ACADEMIC LAW LIBRARIES–SPECIAL INTEREST SECTION AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES The ALL-SIS Newsletter Volume 29, Issue 3 Summer 2010 MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR Beth Adelman year. You will hear more about these projects at 2009 - 2010 ALL-SIS Chair the annual meeting in Denver and in the SIS Congratulations to the winners of the 2010 Annual Report. ALL-SIS Awards! Please join your SIS colleagues for hors d’oeuvres and a drink as the SIS award winners are honored at the ALL-SIS Reception & ABA Standards for Law Libraries – the SIS Awards event on Sunday, July 11, 2010, at 6:30 in task force recommendations were adopted by the Hyatt Ballroom A&B. Save the date and look AALL; for an invitation to this event on the ALL-SIS ALL-SIS Archives – created a task for to set listserv very soon. policies and procedures to address archiving When I look back at the SIS activities for the SIS information in the digital age; year it is apparent how much the SIS has The Bluebook – ALL-SIS program to discuss accomplished. Many thanks to the SIS members concerns with Bluebook editors and plans to who brought great ideas to the Executive Board. establish a task force after the annual meeting; Here is a selected list of some of the issues explored by SIS committees and task forces this (Continued on page 18) Inside this issue: ALL-SIS 2009/2010 Program Committee Report: Program Planning for 2011 4 Programs Accepted at the Denver Annual Meeting ALL-SIS Awards 5 Kathleen McLeod Denver Facts 6 Jones, Rosemary LaSala, and I. Chair, Program Committee Collection Dev. Com. Activities 8 After careful review the committee The ALL-SIS Program forwarded its recommendations to Hot Topic 9 Committee received a large and the AALL Annual Meeting AALL Announcements 10 varied group of program proposals Program Committee for review and Committee Reports 11 for the upcoming Denver consideration. A total of ten ALL- Indexing the Newsletter 14 Conference. So many deserving SIS sponsored programs were ALL-SIS Website 15 proposals created a dilemma for the accepted: eight AALL programs, Mini-Research Training 16 programming committee, Uwe one AALL workshop, and one ALL 18 ‘Link Rot” Beltz, Paul Callister, Michele -SIS program. Columns 20 Finerty, Darla Jackson, Faye Member News 25 (Continued on page 2) Volume 29, Issue 3 Page 2 ALL-SIS Programs, Cont’d AALL Workshop: incoming associates are paid less but enrolled in W-3 From Novice to Knowledgeable: Newer intensive training on practicing laws. Law schools Directors Tell What They Had to Learn. have added practice-oriented courses, and some Date & Time: Saturday, July 10, 12:30 - 5:00 p.m. have instituted lawyering programs. There have even been suggestions of unpaid apprenticeships. A panel of newer academic library directors This program will examine how the current will outline the skills they felt were most valuable economic crisis has shifted the focus on how to to them in securing a director’s position and then train associates. Panelists will discuss the thriving in that role. Panelists will discuss: budget challenges facing law firms and law schools and management, change management, personnel identify opportunities for librarians to map their management, project management, collection future and be a part of these revolutionary development and others. Participants will have an changes. opportunity to select a skill they would like to explore and work in small groups to develop a B-1 Developing Leaders: Inside, Outside, and learning plan for this skill. Together Date & Time: Sunday, July 11, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. AALL Programs Librarians need to be able to identify abilities A-1 The Bluebook: An Open Discussion among in themselves and within developing members of Editors and Librarians the profession that will allow them to be effective Date & Time: Sunday, July 11, 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. leaders. The three parts to leadership development This program will feature an open discussion are: 1) “The Inside,” which means to know among law librarians and the editors of The yourself. Examining the concepts of emotional Bluebook. By answering questions posed by the intelligence will provide tools to better understand moderator, the editors will explain the rationale your leadership abilities and potential. 2) “The behind Bluebook rules, while the librarians will Outside,” which means how we relate and use our discuss issues they face as they assist users with abilities within our groups and organizations. 