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Program
Pre-Conference Workshop
Saturday, May 14, 2011
8:30 - 12:00
Spice Up Your
Training!
This half-day
workshop will focus on two methods you can use to add spice to your
training programs. Try screen casting to create video tutorials
which allow users to learn at their own pace 24/7. Use the Japanese
performance art of Pecha Kucha to enhance even the dullest topics.
After a presentation regarding tips and tricks for each, you will
have some time to draft a presentation using one of the tools.
This half-day workshop will focus on two methods you can use to add
pizzazz to your training programs. Try screen casting to create
video tutorials which allow users to learn at their own pace 24/7.
Use the Japanese performance art of Pecha Kucha to enhance even the
dullest topics. After a presentation regarding tips and tricks for
each, you will have some time to draft a presentation using one of
the tools. Facilitating the workshop are three knowledgeable
speakers with extensive experience in their area of expertise.
Carol Watson,
Director of the Law Library, University of Georgia Law will build on
the Pecha Kucha presentation she gave at last year's AALL
conference.
Dale
Barrie, Alberta
Law Society Libraries and
Alex McNeur, Digital Initiatives Librarian, Courthouse Libraries
BC, will share their experiences with creating video tutorials. Don'
t miss this opportunity to acquire some new, dynamic skills!
Coordinated by: Phyllis Thornton, Director of
Legal Research & Reference, McCarthy Tétrault, Calgary
Educational Program & Plenary Speakers
Monday, May 16, 2011
9:15 - 10:30
PLENARY :
Property
Rights: What's All the Fuss?
Some view provincial legislative initiatives such as right of way
acquisition laws and landscape level planning as unreasonable
infringements on the rights of individual property owners. Bankes
will explore the highly charged and emotional debate taking place in
this country.
Speaker
Nigel Bankes,
Professor and Chair of Natural Resources Law, Faculty of Law,
University of Calgary. A leading expert on natural resources law
and international environmental law, Bankes has taught real
property law for many years. He is the editor of the Journal of
Energy and Natural Resources Law.
Moderator
Kim Clarke, University of Calgary
Monday, May 16, 2011
11:15 -12:15
Who Moved my CCCs?: Collection Development in the
Digital Age
Changes in the information environment, especially
the increased availability and functionality of digital content, is
putting pressure on traditional collection development policies and
practices. It's time to realign our approach to collection
development policies (and our collections!) to better reflect
current realities concerning budgets, space, format and access. How
will we develop law collections to support our students, researchers
and lawyers? This session will explore these questions from a
general, theoretical level as well as make reference to specific
issues in particular law libraries (academic, law firm and
courthouse), and provide examples of collection development policy
decisions and actions being debated and implemented.
Participants will learn how the realities of the new
information environment is driving change in the philosophy of
collection development and understand the issues involved with
providing a balanced collection development policy that is grounded
in reality while being responsive to and supportive of our clients
and services.
Speakers
Louis Mirando, Chief Law Librarian, Osgoode Hall Law
School Library
Mandy Ostick, Digital Innovation Librarian, Courthouse
Libraries B.C.
Cynthia Murphy, Knowledge Manager, Stewart McKelvey
Sterling Scales LLP
Moderator
F. Tim Knight, Head of Technical Services, Osgoode Hall
Law School Library
Submitted by: Access Services & Resource Sharing SIG
Workflow - How Not To Be Swamped!
"There's just so much stuff coming at me!" Between
reference requests, administrative meetings and everything else,
it's far too easy to lose control of information and important
tasks. Panelists will discuss strategies and tools that they use in
their organizations to keep control, and their sanity. Participants
will learn tips on managing workflows from the micro (solo) to the
macro (team) scale.
Speakers
Pam Borden, Library Manager, Law Society of P.E.I.
Wendy Reynolds, Manager, Library Client Services,
Legislative Library of Ontario
Joan Rataic-Lang, Library Manager/Executive Director,
Toronto Lawyers Association
Moderator
Connie Crosby, Crosby Consulting Group
Submitted by: Courthouse and Law Society Libraries
SIG
Monday, May 16, 2011
2:15 - 3:15
Going Green at your Law Library: Learning from
Calgary Public Library's Eco Action Team
Law libraries face unique challenges when attempting
to implement green initiatives. They are often located within
courthouses and law firms, making it difficult to have full control
over building practices such as recycling and energy use. Law
libraries also serve clientele and boards of professionals that may
not place green initiatives high on their agenda, resulting in a
unique environment for advocacy and marketing. Calgary Public
Library (CPL) is a leader in implementing green initiatives in
Canada's library community, and has won multiple awards for green
marketing and efforts such as recycling and waste reduction. In this session, a panel of members from CPL's Eco Action
Team will share their experience and offer advice to law libraries
on how to develop an eco plan and marketing message, get staff, clients, and board members involved in green
initiatives, and tackle complex issues such as recycling and
procurement of sustainable materials. The panel will also share
ideas for simple changes that can be made at your library to reduce
its ecological footprint. This session is being offered by the
Courthouse and Law Society Libraries Special Interest Group, but the
intended audience is all law librarians.
