Law Librarian Conversations

Special guests will include, Scott Pagel, Teresa Miguel-Stearns, Frank Houdek, and Darin Fox, current and past members of the ABA Data Policy and Collection Committee and noted experts in law library data and statistics. Regular line up of co-hosts and pundits includes: Ken Hirsh, Elizabeth Farrell Clifford, Roger Skalbeck, Mandy Lee, and Greg Lambert.  By some objective measures, academic law libraries are “disappearing” before our very eyes. The ABA Annual Questionnaire may have no law library questions next year and Self Study/SEQs now only contain about ten questions regarding the library! (In the past year I served on two site teams and the report template that I completed last month was smaller than the one I did last year!) Does it mean we’re less important? Nope. Not by a long shot. Other indicators show strong evidence that law libraries in law schools are more important and popular than ever before. Topics that will be considered are how the center of gravity is shifting away from objective measures of what is a law library, to subjective ones that emphasize services that we provide to our institutions. Anecdotally, it seems that law libraries are as popular as ever and are providing many expanded services, such as managing digital publication in law schools, PERMA, developing digitization of primary materials, expanded teaching throughout curricula via specialized research classes, etc., etc. But on paper, in the ABA Questionnaire, SEQ, etc., it seems we’re disappearing.  

Hosted by Richard Leiter, host of Law Librarian Conversations, this episode will focus on a general discussion of issues of concern to the  Diversity Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. 

The PLLIP Board invites everyone to a town hall to discuss status of PLLIP. 

Our panelists will discuss issues about how citizens access primary state legal material. Our democracy presupposes an informed and educated citizenry, but modern technology has thrown some unexpected monkey wrenches into system and we're all - librarians, citizens, courts and states themselves are working out methods for providing free, unfettered access.

Ever increasing number of states that now call for tech competency in their rules of professional conduct. What should law librarians be doing in this sphere. What is our role in teaching technologies that are out of the sphere of legal research? Our panel of experts includes Darin Fox, University of Oklahoma School of Law, Michael Robak, Univesity of Missouri Kansas City, Ken Hirsh, University of Cincinnati, Greg Lambert, Jackson Walker, LLP. The conversation will be assisted by co-hosts Roger Skalbeck, University of Richmond, and Elizabeth Farrell Clifford, Florida State University. I will be joined in studio by Mandy Lee, University of Nebraska, who will be monitoring the chatroom. 

LawLibCon welcomes a new regular co-host, Elizabeth Farrell Clifford. She joins Roger Skalbeck and Richard Leiter in this months "reunion" episode. Mandy Lee joins Richard in studio in the chat room. Special guests this month are Greg Lambert and Jean O'Grady. The discussion ranges over regular news in the field and ends with a discussion of librarians' roles as gate keepers or innovators. 

Join us in our final recap of the AALL Annual Meeting. 

Join us for a re-cap of Day Two of the AALL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. 

First in a series of daily wrap-ups from the Annual Meeting.

Our panelists will discuss Preservation Week activities and issues, the latest on Net Neutrality and other topics from around the world of law librarianship. Guests include AALL President, Holly Riccio, AALL Board Member Greg Lambert, Emily Feltren and Elizabeth Holland of AALL's Government Affairs Office, Sarah Glassmeyer, CALI, Melissa Bernstein, U of Utah, Elizabeth Farrell, Florida State U and Marcia Dority Baker and I of University of Nebraska, College of Law.

As the numbers of print titles continues to decline law libraries, libraries must address the question of how to re-structure technical services departments' staffs to meet the needs of largely non-print libraries. The names of departments are changing, the nature of the work is changing and the sizes of tech services departments are changing, too! The panel will discuss all these issues and more. 

This month we'll talk with Professors Penny Hazelton and Mike Chiorazzi about law librarianship as a career and about law library education. NOTE to new listeners: For this episode, I used a new microphone set up and it picked up lots of paper shuffling - and it's annoying. We've identified the problem and future shows will be much cleaner and easier to listen to. This one is worth it, despite the distractions.  I apologize for the sound.... RL

Roger, Marcia and Rich will review developments for 2014 - we're catching up after an extended break. We will be joined by regular panelist,  Sarah Glassmeyer of CALI. Together we'll be welcoming special guests, Holly Riccio, President of AALL and Emily Feltren, AALL's Director of Government Relations. We're excited to hear how Holly is adapting to life as President, and to hearing from Emily how congress plans to "simplify" distribution of government information. 

The PLL Board will discuss the challenges facing today's firm librarians. Among those challenges, we'll discuss whether the term "librarian" is still a good label for what information professionals do in their firms.

Our panel will welcome Elmer Masters from CALI to discuss tech training of law students. We'll also discuss the recent spate of retirements in the law library world, the Edicts of Government Amendment and, talk generally about new developments in the world of legal bibliography and law libraries.

