg’s entry placed first in thecategory of Librarians as Trailblazers in

New Technology.

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GEORGIA

Georgia State University College of LawLibrary

Ronald Wheeler, Georgia StateUniversity College of Law Library submittedan entry, “Professor Nancy Johnson makesuse of electronic polling technology to quizher Advanced Legal Research class and showthat administrative regulations can be fun”in the AALL Day in the Life contest. Ron’sphoto placed second in the Librarians as

Teachers and Trainers category.

LOUISIANA

Southern University Law Center

Carol Avery Nicholson, AssistantDirector for Technical Services, Kathrine R.Everett Law Library, University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill; Ruth Johnson Hill,Director of Library Services and AssociateProfessor of Law, Southern University LawCenter; and Vicente Garces, Reference &Collection Development Librarian, Universityof Minnesota Law Library have authoredCelebrating Diversity: A Legacy of Minority

Leadership in AALL. The book is no. 71 inthe AALL Publication Series, published byHein, and features profiles of 32 minority lawlibrarians along with survey responses fromnearly 200 AALL minority librarians detailedin chapters 5-6 of the book. Please note - allroyalties for this publication will becontributed to the AALL & Thomson/WestGeorge A. Strait Minority ScholarshipEndowment Fund.

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi College School of Law

The law library will undergorenovations of the second and third floorthis summer. All departments and a corecollection of law titles have been moved tothe first floor of the library. Hopefully, thiswill enable the staff and administration tosupport the summer curriculum and theresearch needs of the local legalcommunity. Regular public services andinterlibrary loan service will resume at theend of August.

NORTH CAROLINA

Duke University Law Library

Duke University Law Library ispleased to announce the appointment ofLauren Collins to the position of ReferenceLibrarian. Lauren began her new positionon March 1, 2007. Lauren earned herM.L.S. from the University of Michigan andher J.D. from the University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill. She comes to Dukewith experience in both law practice andprofessional law librarianship. Mostrecently, she served as Public ServicesLibrarian/Instructional Services atWayneState University’s Arthur Neef LawLibrary. Lauren will supervise the lawlibrary’s Faculty Research AssistantsProgram in addition to teaching, facultyliaison and other reference servicesresponsibilities.

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University of North Carolina

Carol Avery Nicholson, AssistantDirector for Technical Services, Kathrine R.Everett Law Library, University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill; Ruth Johnson Hill,Director of Library Services and AssociateProfessor of Law, Southern University LawCenter; and Vicente Garces, Reference &Collection Development Librarian, Universityof Minnesota Law Library have authoredCelebrating Diversity: A Legacy of Minority

Leadership in AALL. The book is no. 71 inthe AALL Publication Series, published byHein, and features profiles of 32 minoritylaw librarians along with survey responsesfrom nearly 200 AALL minority librariansdetailed in chapters 5-6 of the book. Pleasenote - all royalties for this publication willbe contributed to the AALL & Thomson/WestGeorge A. Strait Minority ScholarshipEndowment Fund.

Nick Sexton, a reference librarian atthe Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,has started a book review blog called TheRandom Reader. According to a descriptionon its site, the blog will feature reviews “thatcover an array of books, from all species offiction and nonfiction, with publishing datesthat range from ancient to modern.” Theaddress for the blog is http://legalread.blogspot.com.

Anne Klinefelter has been announced asthe new Director of the Law Library andAssociate Professor of Law at the Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Currentlythe Interim Director and Associate Director

of the Law Library and Clincial Professor ofLaw at UNC, Anne is expected to move intothe new position mid summer.

Two new reference librarians are joining thestaff at UNC-CH. These librarians fillvacancies created last fall when Teresa

Stanton moved to Berkeley as Foreign andComparative Law Librarian and Megan

Garton left to become Evening ReferenceLibrarian at Tulane.

Nikki Perry comes to UNC late in Mayto take on the role of Reference/ElectronicResources Librarian. In addition to providingreference services, faculty liaison services,and teaching Advanced Legal Research, Nikkiwill evaluate electronic research tools andcoordinate instruction in using those tools.She will also have primary responsibility forthe content of the Law Library website. Nikkicomes from North Carolina Central LawLibrary where she has been ReferenceInstructional Librarian since January of 2005.Nikki taught Legal Bibliography for five yearsand Advanced Legal Writing for three yearsat NCCU School of Law and served as theschool’s Director of Academic Support forover ten years.

Julie Kimbrough joins UNC in July asReference/Faculty Services Librarian and willmanage the library’s Faculty ResearchService in addition to providing referenceservices, faculty liaison services, andparticipating in the teaching of AdvancedLegal Research. Julie comes to the LawLibrary of Congress where she has been aLegal Reference Specialist since June of 2004.

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Julie managed the Law Library of Congressgovernment documents collection and hasexperience developing and managing adocuments digitization project. Julie is afamiliar face in the UNC Law Library sinceshe served as the library’s graduate assistantduring 2003-04.

Upon Julie’s arrival, Jim Sherwood

will begin to shift his focus from managingthe Faculty Research Service to develop anexpertise in foreign and international law andlegal research, taking on the role ofReference/Foreign and International LawLibrarian.

FROM THE EDITOR

As always, I'm looking for articles,photos, suggestions, and feedbck.Many thanks to all of you who havecontriubted. Let us know what you'dlike for the upcoming year. Join!Submit articles and photos. Shareinteresting projects and ideas fromyour library and your librarians. Thisis our newsletter so help make it count.

Send your submission or comments tosmith-butlerl@nsu.law.nova.edu

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Conference 2007: A SEAALL of

Approval

Rob Hudson , Reference & InstructionalServices Librarian

Nova Southeastern University, Shepard BroadLaw Center, Law Library & Technology Center

The Annual SEAAL Conference in BatonRouge delivered what it promised: anopportunity to learn and have fun in Louisiana.For a first timer like me, this SEAALLConference was notable for the nice size andorganization (hats off to the local organizersBRAALL & NOALL). It was easy to registerand find my way around the conference hotel.One notable feature of the conference hall &hotel is that it was an old brick railroad depotnicely converted into a Sheraton with hugeglass atrium roofing; very impressive lightingin the hall and very comfortable. Theconference hotel was just next to theMississippi, and a little river boat was mooredthere for some quick gambling.

The Plenary sessions were interestingand the speakers engaging. I attended severalof the sessions, covering subjects like ‘settingup a library internship’ and ‘reinventingtechnical services.’ I liked the manageable sizeof the presentation rooms. The bright yellowconference bag was definitely an eye catcher.

My conference highlight was the Fridaynight dinner at the Rural Life Museum just afew miles south of the conference hotel. Cajunfood and music were served in the gorgeousoutdoor area of the museum surrounded byfolk art, trees, and historic buildings.

I’m looking forward to SEAALL nextyear in Virginia.

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Notes from a Newbie

Katherine Brown, Faculty & StudentServices Librarian, St. Thomas UniversitySchool of Law Library

Now and again thousands of

memories converge, harmonize,

arrange themselves around a central

idea in a coherent form,

and I write a story.

Katherine Anne Porter

Katherine Anne Porter, the writer, calledBaton Rouge Louisiana her home for a periodof time in her youth. Therefore, when Ireturned from the Southeastern Chapter ofthe American Association of Law Librariesannual conference with my mind filled withexperiences and memories I took her advice.My story about the 2007 SEAALL conferencebegins prior to the conference because likeany good story you need a little expositionto understand the context of the story beforeyou can get into the meat of the work.

