1981-1998 Annual Meeting Programs

1998

• Implementing MacCrate: Moving Toward a New Horizon in Legal Research Competence
• Resistance Doesn't Have To Be Futile or Frustrating: How to Ease Your Reluctant Partner, Professor, or Judge Toward New Horizons in Technology
• Broadening the Horizon: Evaluating the Use of For-Profit, Web-Based Legal Information Databases
• Spanning the Horizon: Accommodating Different Learning Styles in Legal Research Teaching
• The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts: Team Building in "Our Library"
  (Co-sponsored by the PLL, SCCLL, ALL, CS, FCIL, MAV, OBS, LHRB, LISP, GD, TS, and SR Special Interest Sections.)
• New Horizons For Disabled Patrons and Staff: Where Are We Now With the ADA?
• "My Dinner With GPO." (Co-sponsored by the Government Relations Committee and the Government Documents SIS)

1997

• From Nutshells to Netscape: Covering the Basics Through Research Instruction Programs (co-sponsored)
• Taking a Step Back: How to Deal with Difficult and Demanding People
• Measuring Legal Competence From Nutshells to Netscape: Covering the Details in Advanced Legal Research Courses (co-sponsored)
• Will There Be Chaos on the Waterfront? Implementation of a Medium-Neutral, Vendor-Neutral Citation Format
• United on the Waterfront: Building Relationships and Fostering Cooperation Among Law Librarians of All Types
• How to Keep Your Library Afloat: Developing and Selling a Workable Budget in Treacherous Waters
• Teaching Legal Research in the Digital Age: Are We Really Covering All the Waterfronts? (co-sponsored)

1996

• Touring the Exhibit Hall: What is the Message?
• Who's Counting? Who Cares? Delivering the Message with Statistics (co-sponsored)
• Solving Foreign and International Requests with Sources in Your Library (co-sponsored)
• The Management Message: Teams and TQM

1995

• Copyright in the Electronic Environment - Will It Be Just?
• Contu II and the Information Superhighway
• Benchmarks in Court Automation - Technology in the Courts: Issues and Innovations [Parts 1 & 2]
• Preparing New Law Librarians for the Information Age: Training and Education for Reference Work [Parts 1 & 2]
• Human Rights Resources and Humanitarian Field Organizations: The Hidden Resources (co-sponsored)
• Researching Government Contract Law: A Guide Through the Maze
• The Answer and the Process: Coordinating Reference and Instructional Services

1994

• Environmental Law in the 1990s: Hazardous Waste Law [Parts 1 & 2] (co-sponsored)
• Alternatives to 9-5: Changing the Work Environment, or Can I Have My Cake and Eat It Too? (co-sponsored)
• The Changing Environment of Litigation: Alternative Dispute Resolution (co-sponsored)
• "The Price is Mutually Agreeable": The Legal Research Gameshow (co-sponsored by the Research Instruction Caucus)
• Rethinking Reference: Positioning Reference for a New Environment (co-sponsored)
• Legal Research for the Non-Law Librarian: Programs and Pitfalls (co-sponsored)

1993

• From Kudos to Chaos? Assessing the Teaching of Advanced Legal Research
• Empowering Summer Associates to Achieve Their Full Potential [Parts 1 & 2] (co-sponsored by the Research Instruction Caucus)
• Grants As Alternative Funding Sources: Fiscal Survival for the Next Generation (co-sponsored)
• Putting the Next Generation in Touch With a Past Generation: Colonial Legal Systems and Materials
• TQM: How Total Quality Management Works in the Delivery of Legal Services (co-sponsored by the Research Instruction Caucus)
• Workshop on Moving Forward: Reconceptualizing Resources and Services in Recessionary Times (co-sponsored)

1992

• The Art of Reference Service: Accountability and Quality Control (co-sponsored)
• Unauthorized Practice of Law: Can you Stop Worrying and Help the Patron? (co-sponsored)
• Training with Multi-Media, Computers and Other Gadgets (co-sponsored by the Research Instruction Caucus)
• Behind the Scenes with the ADA: An Inside Account of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Came Into Being and How it Can Affect Libraries Dealing with Disabled Patrons

1991

• Teaching Legal Research to the MTV Generation (co-sponsored by the Research Instruction Caucus)
• The Paralegal as Patron

1990

• "Glasnost" at the Reference Desk
• The Problem Patron: Transforming Foes into Friends (co-sponsored)
• Negotiation for Librarians: Can You Avoid Confrontation and Still Maintain Your Self-Respect?

1989

In the News: The Process of Reporting Legal Developments on Television and in the Newspapers
Development of and Access to Foreign Legal Databases

1988

• Performance Testing of Computer-Assisted Legal Research Systems

1987

• The Law School Computer Lab: What is the Library's Role? (co-sponsored)

1986

• Teaching Research Skills: How Successful Are We?

1985

• Workshop on Electronic Formats, Collection Development and Public Services: Developing an Interface (co-sponsored)

1984

• Who Needs a Law Degree
• Preparing Library Staff for Automation

1983

• Librarians as Managers: Professional Issues in Circulation Services

1982

• Lay Users in the Law Library
• Non-Law Bibliographic Needs of the Law Practitioner

1981

• 2001 Odyssey: Reference Libraries in a Time of Change

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