Target Audience: Teachers of legal research
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will be able to explain the differences in the relevance of results generated in the citator and digest functions in Lexis and Westlaw.
2) Participants will be able to create classroom demonstrations and exercises that illustrate the advantages and disadvantages of intermediated searching and purely computer-generated searching.
This program will discuss empirical research into the differences in the results obtained from database searches using primarily intermediated systems (West's headnotes and key numbers) or primarily computer-generated systems (Lexis's Topics and More Like This Headnote). The program will also examine the search results from using Shepard's and Keycite, where each system utilizes a different algorithm. The visible difference in results can be used to illustrate how variable search results are in different databases. Recommended teaching methods for using this data to assist students in understanding the benefits and limitations of computer-assisted and human-assisted searches will be shared.
Target Audience: Librarians who are handling technical services for the first time or who would like to learn more about this function of the library
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will learn what technical services work entails, and the competencies required to do it.
2) Participants will learn how seasoned technical services librarians manage these functions in a university, law firm, and government agency library, as well as how to implement efficient and successful technical services sections in their own libraries.
This program addresses the questions: What is 'technical services'? What do technical services staff do? What can I expect from them? What will my institution—university, law firm, or government agency—expect from the library's technical services department? How do I create and implement a successful technical services unit in my library when I have never done this type of work before?
A panel of experienced technical services librarians – representing a law firm library, a government agency, and a university library – will describe how they learned technical services, how they developed successful technical services workflows, and how they manage and train technical services staff. Additionally, these pros will discuss how to identify and address the critical issues of their type of institution, including budgeting, providing access to resources, and managing contractors.
Target Audience: Electronic services and web development librarians
Learning outcomes:
1) Participants will assess and analyze trends in web development, including usability and accessibility.
2) Participants will be able to identify aspects of their current websites that can benefit from HTML5 and implement appropriate code.
HTML has been the basis for structuring and presenting content on the web for 20 years. The current revision, HTML5, promises to dramatically increase the functionality of web documents and web applications. Even though HTML5 is not slated for recommendation until 2014, many of its features can be implemented now. These features include: semantic tag elements, easy multimedia support, interactive form inputs (that don't require JavaScript), and mobile device integration. Focusing on how implementation of HTML5 features can increase the usability and accessibility of library websites, this presentation will include a live demonstration of many HTML5 elements. Attendees will leave prepared to develop their own HTML5 content.
Target Audience: Anyone interested in early legal and publishing history or a serendipitous intellectual interlude
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will learn about the role that printers played in developing law.
2) Participants will learn how authors, teachers, and collectors used books to learn, connect, and grow the law.
How do books learn, connect and grow? Marginalia, bookplates, page layout, and publishing history give clues to what authors, teachers, publishers, printers, readers, and collectors did to develop the field of law from ancient times to modern. Join our discussion with your favorite book connection.
Target Audience: Anyone interested in future information technology trends in libraries
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will be able to identify current information technology issues in libraries.
2) Participants will be able to identify at least one future trend in information technology in libraries.
Join this discussion about the impact of e-books in libraries. How will this trend affect collection development, budgets, and staffing? Will the introduction and use of e-books lead to greater patron satisfaction? What will libraries need to do to prepare for this new format?
Target Audience: Librarians who create or update research guides
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will be able to identify best practices for managing and creating research guides.
2) Participants will be able to select the appropriate type of research guide for their patrons' needs.
The advent of online technologies has led to an explosion of available research resources, making the efforts of librarians to direct users to the best sources more critical than ever. One of the ways libraries can meet this need is by creating and updating online research guides for its users. This session will cover best practices for preparing these guides--including the initial decision to develop a guide in a particular area or of a particular type--the steps taken to create it, and how to markets a guide’s use once completed.
Target Audience: All AALL members
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will be able to explain the legal culture and legal information environment of a foreign country.
2) Participants will be able to identify key resources for legal research in a foreign legal jurisdiction.
The recipient of the 2012 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians will discuss how to best understand and examine the legal system, legal information environment, and law libraries of another country.
Target Audience: Librarians and researchers interested in learning the uses of modern forensic science techniques and exhumation to prove legal historical facts; librarians and researchers who wish to learn about the forensic developments in the Boston Strangler case that changed the face of this crime
Learning outcomes:
1) Participants will be able to assess the role of modern forensic science techniques and exhumation in re-examinations of historical legal events.
2) Participants will be able to explain how forensic techniques unavailable during the 1960s produced evidence 36 years later indicating that the publicly accepted identity of the Boston Strangler may be a mistake.
