Not a Box but a Window: Law Libraries and Legal Education in a Virtual World

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Not a Box but a Window Conference Archive

Not a Box but a Window:
Law Libraries and Legal Education in a Virtual World
Conference Programme

Friday 23^rd February (Bennett Lecture Hall, Faculty of Law)

9:30am View Video	Keynote address: Paul Duguid (co-author, with John Seely Brown), of The Social Life of Information, Harvard Business School Press, 2000) presents the new culture of virtual information and explores the space, real or conceptual, which legal education and the law library might inhabit in a variety of possible future models. Paul Duguid is a historian and social theorist affiliated with the University of California at Berkeley and Xerox PARC.
10:30am	Break (Flavelle Room, Faculty of Law)
11:00am ; View Video (Panel 1 and 2)	Panel 1: Distance Legal Education: Out of Pandora’s Box? Pros and cons of distance legal education and the virtual library which might support it; how traditional law schools and their value systems meet the challenge. Speaker: Nicolas Terry Professor of Law and Co-Director, Center for Health Law Studies Saint Louis University School of Law
11:45am	Panel 2: Virtual Law Libraries: What Remains of the Box? The impact of futurist and traditionalist approaches to legal education on legal information services; how newer and older libraries will deliver the goods. Speakers: Richard Danner Senior Associate Dean for Library and Computing Duke University School of Law Library Edmund P. Edmonds Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law, University of St.Thomas, Minnesota
12:30pm	Lunch (Flavelle Room, Faculty of Law)
1:30pm	Library Tours (Optional)
2:00pm View Video (Panel 3 and 4)	Panel 3: The Classroom Experience: Real and Virtual Windows onto the Legal World Current learning methods in professional legal training: what the students take away for the brave new world of law practice. Speakers: Margaret Ann Wilkinson Professor of Law, Faculty of Law with joint appointment to Faculty of Information and Media Studies, University of Western Ontario Patricia McMahon Patricia McMahon is a second year student at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
2:45pm	Panel 4: Legal Information Streaming In: Windows of Opportunity The legal publishing world and what it has in store for the information demands and challenges of educating and training the lawyers of the future. Speakers: Dan Dabney Senior Director for Research & Development, West Group Stephen Abram Vice-President, Corporate Development, Micromedia Limited
3:30pm	Break (Flavelle Room, Faculty of Law)
4:00pm Video for Panels 5 and 6 not available	Panel 5: Unlimited Horizons: Windows on the Future Now The impact of information technology on legal education and law libraries and its exploding capabilities in areas such as real-time communication, virtual classrooms, and voice interactivity. Speaker: Thomas Bruce Research Associate and Co-Director, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
4:45pm	Panel 6: Learning Space: Inner and Outer Windows onto Law School Life The mixed-media environment and its physical and psychological aspects: how we build it if we build it; will they come; and why? Speaker: Siamak Hariri Taylor Hariri Pontarini Architects, Toronto, Ontario. (Mr. Hariri is currently preparing a master space plan for the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto.)
5:30pm	Day 1 conclusion and wrap-up
6:30pm	Reception in the South Dining Room, Hart House
7:30 pm	Banquet in the Music Room, Hart House

Saturday 24^th February (Campbell Room, Munk Centre for International Studies at Trinity College)

8:30am	Breakfast (Munk Centre)
9:00am View Video	Call for papers: presentation of selected papers Neil Campbell, Law Librarian, Diana M. Priestly Law Library, University of Victoria The Digital Universe, the Rise of the Law Library, the Disappearance of Faculty Michael Chiorazzi, Director, Law Library; Professor of Law and Professor of Information Resources and Library Science University of Arizona, Access versus Ownership: The Economic Effect of the Changing Information Environment in Academic Law Libraries Claire Germain, Edward Cornell Law Librarian and Professor of Law, Cornell Law Library Web Mirror Sites: Creating the Research Library of the Future Dana Neacsu, Law Reference librarian Arthur W. Diamond Law Library Columbia University School of Law Legal Scholarship and Digitization: has Anything Changed in the Way We Do Legal Research? Nicholas Pengelley, Librarian, Centre for Innovation Law & Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto The Coming Law School Library
10:00am	Keynote address: Through a Glass Darkly John Mayer, Executive Director, CALI (Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction) will draw together the themes discussed on the first day of the Conference and talk about how we can get there from here.
11:00am	Break (Munk Centre)
11:30am	Moderated Round Table on the future of academic law libraries and legal education The previous day’s panelists will join Moderator Joanne Gard Marshall, Dean and Professor, School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to answer questions from the audience (and each other) in a lively discussion format. .
1:00pm	Lunch and concluding remarks (Ondaatje Dining Room, Massey College)