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Volume 9 AALLNo. 8 June 2005 SpectrumAALL: Maximizing the Power of the Law Library Community Since 1906 Strategize in San Antonio! Annual Meeting Promises to Educate, Stimulate, and Invigorate

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AALL Top Awards Given for Distinguished Service and Bibliographic Achievement

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letter from the editor Volume 9 No. 8 June 2005 AALL Spectrum

Editorial Staff Director of Publications and Managing Editor The Debate Continues Julia O’Donnell [email protected] by Paul D. Healey, [email protected]

Editorial Director Paul D. Healey [email protected] ne of our goals at AALL Spectrum is to provide articles that Copy Editor Robert B. Barnett Jr. will stimulate interest and discussion for law librarians. Graphic Designer Kathy Wozbut We try to do this in a number of ways, including carefully 2004–2005 Law Library Journal and AALL Spectrum Editorial Board and Advisory Committee O planning the content of each issue months in advance and working thoughtfully to find Chair Sarah Andeen Members the right author for each article. But sometimes the best ideas just get handed to us, Naomi J. Goodman Mary Ann Parker Elizabeth A. Greenfield Maria E. Protti which was certainly the case a few months back when Jim Milles sent me an unsolicited Bonnie L. Koneski-White Paul D. Healey (ex officio) Richard A. Leiter Frank G. Houdek (ex officio) article about changes in teaching and doing legal research. Kurt X. Metzmeier Raquel M. Ortiz (ex officio) Kristina L. Niedringhaus Kathie J. Sullivan (board liaison) Jim is well known in the profession for his visionary approach to technology and for 2004–2005 Executive Board President Victoria K. Trotta his excellent writing. But what really interested me about his article was its premise: that Vice President/President-Elect Claire M. Germain Secretary Catherine Lemann the online v. digital debate is over, and digital won. From this he reasoned that librarians, Treasurer Joyce Manna Janto Immediate Past President Janis L. Johnston and those who teach legal research, should accept the primacy of digital materials and Executive Director Susan E. Fox Members work with their users and students from that viewpoint. The article, titled “Out of the Kathy Carlson Nina Platt Jungle: How to get beyond the digital v. print debate—and deal with the fact that digital Ann T. Fessenden Merle J. Slyhoff Anne K. Myers Kathie J. Sullivan won,” appeared in the February 2005 issue. It was everything I wanted in a Spectrum

AALL Spectrum (ISSN: 1089–8689) is published monthly except article: well written, highly informed, relevant to the profession, and provocative. January and August with combined September/October by the American Association of Law Libraries, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Suite Especially provocative. 940, Chicago, IL 60604. Telephone: 312/939-4764, fax: 312/431- 1097, e-mail: [email protected]. Periodicals postage paid at Chicago, We were delighted to see that Jim’s work got an immediate reaction, and we quickly Illinois and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to AALL Spectrum, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Suite 940, Chicago, heard from people who wanted to respond. Ultimately Joan Shear of Boston College Law IL 60604. Library stepped up to the task and wrote a response that appears in this issue. In it she Writers wanted — contribute to your Association’s magazine. For guidelines, visit www.aallnet.org or contact Editorial Director addresses each of Jim’s points with an alternate view of the issue. In addition we have Paul D. Healey at [email protected]. collected a number of other responses, some short, some longer, some in support of Jim’s AALL Spectrum Deadlines Articles are due on the following dates: position and some against, and we present them along with Joan’s article. We kept Jim in 2004–2005 Issue Deadline Vol.10, No. 1 September/October August 4 the loop on the responses and had hoped to have him write a reply, but the fallout from No. 2 November September 1 No. 3 December October 6 a fire in the SUNY-Buffalo law building robbed him of the time to do so. We certainly

Copy sent through a columnist or guest editor should be submitted hope that you find the responses to Jim’s article as informative and interesting as we did. to him or her well in advance of the monthly deadline. The June issue of Spectrum is the final issue that we can be sure will reach you before AALLNET: www.aallnet.org you leave for the Annual Meeting. By June you have probably already decided whether or Advertising Representatives Benson, Coffee & Associates not to go and, I hope, have made your travel and accommodation arrangements. So, our 1411 Peterson Ave., Park Ridge, IL 60068 Telephone: 847/692-4695 • Fax: 847/692-3877 coverage of the upcoming meeting shifts from promoting it outright to giving you a taste E-mail: [email protected] of what you will experience while attending. Our San Antonio Meeting promises to be AALL Spectrum is a free benefit of membership in the American Association of Law Libraries. Of each year’s dues, $42 is for one year a memorable one, and the article by Karen Brunner in this issue will give you a peek at of AALL Spectrum. Nonmembers may subscribe to AALL Spectrum for $75 per year. For membership and/or subscription information, please what’s to come. contact the American Association of Law Libraries at the address above. Another ritual of the June issue of Spectrum is to announce the winners of some of The American Association of Law Libraries does not assume any responsibility for the statements advanced by the contributors to, AALL’s most important awards. The Marian Gould Gallagher Award, arguably the most nor the advertisers in, the Association’s publication. Editorial views do not necessarily represent the official position of the Association. prestigious award in law librarianship, is bestowed at the Annual Meeting, as is the All advertising copy is subject to editorial approval. Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographic Award. You will find the announcement of the winners All contents copyright 2005 by the American Association of Law Libraries, except where otherwise expressly indicated. Except as of these awards in this issue, along with a short biography of these very accomplished otherwise expressly provided, the author of each item in this issue has granted permission for copies of that item to be made for classroom and impressive law librarians. use or for any other educational purpose, provided that (1) copies are distributed at or below cost, (2) author and AALL Spectrum are Finally I’d like to commend this month’s public relations article to you. I’m always identified, and (3) proper notice of copyright is affixed to each copy. For items in which it holds copyright, the American Association of amazed by the creative ideas that come up in this series, and this month is no exception. Law Libraries grants permission for copies to be made for classroom use or for any other educational purpose under the same conditions. Bridget MacMillan writes about finding inspiration in odd places and has some very interesting suggestions. I think it’s well worth a look. On the Cover: Mission Espada in San Antonio. Photo courtesy SACVB

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columns 1 Letter from the Editor 4 From the President 6 Washington Brief 22 Chapter News 24 Committee News 26 CRIV Notes departments 27 Membership News 25 Ad Index 28 SIS News Memorials pg. 20 31

Photo SACVB 32 Views and Viewpoints The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, perched above the Riverwalk, is one of the most attractive convention centers in the country. It is modern, spacious (1.3 million square announcements feet), airy, and high tech. 17 Annual 2005 Business Meeting View of the Chapel of Saint Ignatius Agenda from the Seattle University Law Library. Submitted by Kara Phillips, features collection development/associate executive librarian. Photo by Charity 8 Public Relations: Finding Braceros. Inspiration in the Oddest Places center insert Awareness of your Seeing San Antonio surroundings can lead to innovative PR ideas by Bridget MacMillan

Elevating Form above Substance 10 A reply to Jim Milles and his assumptions about approaches to teaching legal research by Joan Shear

Author of New York Legal 16 Research Guide Wins Andrews Award William H. Manz to be honored at Annual Meeting pg. 32 by Mark Estes

Three Named as Recipients 18 of Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award Charles R. Dyer, Roy M. Mersky, and Michael S. Miller recognized for dedication to profession, Association by Shirley Hart David 20 Strategize in San Antonio! AALL 2005 Annual Meeting promises to educate, stimulate, and invigorate by Karen B. Brunner

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electronic survey, Exhibit Hall-scheduled events and the president electronic bulletin business meeting would be “no conflict” board, “the AALL times. SISs would be permitted to schedule water cooler,” and meetings and educational opportunities Final Thoughts the moderated against all AMPC programming. There are online discussion certain other scheduling issues to be resolved, As I write this column, the spring forum. I expect but the goal is to create a regular Annual Executive Board meeting is behind these tools, and Meeting schedule that entities can rely upon us and attention has turned to others, to be used when making their Meeting and event plans. arrangements and plans for our San extensively by the board in There is also work remaining to be done Antonio Annual Meeting. It’s been a busy the future to keep in touch with on the composition of the Annual Meeting spring, and the board has acted on a variety member opinion. And make no mistake, Program Committee and about whether the of issues that will likely be of interest to you. members, both individually and as part current criteria applied to select the general of Association entities, will be critical in educational programs should be revised. identifying emerging challenges, suggesting Board News That work will continue. Our Strategic Directions Document was strategies that will meet those challenges, and recently distributed to the membership for ultimately implementing those strategies. Steve Ligda to Retire review and comment. It is shorter than the The Executive Board has always engaged Director of Finance and Administration last strategic plan and includes less detail in strategic thinking. It will be even more Steve Ligda retires this summer after 11 years by design. Why is this? Our professional important in the future. The difference at AALL. Steve has served with five treasurers environments are changing rapidly, and now is that it will have to consciously be a these changes present challenges that can continuous task, not one taken every five and 15 Executive Boards, and he is the voice impede our professional development or years or so. The stakes are too high, and the of AALL when you call Headquarters. Steve ability to provide superlative service for our consequences are momentous. has made contributions too numerous to list institutions. We want our leadership to in the space provided, but his legacy is focus on the big picture issues—education, The Annual Meeting probably as the principal architect of our leadership, and advocacy. The Executive Board has been studying the sound financial policies and procedures. The Strategic Directions Document does structure of the Annual Meeting. After much Under his leadership and stewardship have not include a detailed implementation plan. discussion, and many member opinions come the financial security and oversight Why? Because the board must retain the later, it has reached consensus on a tentative we have come to take for granted. flexibility to design and implement strategies redesign of the Annual Meeting schedule. You always want a guy like Steve at that respond to the challenges as they appear As of this writing there is more work to do, the financial helm—patient, articulate, on our professional radar screens. Today’s and our Headquarters staff is investigating insightful, supportive, and a champion of implementation strategy could very well when these changes might be implemented. the best interests of the Association. We become tomorrow’s impediment. But we think the proposed changes will owe a huge debt of gratitude to him for The truth is, we no longer have the allow for a more flexible schedule, open up our financial stability. All who have served luxury of endless time. The information the educational programming opportunities with him send him our love, our grateful world is changing too rapidly for hesitation. for our SISs, and ease the burden of the appreciation, and best wishes to him and As an organization we have to be able to length of the Annual Meeting to many of his wife Winnie for a wonderful and travel- identify a challenge or need, quickly gather our members who find the current time packed retirement. Thank you, Steve, for all the information we need to make a decision, commitment onerous. your many contributions and dedicated decide, and finally implement. This reality Our records show that 70 percent of service to AALL. You will be sorely missed. is transforming our Association. those attending the Annual Meeting arrive In the past, our information-gathering on Saturday. Therefore, we would have Hasta La Vista our opening event on Saturday night. On process might have involved a special It’s been a distinct pleasure serving you as committee or task force. The board had to Sunday morning, we would hold a kick-off president this year. I think we moved the wait to hear back from the committee before general meeting, which would include a organizational ship forward in some acting—sometimes several years. Of course presidential greeting; an award ceremony significant ways, and of course, there’s there will always be times when a special or announcement for our highest award, always more to do. As law librarians, we committee or task force will be called the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished upon to undertake an investigation, gather Service Award (see “Three Named as each play a vital role in some aspect of the information, and report back, but the time Recipients of Marian Gould Gallagher legal profession. As an Association, we strive lines for these task forces and committees Distinguished Service Award” on page to support individual development, speak will likely be much shorter—often a matter 18); and possibly a keynote speaker. No forcefully to defend our professional values, of months. In some cases, the board will other plenary sessions would be held. and apply persuasive expertise that affects need to more quickly gather information The Association Luncheon would be critical information policy issues of the day. so it can act. It will, by necessity, include discontinued. We may hold a single business I thank each and every one of you who avenues for member input and feedback. meeting, and the closing banquet would worked so hard on behalf of the Association We had good luck this year with various be held on Tuesday night. Wednesday and contributed to these worthy efforts. electronic methods of hearing from members: programming would be discontinued. The See you in San Antonio!

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washington by Mary Alice Baish brief to create its own Government Information. GRC member derivative Judy Meadows, state law library of The “Policy Track” works and/or Montana, and Susan Lyons, Rutgers in San Antonio— compilations. University Law Library-Newark, will talk We Hope to See Join Copyright about efforts underway in their states to You There! Committee Chair reverse this trend on Tuesday, July 19, from Sam Trosow, CC 9-10 a.m. The panel will be moderated by member Paul Callister, and GRC Chair A. Hays Butler, and I’ll provide It doesn’t seem possible that our 2005 Carrie Russell of the ALA Washington an update on an initiative by the Library of Annual Meeting and Conference, “Strategize! Office for a look at recent developments in Congress to help states assess capabilities Values ~ Visions ~ Vistas,” is just around copyright law relevant to the management of and develop strategies for preserving state the corner. The Washington Affairs Office, your library. CC member Kira Zaporski will electronic government information. Government Relations Committee (GRC), moderate the program on Monday, July 18, and Copyright Committee (CC) invite you from 9-10 a.m. “E-rulemaking: Breaking Out to join us for our many exciting programs of the Beltway” (H-5) focused on AALL’s legislative and policy “A Town Meeting with Public In creating the Code of Federal Regulations, agenda. We also invite you to attend the Printer Bruce James and agencies use notice and comment GRC meetings (Saturday, July 16, 5:30- Superintendent of Documents Judy rulemaking to flesh out the provisions 6:30 p.m., and Tuesday, July 19, 11:45 a.m.- Russell: GPO’s Strategic Plan for the 21st Century and New Partnerships of congressional enactments. At present, 1 p.m.) and CC meetings (Sunday, July 17, with Law Libraries” (E-1) public participation is largely indirect and 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m., and Tuesday, July 19, The transition of the FDLP during the past controlled by groups based in Washington. 5:15-6:15 p.m.). We hope you can join us. decade into an almost completely electronic However, the status quo is changing now that agencies are installing electronic docket 2005 Legislative Advocacy program has enormous implications for Leadership Training both depository and non-depository law rooms that display all the comments libraries. GPO’s new strategic plan reflects submitted. Please join the GRC, Washington Affairs This Annual Meeting program will Office, and a room full of law librarians for the agency’s determination to move all government information to the Internet look at how the Internet can improve our annual Legislative Advocacy Leadership rulemaking transparency by displaying all Training on Saturday, July 16, from 8:30 and to build a new digital content system to ensure the authenticity, permanent the background materials in an easily a.m.-12 p.m. All politics is local, and this accessible manner. More importantly, is a great opportunity for you to learn more public access, and preservation of electronic government information. new technologies can be used to enhance about AALL’s legislative agenda and how you participation by stakeholders and the public can help us promote our positions on crucial We’re honored to welcome Bruce James and Judy Russell for a conversation about outside Washington. Web-based mechanisms policy and legislative matters. for notification and commenting online It’s also a great opportunity to network the role of law libraries as partners in the FDLP and in achieving the goals of GPO’s can encourage deliberation and potentially with colleagues and learn how you can make promote greater collaboration between the an impact on the future of our profession. new strategic plan. This town meeting, held on Monday, July 18, from 4:15-5:15 p.m., government and its citizens. This year’s workshop will focus especially Barbara Brandon, reference/research on state law library funding issues and will be of interest to users of government information from all types of law libraries librarian at the University of Miami School of changes to the Federal Depository Library Law, will moderate this timely program and Program (FDLP) that are of concern to our and law librarians who manage and use electronic federal government information. present her views about regulations.gov and community. While there is no cost for this the Federal Docketing Management System important training session, please register “Preserving State Government on Tuesday, July 19, from 4-5 p.m. Neil by July 1 by contacting me at baish@law. Information in an Electronic Age: Eisner, assistant general counsel for regulation georgetown.edu. Providing for Permanent Public and enforcement at the U.S. Department of Access to Electronic Government Transportation and a past president of the “Copyrights, Copywrongs and the Publications” (F-3) ABA Section on Administrative Law and Gray Areas In-between” (D-4) One of the most important developments Regulatory Practice, will talk about his The adoption of new technologies, concerning the Internet has been the rapid agency’s electronic rulemaking effort, which, combined with changes in copyright law in use of new technology by government at all according to Brandon, is the best in the recent years, has resulted in many gray areas levels—federal, state, and local—to provide federal government. in the application of copyright law to the the public with access to government library setting. Each session of Congress information. Unfortunately, most state “Annual Legislative and brings new legislation affecting copyright. governments fail to recognize the need Regulatory Update” (I-1) Access that was formerly governed by to ensure that electronic government On Wednesday, July 20, from 9-10 a.m., copyright is now controlled by technology information be preserved for permanent GRC Chair A. Hays Butler will moderate and/or licensing. Long-standing doctrines public access. our annual Washington Affairs Office such as fair use and first sale are being In 2003, the Government Relations update to inform you about our progress reinterpreted. Meanwhile, technology Committee comprehensively documented with information policy issues and legislative has enabled library staff to disseminate this problem in its State-by-State Report information in new and exciting ways and on Permanent Public Access to Electronic (continued on page 31)

