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FROM THE CHAIR
by Linda-Jean Schneider, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Philadelphia, PA
While still battling major snow events in the Midwest and NorthEast and cold temps even in the SouthEast, most of us are making plans to celebrate Spring in whatever way we can. For sports teams that means Spring Training is well underway, in preparation for Summer Games and warmer temperatures; for those of us with domestic concerns, it's time for Spring Cleaning and house renovations to make way for Summer entertaining and other major celebrations.
The PLL-SIS has its own version of 'Spring Training/Cleaning' every year in preparation for Summer Events as well.
The SPRING CLEANING activities include:
- Awards Nominations -- See specifics elsewhere in this e-Newsletter. Recognition of our colleagues and their accomplishments is essential to our identity as professionals.
- Bylaws Revision -- If you haven't yet voted, please look for the notice from the "AALL Form Mailer," which provides your password and other voting information. This 'election' closes April 9.
- SIS Leadership & Procedures Manual revision -- This material, which is invaluable for those who will assume responsibility for the various Groups during the coming year, has information which is more than 8 years out of date, so it desperately needs a thorough 'scrubbing.' Secretary Kristine Lloyd is the vigilant individual guiding this process.
- Membership Survey -- Thanks to those who took the time to respond. Now the Membership Committee members will work with other PLL-SIS Groups to identify new goals and innovative strategies to move our SIS forward.
- Strategic Plan -- We will conduct our annual review of this document, tweaking where necessary as a result of the Manual revision and the Membership survey.
- PLL Website -- As part of the migration to a new AALLnet platform, we need to update our various 'Communities.'
- Upcoming PLL-SIS Election -- We have excellent candidates from among your colleagues, so please be sure to place your vote and participate in the election. This election will open on April 10th, with an email from the AALL Form Mailer.
The SPRING TRAINING component consists of:
- Attending webinars presented by both PLL and AALL in the areas of Knowledge Management, Intellectual Property, E-Books, Dealing with Change, Process Management, Competitive Intelligence, etc. - The PLL-SIS series of 5 webinars on KM attracted more than 320 attendees, and more than 400 registrants, provided great value to members and excellent content from a leading consultant in the field, Stephanie Barnes. This valuable program was made possible by a joint AALL/Bloomberg Continuing Education Grant.
- Applying for Grants by the early deadlines - Speaking of Grants, in addition to those offered by AALL, PLL provides grant opportunities for "Travel to the Annual Meeting," as well as for Registration for the Summit. The Research Instruction and Patron Services (RIPS) SIS also offered a specific grant for firm librarians, not limited to those who are members of that Section, as well as a specific grant to novice law librarians.
- Making your Travel plans and reviewing your Meeting Schedule for AALL -- Don't forget the all-important and innovative PLL-SIS Summit-"Shaping our Success"- which begins with a Reception on Friday evening, July 12th, and continues on Saturday, July 13th, and the PLL-SIS Annual Business Meeting and Luncheon, and the PLL-SIS sponsored program: "Surrounded by Geniuses,"beginning Sunday, July 14th, at 12:30.
- Volunteering for Committees for PLL -- Invitations will be issued shortly.
Good luck with all of your Spring activities, and be sure to post and share your successes with Valued Colleagues and Friends, who can cheer you along the way! |
And You Thought Awards Season Was Over...
In PLL, it's just getting started.
We will present two awards in Seattle, Service to PLL and PLL Emerging Leader.
You can find award descriptions and nomination forms on the PLL website.
Deadline for nominations is April 1, 2013. Self nominations are welcome and encouraged.
Sarah Mauldin
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The Top 10 Value Propositions for Attending PLL Summit IV
SOS: Shaping Our Success - July 13, 2013
Seattle, WA
The Private Law Libraries Summit, now in its fourth year, continues as a vehicle for examining the impact and opportunities presented by change. Last year, we looked at changes in the business and practice of law and envisioned what those changes mean for the future. This year, we explore how to take charge, shaping ourselves as well as the services we provide to meet these new world demands. In the morning, a keynote address designed to get our creative juices flowing will be followed by a panel discussion addressing librarian roles: how do we identify, adopt and promote the roles that add value to our organizations? How do we brand ourselves as the owners of more than books and online contracts? In the afternoon, interactive breakout sessions will investigate the practical aspects of social media, the art of selling and the user experience. Participants will be better able to shape their success by defining the roles and developing the services that add value to our organizations.
Now on to the top 10 value propositions for attending....
