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October 2011 PLL E-News
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AALL Online Election Opens November 1
PLL Groups Planning Webinars
PLL Launches PLL Summit Blog
PLL Supports the Consumer Advocacy Caucus Petition
Vendor Relations
PLL Authors Corner
PLL Member News
AALL Leadership Academy
Community Service in Boston
30+ New Members Join PLL

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Welcome to the inaugural issue of the PLL E-Newsletter. This new monthly publication will supplement PLL Perspectives to bring you strategic news about PLL and the profession.

 

AALL Online Election Opens November 1    

 

Two of the candidates running for AALL office this year are PLL members. Learn about all of the candidates' backgrounds and views from the biographies and statements posted on AALLNET.  Exercise your right to vote for the leadership of your Association.

PLL Groups Planning Webinars  
 
The new Knowledge Management group has planned three webinars.
  1. Trendy Gadgets and Applications
  2. Libraries and Knowledge management: A Way Forward
  3. Case Study: The Library at the Center of KM Strategy.

You can find more information here

 

To join the LinkedIn PLL KM group, please register on LinkedIn at this link.

 

To join the PLL SIS Knowledge Management List Serve, please register on AALLNET at http://share.aallnet.org/read/?forum=pll-km.

 
The IP  group is also planning a webinar in December.  Look for more details in future e-newsletters.

 PLL Launches PLL Summit Blog

 

The culmination of a two-year effort by the private law library community to explore ways to embrace change, demonstrate value, and learn about leading-edge trends, this one-day program had speakers and thinkers on a variety of engaging topics. 

 

Esther Dyson delivered the keynote address; Jim Jones of Hildebrandt and David Curle of Outsell, Inc. were among other speakers. There were break-out programs that dissect law firm management and presentations by high-level consultants, ground-breakingpracticing librarians, and law firm C-level administrators.

 

The agenda and audio recordings of those sessions can be found at the Summit Blog.

 

 A 2012 Summit tab has been created and as an agenda is formulated, details will be added to the site. 

  

 

 Visit the other PLL Blogs:

 

 

PLL Resource Guides

 

 

On Firmer Ground - In conjunction with Special Libraries Association Legal Division and the Private Law Libraries Special Interest Group of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (l'Association Canadienne des Biblioth�ques de Droit) 

 

PLL Supports the Consumer Advocacy Caucus Petition

 

70.8% of the PLL members who completed the poll, were in favor of PLL-SIS officially supporting the petition which will be forwarded to the AALL Board of Directors.

 

Background on the Consumer Advocacy Caucus Petition:

 

We are of a group of over 50 AALL members who need your support in a crisis affecting all types of law libraries. Our libraries cannot indefinitely sustain the escalating costs of unfair and anticompetitive business practices by some sellers of legal information. AALL has unique promise to champion the interests of legal information consumers. We have matched its promise with an opportunity. In April, we registered to become an AALL Caucus on Consumer Advocacy. AALL members have achieved earlier successes at consumer advocacy. Based on their examples, we proposed several consumer advocacy initiatives as our goals. AALL's leadership initially raised concerns about our goals. We were told that our Caucus would violate antitrust law and make policies on AALL's behalf. To answer these objections, we changed our statement of purpose. Former AALL President Joyce Janto AALL President Darcy Kirk  subsequently approved our revised statement for an Executive Board vote. recently rejected it and offered a substitute that compromises our effectiveness. We need your support as we petition the Board to reverse Darcy's decision and approve our revised statement of purpose. We ask that you endorse the following petition to the Executive Board. We will instruct the Executive Board to keep signatory names strictly confidential.

 

For more information: http://bit.ly/oTKUlF%0A

 
Two important Vendor Relations Task Forces are being chaired by PLL members.

 

Please be sure to reach out to Kay and Katherine to share your concerns with them.

 

Library Procurement Process Improvement Task Force will be co-chaired by Katherine Lowry and Tracy Thompson Przylucki.
 
PLL Authors Corner 

 

Monice Kaczorowski and Lyn Warmath, "Call to Action for Firm Librarians," ALA News, August/September 2011, p.26.

 

Monice Kaczorowski and Lyn Warmath, "Change as Action Summit --- A Call to Action for Law Firm Librarians" Capital Connection, Theme Issue: Law Libraries: Trends & Current Issues, August 2011, p.8 

 

Martha Cook Campos, "Looking to the Future: Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Trades Shelf Space for Flexibility," Capital Connection, Theme Issue: Law Libraries: Trends & Current Issues, August 2011, p. 12 (reprint from AALL Spectrum, May 2011)

 

Mark Gediman, "Done From Your Desk.Facts & Findings, May/June 2011, p. 46.

