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Houston Area Law Librarians Inside this issue Member Spotlight: Andrew Bennett 4 AALL News 5 Law Librarianship History by the Day 10 AALL Photos 11 August Minutes 12 September Minutes 13 HALL Newsletter Volume 31 Number 4 Summer 2014 Grant Report: First Time Attendee By Kelly Boccell Submit. “This email confirms your registration to the 2014 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference. Thank you! PLEASE PRINT AND BRING WITH YOU TO THE MEETING to check in at the onsite Registration Desk at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center when you arrive.” …and thus my first experience at an AALL conference began. The next thing I know, I’m receiving emails and postcards from vendors – stop by our booth at the exhibit hall, come view a demonstration of such and such, see what’s new with so and so, and please join us for a reception at this location. Then I looked at the conference schedule – the general session/keynote speaker, the SIS meetings, the educational sessions, the “recharge” sessions – and I thought, how am I going to manage all of this? How do I decide what to go to? How do all of these events rank in importance? Logistically, the conference seemed a bit overwhelming. So I consulted the experts: my coworkers and various HALL members who had been to AALL and other conferences. I listened to their suggestions, read some of the advice on aall.net and then I began to get a game plan. I studied the educational session listings, picked out my top session at each time slot and also took note of a 2014-2015 Meetings November 12, 2014 December 10, 2014 January 14, 2015 February 11, 2015 March 11, 2015 April 8, 2015 May 13, 2015 Continued on page 3... Kelly Boccell with longhorn during AALL/Thomson Reuters Member Appreciation Reception at Knibbe Ranch, San Antonio, Texas

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Houston

Area

Law

Librarians

Inside this issue

Member

Spotlight:

Andrew Bennett

4

AALL News 5

Law

Librarianship

History

by the Day

10

AALL Photos 11

August Minutes 12

September

Minutes

13

HALL Newsletter Volume 31 Number 4 Summer 2014

Grant Report: First Time Attendee

By Kelly Boccell

Submit. “This email confirms your

registration to the 2014 AALL

Annual Meeting & Conference.

Thank you! PLEASE PRINT AND

BRING WITH YOU TO THE

MEETING to check in at the onsite

Registration Desk at the Henry B.

Gonzalez Convention Center when

you arrive.”

…and thus my first experience at

an AALL conference began. The

next thing I know, I’m receiving

emails and postcards from vendors

– stop by our booth at the exhibit

hall, come view a demonstration of

such and such, see what’s new with

so and so, and please join us for a

reception at this location. Then I

looked at the conference schedule – the general session/keynote speaker, the SIS

meetings, the educational sessions, the “recharge” sessions – and I thought, how am I

going to manage all of this? How do I decide what to go to? How do all of these

events rank in importance? Logistically, the conference seemed a bit overwhelming.

So I consulted the experts: my coworkers and various HALL members who had been

to AALL and other conferences. I listened to their suggestions, read some of the

advice on aall.net and then I began to get a game plan. I studied the educational

session listings, picked out my top session at each time slot and also took note of a

2014-2015

Meetings

November 12, 2014

December 10, 2014

January 14, 2015

February 11, 2015

March 11, 2015

April 8, 2015

May 13, 2015 Continued on page 3...

Kelly Boccell with longhorn during AALL/Thomson Reuters Member Appreciation Reception at

Knibbe Ranch, San Antonio, Texas

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Editor’s Notes

As promised, we have switched to a quarterly

publishing cycle for the HALL Newsletter. Of

course, this is supposed to be the Summer issue

and, whether you place the start date just after

Labor Day or on the more traditional equinox,

this is certainly Fall. Nevertheless, it hardly feels

like Fall in Houston, so I think we can let this

one slide and try for a more traditional

publishing cycle starting with the Fall 2014 issue

being published in November. Please have items

for the Fall issue submitted by November 1.

