Title of Program

Proceedings

Thursday, October 18, 2007

A-1: Education Without Borders: Distance Education for Librarians and for Law

• Edwin J. Greenlee, Associate Director, Public Services, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

• Susan Herrick, Research Librarian,Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD

• Juanita Richardson, Business Development Consultant, CEDROM-SNi, Toronto, ON and Chair, SLA Leadership and Management Division

• James C. Gernert (Moderator), Librarian, Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC

• Sponsored by LLAM

MP3
PPT Greenlee
PPT Herrick
PPT Richardson

A-2: Researching Canadian Law, Part I: The Judicial Process, Courts and Case Law

• Beatrice Tice, Chief Law Librarian, Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

• Simon Canick (Moderator), Associate Director for Library Services, University of Connecticut School of Law Library, Hartford, CT

• Sponsored by TALL

MP3

A-3: Finding Foreign and International Law on the Web: Your Passport to Free Resources

• Molly Brownfield, Reference Librarian, Rutgers Law Library, Newark, NJ

• Karen B. Brunner (Moderator), Director of Information & Library Services, Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP, Morristown, NJ

• Sponsored by NJLLA

MP3
PPT Brownfield
PDF Brownfield

B-1: Libraries for the Bench and Bar: A Quodlibet

• Robert J. Brink, Executive Director, Social Law Library, Boston, MA

• Isabelle Pilon, Directrice du réseau de bibliothèques, CAIJ (Centre d’accès à l’information juridique), Montreal, QC

• Jean-Paul Vivian, Law Librarian, Charles B. Swartwood Law Library, Elmira, NY

• Ann T. Fessenden (Moderator), Circuit Librarian, US Courts Library 8th Circuit, St. Louis, MO

MP3

B-2: Researching Canadian Law, Part II: The Legislative Process, Statutes and Regulations

• Jeanette Bosschart, Reference & Instructional Services Librarian, The Great Library of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, ON

• Sooin Kim, Information Services Librarian, Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

• Richard Sage (Moderator), Research Librarian, Ontario Legislative Library, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Toronto, ON

• Sponsored by TALL

MP3
PPT Bosschart/Kim

B-3: Reveille! Roll Call!: Communicating Our Value to Management

• Steven A. Lastres, Director of Library & Knowledge Management, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY

• Donna Purvis, Firmwide Library Manager, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA

• Gayle Lynn-Nelson (Moderator), Senior Librarian Relations Consultant, LexisNexis, New York, NY

• Sponsored by LLAGNY

MP3

C-1: Recruiting Librarians and Lawyers to Law Librarianship

• Jim Milles, Associate Dean for Legal Information Services, Director of the Charles B. Sears Law Library and Professor, University at Buffalo Law School

• Stephen Weiter (Moderator), Principal Law Librarian for Technical Services, Appellate Division Law Library, Rochester, NY

MP3

C-2: Information Without Borders?: Copyright, the Internet, and Librarians

• William F. Patry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google, Inc. Formerly copyright counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary, formerly Policy Planning Advisor to the Register of Copyrights, formerly Law Professor, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; author of Patry on Copyright (West)

• Victoria Owen (Moderator), Head Librarian, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Toronto, ON

• Sponsored by LLAGNY, with support from Thomson West

MP3
No PPT

C-3: Libraries of Hope: When Professional Competencies and Social Responsibility Connect

• Sandra Hodgson, Executive Secretary, Librarians Without Borders, London, ON

• Jane Kinney Meyers, President, The Lubuto Library Project,Inc., Washington, DC

• Louis Mirando (Moderator), Director, Library Services, Torys LLP, Toronto, ON

MP3
PPT Meyers

D-1: The Long and the Short on Briefs

• Michael Whiteman, Associate Dean for Law Library Services & Information Technology, Salmon P. Chase College of Law Library, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

• Emily M. Janoski-Haehlen, Reference Specialist, Salmon P. Chase College of Law Library, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, KY

MP3

D-2: International Arbitration

• Nanou Leleu-Knobil, Shearman & Sterling LLP and International Arbitration Institute, Paris, France

• John W. Lai (Moderator), Manager, Information Center & Records, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY

• Sponsored by LLAGNY, with support from Shearman & Sterling LLP

MP3
ICC Rules

D-3: Enterprise Current Awareness: Managing News and Knowledge

• Sabrina I. Pacifici, Founder, Editor, Publisher, LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com; Law Librarian, and Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, Baltimore, MD

• Connie Crosby (Moderator), Librarian, WeirFoulds LLP, Toronto, ON

MP3

E-1: Leadership Skills: Developing the Library Leaders of Tomorrow

• Vicki Whitmell, Executive Director, Ontario Legislative Library, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Toronto, ON

• Wendy Reynolds (Moderator), Head Librarian, Ontario Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal, Toronto, ON

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PPT Whitmell

E-2: Course Web Sites, Electronic Reserve Collections, and Copyright

• Elizabeth Judge, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON

• Terrance K. Manion, Director of Information Technology, Georgia State University College of Law Library, Atlanta, GA

• Simon Canick (Moderator), Associate Director for Library Services, University of Connecticut School of Law Library, Hartford, CT

• Sponsored by LLNE

MP3

F-1: Negotiating Contracts: Tips, Tricks and Tools

• Joanie Olivier, Executive Partner and Founder, Iconitel, Inc., Cary, NC

• Magali Velez (Moderator), Assistant Law Librarian, Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ

• Sponsored by NJLLA

MP3

F-2: “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness” vs. “Peace, Order and Good Government”: A Comparative Overview of American and Canadian Constitutional Law

• Lorraine Weinrib, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

• Beatrice Tice (Moderator), Chief Law Librarian, Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

MP3
No PPT
Canadian Constitution Acts
Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms

F-3: Who's Your Daddy?: Corporate Disclosure Documents in US and Canadian Law and Practice

• Thomas P. Eikenbrod, Corporate Librarian, Shearman & Sterling LLP, New York, NY

• Ramandeep Grewal, Associate, Stikeman Elliott LLP, Toronto, ON

• Kelly L. Rodgers (Moderator), Applications Consultant, GSI Global Securities Information, Chicago, IL

• Sponsored by LLAGNY

MP3
PPT Eikenbrod
PPT Grewal
PDF Grewal 1
PDF Grewal 2

Friday, October 19, 2007

G-1: Keynote Address

• Michael Ignatieff, MP

Not recorded 

H-1: Plenary Session: Pipe Dream to Pipeline: The Future of Legal Information and Law Publishing

• Renee Citera, Vice President and General Manager of Research, LexisNexis, Dayton, OH

• Andrew Martens, Senior Vice President, New Product Development, Thomson West, Egan, MN

• Jeffrey Miller, President and Publisher, Irwin Law Inc., Toronto, ON

• Heidi Whalen, Director, Legal Division, BNA, Inc., Washington, DC

• Steven W. Sutton (Moderator), Vice-President, Library Services, YBP Library Services/Baker &Taylor/J.A. Majors/Lindsay and Croft, Stonington, CT

• This program made possible by the generous support and co-operation of BNA, Irwin Law, LexisNexis, Thomson West and YBP Library Services

Not recorded 

I-1: Reinventing the Law School Library

• Claire M. Germain, Edward Cornell Law Librarian and Professor of Law, Cornell University Law Library, Ithaca, NY

• Gordon Russell, Associate Dean, Professor of Law & Director of the Law Library and Information Services, Charleston School of Law, Charleston, SC

• John Sadler, Director, Law Library, University of Western Ontario, London, ON

• Beatrice Tice, Chief Law Librarian, Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

• John Davis (Moderator), Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, ON

MP3
PPT Germain
PPT Russell
PDF Tice

I-2: Law Firm Library v.2.0: Challenges and Opportunities for Libraries in the Changing Law Firm Environment

• Steven A. Lastres, Director of Library and Knowledge Management, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York, NY

• Louis Mirando, Director, Library Services, Torys LLP, Toronto, ON

• Jean O’Grady, Director of Information Services, WilmerHale LLP, Washington, DC

• Laura Suttell, Reference Librarian, Phillips Lytle LLP, Buffalo, NY

• Cyndi Murphy (Moderator), Director, Research & Library Services, Stewart McKelvey, Halifax, NS

