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Beer & Edits is designed to bring law librar- ians together in a casual setting to discuss ideas for scholarship, get and give feedback, and mingle with other people in the field. Beer & Edits provides an opportunity to find writing partners, meet others interested in similar top- ics, exchange work for editing, and brainstorm, all while enjoying a beverage! Now in its second year, Beer & Edits has arrived in Seattle. This year’s event will be held today, July 15, at 9 p.m. at Fado Irish Pub (801 1st Ave., Seattle, WA 98104). Last year in Boston almost 60 law librarians from all types of institutions, departments, career levels, and job titles came together to meet and mingle in the spirit of scholarship, collaboration, and libation. Due to space limitations at the venue, please RSVP at bit.ly/136Qqz0. If you have any ques- tions, please contact Andrea Alexander at [email protected] or Jordan Jefferson at [email protected]. n I consider it my duty to maintain the democratic standards for which this nation lives. There- fore, I must refuse this order for evacuation.” (Gordon Hirabayashi, May 13, 1942.) In 1942, Gordon Hi- rabayashi was a stu- dent at the University of Washington in Se- attle when President Roosevelt issued Ex- ecutive Order 9066. The order authorized the military to institute curfews for people of Japanese ancestry and later their forced removal from the West Coast to internment camps further inside the United States. Looking for Scholarship, Collaboration, and a Little Libation? Beer & Edits is for You Program Will Highlight the Japanese-American Internment Hirabayashi, an American citizen by birth, disobeyed the orders and was eventually convicted and served time in jail. Down in San Francisco, Fred Korematsu, also an American citizen, embarked on the same path, an act that also led to conviction and jail time. The convictions of these men led to two of the most infamous cases in American le- gal history, when the United States Supreme Court upheld both the curfew and the intern- ment orders as constitutional. Forty years after the end of WW2, two different legal teams would suc- cessfully challenge both of these convictions using the rarely invoked Coram Nobis writ of error, a legal writ available only to criminal de- fendants whose trials have been tainted by “fundamental error” or “manifest injustice.” The overturn- ing of the convictions would finally bring justice, not just to two particu- lar individuals, but also to an entire generation of Japanese-Americans. Program D-6, Law Libraries and Advocacy: Using Special Collec- tions to Tell the Story of the Japa- nese American Internment, will take a detailed look at this low point in American legal history and how de- termined advocates for civil rights eventually helped to right a histori- cal wrong. It will also examine the continued on page 3 Two children of the Mochida family, with their parents, await an evacuation bus. Chief Justice Barbara A. Madsen (right) of the Washington State Supreme Court welcomed librarians to Seattle. Justice Madsen championed library advocacy and services to the public. Dr. David Weinberger followed with the Keynote: Libraries as Platforms. by Jason Giesler D r. David Weinberger, from The Harvard Library Innovation Lab, delivered the AALL Keynote before a large audience on Sunday morning. Weinberger’s presentation focused on libraries facilitating open platforms in which librarians and de- velopers create new and novel apps utilizing library data. Open platforms are a welcome sight as we move fur- ther from traditional library systems and shatter the misconception that libraries are solely book repositories. Weinberger began with philosophi- cal overviews on “knowledge” and its recent changes, traditionally and con- temporarily. Western viewpoints have long held that knowledge is inherently orderly and that it could therefore be broken down and organized in a hier- archical fashion. Weinberger pointed out that the Internet has created a serious challenge to this view, as it maintains vast amounts of unordered information with little regard for ac- curacy, connecting people and things that heretofore have never been connected. (Weinberger’s example involved a Herman Melville search that somehow lead to Al Gore.) Open platforms, through library information systems, are part of the solution in providing networked and related information versus chaotic in- ternet data. Weinberger encouraged libraries to employ a great breadth of formal and new information (cata- loging, circulation, patron data, web metadata, etc.) into an application Speaker to Librarians: Find Opportunities in Information Chaos

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REDEFINING LEGAL SOLUTIONS.

REALIZING A BETTER WAY TO WORK.Whether you practice, support, create, or enforce the law, Thomson Reuters delivers best-of-class content, expertise

and technologies that help you work smarter. See a better way forward at legalsolutions.thomsonreuters.com

By Jordan Jefferson & Andrea Alexander

The AALL Annual Meeting is a time for education, networking, and camaraderie. Looking for a time and place to collabo-

rate on an article at the Annual Meeting and thinking other librarians might be interested in the same opportunity, Andrea Alexander of Ohio Northern University’s Taggart Law Library and Jordan Jefferson of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School created Beer & Edits (other libations welcome).

