Accepted sessions
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H2O: Supporting Digital Casebooks in the Law School Classroom Brett Johnson, Tom Boone As the user base for H2O – the Harvard Law School Library and Berkman Center for Information and Society’s digital casebook suite - grows within Harvard Law School and beyond, library... |
Beginner | Faculty | |
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How We Saved History (and How We Keep Milking it): Making Historic State Law Free Online Jason Tubinis, Sharon Bradley |
Beginner | Librarian | |
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It's about building a community - CanLII's experience in developing, launching and operating new type of secondary legal info resource Colin Lachance CanLII (Canadian Legal Information Institute)provides free access to current Canadian primary law. It is funded by the legal profession through their dues, but the full scope of its 275... |
Beginner | Librarian | |
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Keeping IT Together: Strategies for Doing More with Less Christopher Driscoll This program, ideal for smaller law school technology directors and staff, will discuss the ever-growing list of individual, but connected technologies and how a lean law school technology... |
Beginner | Technologist | |
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Law School Website Redesign: Opening the Pandora’s Box Donald Babcock, Jessica de Perio Wittman, Michelle Helmin Web 2.0 and the CMS took UConn Law deep into the world of distributed website management in 2009. Everyone is an editor, but no one is in control. 26,000 unmanaged nodes and five years later... |
Advanced | Technologist | |
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LegalED: Igniting Law Teaching MIchele Pistone Introducing LegalED (legaledweb.com), a new online teaching and learning platform and collaborative network for legal education. Developed by law professors, LegalED... |
Intermediate | Faculty | |
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Lifting the veil on state supreme courts Christina Walker, Matthew Gruhn Over 200 cases were reviewed by Texas' highest courts last year. Around a dozen of these received major media coverage. In-depth reporting and empirical research on the law is hamstrung due to... |
Beginner | Librarian | |
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Making a MOOC: Instruction Beyond Physical, Linguistic, and Generational boundaries Jenny Wondracek, Loren Turner, Mr. Kyle Courtney Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are gaining in popularity. Individuals around the world are using these courses to further their knowledge about a variety of topics, including law.... |
Beginner | Librarian | |
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Manage & Share Your Research & References: Zotero, RefWorks, & Mendeley Stephen Nelson, Robin Schard Collect, store, manage, and share your research using citation managers. Scholars and students need tools that help them take control of their research, not just for an individual... |
Beginner | Faculty | |
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Moving Legal Research Courses Online: Best Practices & Lessons Learned: The Drexel Experience Mark Bernstein, Keith Berthrong, Jerry Arrison, John Cannan This program will demonstrate how Drexel University School of Law moved a series of topical and general legal research courses from "live" to "online" enviroments. The... |
Beginner | Librarian | average |
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Moving Legal Research Courses Online: Best Practices & Lessons Learned: The Drexel Experience Mark Bernstein, Keith Berthrong, Jerry Arrison, John Cannan This program will demonstrate how Drexel University School of Law moved a series of topical and general legal research courses from "live" to "online" enviroments. The... |
Beginner | Librarian | count |
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Moving The CALI Website to Drupal 7 Elmer Masters I've been on a year long quest to get the main CALI website upgraded to Drupal 7. This sessions will deal with the fun I've had working with consultants and staff to keep this project... |
Intermediate | Technologist | average |
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Moving The CALI Website to Drupal 7 Elmer Masters I've been on a year long quest to get the main CALI website upgraded to Drupal 7. This sessions will deal with the fun I've had working with consultants and staff to keep this project... |
Intermediate | Technologist | count |
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Multi-Server Cloud Environments, How to Fight Latency and add Redundancy Nick Moline, Dan Nagy Whenever people say they want to add redundancy, decrease downtime, and make things faster the answer always seems to come back "cloud!" But any time you work with multiple... |
Advanced | Technologist | |
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New Tricks, Old Dog—ExamSoft and the New ABA Standards Bryant Weaver, Emmanuel Pierre ExamSoft has long been the leader in secure computer-based testing within the legal education field. Now, the American Bar Association is implementing new standards that will require law programs... |
Beginner | Faculty | |
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Our Ideas Made Visible: Tools for Visualizing Data Michael Robak Deploying tools and techniques for data visualization is one of the most interesting opportunities for law librarians to demonstrate their IT chops (and, conversely, for IT folks to demonstrate... |
Beginner | Technologist | average |
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Our Ideas Made Visible: Tools for Visualizing Data Michael Robak Deploying tools and techniques for data visualization is one of the most interesting opportunities for law librarians to demonstrate their IT chops (and, conversely, for IT folks to demonstrate... |
Beginner | Technologist | count |
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Perma.cc - How Law Libraries are Saving the World from Link Rot Adam Ziegler, Matthew Phillips, Kim Dulin Websites change, go away and are taken down. But that doesn't stop courts and scholars of all types from citing, increasingly, to online sources in their work. The pervasive problem that... |
Beginner | Librarian | average |
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Perma.cc - How Law Libraries are Saving the World from Link Rot Adam Ziegler, Matthew Phillips, Kim Dulin Websites change, go away and are taken down. But that doesn't stop courts and scholars of all types from citing, increasingly, to online sources in their work. The pervasive problem that... |
Beginner | Librarian | count |
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Preparing Students For Factory Work and Choice Jobs Richard Granat, Marc Lauritsen There are proven techniques for delivering consistently high quality legal services. Yet law students often have no exposure to them. Many move into solo and small firm practice without a clue of... |
Beginner | Faculty |