Hello, my name is Kathleen Brown, butI prefer Katie. I am a newbie librarian whomoved across the United States from Seattle,Washington to Miami, Florida for my firstlibrarian position. Last year, while in libraryschool, I attended the AALL annualconference in St. Louis so I knew a little bitof what to expect at a librarian conference.Like most librarians, I am a planner by natureso a few weeks prior to the conference Ibegan looking at the program for theconference and working out which sessions

I wanted to attend. I also took advantage ofthe request for volunteers that was sent tomy inbox and signed up to work a few hoursat the registration desk.

As the conference drew near, a touchof doubt spread into my thoughts. I beganto wonder if the sessions would be over myhead, that I may not get the opportunity tobecome friends with the other law librarians,or if I was going to snore so loud that myroommate would be forced to get a newroom. I am very pleased to report thatalthough these small doubts existed in mymind that none of them came to pass inreality. The day of the conference arrivedand began very early in the morning with a6AM flight out of Florida. From the momentI arrived in Baton Rouge, I began to meetmy fellow law librarians. I was absolutelythrilled to discover how open and welcomingthe members of SEALL are to new librarians.The conversations that I had with librarians,speakers, and vendors during the three daysof the conference were all incredibly diverseand illuminating.

I arrived to the hotel early on April12th and took advantage of the free time,eating lunch with the Associate director ofSt. Thomas Law Library Sonia Luna-Lomasand Amy Osborn the new SEALL VicePresident, who I had met an hour earlier inthe shuttle from the airport to the hotel. Afterlunch, Sonia and I explored downtown BatonRouge. After only walking a few blocks, webegan to understand and respect the slowpace of Louisiana as we enjoyed a cool breezeand discussed the stunning architecture of

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both the historical buildings and newconstruction.

Upon my return to the hotel, I joinedup with some other librarians and participatedin the two law library tours at the SouthernUniversity Law Center Library and theLouisiana State University Law Center Library.As a new member of law librarian profession,my exposure to different law libraries up tothis point has been limited to the law librarywhere I attended law school and my currentplace of employment. I derived a great dealof pleasure from seeing how other lawlibraries are arranged, how the staff handlefood, drinks and student printing in thelibrary, and having the opportunity to askquestions about enticing students to attendresearch refresher sessions. I came awayfrom the tours with a number of ideas andsome new acquaintances.

The Opening Reception that eveningwas in the new Baton Rouge Art Museum.The event appeared to me to be a hugesuccess and I heard several groups of people,“oohing” and “ahhing” over both the art workand the food. I was informed by several ofthe locals that food is a huge part of the BatonRouge experience. I must commend thecoordinators of conference for allowing theattendee the opportunity to experience themany flavors of Louisiana. Personally, Itook advantage of the opportunity to eat grits.Being able to eat one of my favorite southerndishes all weekend was a huge treat.

The conference learning sessions werealso a splendid treat for me. Many of the

discussions and presentations were directlyon point to projects at the St. Thomas lawlibrary. The handouts I received at thesesessions have proven quite useful. In fact,several of the documents in the packet forthe internship session, provided me with anexcellent framework to create my own workproduct for our new intern.

Music played an important role in theconference experience. The members ofSEAALL on more then one occasion foundthemselves delighted by the skillfulness andartistry of the Louisiana musicians. A storyof my SEAALL experience would beincomplete without a few words aboutworking at the registration desk. I alwaysenjoy working registration at conferencesbecause it furnishes me with the opportunityto place a name to a face when I registermembers or speakers for the conference.Working registration at the SEALLconference also provided me with anotheropportunity to sit down and talk to severalof the local Louisiana law librarians and in asurprising turn of events allowed me to“refresh” my knitting skills.

Overall, my first SEAALL conference

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was a great success. I was able to explorenew law libraries, learn and take homevaluable insight, become educated on keylaw library topics, taste some local cuisine,hear some excellent music, and gather themotivation and drive to try to knit my mothera scarf. Yet, the experiences I will cherishmost from the conference are the many timesI was able to sitting down and talk withpositive, exciting and encouraging lawlibrarians from the Southeastern chapter ofAALL. I truly believe that none of us willsoon forget the laughter that we all sharedin Baton Rouge when we were among ourLaw Librarian friends.

SEAALL FINANCIAL STATEMENT

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Financial StatementApril 2006 - March 2007

Opening Balance $106,632.68

Receipts2006 SEAALL Annual Meeting $2,910.322007 SEAALL Annual Meeting

Exhibit Fee $1,200.00Extra Tickets, Meal Events $ 610.00Institute $1,510.00Registration $20,915.00Sponsorships $16,350.00

Total 2007 Annual Meeting $40, 585.00

Donations2005-2006 Hurrican Relief Fund $ 5.00

Total Donations $ 5.00

Membership Dues (2006-2007)Associate $ 340.00Individual $ 1,840.00Institutional $ 9,480.00Student $ 140.00

Total Membership Dues $ 11,800.00Total Receipts $55,300.32Working Balance $161,933.00

Expenses2005 AALL Annual Meeting $ 635.002006 Annual Meeting

Reception & Meeting Rooms $ 3,477.92Reimbursements $ 107.73

$ 3,585.652006 SEAALL Annual Meeting

Barbeque--Moore Square $ 6,682.72Conference Hotel-Sheraton Raleigh $24,863.38General Reimbursements $ 636.00Honoraria $ 600.00Programs $ 1,916.83Reception Museum $ 7,783.48Speaker Expenses $ 3,140.38

Total 2006 Annual Meeting $45,622.85

SEAALL Financial StatementApril 2006 - March 2007

Expenses

2007 SEAALL Annual Meeting (hotel & events deposits) $ 4,686.99Bank Service Charges (deposit slips, returned check fee) $ 9.00Chapter Liability Insurance $ 576.00Community Service Gift Certificates $ 100.00Contributions

George A. Strait Minority Scholarship fund $1,500.00Other (AALL scholarship, hurricane damaged lib.) $7,489.10

Total Contributions $8,989.10Florida Non-Profit Corporation Filing Fee $ 61.25Office Supplies $ 28.34Postage (dues notices) $ 111.69Printing and Reproduction $ 36.25Reimbursements

Pam Deemer (gavel and engraving) $ 47.95Anne Klinefelter (retiring President gift) $ 84.53Stetson College of Law (refund of overpayment) $ 20.00University of Richmond Law Library (bylaws mailing) $ 448.86

Total Reimbursements $ 60.34

Scholarships and Grants $ 2,200.00Lucille Elliott Scholarships $ 2,955.00

Total Scholarships and Grants $ 5,155.00Tax Form Prepration $ 435.00

Total Expenses $70,634.46Closing Balance $91,289.54

InvestmentsBank of America CD

Interest Income $ 66.84Current Value $ 3,441.79

Fidelity InvestmentsInvestment Income $ 255.93Current Value $ 5,921.18Total Assets $100,661.51

Note on the net operating loss. While partly due to timing of income and expenditures, it is also attributed toincreased spending for meeting events (AALL and Annual Meeting), the large amount of contributions to otherorganizations (AALL, hurricane damaged libraries), and a relatively lower income from the 2007 annual meeting.

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NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK 2007:

HOW IT ALL CAME TOGETHER @ THE

NSU LAW LIBRARY!

