Meetings

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Yolanda Jones at Wayne State noted they were hoping to add new law librarianship courses to the curriculum of the library and information school at Wayne State. Ed Greenlee at University of Pennsylvania teaches the distance course at Drexel and regularly mentors MLIS students by hiring at least two interns a year at Penn, as does the law library at Drexel Law School. Ed’s online course has been taught for the past ten years. He requires pathfinders and encourages the students to intern at Penn and Drexel. As interns the students keep journals and may even teach a bit at the law school.

David Hollander is the law librarian at Princeton and he teaches law librarianship courses at Pratt. Pratt has cut its offerings of law librarianship courses from 3 to 2. He will be teaching a class with MLIS students with and without JDs and was asking for some tips from some of the more experienced teachers. Pratt has a joint JD/MLIS degree with Brooklyn.

Barbara Bintliff at U Texas is working to revitalize the relationship with the information school at Texas. The Tarlton fellows are lawyers who are attending library school and who work in the law library as part of their 2-year program. The joint JD/MLIS program takes 3 years and 1 summer to complete. There is usually one person in this program each year.

Renate Chancellor works at Catholic U managing and teaching in their Online Weekend and Learning Program (OWL). Among the specializations they offer is one with three courses in law librarianship.  They also have an Intelligence Analysis Program and a JD/MLIS degree with Catholic’s law school. They would like to add other law school partners.

Lori Hedstrom reminded us all that we can get 120-day passwords with access to Westlaw for any student in information/library school courses. She also said that access to Westlaw Next for library and information school courses is coming!

Jim Murphy is the Law Library Relations Manager for Bloomberg Law. He will look into whether Bloomberg will continue to provide access to BNA titles and will add access to Bloomberg Law for students in library school courses. Jim used to teach law librarianship courses.

Ralph Monaco at NY Law Institute operates as a consultant and adjunct faculty member for the St. Johns library/information school. There are three courses in law librarianship (which are taught at St. Johns downtown (NYC) campus. St. Johns was just recently reaccredited. He would like to see more collaboration between library and information schools related to internships or directed fieldwork.

Yvonne Chandler reported that the funding for a new state law school in Dallas/Fort Worth is on hold since the announcement that Texas A&M just purchased the Texas Wesleyan Law School this summer. She is serving as President of the Texas Library Association! She has a cohort of 35 librarians in Guam, from 9 difference islands in the South Pacific, to whom she is providing educational offerings. The law librarianship offerings are part distance and part residential.

Penny Hazelton reported that the law librarianship program at the University of Washington had a record 14 students in 2011/12 (it is a 10-month program). Also, government publications will be a required class in place of the second legal research class.

By:  Penny Hazelton, Convener and Scribe, University of Washington School of Law

Attendees:

Barbara Bintliff, U Texas Law School
Renate Chancellor, Catholic University Library School
Yvonne Chandler, U North Texas Library School
Ed Greenlee, U Pennsylvania Law School (with Drexel)
Lori Hedstrom, ThomsonReuters
David Hollander, Princeton (with Pratt)
Yolanda Jones, Wayne State
Ralph Monaco, New York Law Institute (with St. Johns)
Jim Murphy, Bloomberg

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Roberta Shaffer reminded everyone that the University of Texas Austin now has a formal joint degree, JD-MLIS. They are especially interested in training new FCIL law librarians. May begin to recruit from the LLM programs in the fall of 2012. The U of Arizona has started a new certificate program for an all-distance digitization specialization with startup funds from an IMLS grant. Catholic University has had a law librarian track for years which has focused on government and law firm law librarianship. With the changes in law firm management, coursework focusing on competitive intelligence in law firms is the hot area. The Law Library of Congress is eager to partner with MLIS students who are interested in interning with them. The Law Library will arrange an on-site program, a distance program for nearly any duration, long or short. Contact Roberta Shaffer.

We thanked Lori Hedstrom for ThomsonReuters’ support of our early morning meeting. She reiterated the company’s support to supply Westlaw passwords for students at the request of any teacher, teaching courses in library school. Contact Lori directly if you have questions or are having problems.

Karen Brunner, a law librarian in a law firm in Morristown, NJ, indicated that budget concerns may require that the information school at Rutgers stop supporting the legal resources class.
Dana Neacsu at Columbia teaches at Pratt and her book is online.

