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Western Pacific Chapter of the
American Associa4on of Law Libraries
Volume 40, No. 3
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
President’s Column 1
State News 2
Register for Boise Mtg 3
Business MeeAng 4
AALL Mtg Highlights 5
New Members 6
Grant Reports 6-‐7
Life Member Nominee 8
WestPac Contest 8
Treasurer's Report 9
WestPac Q&A 10
The Great Eclipse 11
News to Share? 12
Summer 2017
President’s Column GreeAngs WestPac-‐ers!
I hope everyone is having a wonderful summer. Willie is currently recovering from a totally cosmic eclipse experience. Quick trivia quesAon: What three WestPac states were in the eclipse path of totality? (Hint: our upcoming conference will be held in one of the states.)
In two months, we will be gathering for WestPac’s 50th Annual Conference! I hope as many people as possible will be able to come to Boise, Idaho, October 19th-‐21st, because it’s shaping up to be a fabulous celebraAon. Ning Han and the Local Arrangements Commibee are doing an amazing job. Not only will we have a super fun opening recepAon at JUMP, but we will also have a Friday dinner at an authenAc Basque restaurant!
In addiAon to excellent food and entertaining acAviAes, there will also be educaAon! Hilary Hardcastle and her EducaAon Commibee have put together an enlightening program, with topics ranging from alcohol law to presidenAal power to digital preservaAon. Our website has more details on the conference, including the registraAon form and the Grove Hotel reservaAon link.
Thank you everyone who abended the AALL Business MeeAng and Lunch in AusAn. We had an amazing turnout, so the room was a lible cozy, but I hope everyone enjoyed the food and opportunity to catch up with fellow members. I’d also like to thank all of the commibee chairs who put together reports for the meeAng and Jennifer Gross who graciously agreed to take the meeAng minutes.
While the minutes of the meeAng are included in the newsleber, I would like to emphasize one major announcement for those who missed it. Our secretary, Andrew MarAneau, has leh WestPac territory for the lovely state of Minnesota, which is, of course, in MALL country. I’m very grateful for Andrew’s service to WestPac, and we will all miss him.
Under these circumstances, the WestPac consAtuAon requires the nominaAons commibee to submit a name for the ExecuAve Board’s consideraAon. Luckily, Kerry Lohmeier and the NominaAons Commibee found us a great new secretary, Nick Harrell. Thank you, Nick, for agreeing to serve and welcome to the ExecuAve Board.
I hope everyone is able to keep the summer going for as long as possible, and see you in Boise!
Kelly Reynolds
WestPac News
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Idaho Alison Perry reports: As of August 1 my firm, Hawley Troxell, joined forces with MoffaK Thomas. All will be under the Hawley Troxell banner. This increased the InformaAon Center (aka library) customer base of aborneys from 54 to 75, with some addiAonal paralegals and support staff added in. We are currently working through the transiAon stage of melding two Boise office sites into one building. It is an exciAng challenge to have! For more informaAon, the law firm’s press release is available at hbp://www.hawleytroxell.com/2017/08/idaho-‐based-‐law-‐firms-‐hawley-‐troxell-‐and-‐moffab-‐thomas-‐join-‐forces/.
Ning Han reports: Concordia Law had an awesome orientaAon this fall. One of the pictures below is showing Library Director and Prof. Michael Greenlee introducing library services & resources to new students. Look at how engaged the new students are. We also put together an aestheAcally pleasing and informaAve book display to show our new students the beauty of Idaho.
State NewsMap image from commons.wikimedia.org
Oregon Robert Truman reports: The Boley Law Library of Lewis & Clark Law School is seeing a number of staff changes this fall. On August 31, Law Library Director and former Westpac President Tami Gierloff reAred aher 23 years of service to the law school. Robert Truman will be serving as Interim Director for the 2017–18 school year. We likewise saw the departure of Jorge Juarez, who has taken the posiAon of Reference Librarian and InstrucAonal Services Coordinator at the Georgetown Law Library. Both will be greatly missed. In other news, another past Westpac President, Mari Cheney, has taken a new posiAon as Head of Research Services. And finally, we welcomed James Kite as our Interim Reference Librarian. Jim was most recently at the Ninth Circuit Library in Anchorage.