— Mary Paige Smith, Associate Directorfor Technical Services,Nova Southeastern University, Shepard BroadLaw Center, Law Library and TechnologyCenter

In the past, the NSU Law Library andTechnology Center’s National Library Weekactivities have been limited to mounting athemed display at the entrance to the library,or perhaps putting out NLW bookmarks forour students and faculty. This year, wedecided to kick the activities up a notch byinviting the students, faculty and staff toparticipate. This year’s theme, “ComeTogether @ Your Library”, provided theperfect opportunity for us to make the librarya little more interesting and inviting to ourusers, while highlighting our library staff andthe services we provide.

Planning

Our preparations began about a monthbefore NLW. To involve the faculty and staff,and to create some NLW “buzz”, we sent anemail to faculty and staff, asking them toname their favorite book, and to tell us brieflywhy. We got several responses right away.The next week, we sent out a reminder email,and got even more responses. Our director,Lisa Smith-Butler, then mounted a displayfeaturing the book jacket art from everyone’spicks.

Next year, we are planning to createREAD posters for NLW and we plan to makeit an annual event hereafter.

Give-aways

Food is always a good way to attractpeople, so we aimed for the sweet tooth bysetting out bowls of chocolates and othercandies on the Circulation and Referencedesks. The plan was to provide a differentcandy each day of the week. The treatsproved so popular, however, that our firstday’s supply was almost gone after the firstfew hours. It was clear that our studentsdidn’t care so much about variety as quantity!We were pleased to note that the wrappersdid not all end up on the library floors, andno chocolate fingerprints were found onlibrary materials!

In researching what other law librarieshad done for previous NLWs, we found thatat least one library decided to providedisposable earplugs. Since we have beenputting out containers of these every day forover a year, we couldn’t tout this as a specialNLW benefit. Instead, we put the earplugs,which are bright green and individuallywrapped, in special clear bowls. This madethem easier to spot from a distance, and alsohelped distinguish them from the candy!Contests and prizes

In addition to creature comforts, wewanted to offer our library users some funactivities. We decided to have a contest eachday; prizes for the winners were $25 giftcards to local merchants like Starbucks andBarnes & Noble. All participants in the daily

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contests were automatically entered into a“grand finale” drawing for an Apple IPOD®Nano. We advertised these contests via emailmessages, and posted the contest rules onour library website. We also created flyersand distributed them around the library andthe Law Center. Each day, we put copies ofthe daily contest on the Circulation Desk, aswell as on the console in the Law Centeratrium (with more candy as a lure!).Participants were instructed to returncompleted contests to a box on theCirculation Desk.

For our daily contests, we used acrossword puzzle featuring our full-timefaculty; a couple of word search puzzles, oneusing the names of our library staff, and theother using legal abbreviations; and a triviaquiz based on materials in our Law andPopular Culture collection. I created thepuzzles using the DiscoverySchool’sPuzzlemaker website. For a change of pace,we also included a “stump the librarians”contest. Faculty, staff and students wereinvited to submit their law-related questionsto our email reference address, and wepromised to answer the questions correctlyby the following day. As it happened, nobodywas able to stump us, so we awarded thedaily prize to the most creative question.How did it all come together?

Participation was rather light, which wehad expected, since we had never doneanything like this before. The timing of NLWis also problematic for academic libraries,coming as it does so close to the end of thesemester and the beginning of final exams.We did get some participation every day, andwe were surprised that the contest with the

Have you checked out…?CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public

Opinion at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/del.icio.us at http://del.icio.us/digg at http://digg.com/flickr at http://flickr.com/Google Doc & Spreadsheets athttp://www.google.com/LawLib Wiki at http://www.editthis.info/lawlibrary/Main_PageMs. Dewey athttp://www.msdewey.com/Openomy athttp://openomy.com/Remember the Milk athttp://www.rememberthemilk.com/

largest number of participants was the librarystaff word search!

We received positive feedback about ourNLW activities from several students andfaculty, and we know that many of themenjoyed the candy! We plan to encouragemore participation next year by doing ouradvertising earlier, more often, and morewidely. We think the READ® posters willprove popular, so we are planning to showcasefaculty and staff reading picks throughout themonth of April, with a reception to honor theinaugural group.

I hope this description of our efforts tocelebrate National Library Week has inspiredyou to consider doing something similar atyour library. It takes a little money and alittle more effort, but the publicity and goodwill it generates make it well worth theexpenditures!

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Service to SEAALL Award 2007

Awarded to Nancy P. Johnson

By Rhea Ballard-Thrower, HowardUniversity & Lisa Smith-Butler, NovaSoutheastern University

Since 1984, Nancy P. Johnson, LawLibrarian and Professor of Law at GeorgiaState University College of Law Library, hasbeen a SEAALL member. As her activities onbehalf of SEAALL demonstrate, she embodiesservice. She has served SEAALL in numerouscapacities, working on virtually all of itscommittees over the years. In the late1980s, she served as COSELL’s President. In2000, she co-chaired the Local ArrangementsCommittee for the SEAALL Atlanta meetingwhile following up to chair the ScholarshipCommittee in 2001. In 2002, she waselected as Vice President/President Elect andthen served her term as President in 2003.

Her activities extend beyond the reachof SEAALL. In addition to working with thelocal Atlanta Association of Law Libraries inmany capacities, she has also worked at thenational level with AALL, including servingas a member of its Executive Board from1996-1999.

Since 1986, Nancy has been theDirector of the Georgia State UniversityCollege of Law Library. She began work atthe GSU library in 1982 while shesimultaneously began completion of her J.D.degree. Before coming to GSU and Atlanta,she worked in the University of Chicago LawLibrary and the University of Illinois LawLibrary, working in the Reference areas inthose libraries.

In addition to receiving her J.D. fromGeorgia State University College of Law,Nancy received her M.L.S. from the Universityof Illinois Graduate School of Library Scienceand her B.A. from Marycrest College. Shehas authored many articles, chapters andbooks as well as CALI lessons. Her everpopular, WINNING LEGAL RESEARCH SKILLS, hasbeen used by law students for well over adecade to hone their research skills whilelibrarians routinely rely upon her SOURCES OFCOMPILED LEGISLATIVE HISTORIES.

When Nancy received her award, shecommented: “volunteering for SEAALL is somuch fun because of the great people in thechapter. My service to SEAALL has neverfelt like work. I feel like I have received agreat deal more from SEAALL than I havegiven to the chapter.” It is this commentthat embodies the Service to SEAALL andNancy Johnson’s commitment to the field oflaw librarianship.

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Are You 2.0?

by Meg Kribble, Reference Librarian, NovaSoutheastern University Shepard Broad LawCenter

Ever since Tim O’Reilly coined it in2004, Web 2.0 has been one of the hottestbuzzwords around. So what is Web 2.0? And,more importantly, what can it do for lawlibraries?

If you ask ten people what Web 2.0 is,you’ll likely get ten different answers,including a few confused looks. Thenumerical suffix makes it sounds as if a newversion of the web was released like a majorsoftware upgrade. However, for the mostpart, Web 2.0 simply uses the existingarchitecture of the Internet to build on theweb’s potential for enabling communication,collaboration, and user-created content.Blogs, wikis, social bookmarking and socialnetworking sites, online word processors anddatabases, and sites that allow users to tagcontent are all Web 2.0. All of these servicesuse the web as their platform; there is nosoftware required beyond a web browser.