Ralph Monaco, the Director at New York Law Institute, coordinates the law librarianship program at St. Johns. The University is committed to the law librarianship concentration track – most courses are taught at the St. Johns campus in NYC. Special courses in information resources, advanced legal research (team taught by law librarians), and law library administration (2 hours residential credit and 2 hours online credit) which Ralph teaches. He is seeing more embedded law librarians in law firms, more law librarian specialists. It was suggested that Ralph might contact the new director at St. Johns (Martin Cerjan) and suggest that the legal research classes in the library school be cross-listed in the law school. Roberta mentioned that legal research courses in the library schools could be cross-listed to several other schools to broaden the reach of the information/library schools – business, public affairs, medicine, etc.

Jeffrey Olson is the SLIS Dean at St. Johns. He is also looking to create a certificate program for librarians who already have their MLIS and wish to update their skills or specialize in some way. He would like to help educate law firm partners about the legal information environment.

We welcomed Imtiaz Jafar who is just finishing his MLIS at St. Johns.

Jan Bissett is the public service librarian at Wayne State U Law Library. She is teaching the legal information resources class with Margie Heinman (who works at U Denver). The course is only offered online now in the spring and summer. They have ten great students, some with experience in the legal profession and one JD. The school emphasizes urban librarianship.

Matt Braun (UNC MLIS graduate), currently at the Law Library of Congress, will teach the Advanced Legal Research class at Catholic in the spring of 2012 for the first time. He will be teaching every other Saturday to cover the course content.

Penny Hazelton (your convenor and reporter) mentioned that 14 lawyers will start the 11 month program at the UW in late September – the largest class ever. Other news of note, the U of Washington Information School has gone completely self-sustaining with no difference in tuition between in-state and out-of-state students as of the fall of 2011. They offer an undergraduate degree in Informatics, a PhD, a Masters in Librarianship (residential and online), and a Masters in Information Management.

Other topics of interest
Embedded Librarianship – these librarians need great project management skills and may often have two bosses (the library and the practice group). Becoming more popular in law firms – some embedding in law school clinics and other special programs/institutes with research heavy agendas.
Internships in Law Firms – several of us find these very hard to arrange. Need to be longer so intern can actually use some of the skills they are taught; often not allowed to use expensive databases and other electronic resources because of cost; conflict check needs to be done; have to work with HR in the law firm, sometimes very difficult; law firms are not used to ‘volunteers’, even those earning academic credit.

Attendees

• Jan Bissett, Wayne State University (Wayne State SLIS)
• Matt Braun, Law Library of Congress (Catholic University SLIS)
• Karen Brunner, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland, Perrett, LLP, Morristown NJ (Rutgers U SLIS)
• Penny Hazelton (convenor and scribe) University of Washington School of Law Library (UW Information School)
• Lori Hedstrom, West Librarian Relations
• Imtiaz Jafar, MLIS student at St. Johns
• Ralph Monaco, New York Law Institute (St. Johns U SLIS)
• Dana Neacsu, Columbia U Law Library (Pratt Institute SLIS)
• Jeffrey Olson, Dean at St. Johns University SLIS
• Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress (Catholic, U Texas, U Arizona and San Jose State)

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July 15, 2008:  Portland, OR

July 17, 2007: New Orleans

July 10, 2006: St. Louis

Conference of Law Library Educators webpage 

Send content suggestions to Penny Hazelton. Send links to your more current syllabus – see the Educator Resources section – many are too old!

Reports:
Eleven students will be in the law librarianship program at SUNY Buffalo this fall. Jim also reported that the School of Informatics is being moved to the Department of Education at SUNY Buffalo.

Yvonne Chandler announced the receipt of another $700,000 grant to subsidize students who work toward their MLIS from the Western states.

Karen Brunner announced that the basic law librarianship class she teaches at Rutgers may go back to being offered once a year.

Drexel is offering 20% off tuition for students enrolled in their online degree program.