10. Escape the brutal July heat and spend time in "cool" and beautiful Seattle, Washington.
9. Attend the destined-to-be amazing Bloomberg/BNA Welcome Reception on Friday evening.
8. Grants are available to attend the Summit! Stay tuned to the Summit blog for more information.
7. Networking, networking, networking!
6. Opportunity to attend two out of three interactive afternoon workshops/programs.
5. Get practical advice on leveraging social media to enhance your role and services.
4. Get useful tips on increasing your library traffic by enhancing user experience.
3. Uncover awesome techniques for selling management on your latest ideas for enhancing library services.
2. Hear from an amazing lineup of well-known and influential keynote, luncheon and educational program speakers.
And the number 1 reason....
You will leave armed with tips on how to take charge and shape your success as a provider of information that meets the new world demands you are facing in fresh and innovative ways!
Visit the PLL Summit Blog to get more information, or apply for a grant to attend the Summit. Click here to register for the conference. Please note that it is a pre-conference of AALL and you must check the appropriate box on the annual meeting form to register for the Summit.
In order to provide access to a wide audience, we have secured a venue that can accommodate up to 300 attendees. We encourage members to register early so they can be a part of this invaluable one-day conference.
If you have additional questions please contact the co-chairs, Joan Axelroth or Jean O'Grady .
Thank-you to our generous sponsors: Bloomberg Law/Bloomberg BNA, Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, and LexisNexis.
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GRANTS FOR TRAVEL TO AALL ANNUAL MEETING AND ATTENDANCE TO PLL SUMMIT
The PLL-SIS Grants Committee is pleased to announce the availability of grant funds to cover the cost of transportation to the 106th AALL Annual Meeting & Conference and registration for the 4th PLL Summit in Seattle this July 13th-16th. All PLL members are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to obtain support for participation in the Annual Meeting & Conference and the Summit. Both the Annual Meeting & Conference and the PLL Summit offer numerous opportunities for networking and professional development through vendor demonstrations, panel presentations, and informal discussions.
Applicants must be PLL-SIS members at the time of submission and must not have received
and used a PLL-SIS travel grant in the past five years. Individuals will be selected based on the information received in the application. Grant amounts may vary due to need of the recipient.
Application deadline is April 1, 2013.
Frances Schach, Librarian - Committee Chair
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
2345 Grand Blvd, Suite 1500
Kansas City, MO 64108
816.221.3420 ext. 5261
Janet McKinney, Knowledge Management Librarian
Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
2555 Grand Blvd
Kansas City, MO 64108
816.474.6550 ext. 33553
816.421.5547 (fax)
jmckinney@shb.com
Julie Pabarja,Research Services Manager
DLA Piper LLP
203 North LaSalle Street, Suite 1900
Chicago, IL 60601-1293
312.368.4000
312.236.7516 (fax)
Julie.Pabarja@dlapiper.com
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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact a member of the Grants Committee. We hope to see you there!
Frances Schach, Librarian - Committee Chair
Armstrong Teasdale LLP
2345 Grand Blvd, Suite 1500
Kansas City, MO 64108
816.221.3420 ext. 5261 |
Member News
Two prominent PLL-SIS members are presenting at the 2013 CALL/ACBD Conference in Montreal in May. Bess Reynolds, Technical Services Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York will lend her considerable expertise to a program entitled: Land of Confusion: EBooks' License Negotiation Demystified, while Jean O'Grady, Senior Director of Research & Knowledge Services at DLA Piper, will team up with fellow AALL member Sarah Glassmeyer to ask the difficult questions and tackle Thriving on Chaos (Winds of Change): The Future of Law Librarians.
In yet another example of collaboration with other professional organizations,
Camille Reynolds (Director of Risk Management& Information Services at Fenwick & West) and Holly Riccio (Library Manager for O'Melveny & Myers' Northern California Offices) conducted a well-received program on "Trends in Law Libraries and Online Legal Research" on February 28th. The educational session was a collaborative effort of the American Libraries Association Silicon Valley Chapter and the Northern California Association of Law Libraries (NOCALL). The attendees were a mix of librarians and legal administrators who heard a discussion of topics ranging from "The so-Called Demise of Books," to "Issues Associated with an Increasingly Mobile Workforce," to "Negotiating Online Legal Research Contracts."
LaJean Humphries, library manager at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt in Portland, Oregon published "Cheaper Online?: Our firm library's gradual move to all electronic" in the March issue of Spectrum.
Jim Senter has been promoted to California Region Library Services Manager for Jones Day. Previously he was the California Region Research Librarian.