Although many people defining Web2.0 would say that it’s more about state ofmind than a specific technology, there are afew technical terms you’ll hear in conjunctionwith 2.0. Asynchronous JavaScript And XML(AJAX) is a blend of several technologies thatallows browsers to dynamically update smallportions of a webpage, so the entire pagedoesn’t have to reload when a user makes achange. Gmail and Flickr both use AJAX.Application Programming Interface (API) is

a key bit of code essential to mashups, whichare applications that combine data from twoor more sources. The API key of Google Mapsis the most popular, because displaying datageographically is so useful. Kate Boyle ofIllinois’ Metropolitan Library System used itto visualize the MLS interlibrary loanstatistics.1 Finally, Really Simple Syndication(RSS) is the tool that makes it possible forblogs, news services, and any other regularlyupdated websites to push new content tosubscribers. If you use Bloglines or GoogleReader, you’re using RSS.

Web 2.0 applications are known forbeing in “perpetual beta,” no matter how longthey’ve been around. In the world of Web2.0, beta doesn’t mean “not ready for primetime,” rather it signifies that the service orapplication is being continually improved.

Communication, collaboration, content,continuous improvement. Web 2.0 soundslike it’s right up our professional alley. Manylibraries and librarians have embraced Web2.0 so much that they’ve created a newbuzzword: search for “Library 2.0,” onGoogle, and you’ll get nearly a million hits.Law libraries and librarians have beenblogging for years. How else are they being2.0? Here’s a quick overview of some LawLibrary 2.0 projects to give you a taste:

Civil Law Dictionary Project wiki

For practitioners and researchers usedto common law, working with civil lawconcepts can be challenging. Vicenç Feliú,Foreign, Comparative and International Law

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Librarian at Louisiana State University, seeksto make it easier by enabling librarians,researchers, and practitioners to share theirunderstanding through a wiki. The Civil LawDictionary Project wiki uses the free wikiservice, pbwiki.com. Feliú began by postingterms from a 1994 glossary article.Participants—who must be approved—canthen edit and update existing entries,and create new ones.(http://civillawdictionary.pbwiki.com/)

The del.icio.us Law Library

Because they can be classified withmultiple tags, social bookmarking sites likedel.icio.us and furl.net are a great way ofsharing new articles and resources in specificsubject areas. Because these services useRSS feeds, you can use a blog reader tosubscribe to accounts. A firm librarian coulduse del.icio.us to tag new content she comesacross, making sure that lawyers in differentpractice areas are subscribed to the feedsfor the appropriate tags on her del.icio.usaccount. The RSS feeds can also be mixedinto a regular blog. Nicole Engard,technologist at the Jenkins Law Library,future librarian, and Library Journal Mover& Shaker for 2007, posts her new del.icio.uslinks to her blog almost daily.(http://del.icio.us/nengard)

GovDoc Covers pool on Flickr—and

YouTube!

Seen any good governmentdocuments publications lately? DanielCornwall, Government Publications/TechnicalServices Librarian at the Alaska State Library,has. He created a Flickr pool, a tool for

people to share pictures on a similar theme,to show off the good, the bad, the ugly, andthe just plain hilarious in governmentdocuments titles. He then uses picturesposted in the pool to create themed“Documents on Parade” videos, which heshares on YouTube. (http://www.flickr.com/groups/govdoccovers/) and (http://w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m /profile?user=AlaskanLibrarian)

UB Law Library @ MySpace

The Millennial generation is known forshunning email in favor of IM and socialnetworking. Harvey Morrell, AssistantDirector for IT and Reference Librarian at theUniversity of Baltimore Law Library, isreaching out to students with a law librarypage on MySpace. In addition to links to thelibrary catalog, regular blog, and del.icio.usbookmarks, Morrell uses MySpace’s blogfunction to link to study tips, articles aboutstudent debt, a FAQ about using examsoftware, and other interesting items thatstudents might otherwise miss. (http://myspace.com/ublawlibrary)

Are you constantly thinking of ways touse new web-based tools to communicateand interact with your patrons and to helpthem communicate with each other? Youmay be a Librarian 2.0. If you’re interested,create a profile on the new Library 2.0network at http://library20.ning.com/ toconnect with other 1400 librarians who arefascinated by the possibilities of Web andLibrary 2.0.

(Footnotes)1 See http://www.mls.lib.il.us/ennounce/2007/01_03/resourcesharing.asp

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From “Dueling Banjos” to Harmonious

Singing:

The SEAALL Institute on Law Librarians

& Technologists

by Meg Kribble, Reference Librarian, NovaSoutheastern University

Oil and water. Matter and anti-matter.Law librarians and legal technologists?Attendees of the pre-conference SEAALLInstitute learned that this relationship neednot be compared to either the staunchlysegregated nor the dangerously explosive.

The day began with a talk by PabloMolina, Georgetown Law’s Chief InformationOfficer, who was full of creative and practicalideas for librarian-technologist collaboration.At Georgetown, they serve together on theuniversity’s Systems Management Counciland the Campus Web Group. They also sharepresentation duties at annual faculty and stafftechnology retreats. Molina’s most intriguingidea was Georgetown Law’s transformationof the help desk in a back office to aprominent technology reference desk, wherestudents receive instruction on dealing withtheir tech problems as part of theireducational experience.

Tom Bruce and Lori Martin played arecording of “Dueling Banjos” to introducetheir session. Warning us that they plannedto be provocative, they discussed librarians’top five complaints about technologists andtechnologists’ top five complaints aboutlibrarians.

Complaints about Librarians:1. they undervalue process;2. they won’t experiment (dismissing not-fully-developed and open source technology);3. they demand resources withoutplanning or notice;4. having been a subordinated profession,they are looking for someone to subordinate;5. bundle of complaints common to allusers seeming worse because more isexpected of them (i.e., librarians should bemore competent than average users).

Complaints about Technologists:1. they believe that end users can’t doanything right;2. they inconvenience people for noreason (server shutdowns and upgrades arecruel, psychological experiments);3. they hide;4. they want us to be self reliant, butwon’t explain things;5. they horde all the good toys.

As a newer librarian, I haven’t hadmuch time to accumulate such resentments,and I found myself sympathizing with itemson both lists. Bruce and Martin movedbeyond stereotypes to explore some causesof the lingering tensions: different views ofour business, the missing water cooler, andthe perception that librarians andtechnologists are in a zero-sum game.

Ken Hirsh, Connie Matzen, and BillieBlaine shared personal experiences focusingon five principles for making the librarian-technologist relationship a success. Theprinciples include adapting ideas from otherorganizations; not blaming issues on

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personality; optimizing our work to servecustomers; recognizing that for everylibrarian complaint about technologists, thereis an “equal and opposite” technologistcomplain about librarians; and the need fortechnology reference interviews to find outwhat priorities are. Blaine shared the funniestexample of a misunderstanding: her IT staffkept emailing her about library equipmentin a storage room, and she couldn’t figureout what they meant. The “equipment” inquestion turned out to be a set of books!

To close the Institute, CourtlandChaney of LSU’s Rucks Department ofManagement spoke to us about interpersonalsuccess in the workplace. I expected this tobe a fairly dry session, but Chaney roamedfreely around both the room and his topic,which he illustrated with lively anecdotes. Hestressed the importance of communicationas the foundation of all other managementfunctions. Using the Johari window concept,he talked about how things we know anddon’t know about ourselves and others affectthe communication process. Finally, hestressed the importance of matching thecontent and process of our communication.That is, our words (content) and music(process) should be in harmony if we wantto be successful communicators.Demonstrating incongruence, Chaneypointed out that you can’t make someonebelieve you love them if you say it an angrytone of voice.