Lori Hedstrom mentioned that there were many fewer applications for West scholarships this year. The deadline was Feb. 28th and applicants must include a copy of their acceptance to library school with their application. Several of us mentioned that many students hoping to enter fall classes do not get letters of acceptance until late March. Information about this scholarship is on the COLLE website – so be sure to let your potential students know this source of financial aid! And thanks for the delicious breakfast again this year! We especially appreciate it at 7am….

St. John’s is revamping its library school.

U of Arizona now has an official certificate program in law librarianship for those earning their MLIS. Mike has three fellowships which include free tuition, $11,000/year, and the student works in his law library for twenty hours per week. He advertised these through National Association for Law Placement (NALP) this year and had many more applicants than usual.

U of Western Ontario had an intern work in their law library this year and really liked the experience.

Catholic U is redesigning its MLIS program and hoping to reinvigorate the law librarianship program. They have fourteen students in law librarianship this year, most going on a part-time basis.

Mary Matuszak mentioned that it is hard to hire qualified librarians. Specifically, she mentioned that resumes are poorly written, that she has concerns about online courses/degrees, and that she will be forced to hire people without the MLIS.

Other tidbits:

• 69% of MLIS courses are online nationally!
• A multi-day leadership institute with Maureen Sullivan will be held in Tucson in March 2007 and underwritten by AALL, for about thirty-five law librarians who are interested in higher level management jobs.
• Two books that may be of interest:
  • Mary Whisner has a book that compiles all of her LLJ, “Practicing Reference” columns that will be published by Wm. S. Hein later this year. It will have two-tiered pricing to be attractive to use as a student textbook in law librarianship courses.
  • Michelle Wu and Leslie Lee are publishing a book on Law Library Management that will be published in 2007 by Wm. S. Hein.

Should we be aiming to update some of the great historical articles that have been written so they will reflect current affairs? Jim Milles brought this up. Anyone want to take a hand at collecting a list of the most important historical articles?

Ranking of law librarianship programs was discussed. Several people mentioned that the rankings should be ignored and that they are really just a popularity contest and once the criteria for ranking is known that schools just try to game the system. This year only Deans of library and information schools were asked to rank all the programs (we could find no practicing law librarians or law librarianship program directors who were asked to rank the schools). Others said that the rankings will not go away and that we should be happy that information and library schools are ranked generally – gives some prominence to the profession as a whole. No one knows if these rankings will be annual or not. The last ranking of library schools by US News was in the mid-1990s. One person commented that these rankings can be useful internally to help facilitate change.

The topic of internships came up. Barbara Traub has created and posted to the COLLE website a list of libraries willing to host interns. She wanted to know if there was some way to merge the lists created by NELLCO and other organizations with our list. She will look into that possibility. In the meantime, we do link to the NELLCO list from the internships page. Penny mentioned that she feels free to call on any law library to be a host for her law librarianship students. Some say yes and some say no!

What should the chapter’s role be with local library and information science schools? Some ideas that were shared were:

• Volunteer to teach a course in a library school (not for free)
• Work with library school staff on placement issues – resume writing, applying for law librarianship jobs, know the market
• Participate in the new MLIS student orientation and in job fairs
• Offer student grants and scholarships to attend professional meetings
• Establish a student fee for membership in your chapter and a lower registration fee for programs
• Advertise chapter activities at the school – school newsletters, posting on bulletin boards
• Meet with library school deans to discuss ways to recruit students to law librarianship
• Go to ALISE (Association of Library and Information Science Educators) meetings
• Offer a mentor program between law librarians and students interested in law librarianship

Market for law library jobs was very robust this year – many jobs; not so many qualified applicants.

The National Conference of Bar Examiners is considering creating a stand-alone legal research bar examination.

Attendees

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July 18, 2005: San Antonio

Nearly thirty librarians and deans braved the heat and humidity to attend our 7am meeting at the Riverwalk Marriott in San Antonio as part of the 2005 Annual Meeting of AALL. We enjoyed a very nice breakfast, thanks to Lori Hedstrom at West. The caffeine was appreciated, too! We had introductions around. Some of the highlights:

Remember to check out the Conference website. A lot of great new material has been added, including:

• Information on how to access CALI lessons
• Internship hosts – libraries willing to host students for paid (sometimes) and unpaid fieldwork/internships/externships/practicums (thanks to Barbara Traub at St. John’s who put this together and is willing to keep it up to date)
• Fellowships – If your library has an assistantship or fellowship, please send the information to Penny Hazelton.
• Course syllabi – some are more current – please send links to each of your course syllabi

CALI exercises – LaVonne Molde, from CALI, passed out the new CALI CD and a list of the forty-five legal research lessons. A couple librarians have experimented with these lessons. Add your suggestions to the webpage (see http://lib.law.washington.edu/colle/EdResour.htm#cali) by sending them Penny Hazelton.