Beer & Edits is designed to bring law librar-ians together in a casual setting to discuss ideas for scholarship, get and give feedback, and mingle with other people in the field. Beer & Edits provides an opportunity to find writing partners, meet others interested in similar top-ics, exchange work for editing, and brainstorm, all while enjoying a beverage!

Now in its second year, Beer & Edits has arrived in Seattle. This year’s event will be held today, July 15, at 9 p.m. at Fado Irish Pub

(801 1st Ave., Seattle, WA 98104). Last year in Boston almost 60 law librarians from all types of institutions, departments, career levels, and job titles came together to meet and mingle in the spirit of scholarship, collaboration, and libation.

Due to space limitations at the venue, please RSVP at bit.ly/136Qqz0. If you have any ques-tions, please contact Andrea Alexander at [email protected] or Jordan Jefferson at [email protected]. n

“I consider it my duty to maintain the democratic standards for which this nation lives. There-

fore, I must refuse this order for evacuation.” (Gordon Hirabayashi, May 13, 1942.)

In 1942, Gordon Hi-rabayashi was a stu-dent at the University of Washington in Se-attle when President Roosevelt issued Ex-ecutive Order 9066. The order authorized the military to institute curfews for people of Japanese ancestry and later their forced removal from the West Coast to internment camps further inside the United States.

Looking for Scholarship, Collaboration, and a Little Libation? Beer & Edits is for You

Program Will Highlight the Japanese-American InternmentHirabayashi, an American citizen by birth, disobeyed the orders and was eventually convicted and served time in jail. Down in San Francisco,

Fred Korematsu, also an American citizen, embarked on the same path, an act that also led to conviction and jail time.

The convictions of these men led to two of the most infamous cases in American le-gal history, when the United States Supreme Court upheld both the curfew and the intern-

ment orders as constitutional. Forty years after the end of WW2, two different legal teams would suc-

cessfully challenge both of these convictions using the rarely invoked Coram Nobis writ of error, a legal writ available only to criminal de-fendants whose trials have been tainted by “fundamental error” or “manifest injustice.” The overturn-ing of the convictions would finally bring justice, not just to two particu-lar individuals, but also to an entire generation of Japanese-Americans.

Program D-6, Law Libraries and Advocacy: Using Special Collec-tions to Tell the Story of the Japa-nese American Internment, will take a detailed look at this low point in American legal history and how de-termined advocates for civil rights eventually helped to right a histori-cal wrong. It will also examine the

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Two children of the Mochida family, with their parents, await an evacuation bus.

Chief Justice Barbara A. Madsen (right) of the Washington State Supreme Court welcomed librarians to Seattle. Justice Madsen championed library advocacy and services to the public. Dr. David Weinberger followed with the Keynote: Libraries as Platforms.

by Jason Giesler

Dr. David Weinberger, from The Harvard Library Innovation Lab, delivered the AALL Keynote

before a large audience on Sunday morning. Weinberger’s presentation focused on libraries facilitating open platforms in which librarians and de-velopers create new and novel apps utilizing library data. Open platforms are a welcome sight as we move fur-ther from traditional library systems and shatter the misconception that libraries are solely book repositories.

Weinberger began with philosophi-cal overviews on “knowledge” and its recent changes, traditionally and con-temporarily. Western viewpoints have long held that knowledge is inherently orderly and that it could therefore be broken down and organized in a hier-archical fashion. Weinberger pointed out that the Internet has created a serious challenge to this view, as it maintains vast amounts of unordered information with little regard for ac-curacy, connecting people and things that heretofore have never been connected. (Weinberger’s example involved a Herman Melville search that somehow lead to Al Gore.)

Open platforms, through library information systems, are part of the solution in providing networked and related information versus chaotic in-ternet data. Weinberger encouraged libraries to employ a great breadth of formal and new information (cata-loging, circulation, patron data, web metadata, etc.) into an application

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See You Next Year in San Antonio!

