2012 Program Tracks Based on Competencies

Programming for the 2012 Annual Meeting and Conference will be categorized according to the following tracks based on the Competencies of Law Librarianship. Review the definitions of these tracks, along with the examples of previously-presented programs, to decide how the program you are proposing should be categorized.

Library Management

• Managing budgets/financial resources
• Supervising, evaluating, training and developing personnel
• Managing evolving roles as the needs of the library change and the workforce shrinks
• Project Management
• Measuring and evaluating quality of services
• Planning and retrofitting library facilities
• Interacting with parent organizations
• Monitoring trends in publishing
• Monitoring policy and legislation impacting the library and profession
• Promoting and marketing to meet library mission

Examples:

• Predict Your Future by Creating It: Strategic Planning
• Accounting for Directors & Managers - What you need to know
• Managing Virtual and Remote Employees
• How to Create a Compelling Business Case
• Coaching and Mentoring: Strategic Tools for Effective Leadership
• Managing Virtual and Remote Employees
• Downsizing Your Library? What Goes First?

Reference, Research and Client Services

• Awareness of trends in specialized and/or customized subject services
• Evaluating resources generally
• Comparison and evaluation of resource formats
• Substantive areas of law
• Requirements of different service populations (law students, attorneys, pro ses, court staff, etc.)
• Non-lawyer access to the law
• Aggregation of content
• Creation of research and bibliographic tools (not teaching aids)
• Monitoring trends in areas of law
• Resource sharing

Examples:

• Keeping up with the Dizzying Changes in Health Care Law
• How to Locate Potential Witnesses
• Competitive Intelligence on a Shoestring
• The Challenge of Virtual Reference
• Researching International Tax Law
• ReMapping Faculty Services Support: New Models for Cooperation and Collaboration

Information Technology

• Managing databases, integrated library systems, client server applications, hardware, software, web applications, mobile applications, and networks
• Implementing new technology
• Evaluating, purchasing, implementing, and testing software and hardware for accessing electronic information
• Assisting and training users in using library's information systems
• Diagnosing hardware, software, local area network, website and internet connectivity problems
• Developing and maintaining the library's online presence
• Determining technology training needs with needs assessment tools; implementing technology training
• Assuring standards compliance

Examples:

• Going Mobile : Creating New Tools to Keep Your Library's Information Moving
• Turning the Page: E-Book Readers in Law Libraries
• Open Source ILS: What a Service Oriented System Brings to You and Your Library
• In PKI We Trust: Authenticating Our Future
• Enhancing the Library Website: Applying Adobe Flash and Semantic Web Technology
• Database Ownership: Myth or Reality?
• The Best Library Portals: Diving into Your Organization's Resource Pool

Collection Development and Cataloging

• Developing and using collection development policies; trends in policies
• Selecting and Acquiring (including policies, formats, costs, upkeep, licensing, copyright, archiving, weeding, acquisition methods and vendor relations)
• Integrating formats, archiving and weeding
• Developing procedures
• Preserving resources
• Providing access to library resources
• Implementing resource sharing
• Applying descriptive cataloging, classification, subject analysis
• Managing catalog records according to standards and accepted practices
• Managing integrated library systems, discovery tools, and institutional repositories including managing metadata and normalization rules
• Controlling continuing resources

Examples:

• Collection Development Tools: From ”Tried and True” to ”Spiffy and New”
• The Ever-Evolving World of Vendor-Supplied MARC Records
• Charting New Roles for Technical Services: Faculty Publications and Institutional Repositories
• MARC and RDA: An Overview
• How Many Ways Do We Buy That Book?
• The Semantic Web and RDA: Making the Catalog a Networked Bibliographic Environment
• Ready, Set, Cancel: Managing Large Cancellation Projects

Teaching

• Determining educational needs using needs assessment techniques and tools
• Teaching based on differing needs and skill levels of users
• Applying principles of adult learning
• Designing curricula and evaluating for effectiveness
• Teaching cost-effective and efficient research methodology
• Training users in organization and use of various formats of legal research tools
• Teaching users to use commercial research databases; coordinating with vendors
• Promoting use of new resources and technologies
• Preparing and using bibliographies, pathfinders, training scripts, podcasts, webinars, handouts and other materials

Examples:

• Minding the Skills Gap: Bringing New Attorneys Swiftly Up to Speed
• Navigating Your Way to the Classroom: Law Librarians Teaching New Law School Classes
• Documenting the Law: Video Instruction and Documentaries in Legal Education
• Beyond (But Within) the Academy: Teaching Research in Law School Clinics
• Educating and Empowering Your Lawyers to Search for Themselves
• Prepare to Practice Research Skills
• Networking With Local Bar and Alumni for Legal Research Training

General or Core Programs

Educational program activities involving subjects that fall outside of the specialized competencies

• Programs more general in nature that deal with the social, political, economic, and/or technological context in which the legal system exists
• Programs on our ethical principles or principles of librarianship generally
• Multidisciplinary programs
• Programs on communication skills generally
• Programs primarily designed for networking
• Programs on topics of personal growth
• Programs of local interest drawing upon rare opportunities to bring in local experts as well as connect annual meeting attendees to the conference location

Examples:

• After Hotel Rwanda and Welcome to Sarajevo : Preserving Trial Evidence and Documentation in a Multi-Media Age
• Ten Things Every Law Librarian Needs to Know About Copyright
• Unmasking a Marvel of an Idea: How Graphic Literature Can be Supertools for Law Librarians
• Annual Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Dynamic Listening Skills for Successful Communication
• The Phoenix Factor: Rising From the Ashes of Aggravation to Create Opportunity
• Access to Information: Our Real National Treasure
• Beer and the Law: A Legal History of Beer, Brewing and Government Regulation from the German Purity Law to the Microbrew Movement