University of Texas law and information schools are talking about a possible joint JD/MLS.

Robert Mead at Emporia State/U Kansas law librarianship program reports there are now seven courses offered!

Dan Dabney is working on some research dealing with subject indexing and the law.

Mike Chiorazzi at ASU has four fellowships for law librarianship students!

Jim Milles at SUNY Buffalo has 14 students in the law librarianship program at this time – eight are in law school and will earn joint JD/MLS and 6 already have a JD and are working on their MLS.

North Carolina Central has a joint JD/MLS degree.

Raquel Ortiz from BU reports that NELLCO has an internship clearinghouse on their website. Check it out under Events/Initiatives: http://nellco.org/index.cfm?page=internships.

The Law Librarians of New England has a new scholarship for a student earning a JD or MLS.

Discussion Items

• Textbooks for various classes: please check the COLLE website for texts people have used before.
• Technical services articles are generally very old and out of date. Can we encourage TS librarians to write some newer ones? I just found two articles I still like (from Penny):
  • Charlotte Levy, "Starting a Law School Library," 70 Law Lib. J. 290-308 (1977) [this article discusses the processes and records you need to keep – even though dated, I really like to assign this when we talk about acquisitions, especially.
  • Kent Milunovich, "Issues in Law Library Acquisitions: An Analysis," 92 Law Lib. J. 203-215 (2000.
• New Student Caucus under AALL – how to harness the power of students in the association. Student chapters in library and information schools? Normally a small number. Perhaps there should be a virtual student chapter of AALL?
• Should we create our own textbook? Haworth might publish. The problem is the courses vary a great deal in content. What are the classic articles that people entering the profession should have read or know about? This is the beginning of a list (see Educator Resources). We will post on the website and ask that you send suggestions to Penny Hazelton.

July 12, 2004: Boston

A record turnout enjoyed a continental breakfast provided by West (thanks, Lori Hedstrom!) at our 7am meeting in the Sheraton, Boston at the AALL Annual Meeting July 12, 2004. Each person introduced him/herself and explained the connection they have to library education and law librarianship.

Some highlights:

The Conference of Law Library Educators (COLLE)(us) has a newly updated webpage now located from the University of Washington Gallagher Law Library homepage, http://lib.law.washington.edu/colle/.

• The information was current as of the spring of 2004. If you need to change anything or add a link to your new syllabus, please contact me so we can keep this as current and helpful as possible!
• Many thanks to Dr. Yvonne Chandler who recognized the need for those who teach in library schools to have access to information about teaching in this unique venue.
• University of Denver was reaccredited by ALA.
• Gretchen Van Dam is chairing the Special AALL Committee, Graduate Education for Law Librarianship. Their charge is to promote law librarianship education and work with the recruitment and diversity committees.
• Catholic University is looking for a full time professor for their law librarianship program. (Contact Dean Martha Hale.)
• Five of the fifteen students in the new University Texas Legal Informatics PhD program have law degrees.
• Florida State University has a new Joint JD/MS program and offers continuing education courses in law librarianship for people with one degree or the other. (Contact Faye Jones.)
• CALI lessons may be great tutorials for legal research classes. Penny will talk with John Mayer at CALI to see if these can be made available to information/library school students in law librarianship courses.
• Recruitment of people into the profession was discussed at length. Some ideas:
• offer practicums and internships to lure MLIS students into law librarianship
• have job links on the COLLE website to AALL jobs and chapter websites
• create fellowships and subsidize library education
• build relationships with the Association of Legal Administrators and paralegal groups
• look for good students in law school
• create AALL student chapters
• coordinate internships in local areas
• do open houses in law libraries for local librarianship students
• create interest in law librarianship by doing legal research institutes for local librarians in other types of libraries
• have local chapters work with local library schools
• Barbara Traub at St. John's University will try to create a list of law libraries that will host students for internships/fieldwork/practicum experiences. We can post this on the website.