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public relations Finding Inspiration in the Oddest Places Awareness of your surroundings can lead to innovative PR ideas

ick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock. The changing its color to coincide with an event crew would pour their hearts and souls deadline to submit this column was for a short while. In my office the shipping into the show to make sure that those of T fast approaching and I found myself department changes the color of the us in the audience were not disappointed. without a coherent idea. A few months shipping forms to reflect the time of year— This led me to think of the power of ago I started contemplating a theme to give in spring the forms are pastel blue and green communication. In a circumstance that structure to my thoughts. I was hoping to and in autumn the forms are orange and was unfortunate, and in a theater full of find inspiration in a new TV show or event— red. These slight alterations cause me disappointed and potentially angry people, maybe “Desperate Librarians?” or “MARC to pause in my routine and re-examine the this man stepped forward and turned a Madness, the Road to the Final Catalog.” form or the Web site. hostile situation into a hopeful one. All But nothing grabbed my Although most of us of us rooted for the understudy to succeed. imagination, and the deadline do not have the budget, I have long believed in the power of loomed ever larger. space, or time to create communication, and it was exciting to In my search to If you take the a display like Christo see it executed so well. find a theme I realized steps to create a and Jeanne-Claude’s Can you think of ways to tweak your I started experiencing “Gates” exhibit in communication style to make it more the world slightly brand or logo for your New York City’s effective? Have you noticed ways that once differently. And library, try changing Central Park, we worked have become less reliable? Maybe it instead of an can transfer its is time to evaluate your use of e-mail and overarching theme, the color of the font or ideas to our make a change. Consider adding more I have a journey to design every once in world. How personal contact, cutting down on the share with you. Please about colored e-mail deluge in other people’s inboxes. join me as I reflect on a while to give it banners or bunting Is there a negative communication situation how to find inspiration in some punch. in the library to that can be made positive? A monthly staff the oddest places. welcome summer or meeting or weekly conference call that 1. Color. The Field fall associates, celebrate needs to be reinvigorated? Consider making Museum in Chicago recently National Library Week, or a change, not just for change’s sake, but to hosted an exhibit called “Jacqueline celebrate an anniversary? A temporary improve communication. Give everyone a Kennedy: The White House Years” jolt of color can provoke attention, interest, chance to cheer for the understudy. (www.fieldmuseum.org/jkennedy). I spent a and conversation where none was before, as 3. Flexibility. Recently I attended a morning there in amazement. I was always the “Gates” project demonstrated. half-day workshop titled “Desktop Yoga.” aware of Jacqueline Kennedy’s style and 2. Communication. The musical Sweet The purpose of the class was to learn grace, but because most of the pictures from Charity recently played in Chicago with stretching and breathing techniques from the time are in black and white, I never Christina Applegate as the star. With yoga to use during the workday to cope realized the fabulous colors of the clothes friends, I had tickets to see the show on the with tension and stress. Years ago I suffered she wore. I also learned that this was no last Saturday of its run. We arrived at the a back injury that flares up during times accident. She and her designers wanted theater and noticed a sign announcing that of stress and exhaustion. I approached the to highlight her youthfulness and the an understudy would play Charity. You can instructor and asked her about stretches to youthfulness of the Kennedy presidency. imagine how disappointed and upset many use while driving, because of the recurring This was in contrast to the rest of the people in the audience were. At other shows back pain. She demonstrated a few, and we world leaders, who were older, and their I have attended, when an understudy talked in general about flexibility. I asked her spouses, who dressed in more somber and assumes the role, an announcement is made if flexibility decreases with age. She assured regal styles. before the show over the loudspeaker. At me that flexibility does not decrease with This led me to think of the power of this show, instead a gentleman stepped from age. A person can rebuild or recapture lost color. If you take the steps to create a brand behind stage and introduced the producer flexibility through stretching and exercise. or logo for your library, try changing the of the show. This led me to think about not only color of the font or design every once in a The producer told a story about another physical flexibility, but also mental while to give it some punch. Think of what show he had produced where the star broke flexibility. When we are faced with an Google does to highlight significant days: his foot days before the opening. He then overloaded schedule or an e-mail inbox it adds colors and objects to the word told us how Applegate had broken her foot with more than 100 messages, sometimes “Google” to remind you of the day. On St. yesterday in a similar manner. He said that our mental flexibility tightens. We shift Patrick’s Day, for example, it featured green as much as this was a disappointment for into coping and survival gear. This class shamrocks and leprechauns. Applegate, it was a great opportunity for the reminded me that we need to practice Or if you have a cover sheet that is understudy, and we would be in for a treat. mental flexibility and maintain it during attached to research requests, consider The understudy and the rest of the cast and those times when we are most stressed.

by Bridget MacMillan

How do you react in times of stress? This led me to think about community office, we have collected hundreds of baskets Does your reaction have a domino effect action. Working alone and contacting the from catering companies. By law the baskets on how the library is perceived? Is it time developers as individuals did not generate cannot be reused by the caterers, so they to step back and rethink some of our any response. Uniting and hiring the have collected in a storage closet. We automatic reactions to questions? Is it time property manager did produce results. There did not want to throw them out, so we to evaluate some of the processes in place so is a cost to this, but there is also increased contacted a few schools and shipped that the experience with the librarian or in satisfaction because the roof will them there to be used in art the library is a positive one? finally be repaired. classes. We connected with 4. Community Action. I purchased In a situation where you Consider the community we live in, a condo in Chicago a year ago. My condo are not getting responses or creating and both sides benefited. association is small, consisting of six units. where you are continually What communities can It has been an educational experience experiencing the same alliances. You you and your library participating in this association because challenge, consider are part of the benefit? two of the six owners were the building seeking help from others. community 5. Openness. A friend developers. For the past year I have heard Instead of trying to solve of mine asked me to stories about the unfinished work and every problem, realize of your attend a Los Lobos concert. promised repairs that never occurred. when a situation needs help. institution. Although I’m not a big fan, The association recently hired a building You have heard before to seek I went to the concert because management company, and we are finally out champions for you and your of our friendship. It turned out to getting responses from the developers. library. Consider creating alliances. be a fabulous show. It changed a cold, You are part of the community of your gray, dreary Chicago evening into a night institution. Can you partner with of warmth and energy. other areas in the firm to provide A willingness to try something new and a needed service, such as in- experience something different is one way depth training? Is there an to stay innovative and fresh. Finding new equipment need you have that ideas or inspiration for change in everyday another group also needs? experiences can be exhilarating. The beauty Working together should of an art exhibit, the energy of a concert, increase the likelihood of or the invigoration of exercise can lead getting a positive response. to surprising and unexpected flashes of Think of other inspiration for work. Color, communication, communities, too. Obviously flexibility, community action, and openness you have the community are recent inspirations for me. What is your of legal librarians. What life telling you? about the community of all librarians within your city, or the community within Bridget MacMillan (bridget.macmillan the specific building @lexisnexis.com) is librarian relations where you work? In my consultant at LexisNexis in Chicago.

The author was inspired by yoga exercises, which can help people build or recapture lost flexibility through stretching and breathing. Mental flexibility is also important when we are faced with an overloaded schedule or an e-mail inbox with more than 100 messages.

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Elevating Form above Substance A reply to Jim Milles and his assumptions about approaches to teaching legal research

agree with the assertion that Jim Milles makes in his February 2005 AALL ISpectrum article, “Out of the Jungle: How to get beyond the digital v. print debate—and deal with the fact that digital won.” Online versions have won the research war. But that’s where we part company. Let’s look at some of the assumptions that Milles presumes the rest of us have made. Assumption One: Most Law Librarians Retain a Strong Preference for Book Research The fact that most law librarians believe that print is better for some types of research does not equal a “preference for books.” Just like our students, we need a compelling reason to get out of our chairs and venture into the stacks to quickly and easily find a bit of information that we are having trouble locating electronically. We Even when told that enjoy the flexibility the specific piece and precision available from online of information they resources. But we also are looking for is easier have the experience to find in print, many to know when online “ searching will not be students today refuse as effective as to believe that it isn’t consulting a print source. That’s not a all out there preference for book electronically. research; it is an ability to research efficiently. Milles writes, “My own discussions with current law students suggest that they are much” more comfortable than previous generations with reading and using online texts.” But there is a great deal of difference between reading and using online texts and doing legal research. The fact that the current generation has an intimate familiarity with digital information does not make them immune from poor searches. Familiarity with hyperlinks doesn’t mean you know how to organize information or get to where you need to go without running around in circles. Online databases and search engines are only as smart as the searches they are asked to perform. Many years ago I had a student who couldn’t wait to tell me how successful her research had been in her first summer job. Whenever faced with a new research

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challenge she asked herself, where is this “print aids” that were necessary to organize understanding of the structure of legal indexed? Milles reminds us, “Online sources print information and the research information behind the online tools that are increasingly incorporating all the methods we had to learn in order to get we use; our students do not. structural elements and tools of print.” any result using print research are still Would most current law students even needed in the digital age. We need them Assumption Three: Legal Research Instruction has Failed because not consider using an index database? How to get meaningful results from online all Law Students are Skilled Legal many of them will continue to run databases. If structuring information is Researchers When They Start unsuccessful search after search in a full-text “less intuitive” to our students, then Their Jobs database rather than approach the research this concept cries out for more such One way to address the problem of poor problem from a different angle? instruction, not less. legal researching would be, as Milles Even when told that the specific piece One key to teaching students to suggests, to wait until the second year of law of information they are looking for is perform electronic legal research effectively school when they have more exposure easier to find in print, many students today is to give them a strong foundation in the to law to teach it. Milles asserts, “It is refuse to believe that it isn’t all out there underlying data and in how to use research unreasonable to expect them to make sense electronically. They continue with the tools based on structure. To be taught well, of the tools of legal research when they are method that fails to get them the results the research process needs to be broken still trying to learn the difference between they could easily attain by just getting out into its component parts. One of those statutes and cases.” Maybe we have an of their chairs. How many students have component parts is the data being searched, unusual situation at Boston College, where asked you why they can’t find some 1954 whether it is searched in its print form or criminal law is not a required first-year law review article on Lexis or Westlaw? online. It is important to know the structure course, but if it weren’t for our legal Using paper resources when they are the if one is to search the data effectively. reasoning, research, and writing course, our only source of information being sought is As so many of our databases have print students wouldn’t spend any time their first not a preference; it is a necessity. antecedents that affect the way the data is year trying to learn the difference between structured, the structure of the data in many statutes and cases. Assumption Two: We Teach Print of our research tools is much more readily Sources First because They Were Most of the first year of law school is Developed First and We Learned apparent when one uses the print version, spent helping students learn the common Them First rather than the online version. law through the interpretation of cases. The concepts can be taught better with Milles suggests that it makes as much sense This study of the general principles of tort strong examples, which are often easier to to insist on teaching print research first as to law, contracts, and property is primarily see in the print examples rather than the “insist on teaching legal writing by starting conducted without reference to statutes electronic searching. The structure of an with quill pens.” While I wouldn’t insist on (although some classes refer from time to index—how people (indexers) point to that, I might insist that all students know time to the restatements) and without much the alphabet and how to read and write concern for questions of jurisdiction and before I attempt to teach them legal writing In my experience, relative weight of authority. This method or legal research. I don’t teach print first runs the risk that students may get too set in because it was developed first or because the Google their ways—confusing the reasoning process I learned it first. I teach it first because generation by and itself with the universe of persuasive and binding authority that is used in real-world it makes the inherent structure of the large doesn’t know about information more evident than a searchable lawyering. Before students can effectively full-text database does. controlled vocabulary, use the authority they find, they need to Intimate familiarity with digital “ understand the concept of authority better. hierarchy of information, information doesn’t necessarily mean Milles also suggests moving more legal familiarity with information that has had or even the difference research instruction to the point of need a structure applied to it. In my experience, between a table and passing more of the burden of teaching the Google generation by and large doesn’t of contents and legal research on to the firm librarians. know about controlled vocabulary, hierarchy Embracing the opportunity to teach at the of information, or even the difference an index. point of need only works when there is a between a table of contents and an index. strong foundation of basic understanding. Milles writes, “they find print aids, like One must learn to read before one learns to tables of contents, less intuitive than we do. documents they have determined to be read Shakespeare. A law student must The benefits of print that seem self-evident about a particular topic with ”descriptive understand the basics of our legal system to trained law librarians are not so to the words (subject headings)—is easy to see in before she can begin to understand and coming generation of law students.” My print volumes and almost invisible in find relevant authority. own experience in teaching computer-savvy electronic databases. We, as information law students leads me to conclude that the professionals and lawyers, have an (continued on page 14)

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“Dear Jim” Spectrum readers weigh in on the print v. digital debate with their e-mails to Jim Milles