Institute coordinator Timothy Cogginsbrought together speakers covering a varietyof facets of the law librarian-legal technologistrelationship, from surface tension and

underlying currents to theory and practiceto content and process. Those of us whoattended the Institute left with new ideas forcollaborating and communicating successfullywith our colleagues.

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MINUTES

SEAALL General Business Meeting,

Friday, April 13, 2007

Baton Rouge, LA

President Anne Klinefelter welcomed themembers and thanked the Sponsor, BNA.

I. Approval of minutes

Approval of minutes from the last GeneralBusiness Meeting in St. Louis, MO, in July2006: the minutes were approvedunanimously.Results of the election of officers and bylawsamendments:

Vice President/President-Elect: Amy OsborneMember-at-Large: Nancy AdamsAll 5 Bylaws amendments: AdoptedThere is a tie in the race for Treasurerbetween Tim Lewis and Paula Tejeda.

As there is no provision currently in ourbylaws for resolution of a tie vote, theExecutive Board is submitting for approvalat the business meeting on April 13 thefollowing proposed Amendment:

1. Article III, Section Two of the bylawsis amended by adding the following sentence:“In the case of a tie vote, the winner shall bedetermined by lot conducted by one or moretellers, appointed by the President.”

2. This method of breaking a tie shall beapplied to any election that remains

deadlocked at the adoption of thisamendment.The required thirty-day notice for a proposedbylaw change was met before the BatonRouge Annual Meeting by emailing thelanguage of the proposed amendment to themembership.

II. Reports of Officers

A. President: Anne Klinefelter said thatshe had nothing new to report.

B. Vice-President: Ken Hirsh deferred hisstatement to the Program Committee report.

C. Secretary: Sally Wambold reported onSEAALL’s first electronic election, which wasfacilitated by Ken Hirsh and the Duke LawLibrary. Only 45 paper ballots were requiredbecause of the electronic election. The returnrate of the first electronic election was over60%.

D. Treasurer: Jack Bissett announced thatthere were copies of the Treasurer’s Reportavailable and a report would appear in thenext newsletter. SEAALL spent more than itearned. This could be explained by timingof payments; large contributions to AALL,Katrina libraries and scholarships. There ismoney in the bank and in small investments.

E. Past President: Pam Deemer deferredher report to the Report of theBylawsCommittee.

F. Members-at-Large: Virginia Smith was

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unable to attend the meeting. So, AnneKlinefelter gave her report that SEAALL hadsucceeded in attracting a VIP for the AALLAnnual Meeting in New Orleans in July 2007.The VIP will be Dean José-Marie Griffiths,School of Information and Library Science atUNC-CH.

Grace Mills reported on the survey results.She thanked all who responded and told themthe survey results would be posted on thewebsite. Grace closed by promising anothersurvey.

III. Committee Reports

A. Articles & Bylaws: Chair Pam Deemerthanked her fellow members: IsmaelGullon, Ken Hirsh, and Anne Klinefelter. Shereported that electronic voting had beenaccepted by the membership. Housekeepingchanges had been necessary and these wereokayed by the AALL Bylaws Committee.

B. Community Service Committee: ChairTerrye Conroy also thanked her committeemembers (Rhea Ballard-Thrower, MarciaBurris, Scott DeLeve, Marin Dell, StephanieDooley, Margaret Hall, Susan Lewis-Somers,Donna Nixon, Sally Wambold, Olivia Weeks,and Ron Wheeler). The recipient of thecommittee’s donations is the East BatonRouge Parish School System, the highschools. Over 120 books had been donatedvia the Amazon Wish List set up by RonWheeler and over $250 had been donated atthe time of the business meeting. Membersof the CSC will accept donations throughoutthe Annual Meeting. Raffle tickets will begiven to all donors, who will be eligible to

win one of two Blockbuster gift baskets.

C. Education Committee: Carol Billingsreported for Chair Rebecca and announcedthere was no report for this Committee atthis time. (Chair Rebecca Trammel; membersCarol Billings, Scot Childs, Veronica Foster,Nancy Johnson, Leslie Diana Jones, DavidLehmann, Elizabeth Outler, Cathy Polombi,Adeen Postar, Colleen Williams.

D. Government Relations: Anne Klinefelterreported for Chair Maureen Eggert. The 2007committee was comprised of members fromall SEAALL states except Puerto Rico.(Maureen Eggert, Helane Davis, Dee DeeDockendorf, Kevin Fredette, BrianHuddleston, Chris Hudson, Billie Jo Kaufman,David Lowe, Colleen Manning, ChristineSellers, Linda Tesar, Thomas Walter)

In addition to monitoring governmentalactivities and reporting them via SEAALL-Lthe 2007 Government Relations Committeemet its goal of contributing regular articlesto the SEAALL newsletter. Other 2007Government Relations activities included:

· Chair attended the LegislativeAdvocacy leadership Training in St. Louis

· The committee advised the Presidenton whether to sign GPO appropriation letterson behalf of SEAALL

· Posted contact information and sampleletters to SEAALL-L for those memberswishing to write in support of H.R. 1309,

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Freedom of Information Act Amendments of2007

E. Local Arrangements: Charlene Cainreported for Chair Randy Thompson.Members included: Randy Thompson, Chair;Charlene Cain, Jean Allen, Ajaye Bloomstone,Georgia Chadwick, Megan Garton, MarieLouis, Maralena Murphy, Kay Naar, DeniseUzee). 178 people pre-registered. The pre-conference Institute was highly successful.At every break there would be drawings forprizes.

F. Membership: Chair Rebecca Maxwellreported. (Her committee members wereNancy Adams, Shyama Agrawal, GeorgiaChadwick, Tim Chinaris, Edward Hart, AmyOsborne, Frosty Owen, Mary Jane Slipsky,Linda Sobey). The committee sent welcomeletters to new members throughout the year,managed the SEAALL table at AALL, andworked with Grace Mills to developthemembership survey. Those committeemembers located near a library school didoutreach in the form of onsite presentations,as well asflyers and emails, to encourageawareness of legal librarianship as a careerpath. Membership is up this year, and allnew members were encouraged to becomeactive in SEAALL. The chairman for thecoming year is Edward Hart of the ChilesLegal Information Center at the Universityof Florida’s Levin College of Law.

G. Newsletter and Public Relations: AnneKlinefelter reported for Chair Lisa Smith-Butler. (Members of the Committee includeSteve Melamut, Marcia Baker, Karin Den

Bleyker, Stacy Etheredge, Stacy Lane, LaurelBrown, Nikki Perry, Carolyn Santanella,Etheldra Scoggin, Thomas Walter)· Steve Melamut, UNC, began the 2006-2007 year as web master and newslettereditor. In October 2006, Lisa Smith-Butler,NSU FL. Assumed newsletter editorresponsibilities.· Three newsletter issues have beenpublished this year: Summer (July 2006),Fall (December 2006) and Winter (February2007). The Fall 2006 issue concludedpublication of volume 31 while the Winter2007 issue ushered in publication of volume32. The Spring 2007 issue is scheduled forpublication in May and will include coverageof the SEAALL Annual Program and NationalLibrary Week among other articles.