This issue, like the July/August issues of

yesteryears, has our AALL Annual Meeting

Recap. With the national conference in our

backyard (i.e. San Antonio), HALL was well-

represented at the educational as well as the not-

so-educational events. Special thanks to Shelby

Shanks for coordinating a great HALL/DALL/

SWALL/UNT reception. If you missed the

Jicama Tacos at Acenar, it is certainly your loss.

Many thanks to Kelly Boccell for her top-

notch grant report in this issue. She does a great

job of conveying the “first timer’s” perspective

and recapping programs that are sure to be of

interest to novice and veteran alike. Kelly also

did a great job of representin’ Texas at the

AALL/Thomson Reuters Members Appreciation

Event, as you can see from the photo on page 1.

- Joseph Lawson

The HALL Newsletter is the official publication of Houston Area Law Librarians. The purpose is to communicate information to its members. Send contributions, comments and news items to Joseph Lawson,

Editor, at [email protected]

All contributions submitted for publication are subject to editorial review. HALL does not assume responsibility for the statements of contributors. Views or opinions expressed herein do not necessarily

reflect the view or policies of Houston Area Law Librarians. The HALL Newsletter is not copyrighted, however, permission should be sought from the authors and credit given when quoting or photocopying

material from this publication.

Membership dues are $40/year. For membership information, please visit the HALL Membership page.

Continuing Education

We have had a great lineup of speakers so far

this year. Kicking things off in August was our

AALL Recap. Kelly Bocell, HALL grant

recipient to the AALL Annual Meeting, and Joe

Lawson spoke about their experiences in San

Antonio. At the September meeting, our own

Blythe McCoy spoke about how to strategically

market your skills as a librarian. This was a great

program that I think each of us will find helpful

in our workplaces. In October, Elliott

Fontenette of the Texas Legal Services Center

presented on the topic of the Self-Represented

Litigants Project, a program for pro se litigants

to help them find legal information. We have

even more great programs lined up throughout

the year – hope to see you there!

- Margaret Bartlett

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back-up session just in case the one I picked

wasn’t as interesting as I expected it to be.

Several people told me it was ok to get up and

walk out of a session and, in fact, they

announced as much at the opening session.

Next, I picked out the meetings that I decided I

just couldn’t miss, including the PLL-SIS Annual

Meeting and Luncheon and the HALL/SWALL/

DALL/UNT joint reception. My conference

schedule was beginning to take shape. I had a

plan!

I arrived in San Antonio on Saturday afternoon,

checked into my hotel and then headed to the

convention center to check in. There I received

my conference badge and my sole ribbon which

read, “FIRST TIME ATTENDEE.” I debated

putting it on my badge, but ultimately decided

the deer-in-the-headlights look on my face gave

me away anyway so I went ahead and attached it.

I was a little nervous heading into the exhibit

hall at the opening reception Saturday evening.

Nothing could prepare me for the number of

people and size of the exhibit hall. Where do I

start?!? Thankfully, I saw several familiar HALL

faces in the crowd and tagged along as we

stopped at a few different booths. I was able to

get my bearings, scope out the hall and make

note of the various vendors that I would like to

visit over the next few days.

Sunday morning I made my way back to the

conference center for the opening general

session. Andrew Keen delivered the keynote.

Mr. Keen is an Internet entrepreneur and

currently the host of Techcrunch’s “Keen On” as

well as a columnist for CNN and several other

sources. The topic of his keynote, “Disrupting

the Disrupters,” built upon the “Beyond

Boundaries” theme of AALL 2014. Keen noted

that the boundaries of a library used to be self-

evident – a physical place with walls in which

information was stored and accessed – but that

the digital age has blown away the old boundaries

of what a library is and what a librarian does. The

revolution began with the Internet and then the

World Wide Web, which provided a new

platform for communication and challenged

authority and expertise. For example, Google

leverages the collective expertise of data on the

web, an “intelligent” search engine that no longer

requires data to be curated by experts (think

Continued on page 6...

