AALL Annual Meeting and Conference

Target Audience: Collection development, information technology and public services librarians
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will be able to identify cross-departmental responsibilities and workflow issues involved in acquiring, maintaining and disseminating digital library resources.
2. Participants will be conversant with the life-cycle model of digital collection development and will be able to articulate the important differences in managing digital collections, as opposed to print and microform collections.

As digital resources increasingly dominate law library budgets, it is necessary to have guidelines for the acquisition and maintenance of the various forms of electronic holdings. Digital collection development activities challenge the traditional division of responsibilities within a library, affecting work flow and requiring new staff competencies. This program will cover issues with which every library is dealing by following the life-cycle model of electronic resources: selection, acquisition, licensing and copyright, discovery, and access and preservation. What is the difference between perpetual access and outright purchase? Can special collections be digitized and made freely available on the web? Are catalogs and cataloging obsolete? Is metadata tagging in a database sufficient? How do end users know what a library's digital holdings really are? What are the options and responsibilities concerning the preservation of digital content? Speakers will address these and other questions relevant to digital collection development policies. Program materials will include a bibliography and sample policies.

Target Audience: Public and technical services librarians
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will identify at least three advantages and disadvantages of Open Source Integrated Library Systems (OS ILS) and assess the resources needed and cost benefits of developing a home-grown ILS model.
2. Participants will analyze the ability to interoperate with other systems, such as Electronic Resource Management (ERM), OpenURLs, and Federated Search, to leverage overall library service.

While the majority of libraries rely on proprietary systems, the OS ILS is a potentially viable approach for some technologically savvy libraries. Find out how OS ILS can reengineer your overall library service, as well as the challenges of its implementation. This program will cover what makes Open Source Software different from proprietary software, how it organizes it elements, what tools it uses, and how it operates. Presenters will also discuss how a service-oriented architecture can be incorporated into OS ILS and how a customized system can be interoperable with various systems to avoid repetitive data management. In addition, this session will survey the foreseeable implementation dilemma on in-house knowledge bases and resources for system development, as well as sustainable system maintenance/update.

Target Audience: Law librarians interested in access and use of state online legal resources
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will be able to identify the states that have designated their online legal resources as official and that have authenticated those online legal resources.
2. Participants will be prepared to advocate the passage of a NCCUSL-prepared uniform law or model act for enactment in their states.

AALL has prepared the legal community for the future! Through its efforts, including its groundbreaking State-by-State Report on Authentication of Online Legal Resources in 2007, AALL began a movement to answer this question: "How trustworthy are state-level primary legal resources on the web?" AALL followed the report with its very important National Summit on Authentic Legal Information in the Digital Age, held in April 2007. The 2007 State-by-State Report has been updated by your law librarian colleagues, and those updates were released in the fall of 2009. Recognizing the importance of and the need to resolve this issue, the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) organized a committee to draft a uniform law. AALL's efforts must continue NOW to help us reach the future, and you can help. Join your colleagues to hear the progress that some states made between the publication of the 2007 report and the 2009 updates, to gain insight from the law librarian who is serving as the reporter with the NCCUSL Drafting Committee, and to learn how you can advocate the passage of the NCCUSL uniform law or model act in your state in order to address the trustworthiness of state-level primary legal resources.

Target Audience: Individuals interested in learning about marketing patron services from other individuals in the profession
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the how other organizations and nontraditional librarians market their services.
2. Participants will be able to implement many of these marketing techniques at their organization.

People often get in a rut when marketing their services to their patrons. This program will expose the audience to the marketing of services at a variety of libraries. The format for the program will be a round robin/poster session. This presentation style will allow for the dissemination of a great deal of marketing information from many different points of view to the greatest number of individuals in the shortest amount of time. As the audience enters the room they will receive a number or color that designates their beginning station. Each station will have one librarian who will present the marketing of services performed at their library. Each presenter will also create a poster that will add to the information they provided in their short presentation. There will also be a few minutes for questions or browsing of the poster after each presentation. Next, each group moves on to another station. As the moderator my job will be to keep time and announce that it is time to move to the next station. After the session is concluded, we will set up the posters in the exhibit area or in a separate room for viewing.

Target Audience: Librarians who wish to improve their institutions' methods for tracking reference inquiries
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will evaluate common approaches to maintaining reference statistics.
2. Participants will have the tools to identify the most effective solution for their own libraries.

While data about reference transactions can prove extremely useful for evaluating services, many librarians express unhappiness with their existing methods of collection and analysis. Before reinventing the wheel (again), come to this lively and opinionated evaluation of the most popular techniques for collecting reference statistics. Following the program, participants will understand: (1) reasons to collect statistics beyond minimum reporting requirements, (2) how to design forms that will improve the extraction of data without causing a staff mutiny, and (3) what fee-based solutions are available and how they compare to home-grown methods.