Today's topic include Thomson Reuters' recent announcements regarding business emphases, FreeLaw developments & metada, Google+ and much more. Special Guests, Jean O'Grady (Library Director at DLA Piper) & Elmer Masters (Director of Internet Development at CALI), will join Hosts Richard Leiter, Marcia Dority Baker and Panelists, Ken Hirsh, Sarah Glassmeyer & Elizabeth Farrell to discuss these topics and other law library news....

The panel will be discussing news and issues of general interest to law libraries: Fall conferences and activities, PLL-Summit, UELMA, vendor developments.

Guests Jeremy Sullivan, Jean O'Grady and Joan Axelroth will join me to discuss the upcoming PLL-Summit and all things PLL. 

Lou Andreozzi, Chairman of Bloomberg Law will be a special guest on the podcast and will briefly discuss the BNA acquisition and integration with BLAW.   Michelle Pearse, Ben Keele & Valeri Craigle will also join our panel to discuss ways that law libraries and law librarians are uniquely equipped to help academic law journals become all that they should become in the digital world. The missing link in the Durham Statement has always been how law journals should become digital, and, in the process become better and more useful. 

Our panel will review developments in legal bibliography and law librarianship in 2011 and prognosticate about what to expect in 2012. 

The panel will discuss various developments since our last conversation and look forward to what's happening this summer: CALI, AALL and more?

A special panel of guests will be on hand to discuss the future of libraries from many different angles. John Palfrey, Ken Hirsh, Sarah Glassmeyer, Greg Lambert, Elizabeth Farrell, and others will take the conversation wherever it will go.... We'll also discuss the ABA's proposed new tenure standards for library directors, and progress on the NCCUSL draft rules for electronic statutes.

Panelists AALL President Joyce Janto, AALL Vendor Liaison Margi Maes, law librarian blogger extraordinaire Greg Lambert, and Cincinnati/Hamilton County Law Library Director and CRIV member Mary Jenkins will discuss AALL's Vendor Colloquium held recently in Chicago.

Greg Lambert, Ken Hirsch and Mark Estes are special guests for a discussion of WestlawNext. Keith Ann Stieverson calls in for a discussion of the Draft NCCUSL Authentication and Preservation of State Electronic Legal Materials Act. Margie Maes and Roger Skalbeck join host Richard Leiter and Co-host Marcia Dority Baker on this week's podcast.

We'll discuss the development and impact of the Durham Statement with two of the statement's champions, John Palfrey and Dick Danner.

Bob Berring, Connie Crosby, Roger Skalbeck, Marcia Dority Baker and Richard Leiter discuss some of the important issues of the day.

Connie Crosby, Marcia Dority Baker, Tracy Thompson Pryzluki, Roger Skalbeck and I will discuss this year's developments in the world of legal bibliography and law libraries - we'll also look ahead and try to forecast what to expect next year.

This month we'll discuss Google Scholar's new Legal Opinions and Journals, xyggy.com and more.

Carl Malamud, of Public.Resource.org will be our guest. We'll discuss Law.Gov and other digital preservation and open access issues.

We'll discuss how to use, and why we should or shouldn't use in libraries Twitter, Facebook, Martindale-Hubbell Connect, WorldCat.org, Plurk, and all the other social media tools.

We're going to be talking to a group of firm librarians about what resources are being used in law firms today.

We'll discuss highlights of this year's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. [NOTE: This show features some annoying interruptions, such as a fire alarm going off halfway through the show just outside the office where we were recording. And a dog barking. I apologize for inconvenience. Not for the levity. RL]

We will discuss law library consortia and their roles in supporting members expand their services and extend their purchasing power. Tracy Thompson, executive director of NELLCO will be our special guest.

We will discuss the challenges of electronic titles in law libraries. How should these materials be cataloged, if at all? How should access to digital collections effect our collection practices and policies?

We will discuss move of University Presses other publishers to publish in digital format and the consequences and logistics of adjusting to this. How do libraries "collect" such material? How do we manage it?

This week's topics will be govtrack.us, open access to government information, Lexis and Westlaw's stock prices and the Durham Statement

This month we will discuss, Twitter as a news source, the end of supplementation of treatises, what books are good for and China

The semester begins.... orientations, new faculty, new year: what worked, what didn't. Please join us for a dialog about beginning the new year.

This week we will focus on LIPA with special guest Margie Maes, executive director. We will also be joined by law library tech guru, Jim Milles.

Special Guest will be Jim Milles, SUNY Buffalo who will talk about a few of his favorite things - technology wise: blogging, podcasting, and their application to law librarianship. We'll also talk about the upcoming Annual Meeting in Portland.

Richard Leiter and Brian Striman explore and and all issues of concern to law libraries, law librarians, legal bibliography and the profession.