I think your article in Spectrum is terrific. Excellent article—thank you! It will be interested to know that I strongly disagree It is indeed time to rethink a number of useful not just for law firm and academic with the idea that legal research instruction “truisms” at law schools. This article served librarians but for many of us in small public should focus immediately and heavily on as the focus of discussion for the first of our libraries who have to show our library electronic research. I won’t go on at great library’s monthly staff discussion forums. boards the way. length, although we can discuss it if you —Kenneth J. Hirsh, director of computing Now if only we can get the vendors to like, but my basic reasons are the following: services and senior lecturing fellow, Duke understand that we need remote access 1. Basic legal research is more difficult University School of Law Library database contracts just as much as the law and less efficient electronically. The problem schools and firms do—then I’ll know that is mainly one of format: there is a huge, I really like your Spectrum article, and we’ve really made progress. and highly important, difference between I largely agree with it. —Laura Orr, law librarian, Washington County looking at the portion of a case displayed My concern—and perhaps it’s more an Law Library on a screen and looking at the same case archivist one than a librarian in a book. The book display or legal educator one—is: communicates far more information what about archival access? of the Jungle of the type that is crucial to fast, Even today we have problems targeted, and efficient legal research. Out © 2005 James G. Milles with patrons who want to You can open a case in a book and know what the law was on within seconds discern what the case May 23, 1943 (or your date is about, whether it is relevant to here). They are completely your research, where and in what stymied when confronted context any pertinent information with superseded statutes on appears, and its significance to the microfiche. I’m sure there’s no overall analysis. That is simply not easy answer to this problem possible in a screen-by-screen display. (even with the promising The same is true, in spades, of point-in-time statute products statutes and constitutions. When you from Lexis and Westlaw), but look at a statute in a book, you can it bears keeping in mind. It is immediately discern the hierarchical at least emblematic of some n 1972 Shoichi Yokoi, a Japanese soldier who relation among the provisions and of the consequences of de- had remained hidden in the jungles of Guam the interrelationships among the emphasizing print instruction since the island was captured by Allied forces in various provisions. Screen-by-screen while our historic collections I 1944, was found by two hunters and returned to display invites students to think (be they micro format or Japan. In the early years of his self-imposed exile, about statutory provisions in isolation electronic) are based on print leaflets were dropped from planes announcing that from one another, which can be originals. deadly to acquiring a three- the war was over and that Japan had surrendered. —Scott Matheson, reference dimensional understanding of the and government documents Disbelieving the reports and refusing to surrender statutory scheme. In fact, electronic librarian, Yale Law Library himself, he remained in isolation in the jungle for research is insidious, because it 26 years. gives the misimpression of having Excellent article!!! Law a complete view of the content. librarians today find Moreover, some of the most useful themselves at an exciting research resources are not, so far as time with the opportunity 10 AALL Spectrum February 2005 I know, online. When I was in to be at the forefront of practice and had a research problem, technologically-driven I would go directly to U.S. Code innovations. —Roy Balleste, associate law library director Just finished reading your well-written Annotated (USCA). By flipping through the and adjunct professor of law, Nova article, “How to get beyond the digital v. annotations, I could, in a matter of seconds, Southeastern University Shepard Broad print debate ...” and felt compelled to drop have an extremely good first impression of Law Center you a note to tell you thanks for saying what the lay of the land. And even if and when had to be said. USCA or other annotated sources are put I enjoyed your Spectrum article —John C. Michaud, reference and faculty online, they will still suffer from the display/ immensely. It is so damn honest! I’m services librarian, Thomas M. Cooley Law comprehension problems I mentioned above. linking to it from the University of San School Library I do not think my view is an artifact Diego Legal Research Center Web log, LRC of having been raised on print and that Orbit, at http://lrc-orbit.blogspot.com. Thanks for distributing your piece current law students find electronic —Brian Williams, reference librarian and from the AALL Spectrum, which I read with approaches more intuitive. I teach litigation foreign/international law specialist, interest. I know this won’t hold much water practice every year, and I can tell you University of San Diego Legal Research with a guy who is surgically connected to that my students, who typically resist my Center his palm pilot, but I thought you might be exhortations to do paper research, find it

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extremely burdensome to do research that is actually thorough. As a result, they generally do a half-assed job. They are able to find cases, but they don’t know how to scour an area of law, and electronic research certainly does nothing to equip them to make conceptual connections between areas that are not already linked for them. In fact, I think electronic research encourages a kind of literal-mindedness and inflexibility that is inimical to really effective advocacy. In my view, electronic research is good at two points in the process: at the very inception of a project about which one knows nothing, and at the conclusion of one’s research, for the purpose of assuring one hasn’t overlooked anything. For those purposes, it is an exceptional tool. 2. The other problem with emphasizing electronic research is that we thereby facilitate the goal of the major providers to make our students e-research addicts. Lexis and Westlaw are very expensive in the real world, and many of our graduates will not have the opportunity to spend hours online doing thorough research, even if they know how. Their firms may not be able to afford the resource, or clients may lack the ability to pay for it. The library, on the other hand, is free. These students are disserved by a heavy emphasis on electronic methods. —James A. Gardner, Professor of Law, State University of New York-University at Buffalo School of Law

I wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your recent article in AALL Spectrum. It’s great to raise these issues about how we teach legal research. I appreciate your providing an interesting springboard to further discussions on this topic. —Renee Y. Rastorfer, law librarian-research services, University of Southern California Law Library

Thank you for saying what you did in the AALL Spectrum article. I thought you did a great job pointing out the improvements in online systems and calling everyone to wake up and realize the new environment we are in. Great Job!! —Kevin Miles, librarian, Fulbright Jaworski

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Out of the Jungle … and into Duck Soup (continued from page 11) by Michael Ginsborg One of my most memorable reference encounters occurred in my first year as a reference librarian. A recent alumna of the In his article, “Out of the Jungle,” James it’s cheaper to see if my library has the school called in with a research problem that Milles recommends that “[i]n teaching needed volume on the shelf or to find at first I didn’t understand, simply because legal research, we ought to favor out who else might have it. Why should what I thought she was asking showed electronic resources, unless there is I instruct a summer associate to use she had no understanding of what law demonstrable and significant benefit to Lexis.com if I find that it’s cheaper and is or where it came from. At that time using print.” He has three reasons for equally suited to the associate’s purpose I thought it impossible that a graduate of his proposal. First, “the most heavily to take the volume from the shelf? If my one of the top law schools in the country used research sources”—primary law employer’s contract with LexisNexis would have such a complete lack of materials—“will doesn’t confer a understanding of what law is, much less be used almost “rental” below the where one would find it. She assured me exclusively in These warriors retail price, I might that I understood her question completely. electronic will naturally have even more I then proceeded to spend more than an format.” Second, financial incentive— prefer to hour on the phone with her discussing the the two primary and a duty to my nature and structure of our government, providers, engage their legal employer—to disarm where our laws come from, and how the LexisNexis and research battles the summer associate various types of authority interrelate. Westlaw, and pursue the print Then we discussed the various ways in increasingly offer “online; and we’ve alternative. Finally, for which she should look to find that authority. not only book- already paid the rent many firm libraries This is too much of a burden to put on firm based finding on commercial with IP practices, librarians. aids to online frequent use of online services. By the way, this experience also predates treatises, but also Nimmer more than the prevalence of Lexis and Westlaw as the unique research justifies the cost of be-all and end-all of legal research. As Lexis tools. Finally, multiple print and Westlaw get more bells and whistles and current law students, having been raised subscriptions and the cost of shelf space, more super-search-enhancing functions, it on “digital information,” will feel more even at discounted Lexis.com rates. becomes harder to teach students the basics. comfortable using online formats. Other” librarians who must borrow More and more time is spent trying to peel Milles’ reasons for a war on print, a Nimmer volume might still find away some of the system enhancements and or something like it, remind me of interlibrary loan cheaper than using value-added features to get down to the basics Groucho Marx’s warlike logic in Duck Nimmer on Lexis.com, even if Lexis.com of good search crafting. Soup. Groucho can’t prevent war with contracts give them access to Nimmer. Legal research instructors need to neighboring Sylvania: “We’ve got guns, This example admits of a take the opportunity as early and often as they’ve got guns, all God’s chillun got generalization. Milles’ “Primacy of Print” possible to go over the basics of Civics guns,” and “I’ve already paid a month’s model imposes a kind of straitjacket on 101 and the different types of authority and rent on the battlefield.” Similarly, legal research, because legal researchers jurisdictions. The fact that information LexisNexis and Westlaw have armed all must choose between one or the other of from a variety of sources is combined in law school students. These warriors will two primary options—online or print. But one easy-to-access place sometimes confuses naturally prefer to engage their legal shouldn’t students of legal research learn novices about basic differences in the data. research battles online; and we’ve already how to use any resource or finding aid in I believe removing print legal research paid the rent on commercial online the most cost-effective way? Perish the materials will exacerbate, not relieve this services. So we now have no rational thought, but they may save time to consult problem. The research basics that were choice, according to Milles, but to give a librarian or a colleague. As consumers of inherent in the print systems still exist in online content overriding deference. what legal publishers sell, they also need a the electronic systems, but our students need Unfortunately, the online rent of lesson in legal publishing economics. And to learn to see these research gems and use commercial services, and the contractual they should learn the unique virtues and them properly. terms of access, often determine whether vices of any means of legal research. The research inquiry shouldn’t start with we have a “demonstrable and significant At any rate, they deserve better from a choice between online or print; it should benefit” to using print—at least whenever us than to have a dogma reinforced about start with a clear research objective. Only we can choose between print and online the primacy of a format in content or then should the researcher begin asking, formats of the same resource. Milles technique. If they examined nearly any where is that data available, what are the appears to overestimate the cost- day of e-mail traffic on the AALL online various access points, and which one works effectiveness of commercially online discussion forum, they might quickly best for me in my situation. I do teach my alternatives to print. discover that, at least in content, online first-year students the differences between Milles might have considered legal research has limitations. Boolean and natural language searching and frequently-used authoritative works Michael Ginsborg (mginsborg@ which one works better in different types of secondary law, such as Nimmer on hrice.com) is research analyst at Howard of research situations. Another important Copyright. Depending on a patron’s Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk and Rabkin research skill I teach my students is attention deadline and objective, I generally find in San Francisco. to detail.

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Defining the Terms of the Debate Searching for missing pocket parts and by David A. Westbrook unshelved Shepard’s volumes shouldn’t be necessary in any research exercise. However, checking to make sure that they have any In his article, “Out of the Jungle,” my university. The modern university is itself required pocket parts or pamphlets, or all colleague Jim Milles is characteristically a way of organizing thought that grew out the volumes of a Shepard’s set, helps many lucid, and his argument is, in my view, of the 19th century German ideal of the of them avoid the mistake of assuming correct on its own terms. But I wonder university based on cumulative objective anything you find online will be up-to-date. about the terms. Since digital media research (Forschung) deployed across Coverage needs to be checked in online makes information so available, the contiguous disciplines, which would sources as well as in print. Students are traditional problems for law libraries organize all knowledge into a map of the often able to see more clearly in print have been somewhat marginalized, if not world. Knowledge would be indexed in a products the need to update subject- completely solved. library, and the librarian would know how organized materials, where the time lag is Law librarians and other researchers to retrieve the knowledge. longer. They can then transfer these skills worry about storing and then finding With the university’s social success, to other subject-organized materials, such information. Students and practicing however, the supply of texts has grown, as codes, regardless of format. lawyers worry about missing information the disciplines have fragmented, students that, if found by someone else, will be have needed accreditation, technology The Real Issue embarrassing. Search engines work pretty has needed funding and markets, and The problem with the way legal research is well, however, and are likely to improve. various cultural authorities have waned. taught by most law schools today is the For the retrieval of the sorts of public Due to these and other developments, the elevation of form above substance. Would information on which law libraries have university has come to seem rather more the Japanese soldier still hidden in the traditionally focused, there is decreasing bureaucratic than true. It has become a jungle post-World War II be more likely need to leave one’s coffeehouse table. way of organizing professional life and to believe that the war was over if he This is not to say that there will be no so a type of social knowledge, but hardly heard it on the radio, rather than saw it in role for libraries, but instead suggests that the true map. Now we all know how to print? The debate between print v. online the role will change profoundly. And in retrieve a surfeit of information and completely misses the point. We need to some ways, the change may make the wonder if it means anything. concentrate less on the wrapper and more proposition that “digital won” the battle I am not sure what the changing on the information contained therein. of the media far less clear. status—I am tempted to say The salient problems faced by secularization—of the university means knowledge workers today are what and for its libraries, including law libraries. The research how to read, not how to find text. As a Surely storage and retrieval of information professor, I find myself doing far less cannot serve much longer as a raison inquiry shouldn’t electronic research (much of which I d’etre. However, two kinds of institutions start with a choice delegate) and more book reading than seem to suggest directions that the between online or print; my work as a student or lawyer required. university library might take. The first It is not merely that I am now at leisure is the archive—which stores information “it should start with a to worry more about substance and have so particular as to be difficult to retrieve, clear research less need to be up to the minute. indeed, so particular as to resist objective. As Malcolm Gladwell argued a few digitization. A second possible model years back in The Social Life of Paper, would be the museum, which is a forum paper has certain advantages for thinking. for deciding what is significant and, more Even more so, we need to educate Paper offers purchase on what is not yet particularly, showcases items that have students on the existing systems of decided—on thinking in progress. While been decided to be of talismanic power. organization of information to help people I work on three separate computers, Sometimes it is good to leave the find legal authority that can’t be” easily I am also surrounded by stacks of paper, screen to be near a worthy original. retrieved in a word search. Searches are including many e-mails I’ve printed And while I see no reason to believe that based on concepts and relationships, not out. Most importantly for me, printed future law libraries will consist solely of vocabulary. The online v. print research war materials can be put near other items in collectible books, we might begin to is over, but the battle to create competent some, as yet unclear, relationship (i.e., think of the library collection in more researchers out of students with no prior stacked in heaps on which I work). In qualitative fashion and as spaces that experience with organized information is contrast, digital media relies on filing, facilitate reading, or more broadly, textual just beginning. which is a decision that allows forgetting collegialities. to be reversible, a great thing but hardly active thought. David A. Westbrook (dwestbro@ The organization of thought under buffalo.edu) is professor of law at University conditions of excessive information is a at Buffalo Law School, State University of Joan Shear ([email protected]) is legal problem not just for individuals, but New York, and author of City of Gold: An information librarian and lecturer in law at also for the institutions that concern Apology for Global Capitalism in a Time Boston College Law Library in Newton, themselves with ideas—preeminently the of Discontent. Massachusetts.