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JOIN WESTPAC IN BOISE, IDAHO FOR THE HISTORIC 50TH ANNIVERSARY CHAPTER MEETING
OCTOBER 19-‐21, 2017 By Ning Han, Concordia University
Please consider registering for the upcoming Boise conference if you haven’t! I also strongly encourage you to reserve your hotel before the 9/27 cut-‐off date! I am writing on behalf of the WestPac board and various committees to invite you to join us
for the 2017 WestPac Annual Meeting, October 19 (Thursday) – October 21 (Saturday), at Concordia University School of Law, in Boise, ID. It is going to be WestPac’s 50th Anniversary celebration. We sincerely hope you can come and celebrate with us. Please visit the conference website for registration information. Registration cut-‐off dates are 9/22 for early registration and 10/2 for late registration. The Grove is our conference hotel. It is a very nice downtown hotel with great amenities. Because of our room block, I strongly encourage you to
book your room with the Grove Hotel using the provided reservation link. Please book before 9/27 to enjoy the deeply discounted group rate. Hilary Hardcastle and her wonderful Education Committee have put together a fantastic program for us, covering topics such as hiring and managing student workers, beer, wine and spirits law, the history of the Basques in Idaho, gendered language in the law and the library, the Constitution and presidential power, making teachable moments out of the latest viral news, digital preservation, and hot topics in technical services. See details at the conference program page. The Local Arrangements Committee has made great plans for the opening reception, Friday dinner, as well as pre-‐ and post-‐ conference optional tours for all of you. I strongly encourage you to join us at the JUMP for the opening reception. You will be making your own desserts and sharing a toast to wish WestPac another 50 years of greatness. We will gather at Leku Ona for Friday dinner to experience some authentic Basque food. And most importantly, please join us on Saturday at 1:30pm for the WalkAbout Boise – A Historic Downtown Walking Tour. Details of optional activities are available on the activities page as well as the registration form. Last but not least, the Local Arrangements Committee will have a restaurant guide ready for you before your arrival. We will tuck it into your conference bag. There are so many fun things to explore in Boise and I am sure you will enjoy visiting it. Please let me know if you have any questions. Get yourself registered. We look forward to seeing you in Boise!
! ! V The minutes from the Jackson meeCng were approved unanimously.
Announcements Andrew MarCneau is moving to Minnesota. The NominaCons commiDee submiDed Nick Harrell from the University of Colorado as Secretary and he was unanimously approved by the board.
Financial Report (Jaye Barlous) Jaye Barlous thanked the membership and the Board.
Commi]ee Reports Membership Commi8ee (Tina Ching) Stephanie Midkiff, the former chair has reCred so Suzanne Darais and Ashley Sundin will be the new co-‐chairs. Current Membership is esCmated at 126 acCve, associate and student members and 34 life members for a total of 160, an addiCon of 11 new members. Please nominate new life members.
Archives (Jacque Jurkins) The archives commiDee received membership directories from 1987—1990, Annual MeeCng programs from Monterey 1990 and Spokane 2000 and newsleDers from 1982-‐1988 and Miscellaneous Correspondence from the 1990 meeCng.
Educa*on Commi8ee (Hilary Hardcastle) The program for the meeCng in Boise has not been finalized but will include “Weathering the Storm, worse case scenarios and silver linings in preserving the digital law library”, “Unearthing the Early State Records CollecCon,” “They, Them and Us, Gendered Language in Law and the Law Library”, “Hot Topic Social Media and Legal Research, Teachable Moments out of the Latest Viral News,” “The History of the Basques in Idaho,” “10 quesCons on Technical Services”, “Hiring and Managing Student Workers” and “Wine, Brew and Spirits Law”.
The Keynote speaker will be David Adler who will speak on the Presidency and the ConsCtuCon. They are
invesCgaCng the possibility of a pre-‐conference workshop on benchmarking.
Grants and Awards (Brian Huffman) Grants were awarded to Felicity Murphy and Mari Cheney.
Nomina*ons and Elec*ons (Jennifer Gross) On April 26 the commiDee submiDed the names of Brian Huffman from the University of Hawaii for the
posiCon of Vice President/President Elect and Ning Han from Concordia for Treasurer. On June 22 the commiDee submiDed the name of Nick Harrell at the University of Colorado for Secretary.
