Proposed Sessions

Session Experience level Track
Taming the Aleph beast with Group Policy
Micah Johnson

This sessions will look at how to use the various features of Group Policy to keep Aleph up to date and behaving properly for your install base.  We will start with a generic install and the...

Intermediate
Placehold Sponsor Session - Sponsor #4
Sarah Glassmeyer
Beginner Faculty
A Peek into LibGuides V2: Migrating to the New Platform - an Unsession
Karina Condra

In December 2013, SpringShare launched the roll-out of the new version of LibGuides. Beta test sites are currently being created for clients who request them. Springshare announced this week that...

Intermediate
ABA Techshow & Tell II
Deborah Ginsberg, Emily Barney, Wayne Miller

ABA held their annual Techshow in Chicago from March 27 to 29. While most of the attendees were practicing lawyers, it's a great educational experience for law school libarians, faculty, and...

Beginner
Finding, Clipping and Using Video Clips in the Classroom
Syd Beckman

Video clips can be a useful tool for teaching various topics in the law school classroom.  This may seem "old school" yet few professors utilize this interesting and engaging medium...

Beginner
21st Century Courtroom Technology, Successes and Challenges
Dan Thomas

Courtroom technology has rapidly evolved over the past several years.  While this innovation has presented many exciting opportunities to utilize technology in the courtroom to do things that...

Beginner
If your Presentations using PowerPoint have Become Lackluster, Add Some Pizzazz with these Eye-Catching Alternative Presentation Applications!
Carla Boles

Educators who may be disenchanted with PowerPoint should rejoice as there are numerous, exciting alternative presentation applications to explore! This session will give educators opportunities...

Beginner
I’ve got a tool for you! - the Unsession
Deborah Ginsberg

I have an tool for you - and you have one for me!  Let’s share our favorite tools for productivity and more.  In this “unsession”, the audience will be the presenters...

Beginner
Law in the Wild: Citation extraction service and Glassware
Wayne Weibel

I recently developed software to extract legal citations from text based documents and images, setting up the software as a web accessible service.  It began with a single in-house use, but...

Intermediate
Boon and Bane of Inventive Concepts and Refined Claim Construction in the Supreme Court's Patent Precedents
Sigram Schindler

The Supreme Court has taken US patent precedents to a higher level of development for adjusting it to the needs of in­ven­tions in emer­­ging technologies, such as life science /...

Advanced
Law in the Wild: Citation extraction service and Glassware
Wayne Weibel

I recently developed software to extract legal citations from text based documents and images, setting up the software as a web accessible service.  It began with a single in-house use, but...

Intermediate
Game of Budgetary Thrones - Does Responsibility Center Management lead to "the academic equivalent of a Hobbesian war of all against all"?
Tony Anderson, Chad Covey

Though Responsibility Center Management (RCM) has been in existence since its inception at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, its adoption has occurred in waves, typically as state...

Intermediate
A Peek into LibGuides V2: Migrating to the New Platform - an Unsession
Karina Condra

In December 2013, SpringShare launched the roll-out of the new version of LibGuides. Beta test sites are currently being created for clients who request them. Springshare announced this week that...

Intermediate
Getting the most out of your Youtube videos
Michael Robak, Ayyoub Ajmi

With over 100 hours of video uploaded every minute Youtube is by far the leading online video sharing platform. Beside kittens and cute babies Youtube also hosts many educational and school...

Beginner
The Accidental Institutional Repository Manager: A Review of Hofstra Law Library's Scholarly Commons Project
DawnMarin Dell

Hofstra Law Library has hosted a bepress Scholarly Commons since the fall of 2012.  The institutional repository was created from in-house materials and Hein's archives of existing...

Beginner
Classcaster Beyond Podcasting
Elmer Masters

Every semester dozens of law school faculty and librarians use Classcaster for podacasting and blogging. This session will go over the latest updates to Classcaster as provided by new Wordpress 3....