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feature Author of New York Legal Research Guide Wins Andrews Award William H. Manz to be honored at Annual Meeting

by Mark Estes New York’s legal system reflects the and finding every reference to New York 1st history of the Native Americans, the and 2nd and changing it to New York 1st, colonial Dutch, and the English. In New 2nd, and 3rd. “The world is changing under York, the supreme court is either an your feet as you are doing the book,” Manz intermediate appellate court or a trial court. says. “Right at the last minute, legislative To non-New Yorkers, the state’s legal history, [which] is a big deal in New York … research easily appears overwhelming. and is a major chapter, … [when] Westlaw Gibson’s New York Legal Research Guide is announces their new legislative history the comprehensive guide to making that database [requiring further revisions].” research project manageable. Revising the index involved three major The Guide describes the legal research steps. First, Manz tagged index terms in the resources for New York State, New York text. Then, a computer program generated City, and New York Native Americans. an index. Next, he reviewed and revised the The revised third edition includes extensive computer-generated index for consistent coverage of print sources and electronic formatting and to consolidate similar resources, whether subscription based or at listings because, “the first time … the same no additional fee. To facilitate its usefulness, thing would be listed three times slightly the index has been greatly expanded. This differently because the text referred to it in is the “go-to” book for anyone doing New a slightly different verbiage,” he says. York legal research. Manz has no plans for a fourth edition. He is, however, busy on a book on New It’s the Small Things York legal history. He received an AB The second edition was in many ways two from Holy Cross in Wooster, Massachusetts; he 2005 Joseph books: one on New York State and the an MA in History at North Western other on New York City. The third edition University; and an MLS from Long Island L. Andrews integrates the two parts, which required University. He earned his JD from St. John’s reworking references to resources cited in the University while teaching at a public junior Bibliographical other treatise; only the first citation required high/middle school. T the complete bibliographic information. Manz is the author of articles about Award honors William On updating the references, Manz New York legal history and legislative observes, “there were so many small places histories, including Technology Education H. Manz for his revision where you had to make changes. Just from and Copyright Harmonization Act of 2002: five years,” he says. “You think, oh, all I’ve A Legislative History, William S. Hein to Gibson’s New York got to do is update coverage here, here. But and Co. Inc. 2004. He is an instructor of there are so many different cross references CLE seminars on New York legal research, Legal Research Guide. and small things that had to be changed. including the 2004 New York Internet In the footnotes, the pocket parts. Because Legal Research, sponsored by the New York Manz, senior research they’ve got the footnotes of the McKinney’s County Lawyer’s Association. consolidated loss, I’ve got the pocket part librarian at St. John’s routine. Well, is this citation to McKinney About the Award still accurate? Is it going to be the pocket Established in 1967, the Andrews Award University Law School part for 2003 or 2004, instead of 1998, or honors Joseph L. Andrews, reference have they issued a new book? If something librarian at the Association of the Bar of the in Jamaica, New York, referred to so and so, it has now been City of New York. Each year the award 25 years since that, so now you’ve got to recognizes the author of a significant work improved an already change that to 30 years. It’s no longer Mayor of legal bibliography literature. The Giuliani, it’s Mayor Bloomberg. That kind members of the 2005 Andrews Award essential tool for New of thing. All these little things you wouldn’t Subcommittee were Charlene Cain, Gail think of ahead of time as you go through it. A. Partin, Milagros R. Rush, and Mark E. York legal research. So sometimes you say, oh gee, you missed— Estes, chair. mistakes always creep into a book.” Manz will be presented with the award Bibliography is not a static activity. As at the AALL Association Luncheon on July © 2005 Mark Estes deadlines approached, the State Reporter 18 during the AALL Annual Meeting. decided to discontinue the second series of Mark Estes ([email protected]) is New York official reporters and start a third director of library services at Holme Roberts 16 AALL Spectrum June 2005 series. This required going through the book and Owen LLP in Denver. AALLSpectrum_June 5/14/05 4:18 PM Page 17

announcements American Association of Law Libraries 2005 Business Meeting San Antonio, Texas

Session I: Monday, July 18, 2:30-4 p.m. Session II: Tuesday, July 19, 2:15-3:15 p.m. Members’ Open Forum: Tuesday, July 19, 3:15-3:45 p.m.

Agenda Business Meeting Session I Monday, July 18 2:30 - 4 p.m. Victoria K. Trotta, President, Presiding

1. Call to Order Victoria K. Trotta 2. Introductions Victoria K. Trotta 3. Adoption of the Standing Rules Victoria K. Trotta 4. Adoption of the Agenda for Both Sessions Victoria K. Trotta 5. Approval of the Minutes from the 2004 Business Meeting Catherine Lemann, Secretary 6. Report on Elections Catherine Lemann 7. Introduction of Newly Elected Board Members Victoria K. Trotta 8. Memorials Victoria K. Trotta 9. President’s Report Victoria K. Trotta 10. Remarks: President of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries 11. Remarks: President of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians 12. Remarks: President of the International Association of Law Libraries 13. Resolutions Victoria K. Trotta 14. New Business Victoria K. Trotta 15. Announcements Victoria K. Trotta 16. Recess

Business Meeting Session II Tuesday, July 19 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. Victoria K. Trotta, President, Presiding

1. Call to Order Victoria K. Trotta 2. Introductions Victoria K. Trotta 3. President’s Certificates of Appreciation Victoria K. Trotta 4. Treasurer’s Report Joyce Manna Janto 5. Executive Director’s Report Susan E. Fox 6. Washington Affairs Representative’s Report Robert L. Oakley 7. Vice President’s Remarks Claire M. Germain 8. Unfinished Business Victoria K. Trotta 9. New Business Victoria K. Trotta 10. Announcements Victoria K. Trotta 11. Adjournment Victoria K. Trotta

Members’ Open Forum Tuesday, July 19 3:15 - 3:45 p.m.

A Members’ Open Forum will be held immediately at the conclusion of the second session of the Business Meeting. The Open Forum provides members with an opportunity to raise questions and discuss issues without following the requirements imposed by parliamentary procedures. Action may not be taken during the Open Forum. However, issues may be raised and referred to the president for further action.

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Three Named as Recipients of Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award Charles R. Dyer, Roy M. Mersky, and Michael S. Miller recognized for dedication to profession, Association

by Shirley Hart David

Each of the 2005 award recipients has Interest Section (SCCLL-SIS) Sourcebook brought to the profession a strong belief for Law Library Governing Boards and that paying attention to the specific needs Committees while he produced a greatly of stakeholders can improve the political expanded California County Law Libraries onoring their status of their libraries and serve the Trustees Manual. He edited Law Library libraries well when it comes to power, Journal when it was still produced by an dedication budgets, and exceeding customer all-volunteer staff. He also edited the official expectations. newsletter of the Council of California toward County Law Libraries for 10 years. Visionary Philosopher Dyer is credited with writing the H Charley Dyer literally put “public” in the recommendations for the AALL Special enhancing the image of name of public law libraries. Retiring in Committee on the Renaissance of Law law librarianship and August, Dyer has served as director of Librarianship. He chaired and wrote opinions libraries at the San Diego County Public for the Relocation Appeals Board for the City AALL, Charles R. Dyer, Law Library and executive director to the of San Diego and edited a book on America’s Law Library Justice Foundation of San homeless dilemma. The book, written by a Roy M. Mersky, and Diego since 1987. Dyer has collaboratively San Diego judge, was distributed by a led the charge to make California county foundation to California’s state and local Michael S. Miller will law libraries more visible to the public. legislators and executive office holders. Serving his first 13 years in the Among the first to bring library trustees receive the 2005 Marian profession as an academic librarian, Dyer to AALL meetings, Dyer provided the began as a reader’s service librarian under impetus for state, court, and county law Gould Gallagher the tutelage of fellow award-winner Roy M. libraries to advocate that they be given the Mersky, then associate librarian and opportunity to become AALL associate Distinguished Service assistant professor of law at St. Louis members. While SCCLL-SIS chair, he University, and law librarian associate successfully advocated for AALL to expand Award during the professor of law at University of Missouri- the Chapter VIP Program to bring library Kansas City School of Law. Dyer will return stakeholders to the Annual Meeting and to AALL Annual Meeting to his birth state of Texas, where he received special interest sections. three of his four advanced degrees and Dyer’s sustained legislative advocacy for Association Luncheon keeps current his bar license, to accept the California’s public law libraries is legendary. Marian Gould Gallagher Award. He often flew up or drove to Sacramento on Monday, July 18. Dyer is a visionary who shares his ideas with a trustee in tow to testify at hearings with others who develop them into ground- or meet with legislative staff. He organized breaking programs, such as training the legislative workshops and garnered support public on basic legal procedures and from other organizations. AALL’s lobbyists providing collaborative, live-chat legal advocate for public law libraries at the state reference services through the Internet. level due to Dyer’s efforts. An accomplished writer, Dyer uses his Dyer leaves a legacy of stewardship philosophy background to advocate for to both his institution and its varied better libraries, better access to legal constituency, the San Diego community, information, and the next development to California libraries of all types, and AALL. make our lives better. In a section of the law library profession that is not rewarded by its Extraordinary Mentor and Activist © 2005 Shirley Hart David employers for publishing, Dyer has given Although Roy M. Mersky, the Harry M. freely of his time to major publications. Reasoner Regents chair in law and director He edited and wrote a substantial portion of research of the Jamail Center for Legal of the State, Court, and County Special Research and Tarlton Law Library at the 18 AALL Spectrum June 2005 AALLSpectrum_June 5/16/05 10:42 AM Page 19

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Charles R. Dyer Roy M. Mersky Michael S. Miller

University of Texas, says he is not retiring interest in human rights also benefited Mersky left his imprint on AALL when until 2025, his admirers and protégés AALL with his founding membership in he successfully advocated Current Law Index successfully argued that it is appropriate the Contemporary Social Problems as a replacement to the more restrictive to bestow upon him the Marian Gould Special Interest Section and the Spirit of Index to Legal Periodicals and as he helped Gallagher Distinguished Service Award at Law Librarianship Award, which he co- establish AALLNET. During the early ’60s the Annual Meeting, being held in the state established to honor law librarians who he chaired AALL’s Special Committee on the he has called home since 1965. Mersky also give back to their communities. Application of Mechanical and Scientific celebrates his 80th birthday this year. Fundamentals of Legal Research, which Devices to Legal Literature, the predecessor The number of law librarians he has he co-authored, is now in its 8th edition. It committee to the current Computer Services trained and guided, as a demanding but continues to be the textbook for numerous Special Interest Section. committed mentor, equals only the work legal research classes and companion to As a professor he teaches graduate of Marian Gould Gallagher herself. Mersky every new legal reference librarian. His courses in library science at the University of is credited by many of his contemporaries scholarship includes authoring The First Texas School of Information. He has taught and employees as changing the image 100 Justices and co-editing The Supreme as a visiting professor at the Queen Mary of law librarians from assistants to true Court of the United States: Hearings and and Westfield College in London and the professionals. In return he expects long Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Justices New York Law School and as a visiting hours and excellence from his employees, by the Senate Judicial Committee. fellow at the Australian National University which puts them in good stead to lead Mersky’s career began as a lawyer in in Canberra. their future organizations for which he Wisconsin while he studied for his library For more than 50 years Mersky has recommends them. He also has defined degree. In the 10 years preceding his been a visionary, adventurous, and energetic acceptable law library operations to Texas appointment he worked as research leader in the law library profession. He countless law school deans, serving on associate at the Municipal Reference Library has been a committed administrator, “readiness teams” for new law schools. in Milwaukee, chair of readers services extraordinary mentor, productive scholar, Mersky was a combat infantry veteran and reference services at Yale University, gifted teacher, active member of AALL, and thrice decorated and thrice wounded in director of the Washington Supreme a pioneer in the integration of technology the Bastogne Crisis of December 1944. Court Law Library, executive secretary into legal research. He participated in the march for civil rights of the Washington Judicial Council and at Selma, Alabama. His civil rights activity Commissioner of Washington Supreme Collaborative Leader made his appointment at the University Court Reports, and professor of law and Retiring in June, Michael Miller has been of Texas controversial because it was law librarian at the University of Colorado. a law librarian for 38 years and the director still integrating its law school when he At the University of Texas he set out to of the Maryland State Law Library since interviewed for the law librarian position. establish a world-class law library via January 1977. Prior to that he was an Later he acted to maintain the constitutional groundbreaking programs and a state-of- assistant librarian at the Pennsylvania State separation of church and state by objecting the-art facility. During his tenure he has Law Library, assistant librarian at the to an illuminated cross in the federal post organized a host of scholarly conferences; Allegheny County Law Library, and director office in Austin. consulted with courts, law firms, and legal of the Allegheny County Law Library. Mersky has continued to stay involved administrators; and served on editorial and During his career Miller has quietly with the American Civil Liberties Union, library vendor advisory boards. During a worked to achieve results without personally Human Rights Document Exchange Project, sabbatical he established the New York and the Anti-Defamation League. His Law School Library. (continued on page 27) AALL Spectrum June 2005 19 AALLSpectrum_June 5/14/05 4:20 PM Page 20

Strategize in San Antonio! AALL 2005 Annual Meeting promises to educate, stimulate, and invigorate

or the first time, San Antonio will be Sydney, Australia, February 1-3, noted that the home of the American Association only 5 percent of the Web is visible to F of Law Libraries’ Annual Meeting, Google. Most librarians have some knowledge held July 16-20 at the Henry B. Gonzalez of the hidden Web. A clearer understanding Convention Center. The foremost of related concepts can be obtained by educational and networking event for the attending the program, G-3: “Indexes, law library community, the Annual Meeting Taxonomies and the Google Generation: provides information professionals with the What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You.” opportunity to attend diverse educational Participants who attend the program, programs and hands-on workshops; listen to H-5: “E-rulemaking: Breaking Out of the stimulating keynote speakers; and participate Beltway,” will learn how technology can in important meetings of SISs, committees, improve administrative law while providing and other AALL groups. Attendees learn more interaction between people and from colleagues and enhance their leadership government. skills while sharing their experiences. The Annual Meeting theme, “Strategize! Values ~ Visions ~ Vistas,” reflects the emphasis AALL President Victoria Trotta has put on the importance of forward thinking. Pondering the past is useful; however, success in the future also requires the ability to think strategically. The 2005 Annual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC) worked hard to assemble an array of educational opportunities illustrating the theme. In reviewing the schedule, keep in mind that each program was developed by members for members. The AMPC was faced with the imposing challenge of reading and evaluating 195 proposals. Of those, 63 programs and four workshops were selected. The committee felt it was critical to include programs addressing all levels—introductory, intermediate, and advanced—as well as all of the AALL Competencies of Law Librarianship. A variety of program lengths is offered, including the increasingly popular 30-minute programs. Must-See Programs Photo SACVB Designing an educational curriculum The Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, perched above the to meet diverse needs—the new daily Riverwalk, is one of the most attractive convention centers in challenges we all face in our jobs, the the country. It is modern, spacious (1.3 million square feet), airy, and high tech. different skills that we have to develop, and the trends we have to keep up with—was the biggest challenge faced by the AMPC. Coping with advances in technology The 2005 program should be viewed as a is only part of the challenge faced by starting point—a springboard to launch information professionals. We sometimes into areas for further exploration. forget that basic tools, such as using the The technology theme is well telephone to conduct primary research, can represented in a number of programs. be the most effective. Another example of An article in the March 2005 issue of putting traditional skills to use in a new Mission San Jose. Photo courtesy Information Today reporting on the context will be illustrated in the program, SACVB/Tim Thompson Information Online 2005 12th Exhibition L-4: “Not Just for Bedtime Anymore: Using and Conference, which took place in Storytelling Skills as a Leadership Tool.” 20 AALL Spectrum June 2005 © 2005 Karen B. Brunner AALLSpectrum_June 5/14/05 4:20 PM Page 21