Grant Report (continued from page 1...)

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A Conversation with Andrew Bennett By Patti Curtis Andrew was born in Waco. He went to Texas Tech from 2004 - 2008, and received a degree in History, minors i n M a s s Com m u ni c a t i o n and English. Also spent time in the Alpha Phi Omega Service Fraternity at Texas Tech. He attended UNT library school from 2009-2011, General Track (took some classes in advanced research and archiving).

Professional History:

Southwest Collections/Special Collections Library TTU/Student Assistant – 2 years

Fort Bend County Libraries – Library Assistant, Library Paraprofessional, Librarian – 6 years

Patti: Andrew, when did you decide to become a librarian?

Andrew: Got a job in the support services department at Texas Tech’s Southwest Collections/Special Collections Library, enjoyed it and started working in libraries. My professors wanted me to take the PhD route in history, but I didn’t want to teach and library school was better

option. Also, in high school, I helped out the elementary school librarian.

P: That would be fun to go back and work at the elementary school library.

P: What are your hobbies?

A: I have a two year old daughter and I am working on a novel. Also enjoy historical research and genealogy.

P: Do you have a favorite band?

A: Rock - Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, Seether, Dave Matthews Band, Imagine Dragons, New Age, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, Weezer, Red Hot Chili

Peppers, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, etc.

P: Good choices!

P: Do you like to cook?

A: My goal for the year is learning how to cook fish. This Summer I went salmon and halibut fishing in Alaska. I recently grilled halibut and salmon. It was a success.

P: Tell me about Alaska? Could you see Russia from where you were staying?

A: Alaska was a lot of fun. The weather stayed about 65 degrees and sunny, with some days reaching as high as 75 degrees. It cools off at night, getting down to the low 40s. It stays light starting at about 5 am and lasting until close to 11 pm. Twilight lasts for a long time in the morning

Member Spotlight

Continued on page 9...

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AALL News

AALL2go Pick of the Month - Working Smart: Innovative Ways to Do More with Your Day AALL’s Continuing Professional Education

Committee presents the AALL2go pick of the

month: Working Smart: Innovative Ways to Do

More with Your Day

Often, whether in a law school or law firm

setting, the challenge is finding enough time to

get everything done. In particular, as summer’s

leisurely stroll winds down and fall accelerates

into full sprint mode, you may wish you had

more time in your day. This program offers you

techniques and technologies to facilitate greater

daily work efficiency and effectiveness. The

speaker, a law firm librarian, gives examples of

how you can do things in less time. You’ll find

suggestions, for instance, on how to make your

software work for you, how to get the most out

of your Outlook email and calendar settings, how

to use text entry shortcuts, and how to get a

handle on organizing folders and files. Click on

the Google Sites link to locate helpful materials

including the program handout and a selective

resource bibliography to RSS feeds/blogs, web

monitoring sources, methods of organizing

computer folders and files and setting up side-by-

side applications, and how-to screencasts on

adding items to your PC Start menu, saving an

email to your Outlook Calendar, and setting up

an Outlook Rule to isolate email from others in

your institution. Take time for this quick 30-

minute program and you’ll be “working smarter”

in short order!

Find this and more free continuing education

programs and webinars for AALL members on

AALL2go!

Save the Dates for the AALL

Management Institute:

March 26-28

The 2015 AALL Management Institute will be

held at the Palomar Hotel in Chicago. The

management institute will provide participants

the opportunity to build management skills,

collaborate with colleagues from different types

of libraries, learn in a small group setting, and

develop techniques to manage with confidence.

More information will be available soon!

Visit the

AALL Management Institute

page for more information.