Target Audience: Law librarians from all types of libraries, interested or involved in digital collection development, digital preservation, and freedom of information issues
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will be able to identify, evaluate, and incorporate into their legal research strategies collections of declassified government documents secured through FOIA requests and made available online by agencies, libraries, whistle blowers, and watchdog groups.
2. Participants will be prepared to plan, preserve, provide access to, and publicize their own digital government documents collections. Participants will also be able to articulate how to establish a unique special collection by integrating FOIA requests with other collection development resources.

Many law libraries are looking to develop distinctive digital collections of materials that aren't available through commercial publishers. Collecting documents secured through FOIA requests offers a unique opportunity for these institutions. As government secrecy has increased, the number of FOIA requests has escalated, making procuring previously restricted government documents for public use an important goal. Law libraries are poised at the intersection of scholarship, freedom of information, preservation, and collection development, standing in a pivotal position to help scholars and practitioners access this hard-to-find content. This program will present a cross-section of perspectives on building, contextualizing, publicizing, and preserving a digital archive collection of materials secured through FOIA. Discover how these declassified documents in digital formats can be collected, archived, and made accessible for current and future research.

Target Audience: All librarians who are interested in information policy and legislative advocacy
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will be able to identify the AALL legislative and information policy issues affecting the Association and law librarians.
2. Participants will learn about the activities of the Copyright Committee, Electronic Legal Information Access and Citation Committee, Government Relations Committee, and Government Relations Office.

The AALL policy update annually provides the AALL membership with news about progress with information policy issues and legislative advocacy efforts during the year, as well as pending legislation and administrative actions of particular interest to our membership. GRC Chair Camilla Tubbs will present the 2010 AALL Public Access to Government Information (PAGI) Award and the Robert L. Oakley Advocacy Award to our distinguished recipients. She will also provide an overview of the GRC's work during the past year. Vice-chair of the Copyright Committee Roger Skalbeck, Chair of the Electronic Legal Information Access and Citation Committee Emily Janoski-Haehlen, and Director of the Government Relations Office Mary Alice Baish will summarize their year's activities and accomplishments.

Target Audience: Public law librarians, academic law librarians and reference librarians
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will be able to train public librarians to provide meaningful legal reference.
2. Participants will be able to train public librarians to recognize and avoid the unauthorized practice of law.

Use of public libraries has increased dramatically during times of economic crises and litigants are increasingly turning to self-representation at court. "Access to justice" has become a powerful buzz-phrase in our current society and profession. Numerous public librarians receive requests for legal reference daily. Effective and meaningful training can be conducted by experienced law librarians. Use of ever-increasing self-help resources will be addressed in addition to traditional legal reference. Experienced public and academic law librarians will demonstrate a few successful training models to empower public librarians by giving them the necessary tools to provide excellent legal resources for reference while avoiding the unauthorized practice of law. A public (non-law) librarian will share experiences with the training and corresponding ability/comfort level providing legal reference to patrons.

Target Audience: Librarians of all levels who want to become better integrated with courses, students, and faculty
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will be able to demonstrate to faculty how libraries can enhance a law school's opportunities for experiential education.
2. Participants will be able to identify ways to integrate themselves into Course Management Systems.

Clinical education provides law librarians with a tremendous teaching opportunity for many reasons. First, the clinics are in line with the Carnegie Report's recommendation for experiential learning. The classes are relevant and specific, which benefits adult learners. Second, many clinics are transactional. Librarians can teach an area not often covered in the traditional legal research curriculum. Finally, librarians can become integrated in Course Management Systems (CMS). CMS software generally excludes libraries in their design, so faculty members overlook the role librarians can play in their classes. During this session, a panel of librarians will discuss the role their libraries play in clinical education, and provide suggestions on how your library can become better integrated with your law school clinics.

Target Audience: Academic librarians; those supporting electronic publishing programs, preservationists, legal information technologists
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will develop an understanding of the open access movement and its impact on legal scholarship.
2. Participants will learn how to evaluate preservation alternatives for electronic journals in order to assist their own institutions to plan for electronic publishing and preservation.

The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship calls for every U.S. law school to commit to ending print publication of its journals and to making definitive versions of its journals and other scholarship immediately available upon publication in stable, open, digital formats, rather than in print. The Statement provoked strong reactions from law librarians and others concerned about the lack of "stable, open, and digital" formats for preserving electronic journals. The participants in this program, two law school information technologists and a prominent law library director, will have worked together for a year examining questions involved in developing "stable, open, and digital" formats for electronic journals. They will present the results of their efforts and alternatives for moving forward at this program.

Target Audience: Librarians challenged by treaty research
Learning Outcomes:
1. Participants will explain the basic concepts of treaty formation to their patrons.
2. Participants will identify and use the essential tools to assist their patrons with treaty research.

Do you sense a relationship between the words "treaty" and "threat"? Could you use a map or a guide for your journey into treaty research? In today's rapidly globalizing world, interaction among nations is on the rise and with it, the use of treaties to address mutual concerns. Thus, treaty research is also growing in importance. This program will clarify the basic concepts of treaty formation, alert you to the challenges in treaty research and equip you with a pathfinder of essential treaty research tools.