byby Karen Karen B. B. Brunner Brunner

Another session that should not be missed has been revised from the description in the Annual Meeting Preliminary Program. The new program title is E-1: “A Town Meeting with Public Printer Bruce James and Superintendent of Documents Judy Russell: GPO’s Strategic Plan for the 21st Century and New Partnerships with Law Libraries.” Bruce James will join Judy Russell to provide more information on how the Government Printing Office (GPO) is handling suggestions made by librarians, as well as other topics. Workshops offer the opportunity to provide in-depth treatment of a subject. This year’s four workshops include specialized topics, such as acquiring and accessing electronic resources. Each workshop will give practical tips that Rio Hotel Del Photo/Courtesy of La Mansion SACVB San Antonio is the center of one of America’s greatest regional cuisines, Tex-Mex. You can’t leave the city without trying the chicken-fried can be applied on the job. steak, an all-time Texas favorite. The theme for the “Hot Topic” is traditionally chosen closer to the date of the Meeting to make sure it is timely, Award” on page 18), the Joseph L. Andrews together. This year, more time in the which is another example of how the Bibliographical Award (see “Author of New schedule has been allotted for meetings. Annual Meeting program is based on York Legal Research Guide Wins Andrews Speaking of the Exhibit Hall, it provides member input. The topic for this year Award” on page 16), the AALL/LexisNexis a great chance to meet with a variety of has not yet been selected. Call for Papers Award, the Law Library vendors in one place. Examining new Trotta asked the AMPC to assist in Journal and AALL Spectrum Articles of products with input from colleagues can picking plenary speakers who could address the Year (supported by CCH), and the be invaluable. Face to face meetings with the future of libraries and the future of the AALL/West Excellence in Marketing vendors to discuss areas of common concern legal profession. Roy Tennant will open help make problems more surmountable. the conversation as a library futurist in All forms of learning take place in the his keynote address on Sunday, July 17. The 2005 Exhibit Hall. Tennant, known to many by his monthly Rounding out the San Antonio column in Library Journal, is user services program should experience is the opportunity to visit architect for the California Digital Library be viewed as a starting libraries and other area attractions. The and an expert on digital libraries. Jerry point—a springboard to Local Advisory Committee has assembled Kang will extend the discussion on an appealing selection of library tours and Wednesday, speaking as a legal futurist. “launch into areas excursions. There is something for everyone. Kang is professor of law at UCLA School of for further Remember to apply time management skills in compiling your individual Annual Law and visiting professor of Georgetown exploration. Law Center (2004-2005). His areas of Meeting itinerary. research include communication, race, The 2005 Annual Meeting Program and civil procedure, with a focus on the Committee members are Karen B. Brunner, ubiquitous impact of information technology. Awards. Be sure to attend the luncheon and Lucy Curci-Gonzalez, Rita R. Dermody, join in cheering for the accomplishments Jeffrey J. Dowd, Anne V. Ellis, Richard Recognition and Networking of your distinguished colleagues. The Jost, and Dwight King. We look forward ” Opportunities luncheon will also highlight “Visions and to seeing you in San Antonio. Another highlight of the Conference is Vistas of Texas.” the Association Luncheon. Recipients of A major benefit of the Annual Meeting the 2005 AALL awards will be recognized. is the opportunity to spend time with and Karen B. Brunner (kbrunner@ Awards include the Marian Gould learn from peers. Whether it is an informal riker.com) is director of information and Gallagher Distinguished Service Award gathering in the Exhibit Hall or a library services at Riker Danzig Scherer (see “Three Named as Recipients of Marian committee or SIS meeting, the Annual Hyland Perretti LLP in Morristown, Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Meeting provides the ideal setting to get New Jersey. AALL Spectrum June 2005 21 AALLSpectrum_June 5/14/05 4:21 PM Page 22

chapter by Diane D’Angelo news disinterestedly current accomplishments, including the (that is, they do popular Annual Institute, the Introduction ALLA Acts to Save the not have personal to Legal Research Course, salary surveys, Georgia State Law Library financial reasons consulting and resource-sharing endeavors, Established in 1732, the Georgia for making and other programs and projects that State Law Library has faced huge government augmented members’ professional and budget cuts during the last few decisions.) The key career development. years and is now in danger of closing components of the board’s Both speakers emphasized the support permanently if a bill moving through mandate are developing and that GPLLA has provided to the region’s the Georgia General Assembly gets final monitoring a city employee code of approval. The bill passed the Senate and is conduct, educating city employees on ethics currently in the House. The Atlanta Law issues, maintaining a system of public Libraries Association (ALLA), in conjunction disclosure, maintaining and monitoring with AALL Associate Washington Affairs effective procurement systems, and opening Representative Mary Alice Baish, brought channels of communication. One of the media attention to this critical issue. ALLA biggest ethics questions that the board tried to convince citizens and lawmakers investigates and rules on is post-employment that closing the state law library would have conflicts of interest. devastating effects. ALLA contacted newspapers, including GPLLA Celebrates 35th Anniversary the Atlanta Journal and Constitution and the More than 100 past and present members Fulton County Daily Report. ALLA President of the Greater Philadelphia Law Library Kreig Kitts was quoted in an Atlanta Association (GPLLA) gathered at the Journal and Constitution article on March 5, National Constitution Center on March 10 explaining that the state law library staff for the chapter’s 35th anniversary dinner. provides specialized legal research assistance The dinner offered attendees a chance to and resources to citizens that they just won’t network, reminisce with colleagues from the Former GPLLA President Regina Smith, Jenkins Law Library, legal community, and review the first 35 reminisces about the chapter’s history at GPLLA’s 35th get at other public libraries. Nancy Johnson, anniversary dinner. law librarian and professor of law at Georgia years of GPLLA through a special display State University Law School, was also quoted provided from the collection of Jenkins in the article and explained that while Law Library. legal community through its commitment admittedly the state law library doesn’t get Following opening remarks from current to advancing the role of law libraries in a loads of foot traffic, it serves citizens all over GPLLA President Jeffrey Kreiling, of Klett time of vast technological change in the the state via e-mail and phone reference. Rooney Lieber and Schorling PC, former information industry and by emphasizing Johnson noted that a vote to close the state presidents Regina Smith, of Jenkins Law the continuing importance and value of law library would have a negative impact on Library, and Denise Mines, of the Law librarians to law firms, courts, corporations, “state employees, members of the judiciary, Library of Montgomery County, shared universities, and other organizations. The and especially on the citizens of Georgia.” recollections of the chapter’s history. They strong community ties within GPLLA have ALLA produced an action alert, which reiterated GPLLA’s numerous past and proved to be a major component in keeping was forwarded to the chapter online discussion list and some other relevant library lists. It included a description of the bill and why ALLA believes it should not be passed and provided contact information for the bill’s sponsors and members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Chicago Board of Ethics Director Speaks to CALL Steve Berlin, deputy director of the City of Chicago’s Board of Ethics, was the featured speaker at the Chicago Association of Law Libraries’ (CALL) March 23 meeting. Berlin’s speech, “Ensuring Public Confidence in Government: The Chicago Board of Ethics,” explored the role of ethics agencies in regulating the conduct of public officials and employees. Specifically, the Chicago Board of Ethics CALL President Jean Wenger, Cook County Law Library (left); CALL President-Elect Naomi Goodman, Valparaiso University; speaker Steve Berlin, deputy director of the City of Chicago Board of Ethics; and CALL Internet Committee Chair Annette Cade, ensures that public officials make decisions Cade Communications, gather during the CALL meeting March 23.

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the association active and vital since its women in need. Dress for Success provides gift certificates to Borders and Barnes and beginning. low-income women with “interview suits, Noble. The evening concluded with closing confidence boosts, and career development.” remarks from GPLLA President-Elect A number of long-time LLNE Executive Many MALL Members to Present Victor Panieczko, of Dilworth Paxson Committee members are stepping down at AALL Annual Meeting LLP, and Kreiling. Thanks were extended from their posts and were honored at the Minnesota Association of Law Libraries’ to the evening’s donors: ALM, CCH Inc., luncheon/business meeting. Julianna (MALL) members will be well represented LexisNexis, Global Securities Information Hayden, satellite librarian at the U.S. Court in the ranks of presenters at the upcoming Inc., and Westlaw. of Appeals Satellite Library in Concord, AALL Annual Conference, with a wide array New Hampshire, will end her term as of topics of interest to law librarians in any LLAM Starts Blogging treasurer, and Susan Zago, associate director setting. Make a point to learn something This spring the Law Library Association of Northeastern University School of Law, new that will help you in your job, or find of Maryland (LLAM) joined the blogging will step down as education director. out about something new that is outside revolution. On March 16, Trevor Rosen LLNE News Co-Editors Susan Vaughn, your area of expertise or responsibility. and Harvey Morrell educated members on Sharon Persons, and Michelle Pearse MALL members will share their the who, what, why, and how of blogs at held a blog tutorial at the spring meeting. knowledge on “The Great Disappearing a brownbag lunch titled “Law, Logs and They came up with catchy bookmarks that Act: Preserving URLs Cited in Judicial Power of Blogs.” The session began with included the password and URL for posting Opinions,” Barbara L. Golden, Minnesota a look at the impact of blogs in our to the LLNE blog, which has been up State Law Library; “May It Please the Court: information society, including the high-level and running since January 2005. They Strategies for Discovering Pro Se Services usage this form of information received encouraged members to learn about blogs That Judges Crave,” Judith Flader, during the recent U.S. presidential election with snazzy posters and catchy slogans like Washington County Law Library; “Prove and tsunami disaster. The session also “take a ride on the blogosphere.” Take a Your Worth: Computing Library Value,” explored how to find and read blogs, why look at the LLNE blog at http://llne. Anita Anderson, Office of the Attorney blogs are a useful tool for law libraries, and blogspot.com. General; “Realizing Visions and Valuing how to create a blog of one’s very own. Next year will be a busy one for LLNE History: Twenty Years of the Standing As part of the program, attending as it celebrates its 60th anniversary, as well Committee for Lesbian and Gay Issues,” LLAMers created a LLAM blog using as AALL’s centennial. The LLNE Archives/ Elvira Embser-Herbert, University of BLOGGER, a blog creation and hosting History Committee got a head start with Minnesota Law Library; “Shrinking Budgets service. The new LLAM blog is now in use anniversary and centennial preparations and the Long-term Impact on Library by the association and is accessible to any by holding a trivia contest at the spring Collections,” Connie Lenz, University of interested parties. Visit http://llamlog. meeting. Byron Hill, from Bowditch and Minnesota Law Library; and “So, Now blogspot.com and catch up on our world. Dewey, answered the most trivia questions You’ve Got an IP Practice,” Hope Porter, correctly and won the grand prize. In Merchant and Gould, Minneapolis. LLNE Learns about International keeping with the international law theme Diane D’Angelo, Suffolk University Law Terrorism, Promotes Chapter of the meeting, he was awarded five bottles Library, 120 Tremont Street, Boston, MA Blog, Holds Trivia Contest of wine from different countries from 02108-4977 • 617/573-8608 • fax: The Law Librarians of New England around the world. Five other members won 617/723-3164 • [email protected]. (LLNE) gathered for its spring meeting on April 1. Hosted by Harvard University Law Library, the meeting addressed “International Justice in a Time of Terrorism.” Panelists included internationally renowned legal specialists Henry Steiner, director of Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program and professor of law, and Juliette Kayyem, acting executive director for research at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University Kennedy School of Government. For a complete list of speakers and topics, take a look at the conference program at www.law.harvard. edu/library/about/LLNE_Spring_05/ program.php. The LLNE Service Committee held a clothing drive at the spring meeting and encouraged members to support a local non-profit organization called Dress for Success, by donating business clothes for LLNE President Raquel Ortiz and LLNE’s outgoing Education Director Susan Zago enjoy the spring meeting at Harvard Law Library.

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committee by Therese Clarke news the previous Leticia Van De Putte, state senator century. and a pharmacist for more than 25 years, In today’s represents a large portion of San Antonio and Diversity Symposium—A Larger Patch in the Quilt: multicultural Bexar County. Van De Putte is a graduate of Hispanic/Latino Americans climate, in which the University of Texas at Austin’s College and Their Expanding the celebration of of Pharmacy and was a Kellogg fellow at Cultural and Political diversity would appear Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School Influence inconsistent with efforts of Government. A former five-term state My grandmother came from Russia, at complete assimilation, the representative, she is now serving her second A satchel on her knee; image of America as a melting pot may seem term as a Texas state senator for District 26. My grandfather had his father’s cap a little antiquated at best. In 2002 she became the chair of the Senate He brought from Italy. Instead of different ethnic groups Hispanic Caucus, and in 2003 she became the They’d heard about a country coming to the United States and blending chair of the Texas Senate Democratic Caucus. Where life might let them win, into the existing culture, they tend to retain Nationally, Van de Putte is the current They paid the fare to America more of their own cultural identity, and the president of the National Hispanic Caucus of And there they melted in. melting in is even sometimes discouraged State Legislators and has been actively involved rather than encouraged. In the multicultural in the work of the National Conference of Lovely Lady Liberty, approach, some have theorized that the State Legislatures for several years. With her book of recipes, melting pot has become more of a quilted Edward J. Williams is professor emeritus And the finest one she’s got mosaic or tossed salad, where each of political science at the University of Is the great American meltin’pot. ingredient retains its own integrity, distinct Arizona. Williams received his BA and MA The great American meltin’ pot…. flavor, or texture, while still yielding a from Duquesne University and earned his -Lynn Ahrens successful final product. PhD in political science from The Johns With Latinos representing such a large Hopkins University. Williams teaches, Some of you might recognize the lyrics of percentage of the immigrant population, researches, and writes on Latin American, this song from “Schoolhouse Rock,” a they are influencing many facets of Mexican, and borderlands public policy children’s educational television program American life, from pop culture to politics. and politics. He has contributed numerous popular in the 1970s. The concept of Who are they and where do they come articles to professional journals and has America as a melting pot is a metaphor for from? What are the issues raised by their written eight books and monographs on the way in which heterogeneous societies incorporation into the fabric of American various aspects of these topics. Williams develop, whereby the ingredients in the pot culture and society? Please join the has been honored for excellence in teaching (iron, tin, people of different backgrounds Committee on Diversity’s Annual Latin American studies by the Rocky and religions, etc.) are processed until they Symposium on Saturday, July 16 at 2 Mountain Council on Latin American lose their discrete identities. The desired p.m. in the Marriott Riverwalk as we Studies. At the university, he has been final product is one of uniform consistency welcome our distinguished panel for an named an “Outstanding Teacher” and and flavor and is quite different from the enlightening and stimulating discussion on “Outstanding Honors Faculty,” recognized original inputs. the growing Latino population in America. for his “Distinguished Service to Minority This ideal dates back to the latter part This year’s panel includes: Graduate Students,” and cited for his of the 19th and early 20th centuries when Reynaldo Valencia, professor of law “Distinguished Academic Accomplishments.” thousands of immigrants arrived in the at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio. Submitted by Allen Moye. United States daily from a variety of mostly Valencia is a graduate of Stanford University European countries. It was believed that and Harvard School of Law. He began Mentoring Committee Hosts the flood of immigrants coming to America his teaching career during his final year Conference for New Law should work to shed their historic identities in law school as a teaching fellow in the Librarians and become more “Americanized.” In 1908, Department of Sociology at Harvard Bienvenidos! The AALL Mentoring Israel Zangwell, a London-born playwright, University. Following graduation, he was an Committee welcomes attendees to the epitomized this ideal of social, political, associate for five years with the Dallas office Conference of Newer Law Librarians and cultural amalgamation in his play, of the international law firm of Jones Day (CONELL) annual program to be held The Melting Pot. Popular and timely, this Reavis and Pogue, where he concentrated in San Antonio on Saturday, July 16. was a romantic vision of “e pluribus unum,” in the areas of commercial bankruptcy and The annual CONELL program is an illustrated by the happy union of two commercial litigation. While at Jones Day, opportunity for newer law librarians to people from different ethnic and religious Valencia also served as an adjunct professor come together and learn the exciting backgrounds. at the Texas Tech University School of Law, opportunities AALL has to offer. CONELL During the past 35 to 40 years, since the where he developed and taught courses on costs $100 for the one-day event. Immigration Act of 1965 eliminated ethnic race and gender discrimination. He was a Participants find, however, this to be a very quotas, the “huddled masses” have arrived White House fellow during the Clinton reasonable cost when compared to all the mainly from Asia, Latin America, and the Administration and joined the St. Mary’s value they obtain through meeting future Caribbean. These newest immigrants faculty in 1995. He teaches courses colleagues and friends, learning how to represent a broad cross section of humanity, and seminars in bankruptcy, business make the most of the Conference, and with skin complexions that may not blend associations, and gender discrimination finding out what AALL has to offer in as easily as the European immigrants of and racism in American law. members of this wonderful Association.