 

Greg Stoner, "The Jury Is Out: Considerations foUsing an Online Jury Research Service," Virginia Lawyer, February 2011, p. 48.

 

Lyn Warmath, "Law Librarians Respond to a Wide Range of Research Needs,"  Virginia Lawyer, October 2011, p. 41.

 

Alyssa Altshuler and Sharen C. Leonard, "Creating a Valuable Research Metric for the Private Law Firm," Virginia Lawyer, October 2011, p. 56.

 

 

PLL Member News

 

Gitelle Seer, Dewey LeBoeuf Library Director is retiring at the end of the year after 40 years in the profession.

 

As a colleague who entered the New York library community when Gitelle was already a legend, I want to acknowledge the debt I owe to Gitelle. Gitelle exemplifies the best of our profession. When I was a new private firm librarian  -- I had only 1 year of experience as a librarian when I got my first Director's position -- I needed a lot of advice.  Gitelle was always generous in providing guidance whether it was about research, technology, career, office politics, staff issues - you name it. She ran one of the most admired libraries in NYC. She has also thrived through one of the most challenging of career events - the dreaded "merger of equals."

 

I am happy for Gitelle, but I am sad for myself. She is one of those people from  whom I have always taken comfort - knowing she was only a phone call away if I needed advice.

 

Jean O'Grady
Library Director
DLA Piper
 
Susan Siebers has retired from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP after a distinguished 32 year career. As Library and Information Services Director she saw the firm grow from a few lawyers to over 600 lawyers during her tenure. Susan served as President of the Chicago Association of Law Librarians (CALL) and as Secretary of AALL. She also both chaired and served on numerous committees of both AALL and CALL throughout the years; she currently still serves on the CALL Corporate Memory Committee.
 

PLL Members Selected as AALL Leadership Academy Fellows

 

Sadys Espitia, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Stephanie Gardner, Bingham McCutchen LLP

Christy MacKinnon, Bennett Jones LLP

Kristen Rook, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Candace Slaminski, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

 

 

PLL Members Step Up to Become Mentors for AALL Leadership Academy Mentees
 
Judi Bikel, Akin Gump
Debbie Cinque, Weil Gotshal
Cameron Gowan, Jones Day
Steve Lastres, Debevoise & Plimpton
Sarah Mauldin,  Smith Gambrell & Russell
Holly Riccio, O'Melvany & Myers
Susan Yancey, Vinson & Elkins

Find out more about the AALL Leadership Academy.

PLL-SIS Supporting Community Service Project in Boston 2012

 

PLL would like to team up with The Social Responsibilities Special Interest Section to undertake a service project in 2012 when we are at conference in Boston.  
 

To that end, PLL is looking for volunteers to set up a PLL Community Service Task Force to work with the SR-SIS to identify and coordinate a service project our members can participate in next July 2012.

 

Please contact Steve Lastres if you are interested in joining the task force.

30+ New Members Join PLL

 

Kelly Amabile, Skadden Arps LLP

Pamela Bakker,  McMillan LLP

Marisa Bendeich, Blake Dawson

April Brousseau, Stikeman Elliott

Stephanie Chapman, Bingham McCitchen

John Crawford

Jacquelyn DeGreeve, Burnet, Suckworth & Plamer

Toral Doshi, Alston & Bird

Richard Evans

Emily Ferrier, Fish& Richardson PC

Stephanie Gardner, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Boston

David Gingell, Chevron

Monica Hait, Fish & Richardson PC

Janet Hager, Keller and Heckman LLP

Heather Heen, Thomson Reuters 

Tim Hennies, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Cincinnati

Susan Jankowski, Quarles & Brady LLP 

Kelli-Ann N. Kerr, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP, New York

Kristen Koester, Leonard, Street & Deinard, Minneapolis

Laura Motter, Dapuphin County Law Library

Cynthia Naden, Student 

Elizabeth Neal, Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP, Chicago

Leanne Notenboom, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP 

Lauren, Obenour, McCarter & English LLP

Kate Pettegrew, McNees, Wallace & Nurick

Kenneth Polin, Manhattan Publishing Company

Susan Rau

Trinka Reed, Morgan Lewis & Bockius,

Jane Richardson

Nicole Robidoux, Plunkett Cooney

Liza Rosenhof,

Doug Southard, WilmerHale

Lei Tan, Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP

Darci Tanner, Jenner & Block LLP
Martin Tomlinson, Osler Hoskin & Harcourt

Oi-May Wong, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, New York

Christina Yost, Seyfarth Shaw LLP