Regular features in the newslettercontinue to include:· the President’s Column which waswritten by Anne Klinefelter this year;· SEAALL Briefs compiled by Karin DenBleyker which provide news about SEAALLmembers’ job changes, titles, achievements,awards, and/or publications;· Government Relations informationcompiled by Maureen Eggert; and· Treasury Reports compiled by JackBissett.

Feature articles during this past year include:· E Readers by Karl Grueben· From Brando & Leigh to Abbott &Costello by Brian Huddleston· Getting a Second Life by Meg Kribble· Introducing BRALL by Rita Parham· Law Library Marketing: The

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Fundamentals by Stephanie Fox· Make Plans to Attend SEAALL by RitaParham & Melanie Sims· Research Means by Deborah Schander· SEAALL 2007 by Rita Parham· Staying on Top: Electronic CurrentAwareness by Lisa Smith-Butler· Who is Lucille Elliot? By Joyce MannaJanto· Willy Wonka and the Rare Book Schoolby Stacy Etheredge

H. Nominations: Chair Carol Nicholsonthanked everyone who agreed to run foroffice.She noted that the tie for Treasurer showedwhat a talented membership SEAALLhad in that two candidates were so equallyqualified. (The Nominations Committee alsoincluded Carol Billings, Kathy Crosslin,Patricia Kidd, and Pedro Padilla-Rosa.)

I. Placement: Anne Klinefelter reporter forChair Joy Hanson. The SEAALL PlacementCommittee was chaired this year by JoyHanson, formerly of Duke Law Library,currently of the U.S. Supreme Court Library.Joy and Glen-Peter Ahlersof Barry UniversitySchool of Law Library, will be rotating off thecommittee this year. The remainingcommittee members will serve through nextyear: Billie Blaine of the Supreme Court ofFlorida, Karen Nuckolls of the University ofKentucky Law Library, Masako Patrum ofWake Forest University Professional CenterLibrary, and Monica Wilson of Squire, Sanders& Dempsey L.L.P. Many thanks go to thecommittee members for their service.

The Placement Committee concentrated

on job postings on the SEAALL website.Steven Melamut delegated posting duties toThomas Walter for a few months, whichchanged the flow of the website postings abit. The committee chair’s change in jobs inDecember also resulted in some confusion,but nothing too disruptive. In the end, thecommittee posted nearly sixty jobs this yearto the website. Many thanks to the Web teamfor quick turnaround.

There are only two other notes to makeabout the committee’s work this year. First,the committee addressed the issue of veryold postings, since sometimes employers donot notify us when the position is filled. Weagreed that postings will be automaticallyremoved from the website after 60 daysunless a request is made for a differentlength, longer or short. This policy wasimplemented in October.

Second, an issue of posting requestsfrom outside our region arose this year.Specifically, one job posting request was sentfrom Kansas. Because of the small volumeof job postings requested for our site, thechair allowed this outside request withoutquestion. The committee has not looked forjobs outside the SEAALL region, but ifposting requests come in from unaffiliatedparties in the future, the committee maywant to evaluate whether a policy is neededon that matter.

J. Program Planning Committee: ChairKen Hirsh thanked his committee members

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(Christine Ciambella, Tim Coggins, CharleneCunniffe, Elaine Fenton, Jim Heller, TimLewis, Helen Walker, Sally Wiant, TracyWoodard) Ken complimented Tim Cogginsfor a super institute and reported that therewere 14 programs at this Baton Rougemeeting. There will be an open forum forthe members this year. The evaluation formhas been redesigned to be machine readable.

K. Scholarship Committee: Carolredemeyer for delivered this report for JoyceManna Janto, Chair of the ScholarshipCommittee. Family obligations kept Ms. Jantofrom making the trip to Baton Rouge for theSEAALL meeting this year. Ms. Janto thankedall of the other members of the committeefor their hard work through out the year: LeeCarnes, Emily Carr; Margaret Christiansen;Janet Hirt; Pedro Padilla-Rosa; JenniferSekula; and Denise Uzee.

The committee had four programs toadminister this year. The first was theSEAALL Student Scholarship. Thisscholarship is intended for students withinthe SEAALL region to attend library school.Interestingly, applicants do not have to beSEAALL members at the time of application.A year’s membership in SEAALL is includedas part of the scholarship. This year therewere 7 applicants for the studentscholarships. The committee decided thatrather than partially fund several applicants,the scholarships would be more meaningfulif the committee fully funded a few. Actingon this decision, the committee awarded twostudent scholarships: one to Emily Janoskiwho is attending the University of Kentuckyand the other to Cameron Gowan who isattending Catholic University.

The second program administered was theLucile Elliott Scholarship. This scholarship isfor any activity that will improve one’s abilityas a law librarian. Preference is given,however, for applicants who will use themoney to attend the SEAALL meeting. Inaddition, the Lucile Elliott guidelines mandatethat the committee award scholarships in a70:30 ratio, favoring members who havebelonged to SEAALL 5 years or less. Thisyear Lucile Elliott Scholarships were awardedto: Jennifer Greig, Barry University Schoolof Law, to attend the SEAALL meeting; EricKrieger, student member, to attend the AALLmeeting; Tara Lombardi, student member,to attend the AALL meeting and to take alibrary school class at LSU; Jennifer McKenna,North Carolina Supreme Court Library, toattend the SEAALL meeting; and ChristineSellers, Haynsworth, Sinkler, Boyd, P.A., toattend the SEAALL meeting.

The third program is the SEAALL CONELLGrant. This grant is to pay the CONELLexpenses for a librarian whose homeinstitution may be able to provide fundingfor the AALL Annual Meeting, but not for theextra expenses associated with CONELL. Thegrant covers the cost of CONELL, a hotel roomfor one night, and the CONELL Dutch Treatdinner. This year the CONELL grant was givento Pam Brannon of the University of Georgia.

The final program is the SEAALL AALLRegistration Grant. This grant is also for anewer member who has never attended AALLbefore. The Grant provides for a full meeting

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registration to the New Orleans meeting. Wehad no applications for this grant by the timeof the original application deadline, thus thedeadline was extended to April 30, 2007.

Carol Bredemeyer once again thanked all ofScholarship Committee members for theirhard work all year long. And Joyce wishedto thank Anne for appointing her chair of thisommittee and thus allowing her thiswonderful opportunity. There is nothing quiteas gratifying as giving away other people’smoney.

L. Service to SEAALL Award Committee:Carol Nicholson reported for Chair JoyceManna Janto. (Pam Deemer was the othermember of this committee.) Carol read theaccomplishments and service contributionsof this year’s award winner who is NancyJohnson, Law Librarian and Professor of Lawat Georgia State University Law Library.

IV. Administrative Officer Reports

A. Archives: Anne Klinefelter reported forJohn Barden who stated there is reallynothing new to report. SEAALL membersprobably know that SEAALL purchasedarchival materials for refoldering andreboxing the collection last year. All that isneeded now is a block of time to accomplishthe refoldering and reboxing! It is a prioritygoal for the coming academic year. Asalways, though, John requested that SEAALLofficers remind past officers and committeechairs to forward their old files to thearchives. Not much has been sent in overthe past year. Outgoing officers and chairs

may need a little nudge. All SEAALL recordsno longer serving a current need are welcomein the SEAALL archives. Send materials readyfor deposit in the archives to:

John R. BardenSEAALL ArchivesWilliam Taylor Muse Law LibraryUniversity of Richmond School of LawRichmond VA 23173

B. Database Manager: Ken Hirshexpressed thanks to Becky Wilson for all ofher help with the database. There are 643active and life members in the SEAALLdatabase. The directory is now in PDF format.Past year’s directories are also accessible.