Patrick Sullivan is the new California Region Research Librarian at Jones Day. He has been a Research Consultant and trainer for LexisNexis since 2000.
Monice M. Kaczorowski has been promoted to Chief Knowledge Officer at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg in Chicago, Illinois.
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PLL-SIS Executive Board Call
January 8, 2013
The meeting was called to order at 2:04 p.m. EST, with the following attendees:
Linda-Jean Schneider, Chair
Jean O'Grady, Chair-Elect
Steve Lastres, Immediate Past Chair
Elaine Knecht, Treasurer
Kristine Lloyd, Secretary
Cameron Gowan, Board Member
Scott Snipes, Board Member
The first order of business was the approval of last month's board meeting minutes. Cameron moved to approve the meeting minutes, and Linda-Jean seconded the motion.
The next agenda item was the Treasurer's Report. Elaine had nothing to report other than the reimbursement for the PLL Survey Monkey expense.
Linda-Jean then reported on the AALL meeting schedule. Steve's program on "Knowledge Management Learning from Other Industries" will be slotted as a PLL Independent Program. There will be 46 total programs, including deep dives and workshops, with at least16 PLL members directly involved in those programs.
The IP Group meeting has been scheduled. The vendor panel was not accepted as a program but may be held at the Sunday evening meeting.
On January 25th, the initial conference planner will be available.
Next, Steve reported on the Communications Committee. There should be representation from both the PR/Media Committee, and from the PLL-SIS Summit Committee during years when the Summit is held, on the Communications Committee. [The co-chairs of the PR / Marketing Group, Marcia Burris and Lori Martin, should be on the Communications Committee. The individual chairing the Summit Committee should also be included in this committee.] The committee recommends that the PLL
Board improve communications with committee chairs and systematize that process from year to year.
Linda-Jean pointed out that the Membership Survey could be key in reorganizing the committee structure.
Steve suggested that co-chairs for each committee could take ownership of their LinkedIn communities and RSS feeds when posting to the AALL My Communities.
Cameron then updated us on the status of the Membership Survey. She requested that we provide feedback by Friday, January 11th.
We then discussed Awards and Bylaws. Steve mentioned that On Firmer Ground won a Clawbies (Canadian Law Blog Awards) Award.
Sarah Mauldin will be looking for nominees for awards this year. We need to look at the membership to nominate emerging leaders. The deadline for awards nominations is in February.
Johanna Bizub and Caren Luckie will be helping to draft any necessary amendments to our bylaws to be submitted to the AALL Board for approval. We would then send these amendments to the membership in time for nominations.
Jean reported that the first call for the Summit Committee would be on Thursday, January 10th at 3:00 EST. Jean O'Grady and Joan Axelroth are co-chairs, with the following committee members: Scott Bailey, Philippe Cloutier, Jennifer Berman, Janice Henderson, Kristine Lloyd, Cheryl Niemeier, Sara Paul Raffel, Holly Riccio, Abigail Ross, Kathy Skinner, Lori Tarpinian, Linda Will, Emily Florio and Monice Kaczorowski.
The goal of the first Summit Committee meeting will be to discuss program ideas and committee assignments. Jean also received a preliminary report from AALL about locations for the Summit.
Scott met with Sarah Mauldin to help solicit input for the e-newsletter. He is going to contact committee chairs to get articles for the e-newsletter.
Cameron and Scott reported on the Membership Committee. They need to update the "Purpose" section on the PLL website. The committee needs to write it based on the Strategic Directives and then submit it to the Board for approval. Linda-Jean suggested that we make sure all of the committees have updated their purpose statements.
Linda-Jean then reported that Emily Florio would like to offer a webinar on Trademark Law, possibly in March.
Lastly, Celeste Smith mentioned to Linda-Jean that another SIS is awarding a grant to the AALL Management Institute. She asked if the PLL-SIS would also consider making a grant for the Institute.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:28 EST. Our next scheduled meeting is February 12th. |
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PLL-SIS Executive Board Call
February 12, 2013
The meeting was called to order at 2:06 p.m. EST, with the following attendees:
Linda-Jean Schneider, Chair
Steve Lastres, Immediate Past Chair
Elaine Knecht, Treasurer
Kristine Lloyd, Secretary
Cameron Gowan, Board Member
Scott Snipes, Board Member
The first order of business was the approval of last month's board meeting minutes. Linda-Jean moved to approve the minutes, and Elaine seconded the motion.