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Registration for CONELL is now available from veteran AALL members who provide using Placement Services at the Annual online at www.aallnet.org/events/05 invaluable insight into AALL and the Meeting in San Antonio can register online _workshops-conell.asp. benefits of attending the Conference. at the committee’s Web site, www.aallnet. The Saturday program this year will be At noon a luncheon will be served at the org/committee/placement/index.htm. preceded by Friday’s popular Dutch Treat Marriot Rivercenter. Following lunch is a Also, we wish to send a special thanks to Dinners. While not a mandatory part of the bus tour of San Antonio, showcasing the AALL Headquarters staff members Steven CONELL program, the dinners give attendees beauty and diversity of the city. Attendees Oberhoffer and Chris Siwa for their an informal opportunity to meet and greet will arrive back to the Conference hotel at assistance with this project. Please contact their future colleagues during a delicious meal approximately 5 p.m. Oberhoffer ([email protected]) with any at one of the local nearby restaurants. The 2005 AALL Mentoring Committee questions about registering for Placement Saturday’s program will present break- looks forward to seeing you at CONELL! Services. out opportunities for CONELL attendees Submitted by Jennifer S. Murray. Submitted by Michelle Pearse. to ask the experts, visit the marketplace, and Therese A. Clarke, Northern Illinois discover speed networking. The break out Register Online for Placement University College of Law, David C. Shapiro sessions will be followed by “Overheard at Services in San Antonio Memorial Law Library, DeKalb, IL 60115 the Bar,” where attendees will be introduced The Placement Committee is pleased to • 815/753-9497 • fax: 815/753-9499 • to leaders in the law library field and hear announce that employers and candidates [email protected].

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notes records of those CRIV: Are any foreign librarians purchases, subscribers? receiving them CA: Yes, one from Singapore and one Law-Acq: The CRIV Notes when they come from Australia. Interview in, and making CRIV: Are you aware if any vendors sure the subscribe? Editor’s note: Most acquisitions publishers—our CA: I screen all subscribers before they’re librarians are probably already familiar suppliers—get paid. added to Law-Acq. When we first started with the acquisitions-themed online Most of us are in Law-Acq, we polled the members and asked discussion forum Law-Acq. But in honor of its academic libraries with how they felt about publishers or vendors 10th year of existence, the Committee on hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of being on the list. It was unanimous that Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) subscriptions to keep straight. Law-Acq should be an exchange forum thought it was a good time to remind everyone There is a great level of complexity in for librarians only so they could freely ask about this valuable service. Cynthia Aninao, our jobs. The acquisitions and mergers of each other questions that might involve head of technical services/acquisitions librarian at legal publishers add to that complexity. publishers’ practices or policies. At times we the University of Cincinnati Law Library, In addition to the organizational skills and have posted questions to Law-Acq members created the forum and continues to moderate and business savvy, there are the people skills from publishers, but they go through the manage it. Sitting down over a virtual cup of needed to communicate and/or negotiate list moderator first. coffee, the editor asked Aninao a few questions with vendors, other library staff, our CRIV: Are there any other limitations about the past, present, and future of Law-Acq. directors, and the people we supervise. to Law-Acq (who can subscribe, what can be CRIV Notes: What is the goal of the On a higher, more philosophical level, I see posted, etc.)? Law-Acq? us as stewards of a public trust. Whether our CA: As stated before, the list is limited to Cynthia Aninao: To provide an easily libraries are state funded or privately funded, persons employed by law libraries who have accessible means of communication for law we have a responsibility to work as hard as an interest in law acquisitions and collection librarians who work in acquisitions and we can to get the best price on the best development. Generally questions are limited collection development to converse among products for the monies that we monitor. to the business of those library functions. themselves. At my law library, I feel beholden to CRIV: What sort of reactions have you CRIV: What prompted you to create the taxpayers of the state of Ohio. When received regarding the list? the list? I think of the amount of money that I CA: During the years, law acquisitions CA: An urgent need to network with handle during our fiscal year, it gives me librarians have told me they find the sharing other law librarians who were doing the same pause. Being able to pose questions to my very helpful. When vendors have tried work I’m doing. Acquisitions is the business Law-Acq colleagues and get immediate to participate, I diplomatically tell them function of libraries. When family or friends answers helps me do the best job on both the the member limitations of the list and ask what I do in my job, I tell them, “I work mundane and philosophical levels. I might try to direct them to other avenues of at the UC Law Library. I buy the books and be the only person doing acquisitions at my communication with law librarians, such make sure they get paid.” On the mundane library, but I’m not alone, because I have as AALL’s CRIV. level, we are responsible for shopping and several hundred other colleagues I can talk CRIV: What does the future hold for buying legal information products, keeping to at a moment’s notice via my computer. Law-Acq in particular and online discussion CRIV: Has the number of subscribers forums in general? grown through the years, or is it pretty CA: You’re probably alluding to the Law-Acq Basics constant? emergence of Web logs (blogs). I don’t have CA: The list grew from a handful of any abilities as a seer, but I have a feeling that Date started: 1995 members in 1995 to the current number of blogs will become more numerous and maybe Current number of subscribers: 221 221 and has remained more or less at that cause online lists to become extinct. Such is number through the past several years. the evolution of information technology. How to subscribe: Send a message CRIV: Has the volume of postings grown? However, I do think persons who do a to [email protected]. Place the CA: The volume of postings has similar job have a definite need to pose following command in the body of the remained constant also. I would attribute questions to each other, particularly when message: “subscribe law-acq” followed that to the fact that many academic law they need a quick answer that can be pushed by your first name and last name. acquisitions librarians have been in their out at a moment’s notice. Right now the How to post a message to the list: jobs for several years (I’ve had my position moderated lists seem to fit the bill. As is Once you are a subscriber you can post at Cincinnati for 10 years!) and know the the case with Law-Acq, we restrict our messages by sending the message to ropes, so they don’t post many questions membership and keep out publishers and [email protected]. The message any more. Also, the merger activity with the vendors. If password-protected blogs will be sent directly to Cynthia Aninao, legal publishers has stabilized, and we don’t someday evolve into this, then this is the see (or at least don’t rant about) as many way we’ll network with each other in the who screens all subscribers to verify that they are employed in a law library. problems as in past years. future. CRIV: Are most of the subscribers from a Archive location: particular type of library (academic, firm, etc.)? Richard Vaughan (rvaughan@indiana. http://listserv.uc.edu/archives/ CA: Ninety-five percent are from edu) is acquisitions and serials control law-acq.html academic; the rest are from court and librarian at Indiana University School of county law libraries and law firms. Law Library at Bloomington.

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news all responsibilities professional staff as acquisitions/catalog related to the librarian and assistant professor. Pereira library’s faculty comes to SIU from Murray State University, New Librarians services program where he served as a cataloger. Teresa Gallego O’Rourke is the as well as Jay Shuman is the new associate new reference and international interlibrary loan. director for research and online services at librarian at Boston University’s She was previously New York University Law Library. He had Pappas Law Library. O’Rourke a reference librarian been serving as acting associate director of earned her MLS from Simmons College at NYU. the library for the past year and a half. Graduate School of Library and Information Brent Johnson is the Christine M. Stouffer is the new Science and her JD from Villanova new reference/state documents librarian at director of library services at Thompson University. She was a temporary reference Widener University School of Law Legal Hine LLP in Cleveland. She was previously librarian at the Harvard Law Library from Information Center in Harrisburg, with Ulmer and Berne LLP, also in August 2004 until April 2005. Pennsylvania. He was previously the Cleveland, for nine years. instructional technology librarian at New Places and Responsibilities Washburn University School of Law in Sarah Mauldin, Lionel Sawyer and Gretchen Feltes has been appointed Topeka, Kansas. Collins, 300 S. Fourth Street, Suite 1700, reference/faculty services librarian at New Neil Pereira joined the Southern Las Vegas, NV 89101 • 702/383-8988 • fax: York University Law Library and will assume Illinois University School of Law Library 702/383-8845 • [email protected].

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taking credit for accomplishments that numerous special committees. His position “Content Kings,” Web searchers improved Maryland court law libraries and as state law librarian did not stop him from extraordinaire, open and accessible to law librarianship. As the Maryland state law serving concurrently for 13 years on the the public, becoming more proficient librarian he has worked tirelessly to improve legislative committees of both the Law at outreach, teaching research, access to the courts and legal information Library Association of Maryland (LLAM) collaboration, and partnering. by improving access at the state’s circuit and the Maryland Library Association. court libraries, serving on law library He was president of LLAM and served two About the Award standards committees, and successfully terms on its executive board. The Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished adding circuit court library funding through Effective access to government and Service Award was established in 1984 as the the state law library budget. His leadership legal information is his rallying cry whether Distinguished Service Award. In 1990 the role in the collaborative effort to design, as a member of the Maryland Governor’s award was renamed to honor Marian Gould implement, and promote the award- Task Force on State Documents, as chair Gallagher, longtime law librarian at the winning Maryland Peoples Law Library of the Maryland Commission on State University of Washington and first recipient Web site serves as an example for public Publications Depository and Distribution of the Distinguished Service Award. law libraries across the country. Program, as a member of the Maryland The award is presented to individuals Miller’s interest in direct public access State Bar Association Special Committee who have completed or are nearing to legal information began during a time on Local Law Libraries, or as a member of completion of active professional careers. when it was not popular to advocate the Maryland Legal Assistance Network It is given in recognition of outstanding, that law librarians could provide legal Strategic Planning Committee. extended, and sustained service to law information to non-members of the legal Miller’s approach to his job and his librarianship and to AALL. Honorees community. He chaired the AALL Legal chosen profession can be summed up in may be recognized for achievement in a Information Services to the Public his own words published in his “Chair’s particular area of law librarianship, for Committee from 1985-87 before it became Message” in the spring 2003 issue of State, service to the Association, or for outstanding the popular special interest section of the Court & County Law Libraries News as he contributions to professional literature. same name. discussed the need to reach out to legal Individuals must be or at one time have Miller’s work with the SCCLL-SIS services organizations to develop or improve been members of the American Association spanned the entire history of the section. self-help Web sites. of Law Libraries. He chaired the Standards Committee on Today, all across the U.S., law librarians The 2005 Marian Gould Gallagher more than one occasion. Without Miller’s have a golden opportunity to become Distinguished Service Award Subcommittee leadership, AALL’s model county law library stakeholders and partners in helping members are Johanna C. Bizub, Shirley code, state law library standards, and county legal aid organizations achieve success Hart David, Cornell H. Winston, and law library standards would not be in in building and maintaining relevant Susan E. Zago. existence or up to date. Web sites and educating both legal His work for the profession extends services agencies and information Shirley Hart David (shirleydavid@ beyond AALL, for which he co-chaired seekers as to the value of our own public hawaii.rr.com) is the Sacramento County Law the Annual Meeting Local Arrangements courthouse libraries and services (talk Librarian Emerita. Advisory Committee in 1997 and served on about marketing opportunities!). We are

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special interest by Don Arndt

section coordinator of the Zamora and Assistant Professor Antonio law library and Gidi, both from Houston University. information Monday, July 18, 5:15-6:15 p.m. center for the CS-SIS Annual Breakfast • Asian Law Interest Group Business Meeting with Professor Georgian Young Meeting, “Looking Eastward: Roy Mersky Lawyer’s Association Researching Asian Trade Law.” Speaker: The Computing Services Special in Tbilisi, Georgia. Chenglin Liu, adjunct professor of law Interest Section (CS-SIS) is thrilled to Aladashvili has worked and foreign and international law announce that its breakfast meeting this for more than a decade librarian at the University of Houston year will feature a presentation by Roy M. for the association. She holds Law Center and the IG chair. Mersky, Harry M. Reasoner Regents chair in a BS in law from the Tbilisi State University, Wednesday, July 20, 12-1 p.m. law and director of research at the Tarlton and she graduated from the International • CIS and Eastern European Law Library at the Jamail Center for Legal Relations and Translation program (1998- Law Interest Group. Research at the University of Texas at Austin 2000) at Tbilisi Law Institute. Featured Speaker: Irma Aladashvili, School of Law. Mersky will speak on “The Aladashvili attended the Summer School coordinator of the law library and Future of Law Librarianship—There is No of Human Rights in Budapest, Hungary, in information centre for the Georgian Future.” The breakfast meeting will take 1997. In 1999 she attended a human rights Young Lawyer’s Association in Tbilisi, place on Monday, July 18, from 7-8:45 a.m. training program in Montreal, Canada. In Georgia. Register early because attendance is limited. 2001, she took part in training in Florence, Sunday, July 17, 12:15-1:15 p.m. CS-SIS Programs at AALL. The CS-SIS is Italy, on electronic publishing. And in • Electronic Issues Interest Group sponsoring five programs at the AALL October 2002, in Budapest, Hungary, she Business Meeting, “New Portals to Annual Meeting: attended the Training for Law Librarians, Foreign and International Law.” • A-1: “Creating and Using Interactive organized by the International Legal Speakers: Marylin Raisch, international Electronic Legal Research Lessons” Institute and the Open Society Institute. and foreign law librarian at Georgetown (Sunday, July 17, 10 a.m.) Aladashvili speaks Georgian, English, University Law Libraries and the IG • C-1: “Raise Your Standards, Improve and Russian. She is the author of the Guide chair; Mirela Roznovschi, reference to Georgian Legal Research (www.nyulaw Your World and Create Universal Web librarian for international and foreign global.org/globalex/Georgia.htm), recently Pages” (Sunday, July 17, 4:15 p.m.) law at New York University Law published on GlobaLex. She will be the • J-2: “30 Cheap Web Development Tools Library; Emily Allbon, law librarian special guest of the FCIL-SIS CIS and in 30 Minutes” (Wednesday, July 20, from the City University, London, Eastern European Law Interest Group in 1:30 p.m.) England (2004 Betty Moys Award San Antonio. She will speak about her • K-1: “Multimedia Presentations: How recipient for her work on a student country’s libraries and legal research. Come to Get Copyright Clearance and Other legal portal www.lawbore.net); and meet Aladashvili on Sunday, July 17, from Permissions for Digital Projects” other special guests. (Wednesday, July 20, 2:15 p.m.) 12:15-1:15 p.m. Remember to attend the FCIL-SIS Tuesday, July 19, 7:45-8:45 a.m. • K-4: “Beyond the Blog: RSS, Wikis and • African Law Interest Group Business Blikis” (Wednesday, July 20, 2:15 p.m.) workshop, W-3: “New Vistas and Values for Europe: Strategies for Researching European Meeting, “New Developments in CS-SIS Meetings at AALL. Mark your African Legal Systems: Ghana.” schedule for the following meetings: Law,” on Saturday, July 16, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. See the full announcement on page 27 in Speaker: Victor Essien, international • TS/OBS/RIPS/CS-SIS Joint Reception law librarian and adjunct professor of (Saturday, July 16, 6-7:30 p.m.) your Annual Meeting Preliminary Program. This intermediate level workshop for law at Fordham Law School and African • CS-SIS Business Meeting (Sunday, Law Interest Group chair. July 17, 5:30-6:30 p.m.) academic and law firm librarians and information specialists will focus on Sunday, July 17, 5:30-6:30 p.m. • CS-SIS Breakfast Meeting (Monday, • Publication Committee Business July 18, 7-8:45 a.m.) European Union document research and the changes in the structure, constitutional Meeting, “Selectors of Foreign Law in • CS-SIS Roundtable on Web Design Foreign Languages.” Moderators: Anne and Maintenance (Monday, July 18, foundation, and membership of the Burnett, reference/foreign and 10:15-11:30 a.m.) European Union. A distinguished roster of international law librarian at the • CS-SIS Program Committee Meeting academic, governmental, and private research University of Georgia Law Library; (Monday, July 18, 5:15-6:15 p.m.) and practice experts will guide participants Linda Tashbook, foreign international • CS-SIS Roundtable on Instructional through these changes and much more. comparative law librarian at the Technology (Tuesday, July 19, Transportation will be provided, and the University of Pittsburgh Barco Law 11:45 a.m.-1 p.m.) Wm. S. Hein Company is providing a Library; and Dan Wade, associate Submitted by Susan Boland. reception following the program. This year in San Antonio, FCIL-SIS librarian for foreign and international FCIL-SIS Foreign Grant Award, interest group meetings will concentrate law and lecturer at the Yale Law Library, Workshop and Business Meetings on substantive contributions. Check your will moderate a gathering of foreign law in San Antonio Annual Meeting Final Program for the room librarians and librarians in charge of The Foreign, Comparative, and International where these business meetings will take place. acquisition of foreign law. The meeting Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) • The Executive Committee presents is sponsored by the Northeast Foreign Ellen Schaffer Foreign Librarian’s Grant was “Introduction to Latin American Legal Law Librarians Cooperative Group. awarded this year to Irma Aladashvili, Systems.” Speakers: Professor Stephen Monday, July 18, 9-10 a.m.

