Just in case you’ve missed this .. here’s all the info for submissions for next year’s conference
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BIALL Conference 2012 – No Frontiers – Crossing the Borders of Legal Information
BIALL 43rd Annual Study Conference and Exhibition
Thursday 14 June 2012 to Saturday 16 June 2012, The Hastings Europa Hotel, Belfast
Good morning,
A reminder that the deadline for submission of proposals for papers is fast approaching. ?Abstracts should be submitted by email to [email protected] and [email protected] and [email protected], no later than Friday 7 October 2011.
For further information, please see below the call for papers, or visit the BIALL website <http://www.biall.org.uk/pages/belfast-2012.html> . ?
Our Programme roadmap “No Frontiers – Crossing the Borders of Legal Information” encourages us to look beyond borders and broaden our horizons…
Whether you are an accustomed speaker, or new to the Conference platform, we encourage you to submit your ideas to the Conference Committee Team. ?Your feedback and suggestions are essential in helping the Committee offer sessions that are relevant to you.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Beverley Oliver & Niamh Burns, Programme Coordinators, BIALL Conference Committee
NO FRONTIERS: CROSSING THE BORDERS OF LEGAL INFORMATION BIALL 43rd Annual Study Conference & Exhibition Thursday 14 June 2012 to Saturday 16 June 2012, The Hastings Europa Hotel, Belfast
ABOUT THE ASSOCIATION
The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) was formed in 1969. It is an independent and self-supporting body which was established to represent the interests of legal information professionals, and other suppliers of legal literature and reference materials, in the United Kingdom and Ireland. There are over 700 members of BIALL, both personal and institutional. Almost every legal information unit is represented – academic legal research libraries, units in commercial, technical and industrial concerns, the courts and government departments. The diversity of the membership is one of BIALL’s strengths as the members form a close network and share specialist knowledge and concerns, learning from the experience of others.
BROAD THEMES FOR THE CONFERENCE
In 2012, BIALL plans to offer a programme encouraging us to look beyond borders and to broaden our horizons……
? ??????????Explore the idiosyncrasies of UK and Irish law; consider the complexities of researching in areas where ?previously centralised powers are now devolved
? ??????????Managing risk to manage reputation ? investigating and researching both national and international clients
? ??????????International Law firms ? providing a ?firm wide? Library
? ??????????Meeting the challenges of conflicting office time and time zones when training an International Library team
? ??????????Freedom of Information ? accessing information across jurisdictions
? ??????????Get to grips with the challenges that European Union law presents ? What law does the EU make, how does it make it and where to find it?
? ??????????The status of Islamic, Sharia law, in the UK and its jurisdictional implications
? ??????????Look wider afield to other jurisdictions that UK and Irish legal information professionals are more frequently being asked to research ? Australasia, Asia, USA, Canada
? ??????????Using the borderless social networking tools to communicate with and inform clientele
In addition to the Call for Papers reflecting our proposed broad theme, the BIALL Conference Committee is intent on providing supplementary sessions reflecting both specifically requested topics and topics that remain current to the legal information professional. ?These include
? ???????????Competitive Intelligence? and the ?Risk Management? processes ? how can the Library/ Legal Information Department contribute to this process
? ??????????Standards and ethics in use of Cloud based technology for storing legal information
? ??????????Trends in the provision and delivery of legal information both in-house and outsourced
? ??????????Researching Business Information
? ??????????Outsourcing ? an objective assessment
? ??????????Social media continued?..trends and uses for legal information professionals;
? ??????????Trends in the legal information publishing environment
? ??????????Marketing ?- Increasing the visibility of our information units
? ???????????Hard Copy v Soft Copy (or both!)? ?- How to make effective decisions and negotiate constructively with publishers in relation to collection development
? ??????????Trends in Knowledge Management
? ??????????Preparing and presenting budgets to decision makers; managing an effective tendering process
? ??????????Management skills and personal development
? ??????????Enhancing our Presentation skills
? ??????????Delivering an effective training programme
? ??????????The implications of introducing Ebook technology
This list is by no means exhaustive and submissions for alternative presentations are most welcome.
BRIEF FOR SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS
We are inviting speakers from within the legal and information world to submit proposals for papers which fit within this brief. The conference programme is a blend of plenary sessions lasting 45 minutes and delivered to approximately 250 delegates, and parallel sessions lasting 60 minutes and delivered to between 30 and 80 delegates.
Actual presentations should last between 25 and 30 minutes in the plenary sessions, and between 35 and 40 minutes in the parallel sessions.
Although the emphasis of the Conference should be on the broad themes set out above, we encourage all submissions for sessions so long as they are on topics of current interest to the membership.
Parallel sessions are usually streamed and reflecting the positive feedback we will aim to continue to stream according to sector (eg academic, law firm, general interest) as well.
As already outlined, the Association’s members and Conference delegates hail from many jurisdictions, principally England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Ireland. In addition the Conference will comprise delegates from the academic, corporate, professional societies and court/government sectors with a mix of senior and junior staff. Not all subjects lend themselves to a multi-jurisdictional multi-sector approach, but these aspects of the audience should be borne in mind, especially for plenary sessions.
Although a professional association not run for profit but for the benefit of its members, BIALL can offer speakers a package which normally includes a contribution to travel expenses, overnight accommodation, attendance at the conference on the day of the presentation, and a modest honorarium.
SPEAKERS’ ABSTRACTS
The BIALL Conference Committee will consider proposals for papers on the basis of abstracts. An abstract should be between 250 and 500 words long, providing a clear idea of the content of the presentation, an indication of its target audience, and an opinion as to whether it is best suited to a plenary or parallel session.
The abstract should be accompanied by a short biography, ideally between 150 and 200 words long, outlining relevant professional experience, publications, and papers delivered at previous conferences, seminars or training events. Submissions for plenary sessions should specifically include details of previous speaking experience at similar conferences.
ENQUIRIES AND CONTACTS
Informal enquiries can be made to the Programme Co-Ordinators Niamh Burns at [email protected] and Beverley Oliver at [email protected] or the Chair of the Conference Committee, John Furlong at [email protected]
Examples of previous programmes, speaker biographies and session synopses can be viewed at http://www.biall.org.uk under ?Conferences?.
Abstracts should be submitted by email to [email protected] and [email protected] and [email protected], no later than Friday 7 October 2011.
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