Programs
One of the goals of last year's presidency was to have more programs than the four that are required by the CoALL bylaws. That goal was met with the following programs (not including the downtown brownbag programs):
September 17, 1998, Linda Rose hosted us at Sherman and Howard to hear Pat Wagner present a lively program titled, "Herding Kittens: How to Have Influence When you Have No Power or Authority." Pat owns Pattern Research, a research and training firm and is a popular speaker to library groups. About 25 members learned that Power involves "hiring, firing, rewarding and disciplining." Influence, on the other hand, involves "respect, proximity knowing the story, obligation, building rapport, and breaking rank."
October 15, 1998, Peggy Jobe of the University of Colorado Government Publications Department presented "Effective Use of Internet Searching and Subject Directories". Twenty members attended the program at the University of Colorado Law School and many toured CU's Law Library afterwards. Peggy explained how search tools work and explained what they won't find. She demonstrated advanced searching techniques primarily with Altavista, Infoseek and Hotbot.
December 10, 1998 was the Holiday Party hosted by Lois Calvert and the crew at the Colorado Supreme Court Library. New members were introduced and received a gift. Good food and fellowship were the highlights of the event.
February 18, 1999, Mary Waters, librarian at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll hosted our program. Barbara Bintliff gave an historical and provocative presentation titled, "Training Lawyers for the 21st Century." The 28 librarians in attendance were given a glimpse of the forest--the big picture of legal education--to overcome being bogged down in the trees of daily legal research. A lively discussion followed the presentation.
April 7-10, 1999, the Joint Meeting of CoALL & SWALL at the Adam's Mark Hotel was a great success. Positive feedback has been overflowing and is well deserved for the hard-working Local Arrangements Committee chaired by Martha Campbell. Please see her separate report in this issue.
April 15, 1999, CoALL and The University of Denver Law Library sponsored the 1999 AALL Satellite Videoconference: "Quality Customer Service Beyond: How May I Help You?" Patty Wellinger organized the showing at Auraria Library. It was well attended and is an example of the service CoALL provides to all librarians in our community.
June 17,1999, the Annual Meeting was hosted by Druet Klugh at Holme Roberts and Owen. Reports from the meeting are included in this Scuttle.