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Teaching Foreign and International As a service to the profession, OBS The RIPS-SIS Interlibrary Loan/Document Research Interest Group, “Panel on FCIL publishes an “OBS Website of the Month” Delivery Roundtable is scheduled for July Librarianship.” Moderators: Patricia A. (www.aallnet.org/sis/obssis/localsys/webomo 19, from 7:30-8:15 a.m. The second Kasting, reference librarian at Hofstra nth.htm), which offers cataloging copy for roundtable will focus on Internet use University Law School Library; and Mary useful law-related online resources. These policies and will be held on July 18, from Rumsey, foreign, comparative, and records are available for use in your library 9-10 a.m. During the past year, Ann international law librarian at the University as catalog records or collection development Cottingim and Gary Yessin have collected of Minnesota Law Library, will moderate a tools. policies from law libraries. They will share question-and-answer gathering on FCIL Submitted by Richard M. Jost. the results of their efforts at the roundtable. librarianship, aimed at people interested in If your library is considering creating a new becoming FCIL librarians or learning more RIPS-SIS Gears up for San Antonio Internet use policy or has an older policy about FCIL librarianship. The Research Instruction and Patron that needs updating, this roundtable is for Tuesday, July 19, 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Services Special Interest Section (RIPS-SIS) you. If your library already has a policy, More information is available on the invites all members to its business meeting please consider sharing it. FCIL-SIS Web page, www.aallnet.org/ at the AALL Annual Meeting in San RIPS programs on the agenda this year sis/fcilsis, and in the FCIL Newsletter Antonio. The meeting will be held Sunday, are: C-3: “Basic Legal Reference for Non- available online at www.aallnet.org/sis/ July 17, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the law-librarian Librarians: An Outreach fcilsis/newsletter.html. Marriott Riverwalk Hotel. Let’s have a Program” (Sunday, July 17, 4:15-5:15 p.m.); Submitted by Mirela Roznovschi. record turnout. D-3: “Specialized Legal Research Courses: In addition to the business meeting, When Advanced Legal Research Isn’t OBS-SIS Updates there are a number of committee meetings Enough” (Monday, July 18, 9-10 a.m.); The results of the 2005 annual online for those who would like to be actively J-1: “Citing the Unpublished Opinion: The membership survey were distributed to the involved in the work of the SIS. The RIPS- Ohio Change and What It Might Mean to Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest SIS Web Page Committee is meeting on July You” (Wednesday, July 20, 1:30-2 p.m.); Section (OBS-SIS) membership in March. As 18, from 7:45-8:45 a.m. If you have an and K-5: “Envisioning Insurance Law expected, OBS members were pleased with aptitude for Web creation or content Research” (Wednesday, July 20, 2:15-2:45 the section programs at the AALL Boston management, the committee would love to p.m.). Meeting and look forward to the OBS see you. Submitted by Pamela Melton. programs in San Antonio. Many members of The RIPS-SIS Program Committee is OBS are working on the final details of their meeting on July 18, from 10:15-11:30 a.m. SCCLL-SIS Happenings programs for the Annual Meeting. This committee, year after year, does a This is the first year the State, Court, and The other projects that the OBS spectacular job of putting together County Law Libraries Special Interest Executive Committee has been working on interesting and exciting program proposals. Section (SCCLL-SIS) had the opportunity include a bylaws revision and a strategic plan New members and ideas are always to invite a VIP to the AALL Annual update. With the bylaws revision (to be welcomed. Meeting. Our committee chose Judge Lora discussed and voted on at the AALL Annual The RIPS-SIS Patron Services Livingston of Austin, Texas. She is a great Meeting this summer), the section will be Committee will meet on July 19, from 8:15- supporter of services to pro se litigants. She able to take advantage of electronic voting 8:45 a.m. The RIPS-SIS Public Relations has served on the Texas Access to Justice for future officers, currently sponsored by Committee meets on July 20, from 7:45- Commission and was chair of the American AALL Headquarters. 8:45 a.m. And if you can’t make any of these Bar Association Standing Committee on The slate of candidates for 2005-2006 is meetings, consider volunteering to sit at Delivery of Legal Services. She created the vice chair/chair elect: Susan Goldner and the RIPS display table in the Exhibit Hall. pro se forms committee in Travis County, Betty Roeske; secretary treasurer: Melanie Puron the penguin needs company. which eventually led to the development of Cornell and Kathy Faust; and member at RIPS is also sponsoring several Annual pro se forms for Travis County litigants and large: Eric Gilson and Stephanie Schmitt. Meeting programs and two roundtables. (continued on page 30)

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the Travis County Law Library reference ALERT: TS-SIS is trying something Planning for the 2006 St. Louis Meeting. attorney program. Livingston has agreed to highly unusual at this year’s Meeting— It’s high time for members to draft program be a speaker at our librarians and trustees sponsoring four programs that were not proposals for the 2006 Annual Meeting in luncheon on Sunday, July 17. accepted by the Annual Meeting Program St. Louis. If you have an idea for a program SCCLL received an invitation as an Committee. Because these programs were or are willing to put together a proposal or observer to the April 21 Summit on Court not officially accepted, they won’t be listed serve as a program coordinator, please Security in Washington, D.C., sponsored by in the “Programs” section of your Annual contact Vice-President/President-Elect the National Center for State Courts. This Meeting Final Program. When you receive Karen Douglas, of Duke University, at summit was organized in response to recent your program at registration in San [email protected]. The Program/ and continuing violence in courthouses Antonio, please check the alphabetical index Education Committee will meet in San across the country. A member of SCCLL under “TS-SIS” for dates, times, and Antonio on Tuesday during the lunch hour. will attend this and follow-up meetings on locations of TS-SIS programs, meetings, By then Douglas hopes to have a number of this topic. and roundtables. proposals already in the works. Bring your AALL President Victoria Trotta invited On Sunday, the first TS-sponsored ideas and your lunch, and join the discussion. SCCLL Chair Sandy Marz to join her at program will be offered: “TS-SIS Forum: Centennial Committee. Throughout the Assembly on Court Associations in Easy Does It: EDI Made Simple,” 11:45 2005-2006, AALL will celebrate its centennial May in Washington, D.C. a.m.-1:15 p.m. anniversary. A TS-SIS Centennial Committee Submitted by Sandy Marz. On Monday morning, three more has been appointed to explore ways that TS-sponsored programs are scheduled: we can contribute to the celebration. The TS-SIS News “TS-SIS Panel: Who’s Counting? Who committee is chaired by Janice Shull, of the TSLL (Technical Services Law Librarian). Cares? Revisiting the ABA Statistics Issue,” Law Library of Louisiana. The other members Reminder: TSLL has gone electronic only. 9-10 a.m.; “TS-SIS Demo: Strategize and are Mahnaz Moshfegh, of Indiana University, It’s up to you to check it out on the FRBRize Your OPAC,” 9-9:30 a.m.; and Indianapolis; Keiko Okuhara, of the Technical Services Special Interest Section “TS-SIS Panel: Electronic Resources University of Hawaii; and Patricia Satzer, of (TS-SIS) Web site. The March issue, freed Management,” 9:45-11:30 a.m. the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis. from paper constraints, was chock-full of Coordinators are working hard to bring Thanks to these members for volunteering. articles and information, and the June issue you these programs, and TS-SIS will foot If you’d like to be part of this effort, please promises more of the same. If anyone the hefty equipment bill. So please show contact Shull at [email protected]. catalogs the electronic version on a utility, your support for TS-SIS efforts to provide Ad Hoc Committee on Annual Meeting don’t forget to let us all know via the TS-SIS relevant Annual Meeting programming for Programming. On March 31, the Ad electronic discussion list. technical services librarians by attending as Hoc Committee on Annual Meeting San Antonio Annual Meeting. Please plan many of these programs as you can. Programming completed a memorandum to to arrive in San Antonio in time for the Can’t Attend the Meeting this Year? me as TS-SIS chair. As of this writing, the TS/OBS/RIPS/CS-SIS Joint Reception— For TS-SIS members unable to attend the AALL Executive Board is in the process of often called the Alphabet Soup Reception. Meeting in San Antonio, Chris Tarr, of the determining its next steps. The memorandum The reception is once again generously University of California, Berkeley, has will be linked to the TS-SIS Web site. sponsored by Innovative Interfaces and is volunteered to organize on-site electronic Submitted by Cindy May. scheduled for Saturday evening from 6-7:30 reporting via the TS-SIS electronic discussion Don Arndt, University of Toledo, Law p.m. This is a wonderful opportunity to list. You’ll be able to check the list daily for Center, Mail Stop 508, Toledo, OH 43606- renew acquaintances or, if you’re a new up-to-the-minute breaking news on programs 3390 • 419/530-2945 • fax: 419/530-5121 member, to meet your colleagues. and activities of interest to our members. • [email protected].

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Memorials washington brief - continued from page 6 AALL Spectrum has been advised of advocacy efforts during the past year. Bob community to better understand our needs the deaths of Myron Jacobstein, Oakley and I will also report on pending and those of our users, particularly as they Madison Mosley, and Mary Oliver. legislation of particular interest to our relate to authentication and version control. Jacobstein was AALL president community. Note: Special thanks to program coordinators in 1978-79 and a real mover and We are honored to have as our guest Barbara Brandon, A. Hays Butler, and Kira shaker among law librarians in the speaker Michael L. Wash, the chief Zaporski for allowing me to borrow liberally 1960s-1980s. He was prominent in technical officer at the Government from their excellent program proposals. the movement that ultimately led to Printing Office. Wash leads the three-year Mary Alice Baish, associate Washington the creation of the special interest project to develop GPO’s new digital affairs representative, Edward B. Williams section concept. He is also one of content system that will catalog, Law Library, 111 G Street, NW Washington, the featured speakers in the 1992 authenticate, and preserve electronic D.C. 20001-1417 • 202/662-9200 • Fax: program “Don’t Close the Bar Yet: government information. He looks 202/662-9202 • [email protected] • Still More Eavesdropping on AALL forward to having conversations with our www.ll.georgetown.edu/aallwash. History” that is now available through the AALL Centennial Celebration Web site, www.aallnet. org/committee/cenceleb/histories/ overheard.asp. Jacobstein died March 25. Mosley was director of the law library and information services and AREARE YOUYOU UPUP associate professor of law at Stetson University College of Law. He joined the Stetson staff in 1993 after earning his JD from the college of law. He served as a reference TOTO LISTING?LISTING? librarian and associate library director before being appointed We’veWe’ve beenbeen listinglisting onlyonly thethe bestbest sincesince 1918.1918. director in February 2001. He was an active member of AALL, the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, and the Florida Library Association. He was also an active community member, serving on the Avon Park city council, as the co-chair of St. Petersburg’s Citizens Review Committee for the Police Department, and as the parliamentarian of the city’s African- American Voter Education Committee. Mosley died March 29 after a lengthy illness. Oliver was law librarian at the University of North Carolina for Obtain and retain 34 years. She was one of the early dual degree library directors and a valuable clients graduate of UNC School of Law. She was AALL president in 1972-73 Promote your firm’s and past president of the Southeastern hard earned reputation Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries. List your deserving AALL Spectrum carries brief firm where it belongs announcements of members’ deaths in the “Memorials” column. Traditional memorials should be Available ONLINE Call today to inquire and in print. submitted to Frank Houdek, Law about including your firm Subscribe now and Library Journal, Southern Illinois get your complete or to order your directory. University Law Library, Mail listing online. Or visit our website. Code 6803, Lesar Law Building, Including: The Canadian Bar, Carbondale, IL 62901, houdek@ Also available in an The Mexican Bar and abridged desk-size The International Bar 1-800-328-5091 siu.edu. reference Published by Forster-Long, Inc. www.americanbar.com AALLSpectrum_June 5/14/05 4:25 PM Page 32

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View from Graham and Dunn PC in Seattle. Submitted by Katie Drake, librarian. Share Your Viewpoint AALL Spectrum would like to publish your thoughts and comments. We are looking for short submissions about AALL and about the profession. The ideal submission will be a paragraph or less and certainly shorter than a letter to the editor. Please send submissions to AALL Spectrum Editorial Director Paul Healey at [email protected] or to AALL Director of Publications Julia O’Donnell at [email protected]. Do You Have a Beautiful View from Your Law Library? Many law libraries have interesting or dramatic views of cityscapes, mountain ranges, or beautiful vistas. If your law library has a great view, this is your chance to share it with AALL. In order to be publishable, pictures (Below) View of the Chapel of Saint Ignatius from the Seattle must be of relatively high quality. University Law Library. Submitted by Kara Phillips, collection While we can work with a print, development/associate executive librarian. Photo by Charity Braceros. digital submissions are better. Digital submissions must be high-resolution (300 dpi). When scanning photos, set the scanner at high-resolution/print quality/300 dpi. When taking pictures with a digital camera, make sure that the camera is set to take the largest photo possible. Depending on the number of submissions received, we will publish one or two photos in each issue of Spectrum and post them on AALLNET at www.aallnet.org/view/ view_month.asp. Photos will be published on a first-come, first-serve basis. Publication of a submitted photo is not guaranteed. If you have questions about submitting photos, please contact AALL Director of Publications Julia O’Donnell at [email protected].

