Entitled “The Future of Law Libraries: The Future Is Now?” the workshop will be held…
At? the Pound Hall, Room 100, Harvard Law School, 1563 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
Here’s what they say…
This is supposed to be the future of law libraries. A decade into the 21st century, how is it working? Is the digital utopia all it’s cracked up to be? What’s taken off like a rocket? What’s misfiring? Join us on June 16, 2011 for a day of reviewing where we’ve come from, looking at how the predictions panned out, examining what’s going well, and dissecting missteps. We’ll also discuss and critique blueprints for the next iterations of our future. Anyone interested in the present and future of law libraries is welcome to attend this free event.
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Register At? http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/futurelawlib/Registration
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Tentative schedule
8:30 Breakfast
Coffee, bagels, and so forth in the lobby outside the meeting room.
8:45 Welcome
John Palfrey, Harvard Law School
9:00 Opening Keynote
Robert Berring, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
9:30 The Open Law Movement
Provocateur: Carl Malamud, Public.Resource.org, “”The twelve tables, law.gov, and the provision of primary legal materials”
Respondent: Joe Hodnicki, County Law Library Director, Butler County Law Library (Ohio)
10:30 The Open Access Movement
Provocateur: Richard Danner, Senior Associate Dean for Information Services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor of Law, Duke Law School
11:30 The Open Collections Movement
Provocateur: Robert Darnton, Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Harvard University (invited)
Respondent: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Professor, University of Virginia, Department of Media Studies & School of Law; author, “The Googlization of Everything”
12:30 Lunch
The usual conference fare — sandwiches and salads — in the lobby outside the meeting room.
1:00 Working Together
Provocateur: Michelle Wu, Professor of Law and Law Library Director, Georgetown University, “Expanding Collections and Building a Digital Law Library Through Collaboration”; see also her draft paper, Building a Collaborative Digital Collection, a Necessary Evolution in Libraries.
2:00 Unconference time (propose-your-own-sessions) and Library Lab demos
Feel free to propose a break-out session. We have three additional break-out rooms for use by the group: Pound Hall 335; Pound Hall 204; and Areeda Hall 111. For those who prefer to stay in the main room, we’ll have an open, lightly-moderated discussion. Or use it as “lobby time,” where you just hang out with other participants, Tweet about what we’ve discussed, or take a break.
3:00 Hacking the Casebook: eLangdell and other Studies in Cases
Provocateur: Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Respondent: John P. Mayer, Executive Director, CALI
4:00 Developing Human Resources: The Skills Needed for Law Librarians of Today and the Future
Provocateur: Kathie Price, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida Levin College of Law
Respondents: Sarah Glassmeyer, Faculty Services and Outreach Librarian & Assistant Professor of Law, Valparaiso University & Ronald Wheeler, Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law, University of San Francisco School of Law
5:00 Lobby time, drinks, and more lab demos
Some people say that the best part of conferences is the time spent in the lobby before, during, and after sessions. This workshop will have an extended “lobby time” of two hours or so between the end of the sessions at 5:00 p.m. and the peer-produced dinner sessions. For those involved in the 2:00 unconference sessions, we will have another opportunity to see what our Library Lab is up to.
7:30 Birds of a Feather dinners