The
Professional Development Program exists to
provide AALL members and non-members with
educational programs, publications and services
in a variety of formats, using all available
technologies in order to further the continuing
educational mission of the Association.
To that end, the Professional
Development Online Forum has been established
to promote information exchange on current
issues in law librarianship.
Join
your colleagues for in-depth discussions
on issues affecting the profession.
Coming up Online Forum Discussions:
Space … The Final Frontier
- June 28 - July 11
The AALL
Career Development Task Force proudly
presents a discussion forum devoted
to the librarian’s constant battle
with the space-time continuum—the
endless problem of not enough space
to house your growing collection and
not enough time for constant shifting.
To address the space-time problem, many
libraries turn to off-site storage as
a means of housing lesser used items
that the library does not want to weed
from its collection.
This forum will address the issues
surrounding the development and day-to-day
operations of an off-site storage facility.
Topics will include:
physical arrangement and environmental
conditions within the storage space;
selection and preparation of materials
to be transferred;
arrangement of materials in the
storage space;
planning and executing the move
of materials to the storage space;
and
policies and procedures related
to retrieval of materials.
AALL will host the discussion forum
June 28-July 11, with Ellen Platt and
Whitney Alexander, both of Santa Clara
University’s Law Library, as moderators.
We hope that the forum will satisfy
the following AALL
Competencies of Law Librarianship:
Core Competencies, Library Management,
and Collection Care and Management,
but most of all also provide an interesting
discussion. As an added bonus, since
the discussion lasts up to the start
of this year’s AALL
Annual Meeting, this forum will
allow interested participants to further
discuss this topic at the meeting.
You are cordially invited to join
in. Please contact Pam
Deemer with any problems.
This is not a permanent discussion
forum; after the two week discussion
period, all list subscribers will be
purged. Subscribers to past Career Development/Prodev
forums please note: because Prodev’s
subscriber list is purged after each
forum, you will have to re-subscribe
for this one.
If
you have an idea for a Online Forum discussion
topic and/or would be willing to serve as
a moderator for future discussions, please
send an email to Pam
Deemer. The Career Development Task
Force welcomes your input.
May 17-31, 2004 - "Calling All Academic
Librarians: Let's Evaluate the ABA Standards
for Academic Law Libraries"
April 12 - 25, 2004 - "Where
in the World Did You Find That? Exploring
Foreign and International Law Librarianship"
March 22 - 28, 2004 - "Legal Publishing
Issues: Are You Bewitched, Bothered, and
Bewildered?"
January 26 - Feb. 8, 2004
- "Sez who?: information authority
and integrity"
November 10-23, 2003 - "Discussion
on Safety and Security"
September 15-29, 2003 -
"The changes to the ABA 2003 Annual
Questionnaire"
The changes to the ABA 2003 Annual Questionnaire
seem to be on everyone's mind. Now we have
the opportunity to share our questions and
comments about the changes with one another.
May 12-16, 2003 - "Listserv
Discussion to Address Permanent Public Access"
Titled Permanent Public Access to Government
Information: Who’s Responsible, and
Why Should We Care?, the listserv discussion
explores how to preserve electronic government
information that often vanishes in cyberspace.
Moderated by Jerry Stephens of the U.S.
Courts Library in Oklahoma and members of
the Government Relations Committee
March
10 - 14, 2003 - "What's Going on in
Library Schools?" Moderated by Barbara
Fullerton, Manager of Locke, Liddell &
Sapp Law Library in Dallas, Texas
February
3 - 7, 2003 - "Pro Pers/Pro Ses in
the Law Library: Are You Prepared? - moderated
by Amy Hale, reference librarian at the
San Diego Public Law Library
January
6 - 10, 2003 - "Prisoners and the Law
Library" - Moderated by: Madeline Hebert,
Senior Reference Librarian, Louisiana State
University
December
2 - 9, 2002 - "Making (or Keeping)
Your Law Library Relevant in Today's World"
- Moderated by: Rosalie Sanderson, Instructional
Services Librarian, New York Law School.