Speakers
Susan Anderson, Manager, Country Hills Library, Calgary
Public Library
Rosemary Griebel, Special Projects Librarian, Calgary Public
Library
Kathryn Nikolaychuk, Executive Assistant to the Chief
Executive Office, Calgary Public Library
Moderator
Kaitlyn Tribe, County of Carleton Law Association
Submitted by: Courthouse and Law Society Libraries
SIG
Project Management in Law Firms: A New Role for
Librarians?
Project management is becoming a popular phrase in
the legal literature/community as lawyers are coming under
increasing pressure to provide cost effective services to their
clients. This session will provide members with an overview of how
project management techniques are being applied in law firms. The
session will then be opened up to a round table discussion so that
we may hear from law firm librarians who have been involved in
project management activities at their firms. Could project
management become a new role for law firm librarians similar to the
"knowledge management" roles?
Speakers
Ted Tjaden, National Director of Knowledge Management,
McMillan LLP
Andrew Terrett, National Director of Knowledge
Management, Borden Ladner Gervais
Moderators
Lindy Stephens, McInnes Cooper
Yoko Beriault, Borden Ladner Gervais
Submitted by: Private Law Libraries SIG
Monday, May 16, 2011
4:00 - 5:00
Cost Recovery: Using Your Usage Reports
This session will provide attendees with an overview
on how usage reports are used in law firm and courthouse libraries -
collecting user data for administrative purposes including training,
recovering for database use through client disbursements; and what
kind of options are available from third party cost recovery
software.
Speakers
Alicia Loo, Chief, Information & Reader Services, Supreme
Court of Canada Library
Susannah Tredwell, Library Manager, Lawson Lundell LLP
Peter Charkalis, North American Operations, iTS:
Essential IT Solutions for the Education, Public and Corporate
Sections
Moderator
Shaunna Mireau, Field Law
Submitted by: Vendor Liaison Committee
Thinking Beyond the Law: Affects of
Interdisciplinary Research on Law Librarians
This session will look at how the growing need for
interdisciplinary research increasingly affects law librarians in
our regular activities. Areas such as instruction/training,
research/reference, collection development, current awareness, and
keeping aware of developments within and outside of traditional law
will be addressed by panel members from different areas of law
librarianship. Participants will discover how interdisciplinary is
addressed and embraced in law firm, corporate and academic law
libraries.
Speakers
Katie Thomas, Law Librarian, Bank of Montreal
Clare Mauro, Senior Librarian, Torys LLP
Maryvon Côté, Librarian, Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill
University
Moderator
Nadine Hoffman, Natural Resources, Energy and
Environmental Law Librarian, Bennett Jones Law Library,
University of Calgary
Submitted by: Nadine Hoffman, University of Calgary
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
9:00 - 10:15
PLENARY : On Being
Canadian
A look at the foibles and quirks of Canadians through the eyes of an
award winning author. Will it feel like looking in a mirror - or a
carnival fun mirror?
Speaker
Will Ferguson,
three-time winner of the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humor (2002,
2005 and 2010). Ferguson received the Pierre Berton Award for
History and won the CBA Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the
Year in 2002. He has written for Macleans Magazine, the New York
Times, Esquire UK and the Globe and Mail, and was the head
writer on the Vancouver Winter Olympics Closing Ceremonies.
Moderator
Judy Harvie, McLeod Dixon LLP
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
2:00 - 3:00
If eBooks are the Medium, What's the Message?
With the increased popularity of many eReader
platforms and a greater availability of eBooks in general is your
law library in a position to confidently offer eBooks to their
library users? When will we reach the tipping point for electronic
books? This session will provide a practical overview on what to
expect when offering eBooks in your library, including commentary
from a legal publisher and a look at the consumer experience when
interacting with eBooks.
Participants will gain an understanding of the issues
involved when acquiring and providing access to eBooks, issues that
concern publishers and an awareness of the available eReader
platforms available.
Speakers
Wendy Reynolds, Manager, Library Client Services,
Legislative Library of Ontario
Helen Clarke, Associate Vice-Provost Collections,
Libraries and Cultural Resources, University of Calgary
Jeffrey Miller, President, Irwin Law
Moderator
Connie Crosby, Crosby Consulting Group
Submitted by: Access Services & Resource Sharing SIG
Research Matters: Recent Research by CALL/ACBD
Members
In this program two recent CALL/ACBD Research Grant
recipients will present their research projects - from conception
and construction of methodology, through the research process, and
on to results, publication or implementation, and advice to
researchers contemplating future projects.