Government Rela*ons (David McFadden) The commiDee needs a representaCve for Nevada.
Site Selec*on (Dennis Sears) The Annual MeeCng will be in Boise this year and it is the 50th anniversary of WestPac.
Local Arrangements (Emily Siess) We will be staying at the Grove Hotel which is a block from Concordia. Everyone is encouraged to book early. The opening recepCon will be held at Jump. AddiConal details about the meeCng were discussed.
Newsle8er (David McClure) David and Harriet thanked everyone for their contribuCons over the past year. Megan AusCn from the University of Oregon will be joining the newsleDer commiDee. The next issue will be in August.
No New Business The meeCng was adjourned.
WestPac Business Mee4ng Luncheon AALL Annual Mee4ng & Conference, Aus4n, Texas,
Mee4ng Minutes, Sunday, July 16, 2017
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WestPac Members Make Significant Contribu;ons at 2017 AALL Annual Mee;ng and Conference in Aus;n, Texas
By Julie Horst, Headquarters Branch Librarian, Ninth Circuit Library, San Francisco, California
WestPac was well-‐represented at the AALL Annual Meeting and Conference and while it would be impossible to capture all of the many contributions by our members at that event, here is a list provided by member Julie Horst highlighting some WestPac member activities at AALL this year:
• Cathryn Bowie, Mari Cheney, and Nickholas Harrell presented an excellent program entitled Social Media Use in Law Libraries: Learn from Our Successes and Failures.
• Kudos to Susan Nevelow Mart for her well received presentation Understanding the Human Element in Search Algorithms.
• Our very own Karen Selden was kept busy at AALL meeting and greeting as an AALL Executive Board candidate. Voting opens Friday, Sept. 29th!
• Erik Beck spoke as a panelist on Digitization Is Done—Now What? Understanding Metadata, Online Delivery, and User Experience
• Tawnya Plumb hung out in the Cool Tools Café and presented on omeka.net
• Felicity Murphy and Annalee Hickman Moser presented their award-‐winning paper “The Reference Assistant” at The Librarian as Author session for winners of the AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Awards.
Congratulations and thanks to all who served or contributed in any capacity at the AALL meeting!
The Call for Proposals for AALL's 2018 Annual Meedng is open through October 2! The Annual Meedng Program CommiAee (AMPC) has compiled a list of "must-‐have" program topics-‐dmely topics that AALL members have idendfied as being vital to their professional educadon. Perhaps one of the topics is exactly what your library has been tackling this year. Maybe you know the perfect presenter. Perhaps a working group within your special interest secdon has been brainstorming about the topic already. Propose a program!
You might also be inspired by the ideas AALL members have already shared. Explore the Informadon for Program Proposers secdon of AALLNET, and use the online Program and Workshop Proposal Collecdon site to develop your proposal in your own workspace, share it with your colleagues, and submit it online by October 2. The AMPC will evaluate all submiAed proposals using a comprehensive rubric focusing on their relevance and descripdon. We can't wait to see your proposals!
Call for Proposals for AALL 2018 through Oct. 2
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Travel Grant Report -‐ AALL Annual Mee3ng & Conference -‐ 2017 By Felicity Murphy, Head of Student Services, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
The annual AALL Conference in Austin was an exciting and busy experience for me. I began by attending the Boulder pre-‐conference where I had the opportunity to participate in workshopping in-‐progress writing projects of librarians across the country. I found the diversity of topics impressive and the amount of scholarship being produced inspiring. The actual conference kicked off with a rousing keynote speech by social justice advocate Bryan Stevenson. If you were unable to attend, I encourage you to take the time to view it. I left ready to start doing “uncomfortable things” in order to “fight for justice.” The two most memorable things about AALL Austin were the awards luncheon where my co-‐author, Annalee Hickman Moser, and I received the AALL/ LexisNexis Call for Papers Award for New Members and the opportunity we had to present our paper as part of the Librarian as Author presentation. I am truly grateful for the travel grant I received from Westpac; it helped make this memorable opportunity possible.
