Join us for a conversation about access services in law libraries. Topics will run the gamut from interlibrary loan to stacks maintenance to student hiring and more!

Join members of the AALL Annual Meeting Poster Session Award Jury and previous Poster Session winners to discuss the process, best practices, and top tips for proposing a poster for the 2026 AALL Annual Meeting!

In this program, we will discuss strategies and lessons learned from British Columbia’s LawMatters Program, Canada’s longest running legal-public library partnership. Established in 2007 and enhanced in 2019 with increased funding, our partnership leverages the strengths of law and public librarians, specifically law librarians’ legal reference skills, collection expertise, and familiarity with the legal community and public librarians’ in-depth knowledge of their communities: their needs, challenges, and strengths.

This program will cover essential elements to include in an animal policy, potential challenges and concerns in enacting these policies, and the legal distinctions between various categories of animals.

This program will explore the transformation of legal education through online platforms, which has facilitated a pivot in how libraries deliver services and support.

The move of the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) to a digital environment has created a number of big shifts in how we receive, process, catalog, and access that information. It has also created some big shifts for our patrons and how we have helped them navigate the changes to the FDLP process. Join us for a one-hour program where we dive into these changes.

Decarcerated individuals often struggle to reintegrate, facing overwhelming barriers, including legal barriers. How can we, as law librarians and community partners, break down the barriers to deliver critical legal resources, educational programs, clinics, and referrals to those seeking a fresh start?

During this one-hour program, librarians with a combined 50 years of experience in government, academic, and firm libraries, will discuss their firsthand involvement with the development and marketing of civic education programs.

Universal Design is the idea that the best design is universal—designs accessible regardless of ascribed attributes, in other words, to all users. This program will go over the tenets of Universal Design and offer justifications for embracing this philosophy for electronic materials, including resources, intranets, websites, and more. The concepts covered in this presentation will only require minimal technological savviness, as this is targeted toward newcomers to Universal Design.

This program encourages law libraries to move beyond a standard introduction and provide a rich, educational experience for internal patrons and visitors, enhancing their appreciation for the library as both a workplace and a community space.