Elaine gave the Treasurer's Report, and reported that we spent $209.55 for the period 22 Dec 12 to 21 Jan 13 for our monthly Citrix charges.
The next agenda item was the annual meting schedule. Linda-Jean stated that the PLL business luncheon would be held on July 14th. She also informed us that SIS-sponsored programs are being finalized. According to Emily Florio, co-leader of the Intellectual Property Librarians' Caucus, the IP vendor panel and reception will not be held at this year's annual meeting due to low attendance in previous years.
Linda-Jean then moved on to the next agenda item which was a discussion of our upcoming bylaws revisions. The bylaws revisions were submitted to and have been approved by the AALL Bylaws and Resolutions Committee. The PLL Board has also approved the revisions. These proposed revisions will be submitted to the membership for a 30 day notification period prior to voting. The voting process will happen simultaneous to the PLL Board elections. The nominations slate will be submitted to the membership 30 days prior to voting, and all voting must be finalized two months before the annual meeting, or by May 13th. Johanna Bizub and Caren Luckie revised the bylaws, with assistance from Sarah Mauldin.
Next, Steve reported on the PLL Webinars that have been offered to date. On Tuesday, the 12th, Steve had just completed teaching the fourth in a series of four webinars on knowledge management. Over 250 people have attended the four webinars to date, and almost 50 have listened to the recordings, with the 5th and final in the series to be held on February 26th.
Emily Florio is scheduled to lead the next webinar on Trademark Law on March 27th. Cameron reported that based on the membership responses in the survey, members would like to see more presentations from other groups in addition to CI and KM.
Linda-Jean commented that the PLL membership survey would give us good feedback about group activity and whether we need to rearrange any of the active groups.
Next, Linda-Jean asked Scott if he could assist in organizing another meeting for the committee chairs to communicate with them about organizing and updating website content.
Steve said that the current homepage for PLL is on an external website and AALL would like us to move content behind the AALL firewall. Steve suggests we move some of our content but leave the landing page on an external website to have visibility to everyone, not just PLL members.
Linda-Jean noted that Ellen Callinan would help coordinate the committee updates to website content.
Cameron reported that the Membership Committee reviewed and corrected its content on the website.
Linda-Jean commented that we would need to update the PLL profile on AALL.
Steve suggested that either the Communications or Public Relations Committee could do this.
Linda-Jean said she would send a message to Lori Martin and Maria Burris of the Public Relations Committee to have them update the information.
Our next agenda item concerned grants. Linda-Jean has asked if there might be an increase in grant funding. This would need to be approved by the PLL Board on a case-by-case basis. The Grants Committee is revising the application and working on travel grants to AALL and PLL. Although Management Institute grants were offered, none were granted due to a lack of applications.
Next up for discussion was the Membership Survey. Cameron reported that the Membership Committee has received 350 responses, most of them positive. The committee will send out an additional reminder in the upcoming E-Newsletter.
Our next agenda item up for discussion was nominations. Linda-Jean recently spoke with Patricia Barbone, and the final slate of candidates is almost ready. Once our board approves the slate, the election will then take place through AALL.
Next, we discussed the updating process for the Procedures Manual. Kristine set a date of February 8th for all committee chairs and officers to report with updates to their sections. Many have responded but not all. Kristine will be following up with people, with the goal of a fully updated Procedures Manual by May.
Linda-Jean briefly spoke about our Strategic Directions and incorporating those into the Procedures Manual. She also noted that some committee descriptions are too general while others are too detailed. She will be contacting the liaisons to PLL to enlist their assistance with updating the manual.
Steve offered to send the LLAGNY Leadership Manual to provide some guidance for our own manual revisions. We also discussed the possibility of ultimately digitizing the manual.
Our next agenda item was a brief discussion of the status of Summit planning. Kristine reported that she is working on retaining a speaker. Since Jean O'Grady was not present, we did not discuss this agenda item in detail.
Steve suggested we begin working on publicizing the Summit, even if it is a simple Save the Date notice.
Next, Scott reported on the E-Newsletter. He is working with Sarah Mauldin, and they have enough content to last through April. Committees have been responsive about contributing content.
Finally, Linda-Jean asked if anyone had anything else to report.
Steve mentioned that Jean is speaking, along with Greg Lambert at the Ark Conference on February 21st.ILTA is working to recreate the LLSDC showcase at a cocktail hour that will occur after the Integrated Management Services meeting in New York.
The meeting was adjourned at 2:52 EST. Our next scheduled meeting is March 12th. |
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Welcome New Member
Sanja Petrovic, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt, Toronto |
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