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sanby Martha A. White antonioThe area code for all phone numbers in this guide is 210 unless otherwise stated

Coming into San Antonio the downtown area to the San Antonio Museum of Art, Japanese Tea Garden, San Antonio Zoo, From the Airport Witte Museum, Brackenridge Park, and the The airport is eight miles from downtown Botanical Garden. Bus service is available to San Antonio. most other visitor attractions outside the Taxi: Taxis run between central San Antonio downtown area. and the airport. A taxi ride from the airport to Downtown Streetcars any downtown hotel takes about 15 minutes Streetcars, which run from 7 a.m.-9 p.m., come and costs approximately $18. There are no by each stop about every 10 minutes. You can extra charges for additional passengers or get from Alamo Plaza to just about anywhere luggage. Up to four passengers can “Share-a- in downtown San Antonio within 10 minutes. Cab” and divide the fare by the number of The cost is $.80 and $.15 for a transfer slip or passengers. There are also minivan taxis with $3 for a day pass. six-passenger capacity. Driving Bus: Shared-ride shuttles are available from The street system of downtown San Antonio is Satrans (281-9900), which provides a more than 150 years old. There are no service regular service to downtown San Antonio stations available downtown. Visitors should hotels. VIA city bus no.2 (362-2020), study a city map before starting out because which takes a one-hour scenic route, is also there are many one-way streets. The speed limit available between the city and the airport. The is 30 mph or less on streets downtown. Rush pick-up area for off-site hotels, car parks, and hour is from 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m. Right turns car hire companies is outside the terminal on red are allowed unless posted. There are buildings near the baggage claim areas. two main loops around San Antonio: 1604 on Greyhound the outskirts and I-410 in the city’s midsection. 500 N. St. Mary’s Street Due to the proximity of most downtown Main: 270-5824 attractions, it is recommended to use the Baggage: 270-5812 Riverwalk, take a taxi or the downtown trolleys, Greyhound Package Express: 270-5815 or walk. Customer Service: 270-5834 Parking The Greyhound station is located within a Metered parking, public parking areas, and mile of the hotel area near the Riverwalk. garages are available in downtown San Antonio. Amtrak Parking meter rates are $.75 per half hour; 350 Hoefgen Street, 223-3226 maximum is $3 for meters. www.texaseagle.com/stations/SAS.htm Walking The train station is approximately one mile San Antonio has many great places to walk. from the hotel area near the Riverwalk. Downtown has many tourists. The Riverwalk is full of shops and restaurants. The King William Historic Area is also a lovely place to stroll Traveling around Town because of the Victorian homes, some of which Taxis are open for tours. Taxi rates are set by the city, so they apply to all cabs. The cost is $1.70 for the first 1/6 Conference Hotels mile and $1.80 for each mile thereafter. Waiting time is $18/hour. There is a $1 Marriott Rivercenter surcharge for all trips that originate between (Headquarters Hotel) 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. The minimum for a trip 101 Bowie Street, 223-1000 departing the airport is $8.50. Hilton Palacio del Rio AAA Taxi Service 222-2223 200 S. Alamo Street, 222-1400 Greater San Antonio La Quinta Convention Center Transportation Co./ 303 Blum, 222-9181 Yellow Checker Cab 222-2222 Marriott Riverwalk Public Transportation 711 E. River Walk Street, 224-4555 Metro runs from 6:30 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Exact change is required. The fare is $.80 and $1.60 Menger Hotel for express bus service. New bus route 7 is a 204 Alamo Plaza, 223-4361 great route for visitors because it travels from

Mission San Jose. Photo courtesy SACVB AALLSpectruminsert_June 5/14/05 2:59 PM Page 2 sanseeing antonio Tourist Information Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley’s Haunted Adventure The Greater San Antonio Chamber 329 Alamo Plaza of Commerce 226-2828 602 E. Commerce Street, 229-2100 www.hauntedadventure.com Fax: 229-1600 Hours: 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday; http://sachamber.org/visitor/visitor_info.php 10 a.m.-12 a.m. Friday-Saturday San Antonio Convention and Hemisfair Park Visitors Bureau 200 S. Alamo Street 203 S. St. Mary’s Street, 2nd floor 207-8572 207-6700, 800/447-3372 Hours: 24 hours a day TTY: 207-6706 Fax: 207-6768 Instituto de Mexico http://sanantoniovisit.com/visitors/com_ 600 HemisFair Plaza Way history.asp 227-0123 Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; San Antonio Visitors Information Center 12-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday 317 Alamo Plaza, 800/447-3372 Admission: free King William Historic Area Attractions This is a 25-block area near downtown on The Alamo the south bank of the San Antonio River and 300 Alamo Plaza a great place for walking. 225-1391, ext. 34 La Villita www.thealamo.org 418 Villita, located at Villita Street between Hours: 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday; S. Presa and S. Alamo 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday. 207-8610 Admission: free; donations accepted www.lavillita.com Arneson River Theatre Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. daily On San Antonio River adjacent La Villita Admission: free 207-8610 Market Square-El Mercado http://lavillita.com/arneson 514 W. Commerce Musical events presented nightly June-August 207-8600 Brackenridge Park Hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. summer 3700 N. St. Mary’s Street, 207-7275 Admission: free Hours: 5 a.m.-11 p.m. Mission Trails-San Antonio Missions Admission: free National Historical Park Buckhorn Saloon and Museum Park Headquarters: 2202 Roosevelt Avenue 318 E. Houston 534-8833, 932-1001 247-4000 www.nps.gov/saan www.buckhornmuseum.com Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. or later; Admission: free call for exact closing times Natural Bridge Caverns Admission: adults $10.99; seniors $9.99; Located off I-35 exit 175, 8 miles west on children (ages 3-11) $7.99. Special rates Farm 3009 for groups of 10 or more, and discounts for 651-6101 military with ID. www.naturalbridgecaverns.com Casa Navarro State Historic Site Hours: 9 a.m.-7 p.m. 228 S. Laredo Street Admission: $9-25 Weather 226-4801 Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday 26515 Natural Bridge Caverns Rd., Normal weather is sunny in the Admission: adults $2; children (ages 13 and next to Natural Bridge Caverns mid-90s. It is rare for the under) free; Texas residents (ages 65+) $1 830/438-7400 temperature to exceed 100 degrees. Guenther House www.nbwildliferanchtx.com/home.html Humidity can be 80 percent in 205 E. Guenther Hours: 9 a.m.-6:30 p.m. the morning. It drops to around 227-1061, 800/235-8186 Admission: adults $13.50; senior citizens 50 percent in the afternoon. www.guentherhouse.com $11.50; children (ages 3-11) $6.50 Hours: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Saturday; Paseo Del Rio (Riverwalk) 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday The river walk follows San Antonio River Restaurant hours: 7 a.m.-3 p.m. daily through the middle of downtown. McNay Art Museum. Photo courtesy SACVB Admission: free 227-4262 AALLSpectruminsert_June 5/16/05 11:18 AM Page 3

Photo courtesy SACVB Important Numbers Emergencies: 911 Time: 226-3232 Police (non emergencies): 207-7273 Weather: 830/609-2029 Fire (non emergencies): 207-7744

River Valley Resort/Rio Raft Company Commercial Tours Walking Tours 14130 River Road, New Braunfels 877/746-7238 ACH Travel and Tours Mission Trail 727 Frio City Road Begins downtown with signs indicating San Antonio Botanical Gardens 222-2440, 800/673-5818 Mission Trail 555 Funston at N. New Braunfels Avenue 10-mile route 207-3250 Alamo City Heritage Tours www.sabot.org 14010 Cougar Rock Drive Riverwalk Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily 224-9851 Do-it-yourself tour of downtown San Antonio Admission adults $6; senior citizens $4; Daisy Tours Texas Star Trail and King William Street children (ages 3-13) $3; military and 1505 E. Houston Street Historic District students with ID $4 225-8600, 800/285-8601 224-6163 San Antonio IMAX Theatre at Rivercenter www.conventionsa.com Self-guided walking tours offered by the San Antonio Conservation Society 849 E. Commerce, Street Level, Crockett OK Tours! Street Entrance 737 Austin Street 247-4629, 800/354-4629 222-8880, 800/270-0132 Shopping and Services www.imax-sa.com www.oktours.com Sales Tax San Antonio Public Library Rio San Antonio Cruises San Antonio’s sales tax rate is 8 percent. 600 Soledad 315 E. Commerce, Ste. 202 207-2500 (central library) 244-5700, 800/417-4139 Copying www.sanantonio.gov/library/branch www.sarivercruise.com Photocopies can be made at the Menger Hotel Hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday; 9 a.m.-9 p.m. and the convention center. Monday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday and San Antonio City Tours Saturday 216 Alamo Plaza Post Office Free one-hour parking at Central Library 228-9776 615 E. Houston Street, 800/275-8777 Garage with validated ticket. www.sacitytours.net Bookstores San Fernando Cathedral Book Cellar 115 W. Main Plaza 600 Soledad Street, 227-9519 227-1297 Brentano’s Books Hours: 5:30 a.m.-7 p.m. daily Rivercenter Mall, 223-3938 Schlitterbahn Waterpark Half Price Books, Records, Magazines 381 E. Austin Street, New Braunfels 3207 Broadway Street, 822-4597 830/625-2351 www.schlitterbahn.com The History Shop Hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. 713 E. Houston Street, 229-9855 Admission: adults $31.99; children (ages 3-11) old books and first editions $26.50 Film Development Spanish Governor’s Palace Ritz Camera 105 Plaza De Armas Rivercenter Mall, 354-0094 224-0601 Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; River Center Drug Store 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday 849 E. Commerce Street, Suite 200h Admission: adults $1.50; seniors (ages 62+) 299-1383 and children (ages 3-11) $.75 Walgreens Pharmacy Sunken Gardens or Japanese Tea Garden 300 E. Houston Street, 225-2619 3875 N. St Mary’s Street Shoe Repair 735-0663 Central Shoe Repair Hours: 8:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Market Square. Photo courtesy SACVB/Al Rendon 5026 Broadway Street, 824-8001 Admission: free Eyeglass Repair Tower of the Americas Eyemaster 600 HemisFair Park San Antonio Convention and Visitors Bureau 7400 San Pedro Avenue, #18 207-8615 349-0696 Hours: Observation Deck, 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Freelance guides Sunday-Thursday; 9 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday Texas Trolley Tour Quick Lunches Admission: adults $4; seniors (ages 55+) Alamo Visitor Center, 216 Alamo Plaza There are sandwich shops around Alamo Plaza $2.50; children (ages 4-11) $1.50, (under 4) 225-8587 and restaurants on the Riverwalk. Rivercenter free; fees subject to change Hours: 9:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m. daily Mall has a food court. Admission: 60-minute tour $13; all-day pass $15 AALLSpectruminsert_June 5/14/05 3:01 PM Page 4 sanseeing antonio Museums Children’s Attractions Witte Museum. Photo courtesy SACVB/Tim Thompson Fort Sam Houston Museum San Antonio Children’s Museum 1210 Stanley Road, Building 123 305 E. Houston 221-1886 212-4453 Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday-Sunday www.sakids.org Radio Admission: free Hours: 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; KTKR (760 AM)—news, talk 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday; 12-4 p.m. Sunday KFIT (1060 AM)—gospel Hangar 9-Museum of Flight Medicine Admission: adults $5.95; children (under 2) free WOAI (1200 AM)—news, weather Brooks Air Force Base at Junction I-37 KZEP (1250 AM)—sports, talk and Military Drive San Antonio Zoo and Aquarium KPAC (88.3 FM)—classical 536-2203 3903 N. St. Mary’s KSAT (89.1 FM)—NPR Hours: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Friday 734-7184 KYFS (90.9 FM)—religious Admission: free www.sazoo-aq.org KNBT (92.1 FM)—country Hours: 9 a.m.-6 p.m. daily Institute of Texan Cultures KSJL (96.1 FM)—urban Admission: adults $8; seniors (ages 62+) and KISS (99.5 FM)—rock 801 S. Bowie Street children (ages 3-11) $6; children under 2 free 458-2300 KONO (101.1 FM)—oldies www.texancultures.utsa.edu SeaWorld San Antonio KQXT (101.9 FM)—adult contemporary Hours: 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 10500 SeaWorld Drive KTFM (102.7 FM)—top 40 12-5 p.m. Sunday 800/700-7786 KCJZ (106.7 FM)—jazz Admission: adults (ages 13-64) $7; children www.seaworld.com/seaworld/tx/default.aspx KXTN (107.5 FM)—Spanish (ages 3-12) $4, (2 and under) free; seniors Admission: adults $43.99; children (ages 3-9) and military with ID $4 $33.99 Minor League Baseball McNay Art Museum Six Flags Fiesta Texas San Antonio Missions 6000 N. New Braunfels 17000 W. I-10, exit 555 Nelson Wolff Stadium 824-5368 697-5050 5757 W. US Highway 90 www.mcnayart.org/index2.html www.sixflags.com/parks/fiestatexas/index.asp 210/675-7275 Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; Admission: $26.99 online; $26.99-$41.99 at www.samissions.com 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. park July 14: Home v. Arkansas Travelers (7:05 p.m.) Saturday; 12-5 p.m. Sunday Splashtown July 15: Home v. Springfield Cardinals (7:05 p.m.) Admission: free except during select July 16: Home v. Springfield Cardinals (7:05 p.m.) exhibitions and special events 3600 N. IH-35 227-1400 July 17: Home v. Springfield Cardinals (6:05 p.m.) San Antonio Museum of Art www.splashtownsa.com 200 W. Jones Avenue Hours: 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday; Places of Worship and 978-8100 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday-Sunday www.sa-museum.org Admission: adults $24.99; children under Religious Services Hours: 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Tuesday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 48 inches tall $18.99; after 5 p.m. $15.99; First Church of Christ Scientist Wednesday-Saturday; 12-6 p.m. Sunday seniors and children (2 and under) free; 501 N. Alamo Street, 227-5029 Admission: adults $8; seniors $7; children (ages non-participant $7.99 4-11) $3, (3 and under) free; students $5 First Presbyterian Church 404 N. Alamo Street Texas Highway Patrol Museum Media 812 S. Alamo Street Little Church of La Villita 231-6030 Newspapers 508 Villita Street, 226-3593 www.thpa.org/museum.htm El Continental Hours: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Hispanic newspaper San Fernando Cathedral Admission: Suggested donation of $2 La Prensa San Antonio 115 W. Main Plaza, 227-1297 www.laprensa.com/prensamain.htm Witte Museum St. Johns Lutheran Church Bilingual newspaper 502 E. Nueva 3801 Broadway Prime Time Newspapers 357-1900 www.primetimenewspapers.com St. Joseph’s Downtown Church www.wittemuseum.org/index.html Community newspapers 623 E. Commerce Street Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday; 10 a.m.-8 p.m. San Antonio Express-News Tuesday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Saturday; www.mysanantonio.com St. Mark’s Episcopal Church 12-5 p.m. Sunday Local daily news 315 E. Pecan Street, 226-2426 Admission: adults $7; seniors $6; children St. Mary’s Catholic Church (ages 4-11) $5, (under 3) free Television WOAI (NBC) Channel 4 202 N. Saint Mary’s Street, 226-8381 KENS (CBS) Channel 5 KLRN (PBS) Channel 9 Martha A. White ([email protected]) KSAT (ABC) Channel 12 is a librarian at BP’s Upstream Technical KABB (FOX) Channel 29 Library in Houston. Previously White was a KVDA (Telemundo) Channel 60 law librarian for nine years. Deborah Hartwell, Michele Lucero, and Jen Van Ness also contributed to this guide. San Antonio Zoo. Photo courtesy SACVB/Tim Thompson