Attendees

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July 14, 2003: Seattle

Thanks to West for breakfast again this year!

The chair forgot to take notes except to report that the COLLE website would be moved to the University of Washington and will be updated by Penny Hazelton's student assistants.

Attendees

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July 22, 2002: Orlando

After introductions around the table, we talked about several things:

• Requested adjusting the deadline for the Student Division of the AALL Call for Papers of the Chair of that committee.
• How can we market our law librarianship education programs and recruit more people into the profession?
  • Ideas: AALL student chapters; programs for bar associations; look at paralegals and paralegal schools; law school career services programs; library staff to library school; job shadow; tours of law libraries; mentoring; minimum published salary to post jobs with AALL is ridiculously low.
• Reminded about the COLLE website at U North Texas - send syllabi!
• BNA electronic products are available for librarians teaching in library schools.
• There are distance education MLIS programs at FSU, U Missouri Columbia, U Illlinois (LEAP) and U Washington.
• Textbooks people use are Legal Research in a Nutshell, Finding the Law, and Winning Research Skills.

Attendees

Penny Hazelton, U Washington School of Law
Joyce McCraig Pearson, University of Kansas, Emporia/KU
Bob Grover, Emporia State University
Rob Mead, University of Kansas, Emporia/KU
Mike Bernier, BNA
Dan Dabney, West, UW Madison
Keith Ann Stiverson, Chicago-Kent, Dominican
Karen Brunner, Riker Danzig, Rutgers
Barbara Traub, St. John’s University Law
Ken Svengalis, RI Law Press, URI
John Christensen, Washburn Law School
Mark Bernstein, Duke
Mary Hotchkiss, U Washington
Marc Silverman, U Pittsburgh
Jim Milles, U Buffalo
Christopher Vallandingham, U Florida
Sarah Hollingsworth, U Washington
Mark Schwartz, West Group
Lori Hedstrom, West Group
Nancy Johnson, Georgia State, Clark
Kathie Price, NYU, LIU
Resa Kerns, University of Missouri-Columbia
Jane McMahon, West, California
Paul Healy, U of Illinois
Gretchen Van Dam, US Court of Appeals, Dominican
Carole Hinchclift, Ohio State, Kent State
Sam Trosow, University of Western Ontario
Susan Broms, University of Pittsburgh

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July 16, 2001: Minneapolis

After a brief reminder of our purpose in getting together and a thanks to West for breakfast, each attendee introduced him/herself. Each person shared some news/information from their past year.

Some of the News

• U Arizona has a new certification program for law librarianship.
• U Pittsburgh's library school is now part of the College of Information Sciences.
• U Buffalo has started a joint JD/MLIS degree program.
• U North Texas teaches a distance legal research class which includes a 3 day weekend on site and is followed with a web-based course.
• Emporia State and U Kansas Law School have created a Masters in Legal Information Management and is offering 2 courses.
• U Texas has no specialization in law librarianship but there is a general class and students can do special projects in law librarianship.
• U Missouri Columbia has a library school within the Department of Education and they are doing a distance ed class with St Louis, Omaha and Kansas City.
• FSU has a joint JD/MLS program approved and everything can be done through distance education.
• Dominican now has two law librarianship courses.
• Rutgers U has a course in Information Resources in Law taught every two years.

Attendees

Penny Hazelton, U Washington School of Law, UW Information School
Karen Brunner, Riker Danzig, Rutgers SCILS
Prudence Dalrymple, Dean, Dominican University
Nancy Johnson, Georgia State U, Clark/Atlanta U Library School
Beth Youngdale, U Texas Law School
Robin Gault, Florida State U
Susan Kiefer, Hamline U Law School, St. Catherine/Dominican
Mary Wagner, College of St. Catherine
Robert Mead, U Kansas, Emporia State
Martha Dragich, U Missouri-Columbia, U Missouri-Columbia
Roberta Shaffer, U Texas Library School
Barbara Traub, St. John's U Law School
Bob Grover, Emporia State U School of Library & Info Mgmt
Lori Hedstrom, West Group
Yvonne Chandler, U North Texas School of Library and Info Science
Jim Milles, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Buffalo
Sam Trosow, U Western Ontario School of Library Science
John Sadler, U Western Ontario School of Library Science
George Pike, U Pittsburgh Law School, U Pittsburgh
Mike Chiorazzi, U Arizona School of Law
Sara Robbins, Brooklyn School of Law
Nancy Trohy, Clausen Miller, PC, Dominican U

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July 18, 2000: Philadelphia

The chair forgot to take notes.