C. Handbook: Anne Klinefelter reportedfor Laurel Brown. The transition betweeneditors has been successfully made afterovercoming some initial technical difficulties.The website version was updated earlier thisyear to reflect the changes approved by themembership in 2006. Both the full documentand the individual sections are currently up-to-date. Many thanks go to Thomas Walterfor his help with this upload.

There were several spellings of Lucile Elliott’sname in the Handbook and those have beencorrected in the latest edition. Laurel willcontinue to make updates as they come inand make sure that they are posted to theSEAALL website in a timely manner. TheWebmaster/Postmaster section needs specificattention as there are no details about thisposition. As we make the latest transition incommittees, Laurel would appreciate any

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assistance from the appropriate committeemembers on additional updates needed atthis time.

D. Discussion list: Anne Klinefelterreported for Paul Birch. The SEAALL-L Forumcontinues to run sturdily from itsAALLNET.org home. Our “SEAALL membersonly” policy has worked well, owing in largepart to Treasurer Jack Bissett’s conscientiouscoordination. As coincidence would have it,today marked the first-ever transmission of“SEAALL-L spam,” despite what seems to bemaximally bullet-proof list security policies.Paul alerted AALLNET’s Christopher Siwa;both Paul and Chris are hoping that the firstever spam message will prove to have beenan anomaly.

E. Webmaster: Anne Klinefelter reportedfor Steve Melamut. The SEAALL websitecontinued to receive a significant amount oftraffic this past year. There were 5,280 visitsto the site and 7,832 page views during the11 month period from May 9, 2006 to April8, 2007. Forty-four percent of these visitorswere new while 56% had visited the sitebefore; 39% of the site’s visitors found theSEAALL website using a search engine.Although most of the visits were from peoplein the Eastern United States, the SEAALLwebsite had visitors from as far away asZurich, Switzerland and Seattle, Washington.

Special thanks are due to Thomas B. Walterfrom Mississippi College School of LawLibrary. He provided needed assistance andhas helped maintain the site over the pastyear.

V. Old Business

Future SEAALL Annual meeting sites;

2008 in D.C., a joint meeting with LLSDC.Billie Jo Kaufman reported on plans for themeeting in 2008, which will be held in a newWestin Hotel in Alexandria. The hotel is threeblocks from the King St. Metro and just stepsfrom the Patent and Trademark Office. Thecherry blossoms should be out during themeeting which is scheduled for March 27 to29, 2008. Other members of the LocalArrangements Committee include Mike Pettit,Rhea Ballard-Thrower, and Elizabeth LeDoux.Billie Jo brought brochures for the membersto read.

2009 in Athens, GA. Ann Puckett reportedthat the meeting hotel would be the HiltonGarden and the Classic Center would be theconvention center. Various entertainmentsare being considered.

2010 in Williamsburg, VA. Jim Hellerreported that the hotel would like guaranteesfor Saturday night.

VI. New Business

A. Vote on Tie-Breaking Procedure.Anne Klinefelter and Pam DeemerThere is a tie in the race for Treasurerbetween Tim Lewis and Paula Tejeda.As there is no provision currently in ourbylaws for resolution of a tie vote, theExecutive Board is submitting for approvalat the business meeting on April 13 thefollowing proposed Amendment:

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B. Other. Carol Billings next asked forvolunteers to be revelers at the AALL AnnualMeeting in New Orleans.

VII. Adjournment

Anne Klinefelter awarded incoming PresidentKen Hirsh a gavel for his Presidency.Ken thanked Anne most heartily for her “gooddecidering” and gave her a most beautifulbook entitled Most Beautiful Libraries in

the World to assist her as she decides howto renovate the Law Library at UNC-ChapelHill.

Ken officially adjourned the meeting.

Respectfully submitted,

Sally WamboldSEAALL Secretary

3. Article III, Section Two of the bylawsis amended by adding the followingsentence:

“In the case of a tie vote, the winner shallbe determined by lot conducted by one ormore tellers, appointed by the President.”

4. This method of breaking a tie shall beapplied to any election that remainsdeadlocked at the adoption of thisamendment.

The required thirty-day notice for a proposedbylaw change was met before the BatonRouge Annual Meeting by emailing thelanguage of the proposed amendment to themembership.

The amendment to the bylaws brought upfor discussion. The choice of drawing lotswas explained. Research had shown thatthis method for breaking a deadlock wascommonly used by peer institutions. Thelanguage SEAALL is using comes from theAALL bylaws. A member asked why didn’tthe Board just flip a coin. The explanationwas that the language of the amendmentleft the details of breaking the deadlock tothe discretion of the President. The bylawsamendment was approved unanimously.Ismael Gullon and Sally Wiant volunteeredto be the tellers. Ismael verified that therewere five slips with Tim Lewis’s name onthem and five slips with Paula Tejeda's nameon them. He refolded the slips and put themin a hat. Sally Wiant pulled Paula Tejeda’sname out of the hat.

Paula Tejeda was declared the new SEAALLTreasurer for 2007-2009.

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SEAALL COMMITTEES 2007-2008

Articles & Bylaws

Kenneth J. Hirsch,Duke University School of Lawken@law.duke.edu 2009

Anne Klinefelter*,Kathrine R.Everett Law Library,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillklinefel@email.unc.edu 2008

Amy Osborne,University of Kentucky Law Libraryamyo@uky.edu 2010

Community Service

Pam Deemer,Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, EmoryUniversitylibped@law.emory.edu 2009

Scott Deleve,University of Mississippi Law Librarysdeleve@olemiss.edu 2008

DawnMartin "Marin" Dell,Florida State University Law Librarydd03d@fsu.edu 2008

Stephanie Dooley,Kennedy & Covingtonsdooley@kennedycovington.com 2008

Maureen Eggert,Wake Forest University ProfessionalCenter Librarymeggert@law.wfu.edu 2009

Margaret Hall, Kathrine R. Everett LawLibrary,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillmfhall@email.unc.edu 2008

Susan Lewis-Somers,Pence Law Library, American Universityslewis@wcl.american.edu 2008

Sarah Mauldin,Chamberlin Hrdlikcasarah.mauldin@chamberlainlaw.com 2009

Jennier McLean,North Carolina Supreme Court Libraryjlm@sc.state.nc.us 2009

Donna Nixon*,Duke University School of Law Librarynixon@law.duke.edu 2008

Olivia L. Weeks,Campbell University Law Libraryweeks@webster.campbell.edu 2008

Ronald Wheeler,Georgia State University College of LawLibrarylawrew@langate.gsu.edu 2008

Education & Publications

Eric Kistler, Ehrhorn Law Library, LibertyUniversitySchool of Lawekistler@liberty.edu 2009

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Tom Latuszek,Florida Coastal School of Law Librarytlatuszek@fcsl.edu 2009

Iris M. Lee,Jacob Burns Law Library, GeorgeWashington University Law Schoolilee@law.gwu.edu 2009

Terrance Manion,Georgia State University College of LawLibraryterrance@gsu.edu 2009

