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Greetings and Happy Spring! The newest edition of the LLNE News is here!

This issue features the new LLNE Strategic Plan, notes on the upcoming LLNE Spring Meeting, an article on the New England Historic Genealogical Society and much more.

See you at the LLNE Spring Meeting in Maine!

The 2008 AALL Meeting in Portland is only a few months away. The LLNE Scholarship Committee is now accepting applications for support to help pay the costs of attending. Applications are due by April 30. The policies and application forms are available on the LLNE website at: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/forms/index.htm.

Completed applications should be sent by mail or fax to:

Margaret Cianfarini Chair,
LLNE Scholarship Committee
Harvard Law School Library
1545 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Northeastern University School of Law Library is co-sponsoring a panel discussion on Human Rights in the United States

Sponsored by the NU School of Law Library, NU Libraries, the NUSL Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, and the NU Bookstore. Formore information or for special needs assistance, please contact MariaCarpenter at m.carpenter@neu.edu or 617.373.2821.

Program: The anthology Uncertain Freedoms—the struggle for human rights, edited byMartha Davis, recounts the tumultuous history and politics of socialjustice action in the US. It examines the ways in which human rightsactivism has flourished and faltered within the US—and the differencesbetween the US’s domestic and international involvement in human rights.
Join us for an illuminating discussion by a panel of experts on topics asbroad ranging as civil rights, globalization and terrorism, and theirintersection with human rights.

Panel: Editor of the anthology and Northeastern Law Professor Martha Daviswill moderate a panel discussion with guests Hope Lewis, NU Professor ofLaw; Wendy Pollack, Senior Attorney for the Sargent Shriver National Centeron Poverty Law; Alec Irwin, Associate Director of the Francois-XavierBagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of PublicHealth; and Catherine Albisa, Executive Director of the National Economicand Social Rights Initiative.

Hello LLNE Members –

The next issue of the LLNE News in is the works. We are calling for submissions for our new issue! Feel free to choose any topic, and email us with your ideas.

Also, please forward any news about our members such as recent publications, new jobs, achievements, etc. We need your materials by April 11th so we can get the issue out before people head off to the LLNE meeting in Maine!

Thanks,

Kyle K. Courtney & Susan Vaughn

I have created a short (really very short) survey on survey monkey which asks questions about chat and roaming reference. If you have 5 minutes, could you please respond to this survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BrNkZNwq25Ni9mYVJ1FhaQ_3d_3d

Thank you,
Susan Vaughn
Legal Reference Librarian
Suffolk University Law Library
(and your LLNE News co-editor)

Hello LLNE Members –

The next issue of the LLNE News in is the works. We are calling for submissions for our new issue. Feel free to choose any topic, but we can also supply some ideas. You could tell us about:

• an interesting program at the AALL annual meeting
• any interesting travels from the summer
• a great resource or new product that you’ve discovered that you would like to share

Lastly, please forward to me any news about our members such as recent publications, new jobs, achievements, etc. We need your materials by October 11th so we can get the issue out before people head off to the big LLNE meeting in Toronto!

Thanks,

Kyle K. Courtney & Susan Vaughn

Have you delivered a noteworthy presentation or had your work published in a journal, law review, book or book chapter in the past ten years? If so, the LLNE Public Relations Committee wants to hear from you. In an effort to publicize member accomplishments & encourage new scholarship, the committee has compiled a bibliography of LLNE member publications and presentations. The bib will be posted to the LLNE website and featured at the events table at the AALL meeting in New Orleans. We’ll be adding new entries to the 2006 bibliography. If your works were included in earlier editions, you only need to send new work that was published or presented since July 2006. If you don’t have anything to submit this time around, fear not – the bibliography will be updated annually. The submission deadline is Friday, June 15, 2007. To view the 2006 edition and submission guidelines go to: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/resources/memberbib.htm

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

The Harvard Law School Library has launched a new blog called Et Seq.