Category: Events

The NJLLA Anniversary Celebration has been rescheduled and will take place on Thursday, September 26th, at the Newark Museum from 5:30 – 8:30 p.m. with distinguished guest speaker Carolyn P. Ahearn. 

Invitations and more details will be sent out soon.  Those who paid for last fall’s cancelled event will be contacted and reimbursed if they cannot attend.

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy dashed our plans and, like much of the state, we had to regroup.  We appreciate your patience and look forward to celebrating 26 years of NJLLA together on September 26th.

New Jersey Law Librarians Association
2013 Annual Business Meeting & AALL Visit
Wednesday, May 15, 2013

NJLLA Flyer for 2013 Annual Meeting

Program Description:      AALL Update and Visit from Executive Board Member 

Speaker Biography:        Darcy Kirk is the Associate Dean for Library & Technology and Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law. She is the Immediate Past President of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Darcy is active in a number of professional organizations and is a frequent presenter at professional meetings.  

DATE:            Wednesday May 15, 2013 

PLACE:           Centennial Hall
                           Newark Public Library  5 Washington Street  Newark NJ
                           Directions:  http://www.npl.org/Pages/AboutLibrary/directions.html

While at the library, you will be able to see these exhibits:

Philip Roth:  Exhibit of Photos From a Lifetime
http://www.npl.org/Pages/ProgramsExhibits/Exhibits/PhilipRoth.html

Newark Art and Artists: Prints, Photographs and Other Works
http://www.npl.org/Pages/ProgramsExhibits/Exhibits/NewarkArtII.html

TIME:            12:00 noon – 3:00 pm

Agenda
Lunch                                                                            12:00 –  1:15 pm           
Program                                                                        1:15 –  2:00 pm
NJLLA Annual Business Meeting & Election     2:00 –  3:00 pm

Hot and cold buffet, please arrive promptly so that you can enjoy lunch & networking. 

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

RSVP:  by Friday, May 10, 2013 

Community Service Project: Ronald McDonald House  New Brunswick, NJ
Items needed:  Swiffers- Dry/Wet, Febreze, Broom- any type indoor brooms, Tupperware,/Rubbermaid storage containers- all sizes, Keurig coffee pods, Dreft Laundry detergent & Giftcards :  Home Depot, Stop & Shop, Target 

Check payable to: New Jersey Law Librarians Association

Mail to:  Johanna Bizub     email: jbizub@prudential.com  or call 973-367-3175      Prudential Insurance  751 Broad Street  NJ-01-04-13  Newark, NJ  07102-3714

New Jersey Law Librarians Association
April Meeting

Feeling Good About Medical Legal Research

Presented by Caroline Young, NJLLA Vice-President/President-Elect & Reference and Technology Librarian, Rutgers School of Law – Newark

NJLLA April 2013 Meeting Flyer

Most law librarians will be asked to perform medical or health-related research during the course of their careers. This program will provide an introduction to locating and evaluating medical information. Topics will include: defining evidence-based medicine, applying the methods of evidence-based medicine to the process of medical research, and evaluating retrieved information. Effective searching of MEDLINE, using the controlled vocabulary MeSH (the National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings), will also be covered.

DATE: Thursday, April 18^th, 2013

PLACE: Lowenstein Sandler (LS East Building)
65 Livingston Ave, Roseland ,NJ

TIME: 12 noon to 2 pm

COST:    Members: $15.00    Students: $10.00    Non-Members: $20.00

RSVP to:  Kathy Taggart by Thursday, April 12, 2013

Make check payable to: New Jersey Law Librarians Association
Mail to: Kathy Taggart, Lowenstein Sandler 65 Livingston Ave. Roseland, NJ  07068
email: ktaggart@lowenstein.com or call 973-422-6442

Community Service Project

The Community Service Committee will be collecting “forever” stamps, greeting cards, envelopes and stationery for the Stamp Out Despair campaign. This cause is sponsored by First Friends, a group that visits those who are held in immigration detention in New Jersey, and the donations are used to assist detainees in writing letters.  For more information, the home page of this organization is:  www.irate-firstfriends.org. 

New Jersey Law Librarians Association
March Meeting

The New Jersey Law Journal is 135!

Flyer for March 2013 Meeting

Join us as we visit the offices of the New Jersey Law Journal and celebrate its 135^th anniversary.  The Law Journal’s Newark office has become the regional legal book publishing hub of American Lawyer Media.  This is a great opportunity to meet their expanded book editing staff.  ALM now publishes state-specific treatises and form books in Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Florida, Texas, and California, in addition to New Jersey. 

Lunch and a tour of the offices will be included.  There is no charge for this event, but RSVPs are mandatory. 

DATE:               Tuesday, March 26^th, 2013 

PLACE:            New Jersey Law Journal  238 Mulberry Street, Newark, NJ 07101

Parking is adjacent to the building.  

TIME:                12 noon to 2 pm

RSVP by:               Friday, March 22nd, 2013

RSVP to:          Johanna Bizub   email: jbizub@prudential.com or 973-367-3175

Community Service Project

The Community Service Committee will be collecting new and gently used sports equipment for donation to the Newark Area schools for their aftercare and Big Brothers/Big Sisters programs.  Items requested are:  footballs, basketballs, soccer balls, baseballs, batting helmets, gloves, softballs, gift cards to Dicks’ or Modell’s, etc.

 NJLLA Holiday Party Flyer – 12-05-12

Join us at NJLLA’s annual Holiday Party on December 5, 2012 from 5:00 to 7:30 pm

McCarter & English
4 Gateway Center
100 Mulberry Street, 15th Floor
Newark NJ 07102

Directions: http://www.mccarter.com/Newark-United-States-of-America/
Recommended Parking: Edison Park Fast on the corner of Mulberry and Market Streets.

Hors d’oeuvres Buffet & Dessert

Please RSVP by December 3 to Janice Schouten at 973-889-4368 or jmschouten@pbnlaw.com.

The Community Service Committee will be collecting children’s books and pajamas for the The Pajama Project.

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.

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

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