Constance M. Matzen,Smith Andersoncmatzen@smithlaw.com 2009

Elizabeth Outler,Chiles Information Legal CenterUniversity of Florida College of Lawoutler@law.ufl.edu 2008

Adeen Postar*,Pence Law Library, American Universityapostar@wcl.american.edu 2008

Miguel Angel Rivera Alvarez,University of Puerto Rico Law Librarymalvarez@law.upr.edu 2009

Colleen Williams, Georgia State UniversityCollege of Law Librarylawccw@langate.gsu.edu 2008

Government Relations

Sharon Bradley, Alexander Campbell KingLaw Library, University of Georgiabradleys@uga.edu 2009

Helane Davis,University of Kentucky Law Libraryhdavi4@email.uky.edu 2008

Dionne M. Dockendorf,Virginia State Law Libraryddockendorf@courts.state.va.us 2008

Kevin Fredette,West Virginia University Law Librarykfredett@wvu.edu 2008

Brian Huddleston,Loyola University of New OrleansSchool of Law Librarybhuddle@loyno.edu 2008

Billie Jo Kaufman, Pence Law Library,American Universitybkaufman@wcl.american.edu 2008

David Lowe, Bounds Law Library,University ofAlabama School of Lawdlowe@law.ua.edu 2008

Julie Noland,Campbell University School of Law Librarynoland@law.campbell.edu 2009

Christine L. Sellers*,Haynsworth Sinkler Boydcsellers@hsblawfirm.com 2008

Linda Tesar,Alyne Queener Massey Law Library,Vanderbilt Universitylinda.tesar@law.vanderbilt.edu 2008

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Local Arrangements/DC

Rhea Ballard-Thrower*,Howard University Law Libraryrballard@law.howard.edu 2008

Billie Jo Kaufman*,Pence Law Library, American Universitybkaufman@wcl.american.edu 2008

Local Arrangements/Athens

Anne Puckett*,Alexander Kimg Campbell Law LibraryUniversity of Georgiaapuckett@uga.edu2009

Membership

Shyama Agrawal, Duke University School of Lawagrawal@law.duke.edu 2008

Timothy P. Chinaris,Jones School of Law Library,Faulkner Universitytchinaris@faulkner.edu 2008

Margaret L. Christiansen,Regent University Law Librarymargchr@regent.edu 2009

Penny Gibson,Bounds Law Library,University of Alabamapgibson@law.ua.edu 2009

Edward T. Hart*,Chiles Information Legal Center, Universityof Florida School of Lawhart@law.ufl.edu 2008

Rebekah Maxwell,Cole Kareish Law Library, Universityof South Carolinamaxwell@law.lsc.edu 2009

Mary Jane Slipsky,NelsonMullinsmaryjane.slipsky@nelsonmullins.com 2008

Linda Sobey,Florida A&M University College of LawLibrary linda.sobey@famu.edu 2008

Dee Wood,University of Kentucky Law Librarydwood@email.uky.edu 2009

Newsletter

Laurel Brown, Parker Poelaurelbrown@parkerpoe.com 2008

Stacy A. Etheredge, Coleman Kareish Law Library,University of South Carolinaetheredg@law.sc.edu 2008

Chris G. Hudson,Hugh F. MacMillan Law Library, EmoryUniversitycghudso@law.emory.edu 2009

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Stacey A. Lane,University of Mississippi Law Librarysalane@olemiss.edu 2008

Steven J. Melamut,Kathrine R. Everett Law Library,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillmelamut@email.unc.edu 2008

Nichelle Perry,Kathrine R. Everett Law Library,University of North Carolina at Chapel Hillnjperry@email.unc.edu 2008

Justine Roach, New Hanover Countyjroach@nhcgov.com 2009

Carolyn T. Santanella,Smith Mooresmithmoorelaw.com 2008

Lisa Smith-Butler*,Law Library & Technology CenterNova Southeastern Universitysmith-butlerl@nsu.law.nova.edu 2008

Nominating

Georgia Chadwick,Law Library of Louisanagchadwick@lasc.org 2008

Charles J. Condon,Appalachian School of Law Libraryccondon@asl.edu 2008

Joyce Manna Janto,William Taylor Muse Law Library,University of Richmond School of Lawjjanto@richmond.edu 2008

Pedro A. Padilla-Rosa*,University of Puerto Rico Law Libraryppadilla@law.upr.edu 2008

Gordon Russell,Sol Blatt Jr. Law Library, Charleston Schoolof Lawgrussell@charlestonlaw.org 2008

Placement

Billie J. Blaine,Supreme Court of Florida Law Libraryblaineb@flcourts.org 2008

W. Robert Farmer,Jones School of Law Library FaulknerUniversityrfarmer@faulkner.edu 2009

Sarah Mauldin,Chamberlain Hrdlickasarah.mauldin@chamberlainlaw.com 2009

Karen Nuckolls,University of Kentucky Law Librarykanuck2@email.uky.edu 2008

Masako Patrum,Wake Forest University ProfessionalCenter Librarypatrumm@wfu.edu 2008

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Program

Maureen Eggert,Wake Forest University Professional CenterLibrarymeggert@law.wfu.edu 2009

Elaine P. Fenton,11th Circuit Court of AppealsElaine_Fenton@ca11.uscourts.gov2008

Ishmael Gullon, Furman Smith Law Library,Mercer University gullon_i@mercer.edu2009

Iris M. Lee, Jacob Burns Law Library,George WashingtonUniversity Law Schollilee@law.gwu.edu 2009

Tim Lewis,Alabama State Law Librarydirector@alalinc.net 2008

Donna Nixon,Duke University School of Lawnixon@law.duke.edu 2009

Amy Osborne*,University of Kentucky Law Libraryamyo@uky.edu 2008

Susan Skyzinski,Greenberg TraurigSkyzinskis@gtlaw.com 2009

Ronald Wheeler,Georgia State University College of LawLibrarylawrew@langate.gsu.edu 2009

Sally Wiant,Washington & Lee University School of LawLibrarywiants@wlu.edu 2008

Scholarship

Donna K. Bausch,Norfolk Law Librarydbausch@norfolklawlibrary.org 2009

Marie Summerlin Hamm,Regent University Law Librarymariham@regent.edu 2009

James S. Heller, Marshall-Wythe Law LibraryCollege of William and Maryheller@wm.edu 2009

Janet Hirt,Alyne Queener Massey Law Library,Vanderbilt Universityjanet.hirt@law.vanderbilt.edu 2008

Ray Lytle,Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas LawLibraryrlytle@mail.barry.edu 2009

Nichell Perr,North Carolina Central UniversitySchool of Law Librarynperry@nccu.edu 2009

Jennifer Sekula*,Marshall-Wythe Law Library College ofWilliam and Maryjeseku@wm.edu 2008

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Jason Sowards,Florida Coastal College of Law Libraryjsowards@fcsl.edu 2009

Denise M. Uzee,Kean Millerdenise.uzee@keanmiller.com 2009

Service to SEAALL

Anne Klinefelter,Kathrine R. Everett Law LibraryUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hillklinefel@email.unc.edu 2008

Nancy P. Johnson,Georgia State UniversityCollege of Law Librarynjohnson@gsu.edu 2008

Carol Avery Nicholson*, Kathrine R. Everett Law LibraryUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillCarol_Nicholson@unc.edu 2008

* Denotes Chair