The webinar will be a discussion among speakers on recommendations and effective strategies for advocating the continued value of the library in 2023. Speakers will discuss strategies for promoting the library’s contributions to the mission of their workplace. Panelists are a mix of librarians and non-librarians that work closely with the law library. Attendees will hear various ideas and perspectives that will help them develop an effective advocacy message at their workplaces.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

 Any librarian leader that needs to "sell" the value of the library to a non-librarian stakeholder to acquire or maintain financial or space resources. 

TAKEAWAYS:

1. Attendees will leave with ideas on how to effectively communicate the importance of the library in today’s market to non-librarian stakeholders.
2. Attendees will learn strategies to effectively advocate for resources for the law library to non-librarian stakeholders. 

SPEAKERS:

• Joe Lucia, Temple University
• Vicki Szymczak, William S. Richardson School of Law University of Hawaii
• Emily Florio, DLA Piper
• David A. Brennen, University of Kentucky College of Law

COORDINATOR:

• Teresa Miguel-Stearns, James E. Rogers College of Law University of Arizona

COORDINATOR/MODERATOR:

• Michelle Cosby, Washington & Lee University School of Law

AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Professionalism + Leadership At Every Level, Marketing + Outreach, Management + Business Acumen

CANCELLATION AND OTHER POLICIES

No refunds will be given for any purchased live AALL webinar. This applies to non-AALL members only; live AALL webinars are free for AALL members.

All webinars feature live captioning services. Please contact AALL at elearning@aall.org by June 6, 2023 if you have additional accessibility requests. 

Come discuss ideas for incorporating the AALL legal research competencies into your teaching, training and assessment. This free-form discussion will focus on how instructors are currently using the competencies or are planning to incorporate them into their teaching, training and assessment in the future. Anyone is welcome to attend. This virtual coffee chat is brought to you by the RIPS-SIS Legal Research Competencies Committee. 

Please note: AALL virtual coffee chats are not recorded and registration is open to AALL members only.

MODERATORS:

• Katie Hanschke, Vanderbilt University
• Theresa Tarves, Penn State Law

AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Teaching + Training
  

When we speak, how do we get people to listen? Honing our skills in presenting material to a wide variety of groups is important because it raises our stature and cements our position as leaders in the information industry.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Any librarian that does presentations. 

TAKEAWAYS:

1. Attendees will understand what they need to know and how to prepare before they speak publicly. 
2. Attendees will understand what to do while they are speaking to connect with their audiences.
3. Attendees will learn how to lead an audience to the desired place a speaker needs them to be once a presentation has concluded.

COORDINATOR/SPEAKER:

• Cornell H. Winston, United States Attorney's Office

AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Teaching + Training, Marketing + Outreach
     

CANCELLATION AND OTHER POLICIES

No refunds will be given for any purchased live AALL webinar. This applies to non-AALL members only; live AALL webinars are free for AALL members.

All webinars feature live captioning services. Please contact AALL at elearning@aall.org by May 4, 2023 if you have additional accessibility requests. 

Cornell H. Winston is the Law Librarian / Records Center Supervisor for the United States Attorney’s Office, Central District of California.  He has been at the US Attorney’s Office, one of the largest in the United States, for 20 years.  Cornell has over 35 years of law library experience working at a law school and two law firms in Los Angeles. Cornell is a former chair of the Library Advisory Group for the United States Attorney Offices which provide library support for the US Attorney’s Office’s that don’t have professional librarians.  He has taught legal research classes for many years for Department of Justice support staff at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. He is the incoming Vice-President/President-Elect of the American Association of Law Libraries

Join us for a webinar on Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP), hosted in HeinOnline, and learn about AALL's premier product firsthand from the editorial staff of IFLP. In addition to the existing features, this webinar will introduce a brand new feature called IFLP Alerts, which allows users to create customized email alerts pertaining to indexed content of interest (Topics, Regions, Country Subjects, Journals, and Languages).