The person lodged in the public consciousness as the Boston Strangler never stood trial for the murders of 11 women in the Boston area from 1962 to 1964. Although defense attorney F. Lee Bailey obtained the confession of Albert DeSalvo, no physical evidence linked DeSalvo to the killings, and his versions of the killings did not harmonize fully with the facts. James E. Starrs, Professor Emeritus of Law and Forensic Sciences at George Washington University Law School, led the team that performed the exhumation and re-autopsy of Mary Sullivan, the Strangler's purported last victim, and DeSalvo, both at the request of the families. Starrs returns to AALL to discuss the forensic evidence obtained during re-examination, and how this evidence destroyed the credibility of DeSalvo's claim to be the Boston Strangler.
Target Audience: Librarians who want a deeper understanding of e-book technology
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will identify the software tools required to convert content into e-books.
2) Participants will compare various publishing options for distributing e-books.
Tom Boone, Reference Librarian at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, and Jason Eiseman, Head of Technology Services at Yale Law Library, will discuss emerging trends in e-books. This session will include an in-depth look at the technology, tools, and techniques for creating, editing, and publishing e-books in various formats for various platforms. See real-life examples of e-book creation and publishing by law libraries.
Target Audience: OBS/TS-SIS members, other interested law librarians
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will be able to describe problems and solutions addressed by their colleagues.
2) Participants will be able to identify how peers with limited budgets creatively leveraged these resources and improved their systems.
Join in a discussion about the development of the next generation library systems. What are the trends of the new library systems being developed by Ex Libris, III, Serials Solutions, and others? What is the current stage of development? When will these systems be deployed? What is the impact of these systems living in the cloud? How will the new systems change library staff workflows? Is open-source another option to be considered?
Target Audience: Librarians charged with developing and teaching legal information literacy to users: students, attorneys, and public patrons
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will be able to identify and compare free and proprietary software options, and utilize practical tips, templates, and samples for creating tutorials.
2) Participants will be able to select the best type of tutorial for their organization and targeted audiences, and subsequently execute the steps in the tutorial production process.
Today’s challenges of teaching legal information literacy include limited face time with users, demanding millennials who want more than lectures, and the introduction of new and changing research interfaces. Creating web-based tutorials is one way to address these challenges while, simultaneously diversifying your teaching portfolio. Tutorials can be instructional, reinforcing, and/or assessment-focused. Discover the components of three types of tutorials and the best practices for ensuring your tutorials are tailored to the learning needs of your particular audience. Also learn about the various free and proprietary software options for creating tutorials. To assist in the tutorial production process, participants will be provided with tips and cautions, templates and samples, sources for multimedia content, and a selected bibliography of sources about creating and utilizing tutorials.
Target Audience: Library managers; technical services librarians; any librarians who are interested in digital archive projects
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will be able to identify and discuss the major issues involved with creating a digital archive.
2) Participants will be able to develop an action plan for creating a digital archive in their own institutions.
In July 2011, the University of Colorado’s William A. Wise Law Library received a large and unexpected donation of print materials when former dean and prolific scholar David Getches passed away. The library’s small staff, which had limited experience with archives or digitization, suddenly became “accidental archivists,” with a mandated goal to create a digital archive of selected materials from the donation by April 2012. This program traces the development of the project from initiation to completion, and provides a practical case study of what to expect when a library undertakes a digitization project for the first time. The presentation will focus on several key issues: establishing digitization processes and obtaining equipment; funding; gathering permissions; planning; staffing; and using outside sources of assistance.
Target Audience: IT/educational technology librarians, law firm librarians, and other librarians who are interested in the effectiveness of technology in law classes
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will discuss whether educational technology improves law students’ comprehension of legal subjects and helps prepare them for the modern practice of law.
2) Participants will discuss appropriate implementations of effective technologies in teaching legal concepts.
Technology has been an important part of legal education for many years now, but does technology ultimately help students to “learn the law”? In this roundtable, participants will discuss whether technology improves students’ comprehension of legal subjects and helps to prepare them for practice. The participants will also share their own experiences and discuss best practices.
Target Audience: Anyone who uses OCLC services
Learning Outcomes:
1) Participants will be able to identify at least one new or enhanced OCLC product or service, and assess if that product or service could be used within their library setting.
2) Participants will be able to identify at least one future development in OCLC products and services, and assess if that product or service could be used within their library setting.
OCLC provides a diverse and ever expanding and developing range of products and services (cataloging, ILL, discovery platform, library management services, etc.) to the library community. Learn about OCLC’s new and enhanced services, as well as planned future developments, directly from an OCLC representative. Following this overview, the bulk of the program time will be allotted to audience member questions and a chance to share comments, ideas, and concerns about OCLC products, RDA records, services, and best practices with the speaker and other OCLC users in the audience.