May
13 - 17, 2002 - "Law Libraries of the
Future" - Moderated
by Margaret Axtmann, Associate Director
for Information Resources, University of
St. Thomas Law Library and member of AALL's
Special Committee - Future of Law Libraries
in the Digital Age.
April
29 - May 3, 2002 - "The Basics of Mexican
Law" - Moderated by Francisco Avalos,
Foreign and International Law Librarian,
University of Arizona College of Law Library
and Elisa Donnadieu, JD, University of Arizona
College of Law Library.
November
5 - 9, 2001 - "Library Systems: What
Criteria to Use When Migrating"- Moderated
by: Georgia Briscoe, Associate Director
and Head of Technical Services, University
of Colorado Law Library and Jean Willis,
Associate Director for Information Systems,
San Diego County Public Law Library.
October
1 - 5, 2001 "Issues in State, Federal
and Canadian Legislative Research"
- Moderated by: Connie Crosby, Librarian,
WeirFoulds LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
and Kevin Gray, Associate Director &
Assistant Professor, Chastek Library, Gonzaga
University School of Law, Spokane, Washington.
June
25 - 29, 2001 "Unique and Valuable
Internet Legal Resources" - Moderated
by: James Murray, Satellite Librarian
of the U.S. Courts Library in Spokane, Washington.
March,
26 - 30, 2001 "How to Augment the Bottom
Line: Alternative Funding Sources for Law
Libraries" - Moderated by: Regina
Smith, Director of the Jenkins Law Library
and Donald Dunn, Dean and Professor of Law
at Western New England College School of
Law.
January
29 - February 2, 2001 "Taking Responsibility
for Problems with Vendors". Moderated
by Chris Graesser, Brown, Rudnick, Freed
& Gesmer - Chair - Committee on Relations
with Information Vendors
December
4 - 8, 2000 "Cataloging Electronic
Resources". Moderated by Hope
Breeze, Head of Technical Services, Duke
University School of Law Library and Jean
Pajerek, Head of Technical Services, Cornell
Law Library
September
25 - October 6, 2000 "Foreign
and Comparative Law Research".
Moderated by Christine Corcus, Associate
Professor of Law, Louisiana State University.
May
15-26, 2000 "Core Competencies of Law
Librarianship." Moderated by
Kay Todd, Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker
LLP
April
17 - 21, 2000 "Books and Bytes: Balancing
Formats in Today's Libraries."
Moderated by Joan Axelroth, Axelroth &
Associates
February
7 - 18, 2000 "Coordinating Legal Research
Training." Moderated by Nancy
McMurrer, University of Washington &
Rachel Jones, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin
& Oshinsky
December
6 - 17, 1999 "The Technical Services
Librarian of the 21st Century."
Moderated by Janet McKinney, Director of
Collection Resources, Leon E. Bloch Law
Library, University of Missouri - Kansas
City
September
27-October 8,1999 "Reassessing Reference
Services" Moderated by Christine Ryan,
Head of Reference Services, Vermont Law
School
June
28-July 9, 1999 "Increasing Public
Confidence and Trust in the Justice System"
Moderated by Judy Meadows, Director of the
Montana State Law Library and Past President
of AALL
May
3-14, 1999 "Law Libraries in the Depository
System: Measuring Success" Moderated
by Charlene Cain, Government Documents Librarian
at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center Law Library,
Louisiana State University
February
24-March 10, 1999 "Managing the reference
inquiry as it comes in from all directions"
Moderated by Mary Whisner, Head of Reference,
Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library at the
University of Washington School of Law
November
9-23, 1998 "End-User Electronic Competencies"
Moderated by Bobbie Studwell, Associate
Dean of Library and Information Service,
Thomas M. Cooley Law School Library