Attendees

Carla Pritchett, LSU
Julia Wentz
Linda Fariss, IU
Marc Silverman, U Pittsburgh
Beth Youngdale, UT
John Sadler, U Western Ontario
Tom French, Syracuse
Scott DeLeve, U Miss
Mary Hotchkiss, U Washington
Roberta Shaffer, UT Austin
Jonathan Franklin, U Washington
Martha Dragich, U Missouri
Joe Custer, U Kansas
Anne Klinefelter, UNC
Melanie Harshman, UT Austin
Nancy Armstrong
Sara Robbins, Pratt
Nancy Johnson, Clark-Atlanta
Nancy Tuohy, Dominion U
Joanne Dugan, West
Tom Fleming, Catholic
Mike Chiorazzi, U Arizona
Yvonne Chandler, UNT

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July 19, 1999: Washington, DC

The Conference of Law Library Educators met in Washington, D.C. on Monday July 19, 1999 at 7am in the Renaissance Washington D.C. Hotel. Twenty-one librarians and others were in attendance (list follows) despite the early hour and the fact that the meeting was inadvertently scheduled at the same time as the Academic Law Library Directors Breakfast.

Since this group changes from year to year, introductions around the table were made and each person explained their reason for attending this meeting. In addition to the usual law librarian suspects, two special guests attended. Dr. Tom Childers, Dean at Drexel College of Information Science and Technology, was a chapter VIP. Bruce Fraser, a PhD candidate at FSU School of Information Studies, distributed a copy of a proposal being considered on his campus for specialized web-based courses in legal information resources and legal informatics.

Then the following topics were briefly addressed:

• AALL Task Force to Enhance Law Librarianship Education - report by Penny Hazelton, Chair. Survey of all library/information school deans and directors and teachers, fall 1998. Found 73% of US graduate programs offer course in law librarianship/legal research. Survey summary to be published by AALL fall 1999. The Task Force also announced the creation of “Education for a Career in Law Librarianship,” a new part of the AALL webpage (to be completed by Oct. 1999). This page will have references for people who might be contemplating a career in law librarianship and will include lists of graduate schools with specialized courses, joint JD/MLS programs, and the like. The Task Force will concentrate this year on other ways to increase the number and variety of law librarianship/legal research courses taught in graduate programs.
• Incoming AALL President Margie Axtmann indicated that she is very interested in the issue of library education this year. She has asked several members of the Task Force to work with her on a Member Briefing that will appear in a fall issue of AALL Spectrum.
• For Yvonne Chandler (UNT), Penny Hazelton distributed a copy of the webpage Yvonne created for the Conference. This web page is for teachers of law librarianship courses in graduate programs of library and information science. Several suggestions were made including: add textbook used; list only those teachers of law librarianship courses who send a copy of their syllabus (the AALL webpage will have the complete lists of teachers and schools offering courses); keep only the most recent syllabi for any one professor on the webpage - put on the UNT site rather than just link to other pages since we don't want them to disappear once the course is not being taught; contact person for free WESTLAW and LEXIS-NEXIS to students taking law librarianship courses in library/information science programs; information on how to subscribe to the Conference listserv.
• Jonathan Franklin gave a short report on the American Library Association Congress on Professional Education. He served on the steering committee and attended the conference itself in spring 1999. His recommendations to the AALL Executive Board highlighted areas that AALL should investigate including educating those who teach law librarianship/legal research courses in graduate programs, recruiting and mentoring new people into the profession, and continuing the dialogue between LIS educators and law librarian practitioners.
• Anne Fessenden, chair of the AALL Recruitment Committee, passed out the brochure that AALL just reprinted, “Finding Your Way in the information Age.” This is aimed at attracting people to law librarianship. She reminded us that as teachers in library schools we see many potential law librarians every day. Think of recruiting the best and the brightest!
• Penny Hazelton agreed to schedule this meeting again next year and will avoid the conflict with the Academic Directors' Meeting. For AALL purposes, the Conference is a caucus and entitled to free use of a meeting room at the AALL Annual Meeting and listing in the program.

