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SWALL 2000 Registration FormSWALL ANNUAL MEETING
March 30 – April 1, 2000
Menger Hotel
San Antonio, TXSWALL 2000 Early Bird Registration Form
PROGRAM SCHEDULE INCLUDING ABSTRACTS OF PROGRAMS
THURSDAY, March 30
(PC-1) Legal Information Service to the Public: 7:30 – 11:45am
(A-1) Session #1: 1:30 – 3:00pmEthics and the Internet, Professor Michael Ariens, St. Mary’s Law School
Program will be on Ethics and the Internet. The Information Revolution has already begun to affect both the work of lawyers and the ways in which lawyers work. The work of lawyers will include issues of first impression in intellectual property, privacy, and business transactions. The ways in which lawyers work have also begun to change, as the ease of communications causes borders to fade away. The Rules of Professional Conduct, applicable to lawyers in the majority of states, were promulgated after the creation of the Internet, but before lawyers were aware of its existence. The Internet's growing importance to the ways in which lawyers work include: advertising and solicitation, unauthorized practice of law, confidentiality, competence, conflicts of interest, and contact with represented parties
The legal ethics implications of the Internet in these and possibly other areas of professional responsibility will be discussed.
(A-2) Session #2: 1:30 – 3:00pm
International Legal Resources, Jon Pratter and Kumar Percy, University of Texas School of LawThe presentation will have two components, (1) International law, focusing on international agreements with mention of international organizations and international tribunals, (2) Foreign Law, meaning the national law of other countries, focusing on Mexico.
Break: 3:00 – 3:30pm
(B-1) Session #3: 3:30 – 5:00pm
Locating Hard-to-Find Background and Asset Information
Speakers: Ben Toon, Fujitsu Corp.
Susan Skyzinski, Regional Information Manager, Lexis-Nexis Corp.
Britton Jackson, Executive Editor, Hoover's CorporationThese three speakers will share with the legal information management community their insight and experiences in the retrieval, organization, identification and finding of corporate information.
(B-2) Session #4: 3:30 – 5:00pm
Future of Government Documents, Cynthia Etkin, Depository Library Inspector, GPO
The speaker will discuss the changing face of the Government Printing Office (GPO) and Federal depository libraries as they move to a more electronic depository library program. The electronic government information environment will be explained to provide a better understanding of how the new electronic collection builds on the traditional depository collection. New roles for the GPO and depository librarians to provide comprehensive services for citizens will be explored.
FRIDAY, March 31
7:30 – 9:00 Breakfast and Business Meeting
9:15 – 10:30 Plenary meeting Roberta Schaeffer speakingBreak 10:30 – 10:45
(C-1) Session #5: 10:45 – 12:00noon
Westlaw v. Lexis: A Comparison, Bob Summers, Director St. Mary’s Law Library
This program compares and contrasts these two principal CALR systems in pervasive use throughout legal education and the Legal profession today. Information will be provided about legal database content, access thereto, as well as special features offered by each system. Discussions of Lexis and Westlaw will also be placed in the larger context of legal research for which other systems are in use, such as the Internet with all its variations and the traditional network of printed sources. Besides comparison and contract, current trends and predictions regarding continuing development of a legal research universe will be discussed.