Believe it or not, we’re already thinking about programs for next year’s Annual Meet-

ing in San Antonio and planning lots of great things. The 2014 An-nual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC) will host an Open Forum today, July 15, from 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. (WSCC-Room 203). There you can learn about the program proposal process and get tips for developing proposals.

Be sure to stop by the AMPC’s Activities Area table in the Exhibit Hall to share your program sugges-tions. The 2014 AMPC wants to hear from you! n

Say Cheese!

Stop by the Member Ser-vices Booth to get your photo taken by AALL’s

professional photographer. We will email the photo to you after the meeting so you can upload it to your online profile on AALLNET and use it in other social media.

Monday, July 1511:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

Stop by the Mentor Booth in the Member Services Area of the Exhibit Hall to learn more

about AALL’s new online Mentor Match Program. This is a chance for newer law librarians to meet mentors, ask questions, and get a taste of all the great wisdom men-tors can provide.

This is also a chance to ask for advice on more substantive questions about the profession,

Lib Fashion: Spotted at the Conference

Need Some Advice? Visit the Mentor Boothsuch as dealing with difficult work situations, job searches, moving between library types, professional development opportunities, etc. Who better to answer these inqui-ries than AALL’s mentors?!

Monday, July 1510 a.m.-noon

Tuesday, July 1610 a.m.-noon

Placement Office

The AALL Placement Office is located in the Sheraton Seat-tle Hotel – Issaquah (3rd Floor)

Placement Office hours:Monday, July 15, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.Tuesday, July 16, 9-11 a.m.Interview rooms are available:Monday, July 15, 7 a.m.-5 p.m.Tuesday, July 16, 7 a.m.-noonInterview rooms must be re-

served in advance through the Placement Office. n Meet the AALL Executive Board Candidates

Get to know your fellow AALL members who are running for the AALL Executive Board this fall. The “Meet the Candidates” forum will be held Monday, July 15, from 9-10 a.m. in the AALL Member

Services Booth in the Exhibit Hall. This is your chance to ask questions and find out each candidate’s vision for AALL before you vote in Novem-ber. Successful candidates will begin their terms of office in July 2014. n

Copyright Mary Whisner, 2013 | You can follow Mary on twitter @marywhisner

by Stina McClintock

Lib fashion features the stylings of conference goers both in style and inspiration.

Name: Kit Kreilick, Fordham Uni-versity School of Law

Where are you from: New YorkHow would you describe your

style: Combo Classical and New Age

What program are you most excited to see: Anything that en-courages the future of law librarians

Flats or heels / Ties or bow ties: Flats

Who inspires you : Penny Hazelton n

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Keynote

Conference Updates

The TS-SIS Acquisitions and Serials Standing Committees and Round-tables Meeting has changed to the

Sheraton-Ballard.

A limited number of tickets for Tues-day's Association Luncheon remain available at the Registration Desk. n

programming interface (API). Li-brarians and developers can use the API to enhance library applications, allowing access to library collections in new and innovative ways.

To demonstrate the point, The Har-vard Innovation Lab offers a ground-breaking app: StackLife. A serious twist on traditional OPACs, StackLife provides users with a visual repre-sentation of a book as it would sit on the library shelf, showing the relative size of the book (based upon pages and other MARC data) and displaying it next to other books on the shelf. StackLife incorporates a surprising amount of nontraditional information, including how many times the book has been circulated or placed into course reserves. For better or worse, this information affects search results

and top hits. Weinberger recognized many of

the challenges associated with the open platform movement, including concerns regarding “popular” results, user privacy, and limited software programming skills. Ending on a note of confidence, though, Weinberger promptly reminded us, “You're Librar-ians, Dammit!” and any challenges associated with open platforms and the internet can be overcome and should be viewed as opportunities. n

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E X H I B I T O R N E W S

Westlaw Visionary Dwight D. Opperman Dies

Rotary dial telephones, land lines and Noah’s Ark-size mainframes named Big Data. This was the era when someone needed to argue for online legal research, and did. And this innovator was Dwight

D. Opperman.Dwight Opperman graduated from Drake Law School, after an im-

poverished Depression-era childhood. His first job in 1951 was as attorney editor at West Publishing Company committing headnotes and synopses to paper by pencil. Because of his legal acumen and business acuity, he scaled the ranks to become president in 1968. It was in 1973 that he first argued for the development of Westlaw, and just a year later argued to save the project (not scrap it) and continue the development of online legal research. In 1975, West Publishing Company launched Westlaw.

