AALL 2009

The American Association of Law Libraries' annual conference is being held July 25-28, 2009 in Washington DC.

Here is a list of the programs being offered. If you can't get to the conference or miss a program, CDs can be ordered. For complete information about the conference, see www.aallnet.org

Note: the letter-number code preceding each entry indicates what day and time the program is offered.  Watch here for more information and reporting from the conference and afterwards.

A1  Making Your ILS Web 2.0 Happy   

A2  Beyond Copyright? How License Agreements and Digital Rights Management Pose Challenges to Fair Use and the Provision of Electronic or Media Services   

A3  The Thurgood Marshall Papers: A Case Study in Acquiring Significant Archival Donations ... Journey Through the Legacy of a Civil Rights Pioneer   

A4  The Changing World of Information Access at the USPTO 

A5  Legal Research Questions on the Bar Exam: Preparing Our Students   

A6  Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? The Future of Print Periodicals in Law Libraries   

B1  Emerging from the Cocoon: Innovative Ways to Reteach Legal Research to Externs and Summer Associates   

B2  Success for the Future: Creating and Implementing a Library Succession Plan   

B3  Taxation Without Representation: An Overview of the D.C. Legislative Process and Research   

B4  Understanding the Mean: How the Average Law Librarian Can Encourage Empirical Research Initiatives   

B5  Lincoln, the Law, and Libraries   

B6  MarcEdit: A Magic Wand for MARC Records   

C1  Network Neutrality: The Debate Over the Internet Superhighway 

C2  Laws and Codes: How Do They Do That? 

C3  Latest Trends in Library Automation: Building Creative and Inspiring Discovery Platforms 

C4  Law Libraries and the Access to Justice Revolution   

C5  Reporting for Duty: Military Information and Its Application to Legal Research   

C6  Running a Business: Practical MBA Solutions for Your Library   

D1  I Want My Web 2.0: Lessons from the Web 2.0 Challenge Everyone Can Use (or "Get Your MySpace for Nothing and Your RSS for Free")   

D2  Charting a New Course Mid-Career 

D3  Brave New Frontier of Government Documents Librarianship   

D4  The Librarian as Author: AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers   

D5  Managing Employees Across Generations 

D6  Beyond the Walls of the United Nations: Exploring U.N. Databases 

E1  So You Want to Make a Movie: Simple Steps for Creating Videos for Web Distribution and Vodcasting 

E2  Chat 2.0: Renovating Virtual Reference   

E3  "Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Mo . . . County, Court, Academic, Private--Should I Stay or Should I Go?" 

E4  Finding Services for Seniors (Ourselves and Others)   

E5  Working Smart: Innovative Ways to Do More with Your Day   

E6  Discovering Advocacy Web Tools: Your Key to Influencing Congress   

F1  Getting to Yes: Developing Effective Salary and Compensation Negotiation Skills 

F2  Law Librarians Abroad: Is a Foreign Study Program for You?   

F3  Marketing Mojo: Get Smart with Design   

F4  Strategic Alliance: The Tribal Supreme Court Project   

F5  Taming Information Overload: Addressing Law Firm Current Awareness Needs 

F6  Taking the Aggravation Out of Aggregators: An Update on Aggregator-Neutral Bibliographic Records   

G1  Preserving Our Legislative Heritage: New Approaches for States   

G2  Unmasking a Marvel of an Idea in D.C.: How Graphic Literature Can Be Supertools for Law Librarians 

G3  Evaluating Federal e-Life Cycle Management—A Town Meeting with OSTP, NARA and GPO 

G4  WYDSIWYG: What You Don''t See Is What You Get   

G5  What's in a Name? Trademark Searching, Services, and Domain Names   

G6  We Don't Need Copyright to Put an Article on Our Network, Do We? 

GEN  Opening General Session/Keynote Speaker: The Future of the Library—And How to Stop It 

H1  So You Think You Can Teach: Keeping the Audience Awake and Learning Alive   

H2  Web 2.0: Driving Innovation in the Law Firm Library   

H3  Here's to Your (Digital Archive's) Good Health! Auditing and Evaluating Digital Preservation Projects   

H4  Thinking About Treaties: Interpretation, in Force, and Internet   

H5  Annual Legislative and Regulatory Update   

H6  Electronic Court Records: Strategies for Balancing Personal Privacy and the Public''s Right to Know   

I1  Unfair Publishing Practice? Who's to Stop Them? Superlawlibrarian! (and the Attorney General)   

I2  Got Ideas? Tools and Techniques to Identify, Refine and Communicate Ideas That Stick!   

I3  Next-Gen Integrated Library System Features Relevant to the Private Law Firm Library 

I4  The 80/2050 Challenge: What You Can Do to Reduce Your Organization's Impact on Climate Change   

I5  What the Early Congresses Did Not Publish and How It Affects Historical Research   

I6  Hot Topic: The New Economic Reality: Opportunity or Catastrophe? 

J1  "Digging" Legal History: Using Exhumation and Innovative Forensic Science Techniques to Verify Historical Legal Events   

J2  Embracing the M-word: Why and How to Market Your Library 

J3  Public Access to the Law in the YaOogle Age   

J4  Building a Coalition of County Law Libraries: A Place to Begin 

J5  Advocating for Authentication of and Permanent Public Access to Electronic Government Legal Information   

J6  Law Libraries and the Federal Depository Library Program--How Can This Marriage Be Saved? 

K1  Vlogging for Law Libraries 

K2  Find 50-State Law Surveys Fast!   

K3  Researching International Tax Law   

K4  Where on Earth? GIS Applications in Law 

K5  Law Librarian: The New Private Investigator   

K6  What We Learned from Our SAILS: Using Law Students as Human Subjects and Measuring Law Student Information Literacy