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If You Offer It & Market It, They Will Come: Legal Practice Technology Instruction In a Variety of Formats

Presenter(s): 
Darla Jackson, University of South Dakota School of Law
Randy Diamond, University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law

While most law students have developed some level of technology skills, they are often unfamiliar with software applications or new technologies of particular value in law office administration and courtroom advocacy.   Recognizing the need to develop this knowledge many bar associations have tried to step into the void by providing management assistance programs that emphasize technology.  However, new attorneys may not know about such programs or may be so involved in trying to provide competent representation that they do not feel they can dedicate time to seeking such ass

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Time slot: 
22 June 13:00 - 14:00
Room: 
225
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Metadata for Online Collections

Presenter(s): 
John Joergensen, Rutgers, The State University of NJ, Newark

Got a bunch of documents that you are trying to make into a digital collection?  Got a digital collection that you want to make accessible? Concerned about preservation and access?  Then thoughtful and standards-compliant metadata is something that needs to be included in your planning.

 

This session will discuss some of the basics of document metadata and how it can be used in law libraries and law school digital collections.  We will talk about the following:

1. Standards: Dublin Core, MODS, EAD;

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Time slot: 
21 June 13:00 - 14:00
Room: 
227

Learning Centers in the Library: What can we do with them?

Presenter(s): 
Catherine Deane, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

 

This program is about leveraging the technology of the learning centers in Thomas Jefferson School of Law Library to foster a collaborative approach to learning legal research. 

 

We have two teaching areas in the library called the learning centers. The learning centers are based on the Knowledge BarTM that was designed by IDEO for Florida Coastal School of Law. It consists of a bar-like table with a glass top, a flat screen monitor, a DVD player, two whiteboards and a ceiling mounted document review camera.

 

Slides: 
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint iconLearning Centers in the Library.ppt

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Time slot: 
23 June 09:00 - 10:00
Room: 
227

What Should We Try Next? The Life of the Electronic Services Librarian

Presenter(s): 
Thomas Sneed, Emory University School of Law

How much assembly could this job really require?  What about a change in the University Library’s ILS, back end and content issues for the web site leading to a potential new CMS, and numerous other long term projects ranging from the creation of a faculty publications bibliography and implementing a program of QR codes throughout the library?  And that was just in the first six months!  This presentation will discuss the projects themselves, along with the leadership / teamwork / organizational skills necessary to balance these responsibilities, and encourage significa

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Time slot: 
22 June 10:30 - 11:30
Room: 
325

Collecting State Court Files: How Law Schools and Libraries Can Preserve History (and Use Technology to Do It)

Presenter(s): 
Rachael Samberg, Stanford Law School

In 1875, a jury committed Mary Todd Lincoln to an insane asylum. Recently, two Illinois State Supreme Court justices discovered her trial papers still on file with the Cook County Clerk. A thousand miles away in Houston, a task force has just helped overhaul the Texas court records preservation rules, so that files like John Wesley Hardin’s murder trial are spared from destruction.

Slides: 
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation iconFINAL_CALI Presentation.pptx
application/pdf iconPreservation Rules for Trial Court Records_10-State Survey.pdf

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Time slot: 
21 June 10:30 - 11:30
Room: 
225
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