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POSTPONED – NJLLA 25th Anniversary Celebration & November Meeting

View the NJLLA 25th Anniversary Program Flyer

POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2013 DUE TO STORM – SEE https://njlla.org/2012/11/25th-anniversary-celebration-postponed-until-spring-2013/

Please join us as we mark our 25th Anniversary as an AALL Chapter. The special event at The Newark Museum features our honored guest lecturer, Robert C. Berring, Jr., the Walter Perry Johnson Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Bob Berring has inspired law librarians through his many roles in the profession and as the author of highly regarded legal research textbooks.

The evening includes a dinner buffet and the opportunity to view the current special exhibit: Angels & Tomboys: Girlhood in 19th Century American Art.

We gratefully acknowledge our meeting sponsors for assisting us with this program:

 

 


 

 

 
DATE/TIME: Monday, November 5th, 2012 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm

COST: $10.00 (covers dinner & parking). Checks payable to the New Jersey Law Librarians Association.

PLACE: The Newark Museum’s Engelhard Court
49 Washington Street Newark NJ
Parking at Central Parking adjacent to The Newark Museum (Washington St. & Central Ave.)

RSVP: Johanna Bizub by Wednesday, October 31st
973-367-3175 or email: jbizub@prudential.com
Prudential Insurance Company
751 Broad St., NJ-01-04-13
Newark NJ 07102-3714

DIRECTIONS: http://www.newarkmuseum.org/GeneralInformation/GeneralInformation.aspx?id=96

COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT: We will be collecting non-perishable food.

Save the Date: NJLLA 25th Anniversary Celebration on 11/5/12

The New Jersey Law Librarians Association turned 25 over the summer.  On July 6, 1987, NJLLA was officially recognized as a chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Our November program will commemorate our 25 years and will feature guest speaker Bob Berring. Mr. Berring is not only a renowned leader in the fields of law librarianship and legal research but also a wonderful speaker and inspiring presence.  Our celebration will be held on the evening of Monday, November 5, at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey.  Stay tuned for more details and save the date!

September Program: Walking the Tightrope Between Licensed Data Restrictions and User Access

Sept 2012 Program Flyer 

Program Description:  Vendor contracts are getting more complex and the use of licensed data has become more restrictive. Digital data is the vendor’s property, which it licenses to subscribers. This program will suggest ways to comply with licensing restrictions and instruct users about these restrictions.

Speaker Biography:  Linda-Jean Schneider is the Electronic Resources Manager for Morgan Lewis & Bockius, having joined the firm in February 2012.  Previously she spent more than 25 years in law firm library management positions at two other Philadelphia-based firms. She is an active member of AALL, GPLLA, and SLA, and is the current chair of the Private Law Libraries SIS of AALL. Linda-Jean was part of a panel presenting on this topic at the 2012 Annual Meeting in Boston.

Date:  Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Location:  Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP, Metro Corporate Campus One, 99 Wood Avenue South, Iselin, NJ, 732-549-5600. Directions: http://www.greenbaumlaw.com/Directions.asp#Metro

Time:  12:00 – 2:00 p.m.

Cost:  Members: $17.00      Students: $8.50      Non-Members: $22.00

RSVP:  by Friday, September 14, 2012

Community Service Project:  School supplies including backpacks, spiral note books, 3 ring binders, filler paper, calculators, hand sanitizer, scotch tape, pens, pencils, crayons, glue sticks, highlighters and colored markers

Check payable to:  New Jersey Law Librarians Association

Mail to:  Anne Shulman, Riker, Danzig, One Speedwell Ave., P.O. Box 1981, Morristown, NJ 07962-1981, e-mail: ashulman@riker.com or call 973-538-0800, x7482

New e-book on NJ constitutional history

“Traces of Its Labors”: The Constitutional Commission, The Legislature, and Their Influence on the New Jersey Constitution, 1873-1875, by Peter J. Mazzei and Robert F. Williams (N.J. Office of Legislative Services, 2012). Includes the proceedings and reports of the Constitutional Commission of 1873, newspaper accounts of its deliberations, and other documentation of the 1875 amendments.   The proceedings, transcribed from original manuscript, are published here for the first time.