MP3
PPT Lastres
PPT Mirando
PPT O'Grady
PPT Suttell

J-1: Investment Without Borders: Cross-Border Private Equity Markets

• Andrew Cockwell, ReichmannHauer Capital Partners, Toronto, ON

• Joan Taulbee-White, Manager of Library and Information Services, Hodgson Russ LLP, Buffalo, NY

• Liz Peoples (Moderator), Librarian Relations Consultant, LexisNexis, Boston, MA

• Sponsored by ALLUNY

MP3
PPT Cockwell

J-2: State of the Union: Same-sex Marriage in Canada

• Martha McCarthy, Partner, Martha McCarthy & Company, Toronto, ON

• Liana Giovanda (Moderator), Training and Reference Librarian, Goodmans LLP, Toronto, ON

No copyright 

J-3: The Challenge of Virtual Reference

• Mark S. Schwartz, Regional Manager, Librarian Relations, Thomson West, New York, NY

• Joni Lynn Cassidy (Moderator), President, Cassidy Cataloguing Services, Inc., Rockaway, NJ

MP3
PPT Schwartz

Saturday, October 20, 2007

K-1: Cross-border White Collar Crime

• Brian H. Greenspan, Partner, Greenspan Humphrey Lavine, Toronto, ON

• Erica Anderson (Moderator), Research Librarian, Ontario Legislative Library, Legislative Assembly of Ontario, Toronto, ON

• Sponsored by TALL

MP3 
No PPT

K-2: Teaching and Using Legal Classics: Black Letter Law and the Google Generation

• Madam Justice Alison Harvison Young, Superior Court of Justice of Ontario, Toronto, ON, and former Dean, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON

• Shelley W. Obal, Research Partner, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto, ON

• John Sadler (Moderator), Director, Law Library, University of Western Ontario, London, ON

K-3: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?: Hiring, Retaining and Dismissing Information Professionals

• Chermia Smith, Manager, Human Resources Administration, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, New York, NY

• Katrina Stevens, Manager, Employment Services, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto, ON

• Colleen Mahoney (Moderator), Supervisor, Library (Legislation Services), Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Toronto, ON

L-1: Legal Research Without Borders: Resources for Researching International Law

• Kelly Vinopal, Director of Library and Information Services, American Society of International Law, Washington, DC

• Maria Cece (Moderator), Information and Research Coordinator, Executive Council Office, The Cabinet Office, Province of Ontario, Toronto, ON

• Sponsored by LLSDC

L-2: Fabriqué au Canada = Made in Canada: Quebec’s Bilingual and Bijuridical Legal Culture

• Maître Daniel Boyer, Wainright Civil Law Librarian, Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill University, Montreal, QC

• Claire M. Germain, Edward Cornell Law Librarian and Professor of Law, Cornell University Law Library, Ithaca, NY

L-3: Teaching Adults: The ABCs of Adult Learning

• Gayle Lynn-Nelson, Senior Librarian Relations Consultant, LexisNexis, New York, NY

• Elaine M. Knecht (Moderator), Director of Information Resources, Hiscock Barclay, LLP, Buffalo, NY

• Sponsored by NJLLA

M-1: Why Don’t I Get Easy Questions Anymore?: The Changing Nature of Reference and Patron Services

• Jeanette Bosschart, Reference & Instructional Services Librarian, The Great Library of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, ON

• Joan Shear, Legal Information Librarian and Lecturer in Law, Boston College Law Library, Newton, MA

• Kay Samuels (Moderator), Reference Librarian, WeirFoulds LLP, Toronto, ON

M-2: International Insolvency Law Research

• Maggie Hobden, Office Librarian, Bingham McCutchen LLP, Hartford, CT

• Ines Freeman (Moderator), Library Manager, Miller Thomson LLP, Toronto, ON

• Sponsored by SNELLA

M-3: Competitive Intelligence on a Shoestring

• Susan Armstrong, Manager, Market Strategy for Business & Commercial Banking, Royal Bank of Canada, Toronto, ON

• Sabrina I. Pacifici, Founder, Editor, Publisher, LLRX.com and Author, beSpacific.com; Law Librarian, and Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland, College of Information Studies, Baltimore, MD

• Connie Crosby (Moderator), Librarian, WeirFoulds LLP, Toronto, ON