Google group

To make good on my promise from the wrap-up session yesterday, I’ve established a Google group for LATCamp.  Anyone who is interested in continuing the conversations that started yesterday, who is interested in starting new conversations about legal information and technology, or who is interested in planning future LATCamps should join.  Spread word of this listserv widely, and maybe LATCamp will grow to have several regional camps next year!

Defining ourselves through convergence

What makes us different from one another and how do we compliment one another?  We wrap our services in the same technologies – the same skins, bells and whistles.  Stepping back away from the tools and books, how do we distinguish ourselves as professionals?  What is our frame of mind and how do we approach and use, or serve, information?

Contributed by K. Hall

Teaching Law and Technology

Developing a law school curriculum for digital lawyers.

Contributed by O. Goodenough

Dork Shorts! Line-up

• LRW – Meg Kribble & Kimberly Hall
• H2O – Laura Miyakawa
• Pedagogy – Kimberly Hall
• Mobile Websites – Karina Condra
• Technology KM – Raquel Ortiz
• Online Censorship and the Global Free flow on Information – Brady Kriss
• Africa Law Wiki – Oliver Goodenough
• Legal Profession Tech Lab – Jeanne

Technology KM

How do we manage technology knowledge?  This was the question that we attempted to answer by creating an Emerging Technologies Committee in the library.  In this short talk, I’ll talk about the committee, its membership, and how we are sharing our technology knowledge in order to stay on the cutting edge.

Raquel M. Ortiz

I am the Associate Director/Head of Research Services at Boston University’s Pappas Law Library.  As a librarian and adjunct faculty, I’m interested in how faculty are using technology for instruction and the impact of that technology on student learning.  I’m also curious as to what technologies students are adopting and using to their full potential.  Finally, I would like to learn about the role librarians are playing in their institutions to identify and vet technologies for faculty and student use.

Stephen Chapman

I’m a librarian in the Harvard Law School Library Digital Lab, where we collaborate to build digital collections for research, teaching, and education. LATCamp is a great opportunity to learn more about use requirements for these collections and to meet other practitioners interested in designing and configuring technologies promoting the creation, preservation, discovery, delivery, and use of born-digital and digitized materials. Before joining the Harvard Law School Library, I managed the Harvard University Library’s Open Collections Program and served on the team that designed the Library’s Digital Repository Service.

AppRap

Let’s talk law apps. What are some of your favorites for teaching law? For practicing law? Whether you’re an apple or a pc, an ipad or a droid, there’s lots to talk about.

if you promise to show me yours, I will gladly demonstrate how easy it was to use VoiceThread to create an intellectual property learning tool, how to speed along your legal writing with conceptual mapping and my fave law-related iPad/iPod apps.

Note: unfortunately, I can’t be there until 11, but if there’s interest, feel free to schedule this session for any slot after 11, and I promise to be there to host!

Effective Tools for Developing In-Person Networks Online

After you come home from a conference, meetup, symposium, or meeting, how do you effectively maintain contact and community with the people you connected with in person? Aside from adding people to your Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter accounts, what tools have you found effective for maintaining these meaningful connections over an extended period of time?

The future of libraries

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the future of libraries in the digital era.  What’s going to be the role of the law library as more and more legal information is available online?  Should librarians become information curators, building new platforms for information gathering, presentation and dissemination?  What do law students, professors, and researchers want from the library?  Help to define the future of the law library.