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Wikipedia). He said the revolution and collapse

of the old boundaries threatens the livelihood of

librarians, but at the same time it also provides

opportunities. Although Keen also argued that

there will always be boundaries, he challenged

law librarians to redefine their boundaries,

building upon their domain expertise and

curatorial skills to address the volumes of

uncurated content that their clients are

confronted with every day. He said librarians

should be enablers, not gatekeepers, helping to

manage information technology and ultimately

extract new insights from the vast quantities of

data being produced today. Lastly, Keen stated

that “average is over” and challenged librarians to

become superstars – to think like entrepreneurs,

to redefine and reinvent expertise, and to build

trust and authority and to lead people through

the data age.

I’ll spare y’all the play-by-play of the rest of the

conference and just highlight two of my favorite

sessions:

A3: Vendor Shootout at the Alamo:

Current Awareness Tools

Our very own Caren Luckie moderated this

session! The audience was a mix of people who

were using a current awareness tool already,

people looking for one to use, and a few who

were looking for a new tool to replace the old

one.

First to speak was Nina Platt of the LAC

Group, who spoke in general terms about

current awareness—the “filter failure” of some

services, and the current goals of using a service:

a smarter, more informed staff with better

knowledge of current and prospective clients,

auto-profiling, and one aggregator/e-mail. She

spoke of the history of current awareness, from

the olden days of multiple print newsletters, to

the future (“current awareness nirvana”).

Laura Whitbeck from Nixon Peabody spoke

next about her experience in choosing a current

awareness service. Her main goals were the

overall efficiency of the product, the ability for

personalization, the need for proactive

intelligence and desire to de-clutter

inboxes. Ultimately, she chose InfoNgen

because of its de-duplication technology, as well

as for its look, feel and search capability,

including the ability to sort and filter by type of

Grant Report (continued from page 3...)

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story. She said she has received positive feedback

from both attorneys and the library team.

Furthermore, she is pleased with the training,

support and responsiveness provided by the

InfoNgen service team.

Mark Gediman from

Best Best & Krieger

said that his primary

goal for choosing a

current awareness

service was efficiency

of use, as his firm has

two librarians and one

library assistant to

serve 200 attorneys in nine offices. The firm uses

BNA Convergence. He made the point of

distinguishing needs from wants when going

through the selection process. He defined some

of their needs as: competitor monitoring, topical

current awareness, value-added firm marketing,

as much automation as possible with a minimum

of curation, support of email or RSS, copyright

compliance and cost effectiveness. A few of

their wants included: mobile-friendliness, the

ability to add custom content and to create a new

newsletter quickly. Gediman praised

Convergence’s ability to support projects,

marketing, practice groups, business

development and competitive intelligence. He

said the service currently lacks metrics and that

they initially had difficulty with their spam

filters, but that the Convergence team provided

great support.

Jeffrey Bois from Foley & Lardner LLP chose

Manzama after a three-month trial period. He

had four main criteria for choosing a service: 1)

mobility – the ability to use it over multiple

platforms, including mobile-friendly service; 2)

usability –the way the service looks and feels and

the ease use; 3) flexibility – the applicability of

the service to multiple practice areas and groups

within the firm; and 4)

integrity – not only in

the company itself, but

also in the product,

especially with respect

to taxonomy. Bois also

e m p h a s i z e d t h e

i m p o r t a n c e o f

branding this work

(i.e. “by Research and Information Services”) and

rolling out the service to everyone, not just the

people who asked for it.

A common factor among the presenters is that

they all approached the search with a list of their

needs and wants, kept a close eye on the

responsiveness of the support team, and solicited

feedback both from attorneys and from library

staff. Interestingly, in all three firms the cost of

the current awareness service was allocated to

the library / information services budget rather

than splitting the cost with another department,

such as marketing. Each presenter felt it was

important to maintain control and manage the

product for his or her respective firm. Overall,

this session not only provided great tips on how

to choose a service but also offered a librarian’s

perspective on three different services.

Grant Report (continued from page 6...)

Continued on page 8...

