• When:  Thursdays, March 8 – April 19, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
• Where:  Jenkins Law Library, 833 Chestnut Street, Suite 1220, Philadelphia, PA 19107
• Cost:  $225 per person; enrollment fee includes legal research textbook.

This year’s course schedule:

• March 8:  Introduction to Legal Research, Case Law and Reporters
• March 15:  Statutory Research
• March 22: Administrative/Regulatory Research
• March 29: Electronic Research: Westlaw
• April 5: Electronic Research: Lexis
• April 12: Secondary Sources plus Electronic Research: Internet
• April 19: Pennsylvania Research

Materials:

• Registration Form
• Detailed Course Syllabus
• Instructor Bios

For more information contact John Cannan at jc3238@drexel.edu or Sunita Balija at svb24@drexel.edu

Continental Mid-town
1801 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

There will be food and drinks aplenty, and I’m looking forward to seeing you all there!  (Santa Hats and Holiday Sweaters optional.)  We would like to extend a huge “Thank you!” to West/Thomson Reuters for sponsoring this year’s holiday event!

Please RSVP to Mary Elizabeth no later than Tues., Nov. 29, 2011.

Mary Elizabeth Newsom
Research Librarian
Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP
p: 215.564.8610 | f: 215.564.8120
mnewsom@stradley.com

Please join your colleagues on Wednesday, October 19, at Jenkins Law Library for the program: Copyright and You: An Informal Round Table on Copyright and Your Library. 

This program will be co-hosted by GPLLA and Tony Landau of Reprints Desk.  Mr. Landolt has been in the document delivery world for over 25 years. In 2001, he started-up and ran a successful document delivery company called Pinpoint Documents.  In 2007, he sold his company to Reprints Desk, where he is currently a Sales Director.  Tony is an active member in many library organizations, including the American Association of Law Librarians (AALL) and the Special Libraries Association (SLA).  He is currently a part of the SLA leadership and the convener of the SLA Baseball Caucus. 

He will be leading an informal discussion about sharing our stories on copyright issues and how copyright affects us all in the law library field.  We will also be discussing solutions and ways to effectively prevent copyright violations. 

The roundtable is to take place at Jenkins Law Library. Located at 833 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA from 12pm-1pm.  The discussion will begin promptly at noon.  Beverages and dessert will be served, and brown bag lunches are encouraged. 

Please RSVP to Mary Elizabeth Newsom (mnewsom@stradley.com) by Monday, October 17.   We are looking forward to seeing you there.

Please join your colleagues for a day of professional development on Friday, June 3 at Villanova University’s School of Law.  This year’s topic is Social Media (a.k.a. Web 2.0) in the Law Library and our keynote speaker is Meg Kribble, Research Librarian and Outreach Coordinator at the Harvard Law School Library.

Date: Friday, June 3, 2011
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location:    Villanova University School of Law
Room 201 – Ceremonial Courtroom
299 North Spring Mill Road, Villanova, PA 19085

Parking: The parking garage is accessible from either Spring Mill Rd. or County Line Road. It is simply designated Law School Garage. Parking permission will be arranged for conference attendees.
Regional Rail: Paoli/Thorndale Line, Villanova station.

Schedule
9:00-10:00           Registration and Breakfast
10:00-11:00         Morning Session with Meg Kribble
11:00-11:15         Break
11:15-12:15         Conclusion of Morning Session with Meg Kribble
12:15-1:45           Lunch
1:45-2:15              Presentation by AALL Board Member
2:15-3:00              GPLLA Annual Board Meeting, 2011-2012 Board Elections, Honors and Awards

Program Description
Blogging. RSS. Facebook. Twitter. FourSquare. What do they have to do with law libraries? Meg Kribble will speak about these social media (aka web 2.0) tools and how law libraries are using them. What’s useful? What’s not? How do you find out, get your feet wet, and get your library out there? And how can social media benefit you? Everybody’s library and experiences are different, but Meg will provide tricks and tips for both getting started and moving forward with social media.

About Meg Kribble
Meg Kribble is a research librarian and outreach coordinator at the Harvard Law School Library. In addition to the usual reference librarian duties, she coordinates the library’s outreach efforts in both old and new media. An active member of the American Association of Law Libraries, she serves currently on the Computing Services Special Interest Section board as incoming chair and on the Copyright Committee. For CS-SIS, she has twice co-coordinated the Web 2.0 Challenge, a five-week online learning program for law librarians.

Please RSVP, no later than Friday, May 27, 2011.  See attached documents for more information and the registration form.

Questions: Please contact:
Kristen Rook
Research Librarian
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
1701 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-963-4692
krook@morganlewis.com

The 2011 Spring Happy Hour will be held on Thursday, May 19th from 5:30PM -7:30PM.

Come join your colleagues for food and drinks.

Also, feel free to join any GPLLA committee or express interest in any open board position while you are there.

This year’s reception will be held at:

Tavern on Broad
200 S. Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
http://www.tavernonbroad.com/

It is below the Bellevue on Broad Street and is easily accessible by the Broad Street Subway and only a few blocks away the Market Frankford line at City Hall.

If you plan to attend, please email me by Tuesday, May 17th. Happy Hour is free to all GPLLA members.

Hope to see everyone there!
Kristen

Kristen N. Rook
Research Librarian
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
1701 Market Street | Philadelphia PA 19103-2921
Direct: 215.963.4692 | Main: 215.963.5000 | Fax: 215.963.5001
krook@morganlewis.com | www.morganlewis.com

Please join your colleagues on Wed., April 27th for the program, Finding the knowledge lost in information: How to provide an as-it-happens update service for major legislative and administrative initiatives.

In the autumn of 2008 the financial sky began to fall and legislators began to Act. A group of Pepper Hamilton librarians created a system for tracking, spot-analyzing and delivering news of these developments as they occurred to an eager audience. They have since used this model several times – most recently on the Dodd-Frank bill.  Hear how to find the knowledge that is lost in information – and deliver it to patrons who need that knowledge – now!

The program will be presented by Leslie Proffitt, Research Services Librarian, and Robyn Beyer, Library Director, from Pepper Hamilton.  The event will take place in the Reed Smith cafe from 5:30-7:00PM, with the actual program beginning at 5:30 and running approximately 1 hour.  There will be time at the end of the program for Q & A.

R.S.V.P. to Kristen Rook (krook@morganlewis.com) by Friday, April 22, 2011.

For directions to the meeting place, please contact Scott DeMaris at fdemaris@reedsmith.com or 215-851-1413.

Reed Smith LLP
2400 One Liberty Place, 23rd Floor
1650 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Please bring a photo I.D.

Parking rates comparison for those who are driving can be calculated at:
http://philadelphia.bestparking.com/index.php

Kristen N. Rook
Research Librarian
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
1701 Market Street | Philadelphia PA 19103-2921
Direct: 215.963.4692 | Main: 215.963.5000 | Fax: 215.963.5001
krook@morganlewis.com | www.morganlewis.com