April Morning Meeting: Writing Workshop for Law Librarians

April 2012 Program Flyer

Program Description:

If you missed it at AALL in Philadelphia last summer, you have another opportunity to attend this well-received writing workshop. Designed for writers of all levels, the workshop will help us learn how to think past mere sentence-level editing skills to more deeply fine-tune our writing. 

By exploring often-overlooked features of good academic writing, especially those that quietly serve as the springboard for an article’s main idea, we can begin to more easily come up with new and relevant topics about which to write, position a piece for publication, and communicate our ideas effectively to readers.

Workshop Leaders:

Amanda Irwin Wilkins, Director of the Princeton Writing Program, began her career in the editorial department at Scarecrow Press before earning her graduate degree in Comparative Literature. At the Writing Program she teaches new teachers of writing and offers a freshman writing seminar which draws on her research into how writers imagine war from the home front and navigate the aftermath of collective and individual trauma.

David Hollander is the Law & Legal Studies Librarian at the Princeton University Library and a Lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program where he teaches a writing seminar titled “The Fourteenth Amendment.” Prior to coming to Princeton University, David was the Reference/Instructional Services Librarian at the University of Miami School of Law. He is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries.

DATE: Tuesday, April 17th
TIME: 9:30 – 11:00 a.m.
PLACE: The Writing Program at Princeton University
Directions and information about parking are available at http://www.princeton.edu/main/visiting/
The Writing Program is located in Baker Hall (part of the Whitman College complex).
         
A light breakfast will be served.

COST: Members: $20.00           Students: $10.00           Non-Members: $25.00

RSVP by Thursday, April 12, 2012

Make check payable to: New Jersey Law Librarians Association

 Mail to: Anne Shulman    Riker, Danzig One Speedwell Ave, PO Box 1981, Morristown, NJ 07962-1981
email: ashulman@riker.com  or call 973-538-0800, ext. 7482

NJLLA Grant to AALL Annual Meeting – Apply Now!

NJLLA Grant Application to 2012 AALL Annual Meeting (Word)
NJLLA Grant Application to 2012 AALL Annual Meeting (PDF)

Now is the time to apply for this year’s grant to attend the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), July 21-24 in Boston, MA.  You must be a member of NJLLA to apply.  For details on qualifications and grant specifics, see attached grant forms in Word and PDF.

NJLJ DDS archive access restored to NJLJ subscribers

On September 1st, I posted that access to most of the Daily Decision Service Alerts on the New Jersey Law Journal web site had been limited to LexisNexis subscribers. I was informed today by our account manager at NJLJ, and have verified by looking at the site, that that blockage of access has been corrected. NJLJ subscribers now have full access to the DDS Alert archive, back to January 1994. NJLJ subscribers also have access to the archives of case summaries, notices to the bar, judicial guides, supplements such as the “New Partners Yearbook,” and the various columns such as “Inadmissible” and “On the Move.” It is only for feature articles and some other content such as editorials and “Voice of the Bar” that access is limited to LexisNexis subscribers when the material becomes six months old. – PAX

 

Supreme Court Rules Committee Reports

Back in 2009-10, at the recommendation of NJLLA, the Judiciary web site added a single index page leading to the biannual and annual pages that provide links to the reports of the various Supreme Court Rules Committees. That index page, which was at http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/reports/, has now been missing for some months, while a dead link to it remains in the “Quick Index” to the Judiciary web site. Communication to the Judiciary webmaster has been unavailing. The biannual and annual pages of reports are still on the site, and their addresses are consistently constructed, using the final year of the reporting cycle. For example, the page for the reports of the 2000-2002 cycle (the earliest reports on the site) is found at http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/reports2002/, and those of the the 2009-2011 cycle (currently the latest ones) are at http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/reports2011/. The Rutgers Law Library has compiled links to all the report pages at http://law-library.rutgers.edu/ilg/njlaw.php#reports.

Visit NJLLA’s web site at http://www.njlla.org.

article on N.J. legislative history

In a recent issue of Legal Reference Services Quarterly appears as article by Barbara H. Garavaglia (of the University of Michigan Law Library), entitled “Using Legislative Histories to Determine Legislative Intent in New Jersey,” 30 LRSQ 71 (2011). Of particular interest in the article is the section on “use of legislative histories in New Jersey Courts,” 30 LRSQ at 73-78 and the accompanying notes.

Visit NJLLA’s web site at http://www.njlla.org.