Overall, this session not only

provided great tips on how to

choose a service but also offered

a librarian’s perspective on

three different services.

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R1: Recharge: Integrated Visibility:

Cultivating Solid Practices for Career

Success

Thom Singer, who has an eclectic background

working in sales and marketing, led this session.

He is now a professional speaker and the author

of several books related to business development

and business relationships. Singer proved to be a

very dynamic and engaging speaker who shared

many techniques for increasing one’s personal

visibility in an organization and developing

business relationships.

The session focused

on two keywords:

v i s i b i l i t y a n d

branding. Are we

being visible in the

workplace? Do we make opportunities to be

available to a variety of people? Networking

means visibility. Singer emphasized that we need

to tell our story (self promote), cultivate

partnerships, stand out from the crowd, be

relevant to key people and create business

connections. He said in business we have to be

known and we have to have a personal brand.

Actually, we have a personal brand whether we

created it or whether we just let it develop. We

need to be conscious of the brand we are

promoting and make adjustments if necessary.

We need to invest in our brand and be consistent

-- it may take a while to develop a brand, but

stick with it.

Singer also emphasized that networking is all

about human engagement and that choosing to

connect with people is the first step in becoming

more visible and presenting ourselves as the

experts that we are. There is a lot of “noise” in

the workplace and people have limited attention

spans, so we must stand out from the crowd and

be at the forefront of people’s thoughts. When

we have someone’s attention, we need to grab

the opportunity and make the best use of it. We

also need to remember it’s not just about

business. People are people and everyone is

dealing with his or her own “stuff.” We must

share experiences and connect with people on a

personal level. Often it’s the personal, shared

experiences such as where we went to college or

our favorite hobbies

that connect us to

people and make the

r e l a t i o n s h i p

memorable.

The following are Mr. Singer’s ABC’s of

Networking, AALL style:

A = Attitude. What is our attitude about our

job? About serving the people we work with?

We need to make a choice to be positive!

A = Action. We must take action to set

ourselves up for promotion. We must engage

and increase our visibility and take advantage of

opportunities as they arise.

L = Leading Edge. We must position ourselves

as thought leaders within our organization.

L = Learning. We must be committed to

learning more and being life-long learners.

Singer stressed that visibility and branding

require assembly. We must put the pieces

together and put them into action. Other people

Grant Report (continued from page 7...)

Continued on page 10...

The session focused on two

keywords: visibility and branding.

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and evening. We stayed on the Kenai Peninsula, which is south of Anchorage. I was there about a week. It’s a very hilly, mountainous area filled with rivers and lakes. You can still find snow fairly high up in the mountains. Normally, there are cool breezes coming in from both the ocean and the mountains even in summer. There are glaciers on both sides of the Cook Inlet, both on Kenai and on the mainland. We fished primarily on the Cook Inlet and the bays on the east and west side of Kenai. Cook Inlet is the sea on the western side of Kenai. We fished for salmon and halibut, very different kinds of fishing. Halibut

involves going out on a fishing boat in the Cook Inlet. Sometimes you spend an hour or more to get to the spot. Halibut are about 150-200 feet down and weigh anywhere from 10 – 40 lbs. They can be a handful to pull out of the water. Salmon, on the other hand, only range anywhere from 8 – 20 lbs and are fished in the rivers, although you can find them in the bay as well. You can find schools of Salmon as they come up the rivers to spawn. The Silver Salmon can be

handful if you get a big one and can be hard to reel in. Salmon are no more than 20 – 100 feet down in the bay and very shallow in the rivers.

P: Wow! That’s a nice trip. I’m still stuck on the temperatures. That’s Fall/Winter weather for us.

P: What about TV shows/movies?

A: I like historical movies/shows. Movies: Master and Commander, 300, Mel Brooks – Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Kingdom of Heaven, Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Star Trek, Gettysburg, Lord of the Rings; Scott Pilgrim vs the World. TV: Game of Thrones, Justified, Falling Skies, Vikings, Castle.

