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Congratulations to Mark Gediman for this full page in the March issue of Legal Management (the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) magazine) which promotes the value of Law Librarians.
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PLL Summit and Annual Business Meeting Luncheon Speakers Confirmed
How a Bill Becomes Law - In Real Life! By Congressman Billy Long
The Summit Luncheon speaker will be Congressman Billy Long, a freshman legislator from Missouri. Congressman Long recently wowed the crowd at the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner. He will speak on How a Bill Becomes Law - In Real Life! Watch for details later.
Increasing Your Persuasive Skills - Are You Good Enough To Get Better?" by Jim Pancero, President of Jim Pancero, Inc, Dallas TX
How persuasive are your communications skills as a leader of your department within your law firm? Our luncheon speaker will be sharing "outside our industry" skills and techniques that can help you increase your abilities to persuade and communicate your department's uniqueness and value to your firm's lawyers and staff.
We would like to extend a special thanks to LexisNexis for sponsoring the PLL Annual Business meeting Luncheon and speaker. Remember that this is a ticketed event and you must add the luncheon to your registration.
PLL Summit III Updates
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PLL WEBINARS (sponsored by PLL or where PLL members are presenting)
Shift This!: A Paradigm for Integrating Law School & Law Firm Patent Research.
One of the primary responsibilities law librarians have in the legal profession is in teaching legal research to law school students to prepare them to take and pass state and national bar examinations. Those law librarians who have students who plan to enter the patent bar have an additional responsibility in this regard. But are these newly accredited lawyers prepared to practice? Historically law firm librarians charged with instructing new attorneys have noted these new lawyers are not ready for the demands of legal research. Why is there a divide? The purpose of this program is to bring the professors from law schools together with law firm librarians, law school students and lawyers, to explore the reasons for the divergence and to create a solution,- a paradigm for patent legal research education. Attending law librarians will take with them an understanding of how to bridge the gap between law school legal research preparation and practice, the reasons for it and the corrective measures they should take to help new attorneys begin patent practice confident in their legal research skills.
Learning outcome 1: Law Librarians who teach legal research at law schools and law firms will be prepared to understand the common and dissimilar roles, goals and needs attending to each other, as well as those of law school students and practicing lawyers.
Learning outcome 2: Attendees will learn how to integrate respective pedagogy by foremost Law Librarian in order to best prepare lawyers for patent practice. Resulting in a paradigm of best practices for the profession. |
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Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
Open Leadership: Using Social Media as a Leadership Tool
The value of social media as a communication tool is fast becoming ubiquitous in the professional law library culture. However, its value as a leadership tool is less evident. A new webinar, Open Leadership: Using Social Media as a Leadership Tool, to be held April 25 at 11 a.m. CST, will demonstrate how all types of law librarians can become thought leaders inside and outside their institutions by using well-known social media applications to achieve strategic openness and transparency. This webinar is sponsored by the AALL Leadership Development Committee. Register now!
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HOW TO FUND YOUR PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
PLL GRANTS FOR TRAVEL TO AALL ANNUAL MEETING AND ATTENDANCE AT PLL SUMMIT AVAILABLE
The PLL/SIS Grants Committee is pleased to announce the availability of funds to cover the cost of transportation to the AALL Annual Meeting, and to attend the PLL Summit in Boston in July. All PLL members are eligible and are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to obtain support for participation in the Convention.
The application forms require personal, employment and professional information, as well as an estimate of expenses and a Personal Statement regarding the significance of the award to the individual. In addition, the grant recipients are requested to attend the PLL Business Luncheon on Sunday, July 22, 2012. Please submit your application to the Grants Committee Chair, Elizabeth Stack, at your earliest opportunity.
The travel grant application is available here in Word and in PDF. The summit grant application is available here in Word and in PDF.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF GRANT APPLICATIONS IS FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 2012
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AALL Offers Financial Assistance for Your Education
Every year AALL awards thousands of dollars in scholarships to law school and library school students and AALL members. The following scholarships are awarded annually:
- Library School Scholarships (for those with and without JDs)
- Law School Scholarships (for those with MLS/MLIS and those seeking dual JD/MLIS)
- Scholarships for Library School Graduates Seeking a Non-Law Degree
- Scholarships for Continuing Education Courses
- AALL and Thomson Reuters George A. Strait Minority Scholarship
- LexisNexis John R. Johnson Memorial Scholarship
- Marcia J. Koslov Scholarship
The application deadline is April 1. More information about the scholarships, instructions, and applications are available here. For more information, contact AALL Scholarships Committee Chair Sarah K. Wiant or AALL Headquarters.
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Executive Board Annual Meeting Special Committee Report Approved
As you may recall Darcy Kirk appointed a special committee to review the VCC Consultant Report recommendations about how to improve the Annual Meeting. PLL submitted its own response to the recommendations along with five other Special Interest Sections that had concerns about the impact of the recommendations to SIS programming at conference. . PLL would like to know if you agree/disagree with the recommendations. Provide feedback to Steve Lastres.
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AALL's Mentor Program Needs PLL Members Who Have a Wealth of Knowledge and Experience
Whether you're a newer member looking for advice, an experienced member hoping to give back to your profession, or a mid-career member contemplating a job change, AALL's Mentor Program is a valuable resource.
AALL's Mentor Program provides:
- Newer members: an informal, personal source of valuable insight and advice on charting your career path as a law librarian
- Experienced members: an avenue to lend your knowledge and experience to promising new members of the profession and strengthen the future of law librarianship
- Mid-career members: a network to consult if you're contemplating a move to another type of library or taking on a new job responsibility
This year's applications allow for more specificity that will help create pairings more tailored to the preferences of both mentors and mentees. New this year, mentors can register to become spot mentors. If you don't have time for an ongoing mentor relationship, consider being a short-term resource for periodic questions on topics of your choice. Whether or not you've participated as a mentor or mentee in the past, the AALL Membership Development Committee welcomes all applications.
To ensure a mentor/mentee match prior to the July 2012 Annual Meeting, please submit your form by April 13:
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Membership News
The PLL-SIS welcomes new member Aimee Olivier, of Stratvert, PA in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect Linda-Jean Schneider has joined the Library, Research and Competitive Intelligence Staff at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, as Electronic Resources Manager. Linda-Jean will be based in the firm's Philadelphia office, and her new phone and e-mail address are: 215.963.5626, and ljschneider@morganlewis.com.
Feel free to share your Member News, and thse of your colleagues, by submitting specifics to Linda-Jean Schneider.
PLL Chair Steve Lastres has won the AALL Spectrum Article of the Year Award for his publication, "Collection Development in the Age of the Virtual Law Firm Library"
This award "honors outstanding achievement in writing an article that contributes to topics relating to librarianship, law librarianship, and practical applications for library work or to an understanding of legal materials, legal systems legal information, or to professional and staff training and development. The winner is selected on the basis of quality of writing and effectiveness of the communication technique."
Member Holly Riccio of O'Melveny & Myers LLP in San Francisco has been elected Chair of the AALL Council of Chapter Presidents for 2012-2013. Holly follows PLL Members Patricia Barbone of Hughes Hubbard, Diane Rodriguez of Hassard Bonnington LLP, and Sarah Mauldin of Smith, Gambrell & Russell LLP in this position.
In addition, Holly will receive the AALL Chapter Professional Development Award, on behalf of NOCALL, for the NOCALL Spring Institute that she coordinated in 2011 as Chapter Vice-President.
CONGRATULATIONS TO STEVE AND HOLLY, who will receive their awards at the Annual Meeting in Boston!
Congratulations to Mark Gediman for this full page in the March issue of Legal Management (the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) magazine).
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