Intermediate Faculty
Boon and Bane of Inventive Concepts and Refined Claim Construction in the Supreme Court's Patent Precedents
Sigram Schindler

The Supreme Court has taken US patent precedents to a higher level of development for adjusting it to the needs of in­ven­tions in emer­­ging technologies, such as life science /...

Advanced
The End of the Textbook (Digital or Otherwise): Using Content-Embedded Concept Maps to Teach Law
Mark Edwards

Many publishers are attempting to make available digitized versions of their existing textbooks and casebooks.  ChartaCourse has flipped the concept of the textbook and casebook entirely,...

Beginner
The Times They Are A-Changin
Corinne St. Claire

"And the first one now will later be last, for the times they are a-changin'" - Bob Dylan knew what was up when he strummed those words.  Change happens, and we have many...

Beginner
Distance Education on the Bleeding Edge
Syd Beckman, Gordon Russell

This presentation will look at bleeding edge ideas for the delivery of synchronis an asynchronis distance education using virtual technology in new and meaningful ways.  The presentation...

Intermediate Faculty
How Big Is Your Digital Footprint? How To Manage Online Presence
Marcia Dority Baker

Have you ever Googled your name? Take a close look at the results - your online presence is working 24/7. You’re “on” even if you aren’t online. This presentation will...

Beginner
Website Optimization for Fun and Non-Profit
Bryan Rapp

Did you know that the speed of your website can have a direct impact on your visitor's perception of your brand?  If your site is slow, then you may be more generally viewed as sluggish....

Intermediate
Lots of Web for Little Cash: Shared Hosting at the academic Law Library
Wilhelmina Randtke

Intranet, repository, HTML 5 video, and electronic signange, all for $10 a month.  Say what?! 
 

Advanced
Preparing for Change: What impact will the new ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure have on learning outcomes, distance education, experiential learning, faculty/student ratios, faculty status and student employment?
Gordon Russell

The ABA Standards Review Committee  has sent to the Council on Legal Education the revised standards and these have been sent out for Notice and Comment.  It is very likely that the the...

Intermediate
I’ve got a tool for you! - the Unsession
Deborah Ginsberg

I have an tool for you - and you have one for me!  Let’s share our favorite tools for productivity and more.  In this “unsession”, the audience will be the presenters...

Beginner
Taming the Aleph beast with Group Policy
Micah Johnson

This sessions will look at how to use the various features of Group Policy to keep Aleph up to date and behaving properly for your install base.  We will start with a generic install and the...

Intermediate
Getting the most out of your Youtube videos
Michael Robak, Ayyoub Ajmi

With over 100 hours of video uploaded every minute Youtube is by far the leading online video sharing platform. Beside kittens and cute babies Youtube also hosts many educational and school...

Beginner
Pretty Big Data: Data visualization mechanisms for scholarship and marketing
Ellen Richardson, Sarah Ryan, Jordan Jefferson

Arrest rates across the U.S. The impact of declining endowment funds on discretionary spending. The proportion of students taking legal research courses. What do these topics have in common? They...

Beginner
Experiences in Teaching Legal Practice Technology to Law Students
Richard Granat

During the past year several law schools have introduced new courses in teaching legal technology and law practice management to law students.
These courses range from more technical courses...

Beginner
Identifying the Problem: Using Exam Software to Help Struggling Students Succeed
Ashley Closterman

The idea of using an embedded-assessment platform to provide proof of student learning and help faculty with student remediation and curriculum revision is not a new one—so why are many law...

Beginner
Control Your Presence: Using LibGuides as a Template for Library Websites
Lorelle Anderson

Control Your Presence: Using LibGuides as a Template for Library Websites
Using LibGuides to create a library website has multiple benefits:

Intermediate
Distance Education on the Bleeding Edge
Syd Beckman, Gordon Russell

This presentation will look at bleeding edge ideas for the delivery of synchronis an asynchronis distance education using virtual technology in new and meaningful ways.  The presentation...

Intermediate Faculty
Extreme Makeover: Website Edition
Austin Williams, Terrance Manion

Websites, like houses or people, get makeovers from time to time.