In today's world, with the internet providing us with easy access to information, it's not always easy to find reliable and relevant information for our research. That's where IFLP comes in - a valuable tool for quickly retrieving the resources you need. The index provides results that match your keyword search in the title, abstract, or author, ensuring that you find articles relevant to your research, rather than articles that merely mention your search term one or two times. With fewer yet higher quality results yielded from an index, you can spend less time searching, and more time learning.

IFLP is a must-have resource for law and academic librarians, law firms, corporations, and more. It offers fully-searchable indexing from 1985 forward, a multilingual index with 26 languages covered, and full-text linking to more than 80,000 articles and book reviews. You also get access to the digitized version of the entire print Index dating back to 1960, ISSN and ISBN linking to your local library catalog or WorldCat, and OpenURL linking to resources at your library.

In this webinar, you will get an in-depth understanding of the product, its features, and how it can help you in your research. You will also get an opportunity to ask questions and interact with the editorial staff of IFLP. Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn more about this valuable resource. 

Don't subscribe? No problem! Free trials to IFLP will be made available to any interested attendees following the session. 

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Law firm librarians, academic librarians, foreign & comparative law professors, law students, legal researchers 

TAKEAWAYS:

1. Attendees will learn how to use the new IFLP Alerts feature to create customized email alerts pertaining to indexed content of interest, such as Topics, Regions, Country Subjects, Journals, and Languages, and how it can save time and effort in finding relevant and reliable information for your research.
2. Attendees will understand the importance of using an index for legal and academic research, and how it can help you find articles that are more relevant to your research, rather than articles that may simply mention their search term one or two times. 
3. During this session, the editors will show attendees how to navigate the index for practical use so you can take your research to the next level.

SPEAKERS:

• Marci Hoffman, Berkeley Law Library
• Charles Bjork, Georgetown Law
• Jennifer Allison, Harvard Law School Library

COORDINATOR:

• Ben Boron, HeinOnline

MODERATOR:

• Kevin Durkin-Ortiz, Berkeley Law Library

AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Research + Analysis, Information Management

CANCELLATION AND OTHER POLICIES

No refunds will be given for any purchased live AALL webinar. This applies to non-AALL members only; live AALL webinars are free for AALL members.

All webinars feature live captioning services. Please contact AALL at elearning@aall.org by April 26, 2023 if you have additional accessibility requests. 

SPEAKERS

Marci Hoffman is the Law Library Director at Berkeley Law.  Ms. Hoffman is also a Lecturer in Resident at Berkeley Law where she teaches the international and foreign legal research seminar, the J.S.D. legal scholarship seminar, and many research classes for other seminars, clinics, research centers, and more.  Ms. Hoffman returned to Berkeley Law in 2003 after working as the international and foreign law librarian at the University of Minnesota Law Library and Georgetown Law Library. Ms. Hoffman is the author of several books and articles on international, foreign and comparative legal research and related issues.  She is the General Editor of the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (AALL) and the Foreign Law Guide (Brill) database.  Ms. Hoffman is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Society of International Law, and the International Association of Law Libraries and she has held various leadership within these organizations.  

Charles Bjork joined the Georgetown University Law Library as an International and Foreign Law Reference Librarian in 2014 after earning his master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois in 2013.  He serves as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown Law Center, where he co-teaches the two-credit course Research Skills in International and Comparative Law.  He also provides research instruction for the Global Law Scholars Program and for various seminar courses, including Comparative Tax Law, European Union Law, the International Environmental Law Practicum, the Jewish Law seminar, and U.S. and International Customs Law. Mr. Bjork is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, the American Society of International Law, and the International Association of Law Libraries.  He also serves on the Board of Advisers for the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals.  Prior to entering the field of law librarianship, Mr. Bjork spent nearly two decades in private law practice in Chicago.  He has a B.A. in political science (with a minor in Russian studies) from the University of Illinois (1990) and a J.D. from Northwestern University (1993).  He remains a member of the Illinois bar, but is now inactive.

