Let the blogging begin!!
The Arizona Association of Law Libraries (AzALL) would like to express its gratitude to AzALL member Jennifer
Murray (Maricopa County Superior Court) for creating the first AzALL blog! This
blog is intended to be a vehicle for distributing timely and useful information
about the chapter, the activities of its members, committees, and Executive
Board, and items of general interest to AzALL members. Be sure
to include the AzALL Blog in your RSS feed!
About AzALL
AzALL is a
non-profit organization and is the Arizona chapter of its parent organization,
the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). AzALL is a great organization for law librarians and those
interested in legal research. Throughout the year AzALL members benefit from
the organization’s listserv, its Membership Directory, monthly programming
activities, networking opportunities with other AzALL members, the AzALL blog, discounts on AzALL-sponsored
continuing education programs, and the chance to apply for grants for
continuing education opportunities, including the programming presented at AALL’s
Annual Meeting.
Congressional Information Symposium*
A major AzALL
event taking place in April is the AzALL Legal Research Institute’s (LRI) Congressional Information Symposium. This symposium
is open to the public and promises to be the defining conference for
Congressional information researchers in Arizona. Register for the symposium at
the AzALL LRI webpage.
The Congressional Information Symposium will take place on Friday, April 26, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the downtown Phoenix Burton Barr Central Library’s Pulliam Auditorium.
The Congressional Information Symposium will take place on Friday, April 26, 2013, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the downtown Phoenix Burton Barr Central Library’s Pulliam Auditorium.
AzALL’s LRI has gathered
an exciting mix of six expert speakers that will present at the symposium, four
of whom will be flown in from Washington, D.C. Two of these D.C. speakers, Joshua Tauberer of GovTrack.us and Eric Mill of the Sunlight Foundation, are technical
experts in government data and work to make sure this data is useful and accessible
by citizens.
You can catch
Mr. Tauberer and Mr. Mill all over the Internet but here are a couple links
that will help you gain an idea of their involvement in government data
accessibility.
·
2008 audio
interview with Joshua Tauberer in which he discusses his ongoing efforts to
acquire official information from various sources, provide useful tracking and
analytical services, and encourage citizen participation.
Two additional
DC experts are Law Librarians Ellen Sweet (U.S. DOJ Tax Department) and Richard
McKinney (Federal Reserve Board). Both Mr. McKinney and Ms. Sweet are active in
the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C., and are responsible for writing
Federal Legislative History Research:
A Practitioner’s Guide to Compiling the Documents and Sifting for Legislative
Intent. Ms. Sweet will present
on the Congressional lawmaking process and how to garner legislative intent
from Congressional lawmaking documents, and Mr. McKinney will present on how to
compile legislative histories from the digital documents that are found on today’s
Internet.
Our final two
presenters are local experts Victoria
Trotta, Associate Dean for the Ross-Blakley
Law Library at the Sandra Day O’Connor School of Law, and Janet Fisher, Director of
the Research and Law Library at Arizona
State Library, Archives and Public Records. Ms. Trotta and Ms. Fisher will
speak on the impact of digitization on the Federal Depository Loan Program.
We expect a fantastic turn-out for this symposium so be sure to register early as seating is limited! Early Bird registration ends March 15th!
We expect a fantastic turn-out for this symposium so be sure to register early as seating is limited! Early Bird registration ends March 15th!
The Congressional Information Symposium is a “must-see” for all legal professionals,
lobbyists, legislative and political analysts, journalists, and students. And because
the symposium is of interest to a large group of professionals we expect seating
to fill quickly. Reserve your space soon!
*This program is made possible by a grant from the AALL/Bloomberg Continuing Education Grants Program.
Best Regards,
Joan Dalton
2012-13 AzALL President
*This program is made possible by a grant from the AALL/Bloomberg Continuing Education Grants Program.
Best Regards,
Joan Dalton
2012-13 AzALL President
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