Beginner
Classcaster Beyond Podcasting
Elmer Masters

Every semester dozens of law school faculty and librarians use Classcaster for podacasting and blogging. This session will go over the latest updates to Classcaster as provided by new Wordpress 3....

Intermediate Faculty
Finding, Clipping and Using Video Clips in the Classroom
Syd Beckman

Video clips can be a useful tool for teaching various topics in the law school classroom.  This may seem "old school" yet few professors utilize this interesting and engaging medium...

Beginner
Exam Administration Made Easy! (Or maybe less horrible, anyway).
Nathan D.M. Robertson

Final exams are terrifying for law students on purpose.  But does the final exam season also have to be harrowing for law school administration?  No one wants a stressed out registrar!...

Beginner
Using Powershell to bring Federal Depository Libraries into this decade
Micah Johnson

The librarians in many Federal Depository Libraries have been using DOCS2000 for the past 15 years.  With the end of support for Windows XP, there’s a good chance of DOCS2000 no longer...

Beginner
Apples for Teachers . . . and Students . . . and Staff -- FOUR YEARS LATER
Mitchel Winick

In 2010 Monterey College of Law became the first US law school to provide Apple iPads to 100% of our faculty, students, and staff. As we initiated the program, I presented the goals for MCL's...

Beginner
The End of the Textbook (Digital or Otherwise): Using Content-Embedded Concept Maps to Teach Law
Mark Edwards

Many publishers are attempting to make available digitized versions of their existing textbooks and casebooks.  ChartaCourse has flipped the concept of the textbook and casebook entirely,...

Beginner
Lots of Web for Little Cash: Shared Hosting at the academic Law Library
Wilhelmina Randtke

Intranet, repository, HTML 5 video, and electronic signange, all for $10 a month.  Say what?! 
 

Advanced
How Big Is Your Digital Footprint? How To Manage Online Presence
Marcia Dority Baker

Have you ever Googled your name? Take a close look at the results - your online presence is working 24/7. You’re “on” even if you aren’t online. This presentation will...

Beginner
Experiences in Teaching Legal Practice Technology to Law Students
Richard Granat

During the past year several law schools have introduced new courses in teaching legal technology and law practice management to law students.
These courses range from more technical courses...

Beginner
The Times They Are A-Changin
Corinne St. Claire

"And the first one now will later be last, for the times they are a-changin'" - Bob Dylan knew what was up when he strummed those words.  Change happens, and we have many...

Beginner
Teaching the Technology of Choice
Marc Lauritsen

Choice making is a pervasive aspect of most forms of legal work. It’s central to case strategy, client counseling, advocacy, negotiation, document drafting, and adjudication. Yet law school...

Intermediate
Identifying the Problem: Using Exam Software to Help Struggling Students Succeed
Ashley Closterman

The idea of using an embedded-assessment platform to provide proof of student learning and help faculty with student remediation and curriculum revision is not a new one—so why are many law...

Beginner
Extreme Makeover: Website Edition
Austin Williams, Terrance Manion

Websites, like houses or people, get makeovers from time to time.

Beginner
Using Powershell to bring Federal Depository Libraries into this decade
Micah Johnson

The librarians in many Federal Depository Libraries have been using DOCS2000 for the past 15 years.  With the end of support for Windows XP, there’s a good chance of DOCS2000 no longer...

Beginner
Pretty Big Data: Data visualization mechanisms for scholarship and marketing
Ellen Richardson, Sarah Ryan, Jordan Jefferson

Arrest rates across the U.S. The impact of declining endowment funds on discretionary spending. The proportion of students taking legal research courses. What do these topics have in common? They...

Beginner
Website Optimization for Fun and Non-Profit
Bryan Rapp

Did you know that the speed of your website can have a direct impact on your visitor's perception of your brand?  If your site is slow, then you may be more generally viewed as sluggish....

Intermediate
Hold the library in your hand: the Mendik Mobile smartphone app
Grace Lee

This workshop will trace the development, implementation and usage of the Mendik Mobile smartphone app. 