(C-2) Session #6: 10:45 – 12:00noon
Can You Be Sued in Every State in Which Your Website Can Be Viewed? Carole Jeffrey, Attorney at Law
(D-1) Session #7: 2:00 – 3:15pm
Training Law Librarians—What Are Library Schools Doing? Sanda Erdelez, University of Texas School of Library and Information Science and Yvonne Chandler, University of North Texas School of Library and Information Sciences
Sandra Erdelez (UT GSLIS)
With continuing interest in knowledge management there is trend of integration across functional areas of a typical law office. Private, corporate, and government law librarians need to be not only legal research experts but also those who know how information obtained through legal research can be integrated in attorneys’ work products. Because the attorney’s work relies heavily on various legal information technology productivity tools law librarians should have a good understanding of IT tools used in a law office environment. On the example of Legal Informatics Specialization at UT-Austin I will discuss how LIS programs can provide future law librarians with important IT knowledge that is applicable to legal settings and that goes beyond familiarity with Web and traditional Internet tools.Yvonne Chandler (UNT GSLIS) - "Workplace Y2K - Education Law Librarians for the Digital Age"
This program will discuss how schools are utilizing distributed learning and web-based teaching to expand the opportunities for students in their programs.(D-2) Session #8: 2:00 – 3:15pm
What's Happening in the Library Profession Generally That Law Librarians Should Be Aware Of? - MetaData and the Legal Information Professional, Dr. William Moen, University of North Texas School of Library and Information Sciences
All information professionals have heard of Metadata. What is it and how will it help the provision of legal information. Metadata is information that describes the contents of a database. Metadata tells users when a piece of data was last updated, its format, and its information uses. That information can guide users through databases and help them better understand the meaning and context of information. This workshop aims to provide you with the most you can learn in a single day about; the state of metadata today; future directions; whether you should use metadata; and how you can start using metadata in your own applications. Dr. William Moen, Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas School of Library and Information Sciences teaches courses and conducts research in organization of information, metadata, networked information discovery and retrieval, Internet services, applications, and evaluation, National information policy; and technical standards for information handling, organization, and access.
Roundtables
SATURDAY, April 1
(E-1) Session #9: 9:00 – 10:15am
Legal Resource Product Comparisons, Sharon Blackburn, Texas Tech School of Law, Tobe Liebert, University of Texas School of Law, Brandon Quarles, Baylor Law School, and Anna Teller
MODERATOR: Susan Phillips, Texas Weslyan School of Law
Initially, we will look at the standards that all reference sources should meet, and compare the selected products as to contents, style, format comparisons, etc. Should hopefully be able to cover several different sources and present handout materials.
(E-2) Session #10: 9:00 – 10:15am
Cataloging Internet Resources: Linking Globally, Coping Locally, Karen Selden
Web-based OPACs enable catalogers to provide hotlinks to Internet-based resources of interest to their patrons. However, this capability is not without its challenges. Based upon the speaker’s experiences at the University of Colorado Law Library, this program will address some of the local policy considerations involved in cataloging Internet resources. These issues include: policy formation, providing access to the resources, OPAC display considerations, link verification, and commitment to the project.
Break 10:15 – 10:30
(F-1) Session #11: 10:30 – 12:00 noon
Prepping Your Summer Clerks
The panel will have representatives from different types of law libraries (large firm, corporation, government and a solo librarian firm) and will compare and contrast needs and solutions in the training of summer clerks area. The presenters will hand out sample library manuals and forms that they give to their new clerks. They will also present checklists of the steps they take to prepare for the annual onslaught of summer clerks, plus a list of books, other printed materials, and training sessions given to their clerks.
(F-2) Session #12: 10:30 – 12:00 noon
Helping the Pro Se Patron, Pam Gregory, Keith Stiverson, University of Texas School of Law, and Tony Estrada, State Law Library
This program will facilitate a group discussion regarding problem pro se’s, taking a look at security in libraries, and discuss how a library might involve lawyers to solve some of the problems with pro se’s. We will also look at unauthorized practice of law issues – what we can/cannot do – and how various librarians have handled this aspect of helping pro se’s. There will be time at the end of the program for questions although questions and comments will be encouraged throughout.
(F-3) Session #13: 10:30 – 12:00 noon
Fundraising in "Public" Academic Law Libraries, Larry Wegner, Univ. of Va. School of Law
This program will review some basic techniques for fundraising and focus specifically on what law libraries can do. Topics will include types of fundraising projects, fitting library fundraising into overall law school efforts, the resources that are required, and developing support from parent institutions for such projects. Examples will be given of fundraising efforts undertaken by other law libraries.
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