Librarians Attend Conference in NOLA
Eight law librarians from the University of MN Law Library attended the annual conference of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) in New Orleans over the past week, July 14-17. Those attending:
Suzanne Thorpe, Associate Director for Faculty & Public Services, presided over the Academic Law Librarians Special Interest Section as President. She passed her gavel to the new President at the end of the Conference.
Mary Rumsey, Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian, presented a program on international law research: "Globalization Moved My Cheese: Or, How Do I Find International Law?" that attracted 200 people. Presenting with her was Jean Wenger, Government Documents/Foreign & International Law Librarian at Cook County Law Library.
David Zopfi-Jordan, I.L.L. / A.S.A.P. Copy & Retrieval Service Librarian, is webmaster of the Document Delivery Caucus for AALL.
Mila Rush, Automated Systems Librarian, is a member of the AALLNET Advisory Committee.
Vic Garces, Reference & Collection Development Librarian, attended a Computing Services Special Interest Section Round Table on organizing databases on library websites.
Connie Lenz, Associate Director for Collection Development, is Grants Committee Chair of AALL. She also presented the Lexis-Nexis Call for Papers Award-winning article “Does Form Follow Function? Academic Law Libraries’ Organizational Structures for Collection Development� with Helen Wohl, Assistant Library Director for Collection Development and Special Collections at the University of Miami Law Library.
Sarah Yates, above right, Cataloging Librarian, is a member of the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals and Secretary/Treasurer of the Legal History and Rare Books Special Interest Section. She also led the Rare Book Cataloging Round Table as part of the Technical Services Special Interest Section and participated in the workshop "The Future Is Digital: Metadata Standards and Applications."
Paula Seeger, above left, Circulation Librarian, is a member of the Publications Committee of AALL and attended the New Academic Law Librarians/Mentoring Program. This was her first AALL annual conference experience, and she received a grant from the MN Association of Law Libraries to attend.