Opperman liked nothing better than talking with customers about legal research, and gained ideas for product improvement and development from these discussions. Perhaps it was one of these talks at the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) that helped him realize the market potential of the prototype citatory that Forrest Rhoads and Dan Dabney created, which soon became KeyCite.

His passion for the legal profession continued into his retirement, as he personally and philanthropically supported Drake Law School, the American Judicature Society, the Library of Congress, and the Supreme Court Historical Society.

Upon his death in June of this year, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, provided this statement, “…[he] has long been a com-mitted friend and supporter not only of the Supreme Court but of the Federal Judiciary as a whole. He demonstrated his deep commitment to the American system of justice...”

While Opperman would appreciate the recognition for his personal support of innovation, he found his greatest achievement in the success and happiness of his sons Fane Opperman and attorney and former West Publishing President Vance Opperman, and their families.

While we mourn the loss of Dwight Opperman, a tremendous force within the legal profession, we celebrate an innovator and a life, well lived. n

Stay ahead of the curve and check out these online resources for further AALL coverage!

Daily Paper: tinyurl.com/jwjdqv4Facebook: tinyurl.com/k3oxrsaPinterest: pinterest.com/aallnet/seattle-2013Twitter: twitter.com/aall2013

Blogs:• Local Arrangements Committee Blog: lac2013.llops.org• April Librarian: aprilbrarian.wordpress.com• Ashley Ames Ahlbrand: lawbrarianship.wordpress.com• Lex Scripta of the Dallas Association of Law Librarians: http://dallnet.blogspot.com/

All the News that Fits

unique role that libraries can play in social justice advocacy by shar-ing the experiences of a law school library that helped to showcase this particular story for the benefit of its larger community.

The first half of the program will feature Lorraine Bannai, professor of Lawyering Skills and director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at the Seattle University School of Law, who will provide an overview of the history of the internment orders and the eventual incarceration of Japanese American citizens (her parents among them).

During the second half of the

program, Stephanie Wilson, head of reference Services at the Seattle University School of Law Library, will illustrate how libraries can also have a role in social justice by help-ing to tell the stories of advocacy. Ms. Wilson will outline her library’s involvement in three major exhibits at the Seattle University Law School that have focused on the Japanese American internment.

Come join us for an enlightening look at legal history, the power of advocacy, and the role of libraries in telling the story of both: Program D-6, Law Libraries and Advocacy: Using Special Collections to Tell the Story of the Japanese American In-ternment, Monday, July 15, 1– 2:00 p.m., WSCC Room 605/610. n

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Internment

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To download the app, visit crwd.cc/aall2013 from your device. If you use Apple or Android, you can also search for the app in the iTunes or Play store. n

Chat with AALL Editors

While you browse the Exhibit Hall in Seattle, take some time to meet the incoming Law Library Journal Editor James Duggan and AALL Spectrum Editorial Director Catherine Lemmer at the AALL

Member Services Booth. Ask questions, discuss article ideas, or simply let James and Catherine know what you think of LLJ and Spectrum.

Monday, July 15 Tuesday, July 16Catherine Lemmer James Duggan and 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Catherine Lemmer 1:30-2:30 p.m.

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E X H I B I T O R N E W S

Although knowledge manage-ment can provide the efficiency that firms are increasingly

striving to achieve, many firm deci-sion makers are reluctant to adopt the process. To find answers to this problem, Thomson Reuters sat down with law librarians across the coun-try and collected thoughts and best practices on improving efficiency, creating quality work product and delivering value through knowledge management. This input provided the foundation for a new white paper that offers key insights into law firm ap-plications of knowledge management. Two of the most useful principles that the discussions produced are:

You don’t have to call it “knowledge management”

Knowledge management is about keeping track of and leveraging work product that the firm has already developed. Most attorneys have been doing this naturally, even without formal systems in place, simply by letting each other know who has done work on what subjects or who others should ask about handling a certain issue. However, because the term “knowledge management” is often intimidating, confusing or un-familiar to attorneys, many librarians recommended referring to it simply

Law Librarians and Knowledge Management: Tips from West km

as “knowledge sharing” or “informa-tion resources” and pointing out what knowledge management does, rather than focusing on labels.

