“The City of Roses” was a great host for AALL, but it’s time for us to leave Portland and head back to Minnesota.
(Image courtesy: AALL)
We hope you enjoyed our blog posts from the meeting and the videos, photos and text we brought you.
Next year, AALL takes its show to Washington, D.C.
A video interview featuring West Key Author Arthur Miller was shown here at AALL as part of the West town hall on legal research skills. We blogged about that event in a previous post.
We broke the 14 minute interview with Miller in half, into two video clips:
Arthur Miller (Part 1): Legal research and writing training at law schools
Arthur Miller (Part 2): The “starting point” for legal research and use of technology for it
We welcome your comments to Arthur Miller’s remarks.
Law libraries recognize the importance of getting the word out about their services.
The AALL/West Excellence in Marketing Awards honor outstanding achievement in public relations activities by an individual, a group of individuals, a library, a Chapter, an SIS, a Consortium, a Caucus, or any other group affiliated with the Association.
AALL believes public relations is a critical responsibility of nearly every member of the library profession and they issue the Excellence in Marketing Awards to inspire, educate and encourage promotional activities by the AALL membership.
This year’s winner for Best Brochure was the Law Library of Congress in Washington D.C.
Leon Scioscia talked to us about the Law Library of Congress and showed us the winning brochure:
The other four 2008 AALL/West Excellence in Marketing Award winners are:
Best Campaign
Rhode Island State Law Library (Providence, RI)
Justice Rules in Rhode Island-An Educational Collaborative
Best Newsletter
Jacob Burns Law Library (Washington D.C.)
Legal Miscellanea: A Newsletter for the Friends of the Jacob Burns Law Library
Best Public Relations Toolkit
Wahab Public Law Library (Virginia Beach, VA)
Welcome to Wahab!
Best Use of Technology
King & Spalding (Houston, TX)
Articles & Alerts Monitor of Peer Law Firms
Craig Larson, director, New Product Development at West, is at AALL showing off Case Notebook from LiveNote. It’s an electronic case file for litigators and will be available in the Fall of 2008 .
Larson gave us a preview of the capabilities of Case Notebook and how it is organized, in this video:
As we mentioned in a previous post, a white paper distributed at a town hall discussion hosted by West at AALL is now available.
The “Partnership and Solutions for Preparing Job-Ready Attorneys” white paper addresses the key issues in the discussion surrounding the gap between desired and actual legal research skills among law students and new associates.
The discussion also was previewed in a Westcast podcast produced last week, a 20-minute discussion that featured Monice Kaczorowski, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP; Karl Gruben, St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami; and Lezlie Bartz and Anne Ellis from West.
The new white paper on legal research builds on the discussion sparked by the “Research Skills for Lawyers and Law Students,” white paper produced by West last year.
Anne Ellis, senior director, West Librarian Relations has experienced many AALL Annual Meetings in her career.
We asked her to give us her perspective on why it’s important for West to be at AALL and continue the strong relationships with law librarians, in this video interview:
West held “Librarian Camp” as the theme of its customer appreciation party last night at the Hilton Hotel serving as AALL headquarters in Portland.
We’ve posted some photos on our Flickr page.
“The Daily Rose” is the daily newspaper for AALL 2008. Named appropriately, since Portland is known as “The City of Roses.”
The paper features articles and photo coverage of the sessions and events at AALL. We talked about it with Tim Kelly, co-editor of the paper, from Willamette University College of Law:
“The Daily Rose” is available in print and online. It also involves a blog, which provided information about Portland and the meeting events ahead of time to attendees to help them plan and prepare.
No matter where they work – in law firms, law schools or government agencies – the law librarians at AALL have good reasons for coming to the meeting.
Many cite the networking opportunities with their colleagues. They also come for the career development opportunities.
We interviewed a few librarians at AALL for WestBlog:
Westcast podcast
