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Belmont University College of Law Library
Nashville, TN |
Mitch Counts - Associate Dean for Information Services and Associate Professor of Law |
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Blog (er, wiki) of the Month! | |
Law Library Blogs (Wiki)
Ok, not technically a blog, but this one is worth bookmarking. It's a list of the blogs out there that are maintained by law librarians or law library associations. Michael Robak, of the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Law Library, updates the list (started by Bonnie Shucha, University of Wisconsin Law School Library) and welcomes your suggestions. As of Jan. 22, 2013, the list included 220 blogs!
Check it out! |
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Does your staff need grantwriting skills? As a NELLCO member you can get them for free! | |
NELLCO member libraries that can host a 2-day grant writing or grant management workshop will receive two free seats for staff to attend. That's a value of almost $1000.00!
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NELLCO has teamed up with Grant Writing USA to offer these workshops across the US. Host institutions only need to provide space and a local contact person. We do the rest. Interested? Let us know!
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Streaming Video! |
Swank Digital Campus! Take a look. View the recorded demo at your convenience. Swank offers a great service that librarians can provide to support their faculty! |
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Send Us Your Pictures! | |
We want to highlight your library and your staff on our website and in our newsletter. Please send in any images you'd like to see, along with a brief description, to tracy.thompson@nellco.org or theresa.mccue@nellco.org. All images should be jpgs of at least 620 pixels wide by 310 tall. We can work with larger images but nothing smaller. Now hit us with your best shots! |
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 Before the next issue of the Slice hits your in-box, we will have sprung forward! On March 10th we'll move our clocks ahead an hour, enjoying extended daylight hours. It's also a good time to replace the batteries in your smoke detectors. Don't forget!
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PALMPrint has reached the trigger point! Our goal was to secure 50 participating libraries to make sure the project would be affordable. I am pleased to announce that we have now exceeded that goal and have 53 libraries committed  to PALMPrint.
The complete list is included below. If you aren't on the list but think you should be, or if you've been waiting to see if we reached critical mass before committing, please contact me as soon as possible! We are very close to signing the contract with W.B. Meyer and no additional libraries will be able to join once we finalize that agreement.
- Albany Law School Library
- American University Law Library
- Baylor Law Library
- Boston College Law Library
- Boston University Law Library
- California Western School of Law Library
- Case Western Reserve School of Law Library
- Cornell Law Library
- Fordham University School of Law Library
- Georgetown Law Library
- Georgia State University
- Harvard University
- Hofstra University
- Louisiana State University Law Center
- Loyola Law School - Los Angeles
- New York Law School
- New York University School of Law Library
- Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Ce
- Quinnipiac University School of Law Library
- Rhode Island State Law Library
- Suffolk University
- Touro Law Center, Gould Law Library
- UCLA Law Library
- University of Georgia Law Library
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth
- University of Miami Law Library
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Pittsburgh Barco Law Library
- University of South Carolina
- University of Southern California
- University of Tennessee College of Law Library
- Vanderbilt University Law School
- Vermont Law School
- Wake Forest University Professional Center Library
- Western New England University School of Law Library
- Whittier Law School Library
- Arizona State University Law Library
- Creighton University School of Law Library
- George Mason Law Library
- Indiana University Maurer School of Law Library
- Tulane University Law Library
- University of Missouri-Columbia Law Library
- University of New Mexico Law Library
- University of North Carolina Law Library
- University of Oklahoma Law Library
- University of Utah S.J. Quinney Law Library
- University of Washington Law Library
- Virginia State Law Library
- Washington University Law Library
- University of Connecticut Law School Library
- University of Arizona Law Library
We urge you to join your colleagues listed above and be part of Preserving America's Legal Materials in Print! 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.
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Registration remains open for NELLCO Symposium 2013: Building a Collaboration-Driven Organization, March 14-15, 2103. Please remember that the Symposium replaces NELLCO's traditional Interest Group meetings. There will be no additional IG meetings during the year. The NELLCO Board of Directors reallocated the funding for the Annual Interest Group meetings back into the Symposium. By underwriting a significant portion of the costs for the Symposium we are able to keep your registration costs low and minimize our dependence on outside revenue sources to support the meeting.
The Interest Group Leaders are working on excellent content for each of their half-day sessions:
On Thurs. evening over dinner at the Albany Law School we will have a special guest speaker 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 in Jan., 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!
At the Symposium, all attendees will also have the opportunity to attend a Six Thinking Hats half-day workshop. The workshop is included in the cost of your registration. The Six Hats are a simple tool can improve your collaborative work and make meetings more focused and productive. The cost of the workshop alone exceeds the registration fee for the entire conference!
All NELLCO members, Full, Affiliate and International Affiliate, 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
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NELLCO CILP Page Revamped! | |
A huge debt of gratitude is owed to Larry Flynn at Suffolk University Law School! Larry single-handedly redesigned the NELLCO Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) page. The look and feel has been brought more in line with other pages on the NELLCO web site. According to Larry:
The old static archive page listing CILP publications as far back as 1999 has been replaced with a new search feature. Users can call up earlier CILP publications by year, month, and file type. A keyword search is also available that can parse through past issues and return the publications that contain the search term.