Jennifer Allison Jennifer Allison holds a JD from Pepperdine Law School, an MLIS from San Jose State University, and an LLM in German law from the University of Würzburg in Germany.  She worked as an academic law librarian for more than 15 years, including 10 years as an FCIL librarian at the Harvard Law School Library.  Jennifer recently left academia to start her own business, Manuscript Spa, in which she provides pre-publication research and editing services for scholarly books and journal articles.

MODERATOR

Kevin Durkin-Ortiz: Bio coming soon!

Join the RIPS-SIS Patron Services Committee for an informal conversation on how law libraries can best balance services to their various patron groups. We are looking for your input, whether you’re an academic, government, public or firm law librarian, on how you reach and serve your community and balance constituencies - students, faculty, judges, clerks, attorneys, and members of the public. If you have any tools you rely on (e.g. websites, libguides, print handouts) we’d love to be able to share those! You are welcome to send those materials in advance to Jennifer Mart-Rice or post them during the chat. 

Please note: AALL virtual coffee chats are not recorded and registration is open to AALL members only.

MODERATORS:

• Julianne Odin, Pardee Legal Research Center, University of San Diego School of Law
• Jennifer Mart-Rice, University of Iowa Law Library

AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Professionalism + Leadership At Every Level

Join us for an informal discussion about the services we offer to law journal students. We will touch on support models and a some pros and cons of being involved in journal support beyond the reference desk. Additionally, we hope to chat about some of the challenges and emerging issues facing student editors that librarians could address.

Please note: AALL virtual coffee chats are not recorded and registration is open to AALL members only.

MODERATORS:

• Cassie Walker, Southern Methodist University
• Ben Keele, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
• Annalee Hickman Pierson, Brigham Young University
• Ben Carlson, University of Pennsylvania Law School

AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Professionalism + Leadership At Every Level, Teaching + Training

The Diversity & Inclusion Committee invites you to join an informal conversation about how DE&I affects our daily lives. Share stories, experiences, successes, and challenges when developing and implementing initiatives in your workplace. This informal conversation will not be recorded, screen shots will not be taken, and our virtual conversation room will be treated as a safe space where all ideas are welcome. Click here to submit an anonymous question, suggestion, or story. 

Please note: Registration is open to AALL members only.

MODERATORS:

• Ramon Barajas, Alston & Bird
• Laura E. Ray, Cleveland State University College of Law

AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Professionalism + Leadership At Every Level

Last week we discussed the elements of an elevator pitch and examined what could go wrong and how to pivot or make your pitch go smoothly. In the end, we invited you to try your hand at crafting a pitch that is right for you and/or your department. Join us for this follow-up coffee chat where attendees can share their draft pitches (anonymously if you’d like!). We will discuss them as a group and help you to make adjustments so that you can be as successful with your pitch as possible. 

Please note: AALL virtual coffee chats are not recorded and registration is open to AALL members only.

MODERATORS:

• Amanda Watson, University of Houston Law Library
• Alan Keely, Retired, Wake Forest University Law Library
• Jennifer Mart-Rice, University of Iowa Law Library

AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Professionalism + Leadership At Every Level

As budgets tighten, project/donation monies dwindle, and space/collection protection becomes a real concern, we need to be thinking about how we can maintain our seat at the table and/or advance a particular initiative. Join us as we discuss the elements of an elevator speech, examine what can go wrong, and explore options to make drafting a smooth ride. We then invite you to try your hand at crafting a pitch that is right for you and/or your department and join us a few weeks later for a coffee chat and feedback! 

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Any librarians who have a plan, idea, or would like to seek support/funding inside or outside of the library. Basically, everyone is welcome and could benefit! 

TAKEAWAYS:

1. Attendees will learn the elements of an elevator pitch.
2. Attendees will understand when it is appropriate to use elevator pitches and for whom.
3. Attendees will craft an elevator pitch of their own to advance a particular initiative or their work. 