Intermediate
The Accidental Institutional Repository Manager: A Review of Hofstra Law Library's Scholarly Commons Project
DawnMarin Dell

Hofstra Law Library has hosted a bepress Scholarly Commons since the fall of 2012.  The institutional repository was created from in-house materials and Hein's archives of existing...

Beginner
Googlized Screen-seeing
Carissa Vogel, Dan Blackaby

One default screen-seeing technique--focusing on the middle of a screen--came about from the ubiquity of Google. In the first part of this program we will explore the implications and...

Beginner
Getting from Research to Feature: CFR Definitions
Mohammad AL Asswad, Brian Hughes, Manolo Bevia

"I read this great article on entity extraction for legal text - can you add that feature to our repository web site?" The proliferation of legal informatics research over the past few...

Intermediate
Apples for Teachers . . . and Students . . . and Staff -- FOUR YEARS LATER
Mitchel Winick

In 2010 Monterey College of Law became the first US law school to provide Apple iPads to 100% of our faculty, students, and staff. As we initiated the program, I presented the goals for MCL's...

Beginner
Preparing for Change: What impact will the new ABA Standards and Rules of Procedure have on learning outcomes, distance education, experiential learning, faculty/student ratios, faculty status and student employment?
Gordon Russell

The ABA Standards Review Committee  has sent to the Council on Legal Education the revised standards and these have been sent out for Notice and Comment.  It is very likely that the the...

Intermediate
21st Century Courtroom Technology, Successes and Challenges
Dan Thomas

Courtroom technology has rapidly evolved over the past several years.  While this innovation has presented many exciting opportunities to utilize technology in the courtroom to do things that...

Beginner
Exam Administration Made Easy! (Or maybe less horrible, anyway).
Nathan D.M. Robertson

Final exams are terrifying for law students on purpose.  But does the final exam season also have to be harrowing for law school administration?  No one wants a stressed out registrar!...

Beginner
Placehold Sponsor Session - Sponsor #4
Sarah Glassmeyer
Beginner Faculty
Hold the library in your hand: the Mendik Mobile smartphone app
Grace Lee

This workshop will trace the development, implementation and usage of the Mendik Mobile smartphone app. 

Intermediate
Getting from Research to Feature: CFR Definitions
Mohammad AL Asswad, Brian Hughes, Manolo Bevia

"I read this great article on entity extraction for legal text - can you add that feature to our repository web site?" The proliferation of legal informatics research over the past few...

Intermediate
Game of Budgetary Thrones - Does Responsibility Center Management lead to "the academic equivalent of a Hobbesian war of all against all"?
Tony Anderson, Chad Covey

Though Responsibility Center Management (RCM) has been in existence since its inception at the University of Pennsylvania in 1974, its adoption has occurred in waves, typically as state...

Intermediate
Control Your Presence: Using LibGuides as a Template for Library Websites
Lorelle Anderson

Control Your Presence: Using LibGuides as a Template for Library Websites
Using LibGuides to create a library website has multiple benefits:

Intermediate
Teaching the Technology of Choice
Marc Lauritsen

Choice making is a pervasive aspect of most forms of legal work. It’s central to case strategy, client counseling, advocacy, negotiation, document drafting, and adjudication. Yet law school...

Intermediate
If your Presentations using PowerPoint have Become Lackluster, Add Some Pizzazz with these Eye-Catching Alternative Presentation Applications!
Carla Boles

Educators who may be disenchanted with PowerPoint should rejoice as there are numerous, exciting alternative presentation applications to explore! This session will give educators opportunities...

Beginner
ABA Techshow & Tell II
Deborah Ginsberg, Emily Barney, Wayne Miller

ABA held their annual Techshow in Chicago from March 27 to 29. While most of the attendees were practicing lawyers, it's a great educational experience for law school libarians, faculty, and...

Beginner
Googlized Screen-seeing
Carissa Vogel, Dan Blackaby

One default screen-seeing technique--focusing on the middle of a screen--came about from the ubiquity of Google. In the first part of this program we will explore the implications and...

Beginner
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