If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions about the page, please let me know.
Larry Flynn
Moakley Law Library
Suffolk Unversity
lflynn@suffolk.edu |
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Library Juice extends 20% discount to NELLCO Members! | |
 According to LJA's Rory Litwin,
Library Juice Academy offers online professional development workshops for librarians and other library staff, focusing on practical topics to build new skills. These workshops earn Continuing Education Units, and are intended as professional development activities. Library Juice classes tend to be challenging and fun at the same time, and are taught by highly qualified librarians and academics.
Through a partnership agreement reached this month, Library Juice Academy will provide NELLCO library staff members a discount of 20% on any of their online continuing education opportunities. In exchange for this discount NELLCO will support Library Juice's "Sponsor-a-Librarian" program, providing funding each year for an unemployed librarian to attend a Library Juice Academy course. We are thrilled to be able to support this worthy project!
More information about how LJA's courses work can be found in their FAQs. A sample of some upcoming courses include:
To take advantage of this discount, NELLCO members can log on to the NELLCO website and locate the discount code under Member Offers and Discounts. |
Acquisitions and Collection Development at Symposium 2013 | |
Caroline Walters says:
The Acquisitions/Collection Development Interest Group is brimming with ideas this year and we have a full agenda. Top of the list: E-books. We will be joined by Deborah Stanford from the Boston Library Consortium who will talk about the BLC's Demand-driven Cooperative E-books Purchase Project.
We will discuss collection development policies, workflows, and guidelines. Also top on the list will be a discussion about the NELLCO website and how we can make it suit our needs. The newly formed IT Interest Group will have at least one member present to hear our concerns. Other agenda items will include the Lexis Overdrive roll-out; advocacy updates; PALMPrint update and preservation concerns in this age of major print cancellations. |
IT Interest Group at Symposium 2013 |
This will serve as the inaugural meeting of the IT Interest Group. The ITIG will serve as a resource for NELLCO and as a collegial group for NELLCO library staff involved in IT within their own institutions. Larry Flynn, of Suffolk Law School Library, has agreed to convene the group and begin developing the group's structure and establishing goals.
A NELLCO Interest Group is a self-selected group of library staff members interested in a particular area of expertise within the library. Examples include Reference, Interlibrary Loan and Acquisitions and Collection Development.
Interest Groups offer members the opportunity to network with colleagues, present programs and demo products, share insights and ideas, problem solve, solicit advice, share projects and successes, and explore new initiatives. IGs are crucial to the life of NELLCO and serve as the springboards for the work and direction of the consortium.
Interest Groups have separate budget lines to fund their annual meetings. IGs may also avail themselves of NELLCO's conference calling service and webinar tool to hold distance meetings, sessions, training opportunities, presentations, etc.
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ILL Interest Group at Symposium 2013 | |
Jessica Randall says:
Bill Forgette, Library Technology Consultant with OCLC, will be presenting "The future of OCLC cataloging, interlibrary loan and discovery at Webscale." The ILL interest group will also have a roundtable discussing the future of resource sharing, and will hold as interest group business meeting.
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Reference Interest Group at Symposium 2013 |
Brian Flaherty says:
The Reference Interest Group meeting provides a great opportunity to talk about the practical day-to-day needs and experiences of reference librarians, as well as explore some of the newer tools and technologies that (hopefully) make our lives easier.
This meeting will include discussions and presentations on (among other things): integrating BloombergLaw into the curriculum, using collaboration resources such as EverNote in a research context, EBooks: their creation and utilization, the creation and management of digital content using such tools as Reveal Digital and other open access tools, and resource sharing for legal instruction. As in the past, any presentations are done by your colleagues - other refereence librarians who face the same successes and challenges as you do. |
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Tips from Theresa | |
Theresa McCue - Administrative and Member Support Manager 
Who is eligible to have a NELLCO Log in? Everyone employed by a NELLCO Library!
Spread the word, have your entire library staff create a profile on the NELLCO website today!
Theresa.mccue@nellco.org
518-694-3025 |
Jim Milles to Speak at Symposium 2013 - Law School Libraries are Doomed! |
James Milles is Professor of Law at SUNY Buffalo Law School. From 2000 to 2008 he was Director of the Law Library at SUNY Buffalo Law School. From 1997 to 2000 James was Associate Director of the Law Library at Case Western Reserve University Law School, and from 1983 to 1997 he worked at Saint Louis University Law School, primarily as Head of Computing Services. His teaching and scholarship focus on legal ethics, privacy law, and cultural and legal issues relating to the uses of technology in law and society.
In Jan, following the AALS meeting New Orleans, Jim tweeted: I hereby announce my availability to talk about why law school libraries are doomed. . .
Jim has had multiple invitations and will be speaking on the topic widely over the course of the year, but NELLCO Symposium attendees will be the first to hear Jim's prognostications on this subject and I hope a lively debate will ensue! Come and find out if the end is near . . . |
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February is African American History Month! | |
From the Library of Congress website:
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.
The National Archives offers a free e-book download, The Meaning and Making of Emancipation, in honor of Black History Month. |
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