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LHRB Programs Will Educate and Refresh You!

July 10th, 2008 by LauraRay · No Comments

The Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section has programming every day at this year’s Annual Meeting. On Saturday, July 12th, we are co-sponsoring, with the Technical Services SIS, the full-day workshop “Yikes! What’s In This Box? Managing Archive Collections.” Speakers will include Janice Anderson, Associate Director of Collection Services, Georgetown University Law Library; Heather Bourk, Archivist, Georgetown University Law Center; Anne Mar, National Equal Justice Library Project Archivist, Georgetown University Law Library; and Michael Widener, Rare Book Librarian, Yale University Law Library. This workshop will explain the principles of organizing archival collections and creating finding aids, as well as walk participants through the creation of a finding aid with Encoded Archival Description tags. On Sunday, July 13th, 1:30pm-2:45pm, several former Law Library Journal editors will present “Law Library Journal at 100: the Evolution of a Publication.” This informal panel discussion will intersperse serious information about the Journal and its contribution to the literature with fun and interesting anecdotes. Also on Sunday, 3pm-4pm, Program B-6 will be “Beer and the Law: A Legal History of Beer, Brewing and Government Regulation from the German Purity Law to the Microbrew Movement.” Speakers will be a Full Sail Brewing Company Brewmaster and Mark Podvia, Associate Law Librarian, Legal Research Professor, and Archivist, Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. This program will describe and explain the history of beer and brewing, the brewing process, and brewing regulations. On Monday, July 14th, 10:45am-11:45am, Program F-6 will be “Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act (DWDA): A Legal History.” The moderators will be Etheldra Scoggin, Associate Professor and Reference Librarian, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, and Stacy Etheredge, Reference and Special Collections Librarian, University of South Carolina Coleman Karesh Law Library. This program will trace the legislative history of the DWDA, subsequent legal challenges to it, and Oregon’s experiences under it. Also on Monday, 12noon-1:15pm, will be the LHRB Roundtable “Evolution of a Research and Legal History Web Site: From Funding Through Implementation.” The speaker will be Joel Fishman, Assistant Director for Lawyer Services, Duquesne University Center for Legal Information / Allegheny County Law Library, and he will review how to plan and design a web site as part of a legal history or legal research project, as well as discuss how to write a grant to obtain funding for a digitization project. This program does not conflict with any AALL program, and light refreshments will be provided. Finally, on Tuesday, July 15th, 3:30pm-4pm, Program K-5 will be “Explore the New World of Legal History Research – Be Prepared to Wiki!” The moderator will be Darcy Kirk, Director, University of Connecticut School of Law Library (UCSLL), and the speaker will be Andrea Joseph, Reference/ILL Librarian, UCSLL. This program will review how to create a dynamic changeable wiki to display a library’s research assets, focusing on traditional and non-traditional legal history research tools. So there you have it. From the intense to the light-hearted, the LHRB SIS has programming for one and all!

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