Web 2.0: Insights and Implications for Law Libraries

What’s all the buzz about? What exactly is Web 2.0 and what could it mean for you? NELLCO is pleased to sponsor a one-day workshop presented by Greg Tananbaum, Scholarly Communication Guru. The workshop will be held on Tues. June 12, from 9:30am-3:30pm at the Social Law Library in Boston, MA. Registration is open to NELLCO members ($75.00) and non-members ($95.00) alike. Lunch will be served. To register please go to http://www.nellco.memberlodge.org and click on the ‘Events’ tab.

Greg Tananbaum is a consultant and entrepreneur focusing on activities at the intersection of technology, content, and academia. He has served as the President of The Berkeley Electronic Press, as well as Director of Product Marketing for EndNote. Greg writes a regular column in Against the Grain covering emerging developments in the field of scholarly communication. He has served as an invited speaker at dozens of conferences, including the American Library Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Association of Professional and Learned Society Publishers, and Online Information UK. He holds a Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Yale University.

Greg will help workshop participants unpack the Web 2.0 landscape. The presentation will examine where we are in the current scholarly communication landscape, how to best define Web 2.0 within the context of that landscape, how hot button issues like institutional repositories and open access fit into the mix, the limits of Web 2.0 within scholarly communication, the changing role of the library as the Web 2.0 wave crests, some considerations for the library as it is asked to deal with Web 2.0, and what the future (Web 3.0) might hold. Please contact me with any questions or concerns you may have.

Cheers,
Tracy

Tracy L. Thompson
Executive Director
New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO)
www.nellco.org
603-357-3385 (voice)
603-357-2075 (fax)
tracy.thompson@yale.edu

LLNE 2007 Spring Meeting Materials

Due to popular demand LLNE News has acquired the materials from Friday’s excellent Spring meeting.

Many thanks to the Social Law Library for hosting and creating a superb meeting and program!

Program Faculty Profiles

Spring Meeting Bibliography

Medicare Part D Resources

Health Care For All’s Powerpoint Presentation

Medical Records – HIPAA Privacy Regulations

Free LoisLaw Access Offered at the Massachusetts Trial Courts

The Massachusetts Trial Court Libraries are now offering free remote access to Loislaw. The following is a post from their blog, Massachusetts Law Updates.

“We are thrilled to announce that we are now providing free access to Loislaw from your home or office. You will need a library card from the law libraries to access this service, but anyone can get a card at no charge by stopping by one of the law libraries (with a photo ID). Loislaw offers you access to primary law–statutes, cases, regulations and rules– from all 50 states and Federal sources, as well as access to over 100 MCLE titles full-text! This is the second database we are able to bring our customers, joining HeinOnline, which provides access to full-text law review articles from over 1100 law reviews and more.”

LLNE Spring Meeting – Prosser Library Children’s Collection Book Drive

On behalf of the LLNE Service Committee, I would like to offer my assistance to local librarians who wish to donate books to the Prosser Library Children’s Collection Book Drive (for additional details see http://www.law.uconn.edu/library/llne/bookdrive) . If you would like to make a donation, but are unable to attend the Spring Meeting on Friday, April 21, 2006, please contact me by email or telephone (details below) and I will be happy to arrange to deliver the items for you.

Thank you,
Jennifer Kessler, Service Committee Co-chair
c/o Goodwin Procter LLP
Exchange Place
53 State Street, 23rd Floor
Boston, MA 02109
Phone: (617) 305-6708
FAX: (617) 523-1231
Email: jkessler@goodwinprocter.com

scholarships for AALL Annual Meeting in St. Louis

LLNE will award one or two scholarships of $750 to help with the expenses of attending AALL in St. Louis this summer. The application can be found on the LLNE website, http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/forms/annschol.htm. The deadline is May 1. 2006. This will allow the committee to review applications and make awards in time for the recipients to register by June 1.

Margaret Cianfarini, Chair LLNE Scholarship Committee

Margaret Cianfarini
Serials Librarian
Harvard Law School Library
617-496-2105
fax: 617-496-4409
cianfari@law.harvard.edu

scholarships for LLNE Spring Meeting

LLNE will be offering up to three scholarships for the spring meeting sponsored by the University of Connecticut Law School Library on April 21, 2006. Scholarship policies and the application form are on the LLNE website, http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/forms/index.htm.

The deadline for submitting an application is March 29, 2006.

Margaret Cianfarini, Chair

Margaret Cianfarini
Serials Librarian
Harvard Law School Library
617-496-2105
fax: 617-496-4409
cianfari@law.harvard.edu