The panelists will describe two very different types
of research projects. "Canadian Current Index to Legal Periodicals"
is a practical project which will discuss the feasibility study and
pilot stage in the development of a current awareness service for
Canadian and commonwealth journals. Such a service will fill a gap
in research services and will be of interest to many law librarians
and legal researchers. "Legal Visual Semiotics: Eighteenth Century
Satirical Prints as Primary Sources" is an interdisciplinary
research project which will appeal to everyone with an interest in
legal history, language and visual symbols, as well as eighteenth
century popular culture, communications and art.
The program will highlight the variety of projects
undertaken by CALL/ACBD members and supported by the Research Grant.
It will provide practical examples of project development,
methodology and advice, as well as encourage future research
projects by CALL/ACBD members.
Speakers
Mary Hemmings, Assistant Director, University of Calgary
Law Library
John Papadopoulos, Chief Law Librarian, Bora Laskin Law
Library
Moderator
Marianne Rogers, Osgoode Hall Law School
Submitted by: Committee to Promote Research
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
3:30 - 5:00
Beyond the Adversarial Criminal Court System
There is a growing recognition that traditional
courts cannot deal very well on their own with many of the social
causes of recidivism. Various initiatives such as drug treatment
courts, domestic violence courts and aboriginal courts have emerged
in many parts of Canada to help the criminal justice system respond
more effectively and more compassionately to the often complex
social and personal issues involved in crime. In these courts,
judges, probation officers, social workers, Crown and defense
counsel and members of the community work in a more cooperative way
to address all the dimensions of crime, restitution and
rehabilitation. This panel discussion will introduce CALL members to
a few of these alternative "problem-solving" courts, their origins,
rules of procedure, manner of record-keeping and decision-making,
challenges, and successes.
Speakers
Doug Brady, Executive Director, Edmonton Drug Treatment &
Community Restoration Court
Judge Sherry Van de Veen, Provincial Court of Alberta
Judge Eugene Creighton, Provincial Court of Alberta
Moderator
Michel-Adrien Sheppards, Supreme Court of Canada
Library
Submitted by: Courthouse and Law Society Libraries
SIG
"You Say You Want a Revolution?" The Impact of the
Federation of Law Societies in Canada's Task Force Report on the
Canadian Common Law Degree
The Task Force Report on the Canadian Common Law
Degree was released in October, 2009. Since that time, most law
societies in Canada have stated that they will work together to
draft a national standard for law schools awarding the common law
degree based on the Report's findings. But exactly what does the
Task Force Report say? How will it impact legal education in Canada?
And how will this impact law libraries and librarians? Join us for a
riveting discussion on the future of Canadian legal education.
Speakers
Alice Woolley, Associate Professor of Law, University of
Calgary, Faculty of Law
Louis Mirando, Chief Law Librarian, Osgoode Hall Law
School Library
Don Thompson, Executive Director, Law Society of Alberta
Phil Bryden, Dean, University of Alberta, Faculty of Law
Moderators
Cathy Cotter, University of New Brunswick
Daniel Perlin, Osgoode Hall Law School
Submitted by: Academic Law Libraries SIG
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
9:00 - 10:00
Working with KF Modified: Changes and Enhancements
Over the past few years there have been a number of changes and enhancements
made to the KF Modified Classification Scheme. For example, the
form tables were completely reorganized and the enhancement for the
Quebec civil law was added. This interactive session will update KF
Modified users so they can take full advantage of the available
options.
Speakers
Humayun Rashid, Head of Cataloguing/Reference Librarian,
Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto
F. Tim Knight, Head of Technical Services, Osgoode Hall
Law School Library
Darren J. Furey, Technical Services Librarian, Gerard V.
LaForest Law Library, University of New Brunswick
Moderator
F. Tim Knight, Head of Technical Services, Osgoode Hall
Law School Library
Submitted by: KF Modified Committee
Top of the RIM: Conquering Records and Information
Management
Doing more with less is a familiar mantra in every
industry these days and, as we can attest, the legal industry has
not been granted immunity. As a result librarians have become the
guardians of all information, whether its internal or external
information.
Join us for an introduction to the basics of records
&
information management for law firms.
Speakers
Tanya Chisholm, Director, Information and Knowledge
Management, Suncor Energy Inc.
Moderator
Susanna P. Duke, Steward McKelvey
Submitted by: Knowledge Management SIG
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
10:30 - 11:30
PLENARY : Since CCH et al.: Digitized Sharing Among Law Libraries
A discussion of legal developments in Canadian copyright law,
including "user rights" and "fair dealing", since the Supreme
Court's 2004 decision of
CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada and how
they pertain to
law libraries.
Speaker
Martin Kratz, Q.C., partner, Bennett
Jones, Calgary, Alberta. An internationally recognized IP
expert, Martin has written over 250 publications on this
subject. He is an adjunct professor of law at both the
University of Calgary's Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law
School.
Moderator
Mary Hemmings, University of Calgary
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