P: I love Mel Brooks movies and I’m still hoping for History of the World Part 2.

P: Books? What are you reading? I’m going to guess historical type books, there seems to be a theme.

A: Historical/Sci-Fi/Fiction - The Last Full Measure (Jeff Shaara); Killer Angels (Michael Shaara); Destroyer series Taylor Anderson Deadly Shores. Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones Series), Sharpe Series and the Anglo-Saxon Series (Bernard Cornwell); Lord of the Rings, Timeline (Michael Crichton) Nonfiction: Anything Medieval History, Anglo-Saxon England, Byzantine/Roman History, Colonial America/Revolution, Military History, Civil War

P: I was correct about the historical choices. I’ll have to scope out some of these titles.

Member Spotlight (continued from page 5...)

Cook Inlet, Alaska

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cannot network for us. We have to go out and

do it ourselves. We must assemble our own

visibility. Let’s get to it!

Actually, I was able to put many of the

strategies from this Recharge session to

immediate use at the conference. I met new

people from all over the country, from L.A. to

New York, Pittsburgh to Atlanta, and

everywhere in between. Some were private law

librarians, some were academic librarians, and

some were corporate librarians, among many

others. A few I even deemed “Conference

Buddies” as we ended up attending many of the

same events and sessions together and have even

corresponded with each other following the

conference. And, of course, I had many

opportunities to network with vendors in the

exhibit hall, including the teams from InfoNgen

and Manzama both of which were featured in the

“Vendor Shootout” session.

I don’t think I fully comprehended what a great

experience the AALL Conference is until I was

able to experience it for myself. Although I was

initially concerned about the logistics and making

sure I took advantage of all aspects of the

conference, I found that everything fell into

place and that all of my planning paid off. I

would like to thank the HALL Board as well as

the members of HALL for awarding me the grant

and providing me with the opportunity to attend

the conference. There can only ever be one first

AALL conference -- only one time to wear that

little white ribbon with those three bold words:

“FIRST TIME ATTENDEE.” I wore it proudly!

Kelley Boccell is a librarian associate at Andrews

Kurth LLP.

Grant Report (continued from page 8...)

P: What's happening at the Fort Bend County Law Library?

A: We recently added Heinonline and we’re starting up “express class” database instruction for WestlawNext. A possible library expansion is in the works. We are adding a new person as part of the expansion and we broke computer usage records in August!

P: That is awesome that Fort Bend is expanding!

This concludes a Conversation with Andrew.

Patti Curtis is a librarian associate at Andrews Kurth.

Member Spotlight (continued from page 9...)

June 25, 1948: Statutory provision for the

librarian of the U.S. Supreme Court and

librarians for the federal courts of appeals

passed and added to Title 28 of the United

States Code.

July 2, 1906: AALL formed at ALA annual

conference in Narragansett Pier, Rhode

Island.

August 6, 1852: John B. West born in

Roxbury, Massachusetts.

Law Librarianship History By the Day

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HALL at AALL-SAN ANTONIO

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HALL Meeting Minutes - August

HALL MEETING MINUTES

August 13, 2014

South Texas College of Law Library

The August HALL Meeting was called to order by President Shelby Shanks at 12:01 p.m.

Old Business: Student dues for membership

in HALL are still $20.00. Retired members’ dues are $20.00.

New Business: New members introduced:

Lori-Ann Craig, the new assistant law librarian at the Harris County Law Library; and Andrew Bennett, law librarian at Fort Bend County Law Library.

SLA – Texas will be having their meeting in

Houston sometime in November. The question was asked of membership whether HALL wants to co-sponsor the meeting at Rice University? Approval was given by membership to investigate the matter further.