WestPac welcomes its newest members since our Spring 2017 newsleTer –
Holly Gale, California Court of Appeal, Santa Ana, CA
Cory Lenz, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI
Elizabeth Manriquez, Wiener-‐Rogers Law Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Elyse Meyers, UCLA Law Library, Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Richards, University of Washington, SeaTle, WA
Lena Rieke, Wiener-‐Rogers Law Library, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Stephanie SchmiR, UC HasZngs College of the Law, San Francisco, CA
Jason Sowards, Nevada Supreme Court Library, Carson City, NV
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From Aus;n, Texas, to Portland, Oregon: Crea;ve Marke;ng in the Law Library
Travel Grant Report -‐ AALL Annual Mee;ng & Conference -‐ 2017 By Mari Cheney, Head of Research Services, Boley Law Library
At this year’s AALL Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, I attended many valuable sessions, but the one I was most inspired by was called “Guerrilla Marketing: Promoting Your Law Library and Engaging Your Audience with the Tools at Hand.” (Recording available through AALL’s AALL2go Learning Center at https://www.aallnet.org/mm/Education/aall2go/amrecordings/aall2017/aall17g5.html.) This program gave me ideas I could immediately implement in my own library, and gave me a wealth of marketing resources, including where to find free and low-‐cost design tools.
Scott Vanderlin (IIT Chicago-‐Kent College of Law) and Joseph Lawson (Harris County Law Library) presented their guerrilla marketing ideas, along with a website with how-‐to videos and links to their marketing materials for other librarians to use. Check it out at http://www.harriscountylawlibrary.org/aall17. I especially loved Scott’s idea of using postcards to market library services, and using vintage-‐themed check-‐out cards as librarian business cards.
When I got back to my library, I started talking with a few of our student workers about how we might implement some of these marketing ideas in our library. I had asked them to brainstorm ideas for a new library display that would welcome new students, especially 1Ls, and together they came up with the theme “They started as 1Ls, too.” They created a banner and matching postcard following this theme, and pulled books from our collection featuring famous lawyers.
Sticking with the theme of legal heroes, they also created book covers with librarians’ faces and accompanying bios, as well as a postcard featuring the Notorious RBG.
While we didn’t end up using the library check-‐out card in this display, we have plans to use it in the future, and plan to continue creating postcards and making them available to our students at the library desk. We’ve already seen students coming to the desk just to ask about the cards, and we use this as an opportunity to introduce ourselves and chat with our students. The postcards bring students who wouldn’t normally come up to the desk with questions and we welcome this increased traffic, even if it just gives us a chance to say hi.
Follow us on Instagram at instagram.com/BoleyLawLibrary to see what we come up with next!
Nominee for Life Membership: Laura Orr
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The WestPac Executive Board is pleased to nominate Laura Orr for life membership. According to the Bylaws, the requirements for life membership are:
The nominee must have been an active member of the Chapter for ten or more years; must be 55 years or older; and must have retired from active law library work.
Life member nominations will be voted on at the annual meeting in Boise. Life members must be elected by a 2/3 vote.
Laura Orr earned her J.D. from Temple Law School in Philadelphia and her B.S. and M.L.S. from Indiana University, Bloomington. She was the Washington County (Oregon) Law Librarian from 2002 to 2015. She has worked for the Free Library of Philadelphia, Multnomah County Library, University of Maryland Law School Library, two academic law libraries in Bristol, England, Willamette Law School library in Oregon, and the Yale Law Library in New Haven, Connecticut. She created websites, blogs (notably the Oregon Legal Research blog), published articles and taught classes on American and English legal research and served as coordinator and panelist on various lawyer and librarian conference presentations. The Washington County Bar Association presented Laura with their 2012 Professionalism Award and she received a 2015 Bethany J. Ochal Award for Distinguished Service to the Profession and the 2017 Public Access to Government Information (PAGI) Award from the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) -‐ the later for her work digitizing historic Oregon Revised Statutes. Laura Orr
WestPac 50th Anniversary Contest Last issue we ran a contest. We received only one entry—Karen Selden (University of Colorado Law School) who got it right and she won the first of the 5 prizes. Congrats, Karen! So you sfll have a chance to win. So once again…
WestPac Treasurer’s Report Submi@ed by Jaye Barlous, Treasurer
ACCOUNT ACTIVITIES FROM JANUARY 1, 2017 — AUGUST 4, 2017 I. Business Checking Balance as of August 4, 2017 $ 26,113.10
Receipts 2016 Conference grant monies $ 4252.00 Membership Dues $ 1160.00 Annual conference sponsorships $ 4900.00 AALL business luncheon $ 200.00 Total Receipts this Quarter $10,512.00*
*Addi$onal PayPal balance for membership registra$on ($825.00) and AALL business luncheon receipts ($460.00) are unaccounted for in this report.