3) The Bluebook. The program is not intended to “The Together,” which means it takes a village to make the editors change the rules “for us,” but, raise a leader. Mentoring and feedback are vital to instead, to make all users of the Bluebook better the development of one’s own abilities and those informed as they work with their editors and around us. This panel discussion/discovery session students. will provide ample opportunity to discover and A-2 Mile High Summit on Training: Are Things interact with the presenters. Coming to a Peak? C-4 Communicating with Patrons - The Best of the Date & Time: Sunday, July 11, 1:30 - 2:45 p.m. Best Librarians have debated this issue for years. Date & Time: Sunday, July 11, 4:15 - 5:15 p.m. Now, with the economy putting pressure on law Communicating with students is a challenge firms and law schools, the talk about who and how academic law librarians face daily. Our to train law students to become practicing competition is the students’ downtime, lunchtime, attorneys is becoming action. Law firms have web time, and time with friends. What’s the best announced in-depth training programs where the (Continued on page 3) Volume 29, Issue 3 Page 3 ALL-SIS Programs, Cont’d way to reach them? What works beyond the lure F-3 FOIA Requests and Preservation: An of free food? The ALL-SIS Student Services Emerging Collection Development Model for the Committee will hold a “contest,” asking members Virtual Library to submit examples of their successes in communi- Date & Time: Monday, July 12, 10:45 - 11:45 a.m. cating with students. The committee will choose Many law libraries are looking to develop approximately six top examples that will be distinctive digital collections of materials that presented at an informal poster session. Attendees aren’t available through commercial publishers. will be able to drop by any or all of the sessions Collecting documents secured through FOIA and see what worked, ask questions, and walk requests offers a unique opportunity for these away with fresh ideas on communicating with institutions. As government secrecy has increased, students. All examples would be presented at the the number of FOIA requests has escalated, same time, and attendees could stop by as many as making procuring previously restricted govern- they wanted to in the allotted time. ment documents for public use an important goal. E-2 The Boulder Statement: Creating a Signature Law libraries are poised at the intersection of Pedagogy for Legal Research Education scholarship, freedom of information, preservation, Date & Time: Monday, July 12, 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. and collection development, standing in a pivotal Law schools are currently considering position to help scholars and practitioners access redefining their curriculums to respond to the this hard-to-find content. This program will highly influential 2007 Carnegie Report which present a cross-section of perspectives on building, advocates enhancing the signature pedagogy of contextualizing, publicizing, and preserving a legal education, the Socratic Method, with an digital archive collection of materials secured experience that better integrates skills instruction. through FOIA. Discover how these declassified Legal research is a fundamental legal skill, one the documents in digital formats can be collected, bench and bar routinely indicate law schools do archived, and made accessible for current and not teach well. As legal research professionals, law future research librarians should respond to the Carnegie Report G-1 Navigating Your Way to the Classroom: Law by examining legal research education. This Librarians Teaching New Law School Classes presentation explains how law librarians can Date & Time: Monday, July 12, 4:00 - 5:15 p.m. contribute to curricular reform by leading the way The 2007 Carnegie Report on Legal Education with the development of a signature pedagogy for calls for significant changes in legal education, legal research, based on the Carnegie Report’s including greater emphasis on practical skills recommendations. The panel will provide an development. This could potentially result in overview of the Boulder Statement on Legal greater teaching opportunities for law librarians. Research Education, the need for a signature The speakers, three librarians who teach upper- pedagogy of legal research, and how this statement level legal research courses, will discuss how they can assist in advancing legal research instruction bring “real life” into their classrooms through their in law schools. lectures, exercises, classroom discussions, and assessment tools. Using a foreign and international (Continued on page 4) Volume 29, Issue 3 Page 4 ALL-SIS Programs, Cont’d legal research class as a case study, the first development, some of which include Books in Print, speaker will guide participants through the WorldCat, acquisitions listservs, and slip/approval necessary steps to design, obtain law school plans. It will then move on to some of the new and approval of, and implement a course. The second exciting possibilities offered by Web 2.0, like RSS speaker will prepare participants to design a feeds for new acquisitions and collection development syllabus, including learning goals, and assignments blogs. Participants’ input on their favorite tools they that will measure students’ success at achieving currently use will be gathered and shared.