Show and tell: Become the in-house expert for knowledge sharing

“The proof is in the pudding,” said Cynthia Jones, director of library and information services for Phelps Dunbar LLC. “When the attorney gets to see how this works, he or she becomes more supportive.” To encourage user adoption in her firm, she became the in-house expert and took face-to-face time to show at-torneys how to use West km to find information. To become the in-house expert at your firm, visit legalsolu-tions.thomsonreuters.com/westkm for demos, user tips, product support and user guides.

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“[Librarians] can certainly do the original research, but often the an-swer – more importantly, the way the firm would approach the answer – is in the firm’s own work product.”

Cynthia Jones Phelps Dunbar LLC n

As a law librarian, you understand the responsibility inherent in your role as a steward of information.

By the same token, corporate responsibility is deeply-rooted in Thomson Reuters ability to perform as a global information technology organization.

At Thomson Reuters, we focus on corporate responsibility because it’s the right thing to do, and because it’s good for business. For instance, our Legal business has a long-standing relationship with Books for Africa, a Minnesota-based charity that collects and ships library and educational books to African countries – more than 27 million texts since 1988. Through Thomson Reuters work with Books for Africa’s Jack Mason Law & De-mocracy Initiative, the business has donated and supported container shipments of 54 law and human rights libraries to law schools, NGO’s, and legal and human rights organizations in 16 African countries, including 15 new law libraries and more than 600 computers just last year.

Access to the law is a cornerstone of due process and equal justice, and rule of law is foundational for social, political and economic structures. So when you consider the impact these law libraries can have in supporting the rule of law in emerging nations on the African continent, you can see the business case for why we support initiatives such as these. With the rule of law, the institutions and systems that can support orderly markets, arbitrate disputes and apply the law impartially and without bias take hold. As these countries modernize and with the emergence of the rule of law, so too come the opportunities for individuals and commercial interests.

Similarly in the United States, Thomson Reuters Do Justice program offers free or greatly subsidized access to Westlaw for customers to use in their pro bono cases. Here, the business supports the good work of its customers and helps them make a difference by helping the individuals and causes that they value most. Last year, we provided more than $28 million in Westlaw access through this program.

This spirit of corporate responsibility underscore how we manage our business: we actively invest in and manage what we hope our company will become, and we’re also stewards of what came before us. Consider the investment that the founders of the West Publishing Company made in a legal classification system generations ago. Today, that system is help-ing to support transparency, equal justice and the rule of law in emerging nations in Africa – certainly an outcome that no one could have predicted at the time.

We can hope that the business decisions we make today will make as profound an impact in the years to come. n

The Global Challenges and Opportunities of Corporate Responsibility

It is absolutely essential that to-day’s law librarians are digitally literate as well as possess an

understanding and awareness of recent advancements in informa-tion technology as they pertain to the library field. Law Libraries in the Digital Age offers a comprehensive guide to achieving these goals.

This resource covers the cut-ting-edge developments that face today’s law libraries including e-Books, mobile device manage-ment, Web scale discovery, cloud computing, social software, and more. These critical concepts are approached from the perspective of library leaders who discuss how for-

Law Librarianship in the Digital Ageward-thinking libraries are tackling traditional library practices such as reference, collection development, technical services, and administra-tion in this new “digital age.”

Each chapter explores concepts and issues that are that are cur-rently being discussed at major law library conferences and events to-day and look ahead for law libraries in the future. Chapters have been written by the field’s top innovators from all areas of legal librarianship including academic, government, and private law libraries who have strived to provide inspiration and guidance to tomorrow’s law library leaders.

“Law Librarianship in the Digital Age is the messiah of legal reference source. Such a resource serves as a rubric of tools and techniques for managing a law library in the ever-expanding digital environment. It is a comprehensive manual for training students on how to manage a law library. This resource encom-passes the breadth and depth of law library management.” — Ralph Monaco, executive director, The New York Law Institute

“This book covers the broad sweep of a law librarian’s role in the 21st century, addressing everything from the basics of legal research to high level decision-making by law library directors. Anyone working, or aspiring to work in a law library will find it a valuable resource.”— David A. Hollander, Law and Legal Studies Librarian, Princeton Uni-versity Library

Ellyssa Kroski is Manager of Information Systems for the New

York Law Institute n

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