SPEAKER:

• Zanada Joyner, Francis King Carey School of Law at University of Maryland 
• Alan Keely, Retired from Wake Forest University Law Library
• Christine Park, New York University Law Library 
• Amanda Watson, University of Houston Law Library

SPEAKER/MODERATOR:

• Jennifer Mart-Rice, University of Iowa Law Library

AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Professionalism + Leadership At Every Level, Marketing + Outreach, Management + Business Acumen

CANCELLATION AND OTHER POLICIES

No refunds will be given for any purchased live AALL webinar. This applies to non-AALL members only; live AALL webinars are free for AALL members.

All AALL webinars feature live captioning services. Please contact AALL at elearning@aall.org by March 30, 2023 if you require additional accessibility services. 

SPEAKERS: 

Zanada Joyner is the Associate Director for Collections & Information Discovery in the University of Maryland Carey School of Law Thurgood Marshall Law Library. She oversees the acquisition of materials in all formats, ensuring the library’s collection effectively supports the diverse and evolving needs of the law school community.  Prior to joining the law school, Zanada was the Senior Reference Librarian at North Carolina Central University, School of Law Library, and worked in reference at the University of Georgia Law Library as well as, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Library. She graduated with a bachelor’s and J.D. from Loyola University New Orleans and earned her MLIS degree from Rutgers University. Zanada is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the Southeaster Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (SEAALL). She was awarded the 2018 AALL Minority Leadership Development Award and the 2022 Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award as co-editor of the textbook, Introduction to Law Librarianship. 

Alan Keely recently retired as the Associate Director of Collection Services at the Wake Forest University Law Library after more than 27 years.  He has been a member of the Technical Services Special Interest Section and the Library Systems & Resource Discovery Special interest section since joining AALL in 1995.  He is also the 2021 recipient of the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship.

Professor Amanda Watson is the Director of the University of Houston Law Library as well as an Assistant Professor Law and an Associate Librarian. She teaches legal research. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law libraries and technology. Her work has earned many accolades including the American Association of Law Libraries/LexisNexis Call for Papers Award, two invitations to the Yale Law Library Symposium, and a research grant from the American Association of Law Libraries and LexisNexis. Prior to joining the faculty, Professor Watson was the Associate Director of the Tulane University Law Library, the State Librarian of Mississippi, and the Manager of Information Services at Phelps Dunbar, LLP. She is a first-generation college student.

Christine Park is a Reference Librarian at the NYU Law Library since 2021. She is also an adjunct legal research instructor at Fordham University’s Law School. Prior to joining NYU, she was a George Strait Fellow at Fordham University's Maloney Law Library. Christine received her B.A. from Barnard College, her J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and her M.I. from Rutgers University. She is currently the PEGA-SIS Vice-Chair. 

SPEAKER/MODERATOR/COORDINATOR:

Jennifer Mart-Rice is the Assistant Director for Access & Collections at the University of Iowa Law Library. She teaches a variety of legal research, advanced legal research, and legal technology courses and prides herself in creating a diverse, inclusive, and accessible curriculum and classroom environment designed to connect with all learners and assist them as they navigate their educational journey. Jennifer regularly writes, presents, and focuses her attention on topics related to legal research and instruction, collection development, technology, and professional/personal development and mentorship. Prior to joining Iowa Law, Jennifer was the Head of Collection Services at Washington and Lee University School of Law and the Assistant Director for Collection Development, Acquisitions, and Serials and an Assistant Professor of law Library Services at Northern Kentucky University, Chase College of Law. She is a first-generation college student and an inactive member of the Indiana State Bar. 

Get the 411 on 4/11! ChatGPT, large language models, and generative AI are the talk of the Internet. Join us for an informal chat on using these tools to enhance library work with insight from a few guest speakers. 

Please note: AALL virtual coffee chats are not recorded and registration is open to AALL members only.

MODERATORS:

•  Jason Eiseman, Lillian Goldman Law Library
• Nor Ortiz, Lillian Goldman Law Library

MODERATORS:

•  June Liebert, O’Melveny & Myers LLP
• Lisa Lee, O’Melveny & Myers LLP
• Greg Lambert, Jackson Walker LLP

AALL BODY OF KNOWLEDGE DOMAINS: Professionalism + Leadership At Every Level, Information Management