Effective August 31, 2014 – the following people will be retiring from South Texas College of Law:

Jessica Alexander Peter Wong

Rosie Taylor Eddie Yarbrough

David Cowan Susan Spillman

People STAYING at South Texas College of Law:

Monica Ortale Laura Edstrom

Adrienne Cobb Jeannie Mazzone

Heather Kushnerick Felicia Escalera

Barbara Szalkowski

Joseph Plumbar (now part-time)

Mary Lippold will retire in January, 2015.

Committee Reports:

Archives: No report.

Bylaws: No report.

Meanwhile at the Knibbe Ranch...

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HALL Meeting Minutes - September

HALL MEETING MINUTES

September 10, 2014

South Texas College of Law Library

The September HALL Meeting was called to order by President Shelby Shanks at 12:16 p.m.

The minutes were approved with one change.

Treasurer’s Report was approved.

We welcomed a new member, Kendall Bergman, from Pillsbury Winthrop.

Old Business: None

New Business: A condolence card was passed around for HALL members to sign to send to Riva Laughlin. Riva’s husband Joe passed away this week after a long bout with cancer. Information on the funeral was sent out via HALL-L.

Jane Holland reported she is retiring at the end of the year.

Saskia Mehlhorn announced the next HALL Book Club will be held at Norton Rose September 19th

at noon. The book is The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan.

Committee Reports:

Archives: Heather Kushnerick reported the archives are fine.

Bylaws: No report.

Continuing Education: No report.

Government Relations: No report.

Community Service: No report.

Library School Liaison: No report.

Membership/Web site: No report.

Nominations: No report.

Placement: No report.

Publications/Newsletter: Joe Lawson announced he is working on the next HALL newsletter.

Scholarships and Grants: No report.

Vendor Relations: No report.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:20 p.m.

Submitted by Mary Ann Wacker – HALL Secretary

Continuing Education: New members are Heather Kushnerick and Kelley Bocell.

Government Relations: No report.

Community Service: No report.

Library School Liaison: No report.

Membership/Web site: Only half of the members have renewed online. A reminder e-mail to members will be sent out.

Nominations: No report.

Placement: The position of Dean of Library Services and Professor of Law at South Texas is open.

Publications/Newsletter: Barbara announced that Joe Lawson is doing a great job as newsletter editor.

Vendor relations: No report.

The meeting was adjourned at 12:45 pm.

Submitted by Mary Ann Wacker – HALL Secretary

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Houston

Area

Law

Librarians

P.O. Box 61648

Houston, Texas 77208

For the promotion of:

Ideas

Sharing

Education

Cooperation

Resources

Networking

Houston Area Law

Librarians is a chapter of

the American

Association of Law

Librarians.

Our monthly meetings

are held at the South

Texas College of Law.

We present a half-day

seminar in the Fall and a

full-day seminar in the

Spring on legal topics.

However, meetings are

subject to change. Visit

the HALL Website for

more information.

There are close to 200

members of HALL. We

are librarians in firms,

law schools, and courts

as well as vendors and

Library School students.

Visit us online at:

http://www.houstonarealawlibrarians.com

HALL Officers

President Shelby Shanks

[email protected]

Secretary Mary Ann Wacker

[email protected]

Members at Large Kelley Bocell

[email protected]

Joseph Lawson [email protected]

Vice President/President Elect Margaret Bartlett

[email protected]

Treasurer Sarah Lopez

[email protected]

Past President Heather Waltman

By-Laws:

Tracy Timmons

Continuing Education:

Margaret Bartlett

Membership:

Laura Edstrom

Nominations:

Saskia Mehlhorn

Placement:

Candice Kennington

Publications:

Barbara Szalkowski

Scholarships/Grants:

Natalie Lira

Archives:

Heather Kushnerick

Government Relations:

Margaret Bartlett

Library School Liaison:

Blythe McCoy

Community Service:

Katy Stein Badeaux

Vendor Relations:

Colleen Pincumbe

HALL Website:

Richard Guajardo

Social Media:

Patti Curtis

HALL Committees