Expenditures 2016 annual mee[ng expense $ 255.24 Annual registered agent fee $ 236.00 AALL travel grants $ 1500.00 AALL business luncheon/mee[ng $ 967.28 Total Expenditures this Fiscal Year $ 2958.52
II. Business Market Account Total interest paid $ 3.14 Balance as of April 1, 2017 $ 15,840.97
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Income ac[vity for the 2017 fiscal year has been a mixed bag of receivables for WestPac including 102 membership renewals and new applica[ons plus two 2016 annual conference grant monies received in 2017 from the Wyoming Community Founda$on and AALL/BNA.
Ning Han and her intrepid Local Arrangements Commi@ee have been hard at work preparing for a Boise experience extraordinaire. To date they have wrangled four generous contribu[ons towards our annual conference for a total of $4900.00! Our friends at Hein were the first to kick in, followed by Gobi/Ebsco, Boise law firm, Hawley Troxell Ennis & Hawley, LLP, and Thomson Reuters. More to come! Lots of exci[ng events are being planned in celebra[on of WestPac’s big 5-‐0 anniversary and I hope to see many of you there. So please mark your calendars to a@end, be enlightened, network and celebrate!
In conclusion, we con[nue to maintain a healthy bank balance which appears adequate to provide expenditures for WestPac’s regular business overhead, our annual grants to members, and yearly mee[ng expenses.
Thank you for con[nuing to support WestPac.
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This issue’s Q&A is with Laura Vlieg. Laura is the Student Services Librarian and an Assistant Professor at the Wiener-‐Rogers Law Library at the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Laura previously served as a Law Library Fellow at the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library at the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law. She is also a member of the Virginia bar, and before pursuing law librarianship, she pracYced law in the Washington D.C. area. She was Managing Associate at Obadal, Filler, MacLeod & Klein, P.L.C.: a bouYque law firm that manages trade associaYons, and provides legal and regulatory counsel to aerospace companies.
1. What is the best advice you ever received about working as a law librarian? When I was first considering a jump from legal pracYce to law librarianship, I spoke with the law library director at my law school alma mater (Jim Heller). He extolled the many virtues of becoming a law librarian, but the thing that stuck with me the most was when he told me to talk to as many law librarians as I could, and to ask them if they were happy. He told me that the majority of librarians he knew over the years were happy in their jobs, and that much happiness cannot be a mere coincidence.
2. What is your favorite app? The Adobe Lightroom app is at the top of my list currently. I love adventuring in the desert landscapes around Las Vegas on the weekends, and I can’t help but snap photos along the way. Lightroom makes them look impressive with absolutely no photo ediYng experYse.
3. What book 4tle best represents your day-‐to-‐day work life? Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – JUST KIDDING. Seriously, though, I would probably say A Short History of Nearly Everything. We focus largely on faculty services in our library, so my daily work life offers me the opportunity to constantly research and learn about new subjects.
4. If money was not an issue, what new library service would you offer in your library? Someone recently shared an arYcle with me about a university library with bicycle desks. I remember in law school several of my friends and I would take our textbooks to the gym and read while on staYonary bikes; bringing this concept into the library seems like another cool way to get law students invested in their library spaces.
5. What have you enjoyed the most from being involved with WestPac? Having just joined WestPac, I am amazed at the camaraderie among the membership, and really looking forward to gegng more involved!
Laura Vlieg University of Nevada, Las Vegas
WestPac Q&A: Laura Vlieg
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WESTPAC WELCOMES THE GREAT ECLIPSE AUGUST 21, 2017
WestPac Willie was awestruck watching the eclipse from his current home at the University of Oregon, while students and librarians at Concordia University School of Law thoroughly enjoyed the eclipse from Boise, Idaho. (Some even went to the roohop of the law school!)
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