Submitted,
Penny Hazelton, Convenor

Attendees

Carla Pritchett, Loyola, New Orleans, LSU, Baton Rouge
Bruce Fraser PhD, Student, FSU School of Information Studies
Sam Trosow, U California, Berkeley, formerly San Jose State & U of Arizona
Donna Bausch, Norfolk Law Library, Catholic University of America
Mary Jawgiel, AALL
Nancy Johnson, Georgia State University, Clark Atlanta
Martha Dragich, U Missouri-Columbia, U Missouri-Columbia
Virginia Wise, Harvard Law, School Simmons
Mary A. Hotchkiss, U of Washington School of Law, U Washington School of Library & Information Science
Joel Fishman, Allegheny County
Karen Brunner, Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland & Perretti, Rutgers
Ann Fessenden, US Courts - 8th Circuit, U Missouri-Columbia
John Christensen, Washburn U, formerly, Emporia State
Jonathan Franklin, U of Michigan, U of Michigan
Madison Mosley, Stetson College of Law, U of South Florida
Amy Osborne, U of Kentucky, U of Kentucky
Tom Childers, Drexel University, Drexel University
Regina Smith, Jenkins Law Library, Drexel University
Susan Broms, U of Pittsburgh, U of Pittsburgh
Nancy Tuohy, Clausen Miller, P.C., Dominican University
Mike Miller, Maryland State Law Library, U of Maryland
Penny Hazelton, U of Washington

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July 13, 1998: Anaheim

Sixteen bright-eyed and cheerful folks met on July 13, 1998 at 7:30 am to talk about activities associated with teaching in library schools. This casual AALL caucus has been meeting every year since 1986. We talk about whatever comes up. We always like an update on people’s activities and who is teaching what and where. The group changes like the sea as librarians move in and out of these teaching positions. However, it is wonderful to know that so many of us are connected with library school education in one-way or another.

Announcements and discussion issues worth mentioning:

• Two new library schools are at Penn State U and U of Denver.
• Yvonne Chandler has been teaching 6 courses at once!
• Yvonne Chandler has agreed to collect syllabi for courses taught in library schools. She will put them on the web – send her YOURS! Every year 2 or 3 librarians who have not taught before are interested in what we have been doing – sharing is good. Thanks, Yvonne.
• Many of us teach in the summer. Most polled get paid for this work.
• We talked about the textbooks used. Most who were at the meeting use Berring, Finding the Law, with the Johnson supplement. Some use Kunz and like it because it covers secondary sources first.
• We were pleased that Faye Vowell, Dean of the School of Library and Information Management at Emporia State University (KS), joined our group discussion. Emporia is considering expanding its law librarianship offerings.
• Please note there is a listserv for this group: lawlibed@aall.wuacc.edu. We don’t post lots of messages, but it is nice to know there are some colleagues out there doing what we are doing. Feel free to join! Use the usual protocol.

Other activities of note:

• Penny Hazelton, Robert Shaffer, Jonathan Franklin, Regina Smith, and John Christensen have been appointed by AALL president Jim Heller to the Task Force to Enhance Law Librarianship Education. The Task Force is looking at ways AALL can help facilitate creation and offering of regular courses in law librarianship. The report is due to the Executive Board in 1999. Committee members will be surveying all library schools to gather factual data about course offerings, teachers and the like.

Attendees

Penny Hazelton, U Washington
Mark Estes, U Denver
Jonathan Franklin, U Michigan
Arundhati Satkalmi, St. John’s
Jim Hambleton, UNT
Melanie Putnam, Ohio State
Margie Axtmann, St. Catherine’s
Nancy Johnson, Clark-Atlanta
Yvonne Chandler, UNT
Ellen Gibson, SUNY Buffalo
Marc Silverman, U PittsburghhJim Fox, Penn State
Faye Vow, Emporia State
John Christensen, Washburn

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