- 30 Years of NELLCO
- PALMPrint NOW
- Symposium 2013 - Provocative Speaker?
The New Year is already old hat! Nonetheless, I'll take this opportunity to wish you all good health and peace in 2013.
For NELLCO, 2013 is our 30th anniversary year! 
Incorporated in MA in 1983, NELLCO began with 15 law libraries joining forces to explore collaboration as a means to maximize precious resources. Today, over 120 law libraries comprise the membership of NELLCO. You can read more about our history on the NELLCO website.
2013 will also be the year of PALMPrint, our collaborative print collection project with the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA). At the end of 2012 packets went out to each and every director at a NELLCO or LIPA library. These were sent by certified mail and included information about the project and policies, a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the library and NELLCO/LIPA, and a self-addresed stamped envelope for you to return your signed MOU by Jan. 15. We want to make it as easy for you to participate as possible!
After the mailing, the Committee followed up with all of the libraries by phone and e-mail, and we continue to work through our follow-up lists. Several of you told us that while you wouldn't be able to get the MOU through your internal procedures by Jan. 15, you want to participate in the pilot. We are happy to wait for your signed MOUs as long as we know you intend to participate. We also heard from a few libraries who may need special billing considerations, such as billing all three years of the pilot in year one, or making the first payment after the start of a new budget year. We are more than happy to work with you on any of these sorts of issues if you let us know. So, with all that said, here is the list of the 33 visionary, collaborative, forward-thinking, participating libraries as of Jan. 15 (drumroll please):
1. American University
2. Boston University - Pappas Law Library
3. Creighton University School of Law Library
4. Georgetown Law Library
5. Harvard University
6. Hofstra University
7. Indiana University Maurer School of Law Library
8. Louisiana State University Law Center
9. Loyola Law School - Los Angeles
10. New York University School of Law Library
11. Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center
12. Quinnipiac University School of Law Library
13. Touro Law Center, Gould Law Library
14. Tulane University Law Library
15. University of Georgia Law Library
16. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
17. University of Missouri-Columbia
18. University of New Mexico Law Library
19. University of North Carolina Law Library
20. University of Notre Dame
21. University of Oklahoma Law Library
22. University of Pittsburgh Barco Law Library
23. University of South Carolina
24. University of Southern California
25. University of Tennessee College of Law Library
26. University of Utah S.J. Quinney Law Library
27. University of Washington Law Library
28. Vanderbilt University Law School
29. Virginia State Law Library
30. Wake Forest University Professional Center Library
31. Washington University Law Library
32. Western New England University School of Law Library
33. Whittier Law School
If you are not on this list and you think you should be, please let me know.
We urge you to join your colleagues listed above and be part of Preserving America's Legal Materials in Print! If you plan to participate but need more time to return the MOU, have billing concerns, or other questions, please contact me as soon as possible so that you will be able to participate. Remember, during the pilot no additional libraries will be able to join! You must be in at the start in order to participate. If the pilot is successful and the repository is sustained, the pilot participants will have 'most-favored nation' status in the post-pilot model.
Registration is open for NELLCO Symposium 2013: Building a Collaboration-Driven Organization, March 14-15, 2103. We have a special guest speaker for dinner on Thurs. evening who is bound to stir things up! James Milles, faculty member and former law library director at SUNY Buffalo, will be speaking on the demise of the law library! Following the AALS Annual Meeting earlier this month, Professor Milles tweeted: I hereby announce my availability to talk about why law school libraries are doomed. . .We accepted his offer and look forward to a lively dinner conversation!
Come and collaborate with your Interest Group colleagues (and see news below about new IG!). Come and visit with the vendors in the Exhibit Hall, or join them at their lunch table to get your questions answered. Come and find out about how the Six Thinking Hats can improve your collaborative work and make meetings more focused and productive. Come and attend an unconference session and share your burning issues.
Earlybird registration runs through Jan. 31 and is just $175.00! Register now to get the best rate. All NELLCO members are invited to attend and we hope to be able to welcome many of you to Albany for this second annual event!
Yours In Collaboration,
Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki
Executive Director
