Lindsey Carpino

  • CALL Position: CALL Director, 2016-2018; Bulletin Committee Co-Chair & Bulletin Co-Editor, 2014-2016
  • Reference Librarian at Sidley Austin LLP

MAALL 2015 Conference Webcasts

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In case you missed the 2015 Mid-America Association of Law Libraries (MAALL) conference in Kansas City, Missouri, you can watch many of the sessions online here.

CALL Members at MAALL (webcasts):

Leading and Directing Law Libraries 

  • Jennifer Prilliman
  • Heidi Kuehl
  • John Edwards
  • Joyce McCray Pearson

Everything’s Up to Date- Preparing Practice Ready Law Students 

  • Lindsey Carpino
  • Annie Mentkowski

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2015-2016 CALL Meeting Schedule

Business Meetings

Business Meetings and Educational Events Policies

2015

  • September 17, 2015 (Thursday)
  • November 19, 2015 (Thursday)

2016

  • February 25, 2016 (Thursday)
  • May 12, 2016 (Thursday)

Executive Board Meetings

Starting at 8:45am

For 2015-2016 the Board will meet the second Tuesday of every month. Specific dates are:

2015

  • June 9 (Tuesday)
  • August 4  (Tuesday)
  • September 8  (Tuesday)
  • October 13  (Tuesday)
  • November 10  (Tuesday)
  • December 8  (Tuesday)

2016

  • January 12  (Tuesday)
  • February 9  (Tuesday)
  • March 8  (Tuesday)
  • April 12  (Tuesday)
  • May 10  (Tuesday)

Details will be posted as they become available.
Dates subject to change.

CALL would like to thank all of the speakers and meeting sponsors at this year’s business meetings.

From the Editors

Fall is officially here. It is time to cozy up with the Fall issue of the CALL Bulletin, while you enjoy your Pumpkin Spice Latte (made with real Pumpkin). This is a very exciting issue as we welcome new members to the Bulletin Committee and as regular columnists: Heather Hummons, Jill Meyer, Clanitra Stewart NejdlStacia SteinLeighAnne Thompson. Juanita Harrell will be writing a court librarian column. We also welcome Philip Johnson’s help with editing.  And Annie Mentkowski as our Bulletin Historian. Thank you all for your help with our award-winning publication! We look forward to a great year. Continue reading From the Editors

A New Librarian Goes to AALL

As someone new to Chicago and new to law librarianship, I was somewhat surprised to find myself, a mere two months into my new job as a reference librarian, jetting back to my home state of Pennsylvania to participate in the 2015 AALL conference.

It would be my very first conference, and I had no idea what to expect—of the programs and workshops or of my fellow librarians. In library school, we had felt the effects of an ongoing tension between researchers and practitioners. We had all been frustrated by endless discussions of the true meaning of information and were tired of climbing the data-knowledge-wisdom pyramid. A classmate had gone to a conference in Vancouver and returned bearing tales of irate practitioners berating researchers over the irresponsibility of small sample sizes. I wondered if those debates were what awaited me in Philadelphia.

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Keith Ann Stiverson, AALL President

The CALL Bulletin Committee would like to congratulate Keith Ann Stiverson on her role as AALL President. [For more details, see the August 17, 2015 AALL press release and the August 14, 2015 Chicago Daily Law Bulletin at 3] Keith Ann has chosen the theme of “Make It New: Create the Future” for the 2016 Annual Meeting in Chicago. I know we are all looking forward to this conference!

Best of luck to you, Keith Ann!

What’s Buzzin’?

What’s Buzzin?, a new brown bag series designed to foster more collaborative relationships between firm, government and academic librarians debuted on September 11, 2015, at DLA Piper.  This was the first of what is sure to be many informal discussions and exchanges of ideas among CALL colleagues.  Julie Pabarja, Lindsey Carpino and Annie Mentkowski led the inaugural discussion.  And, a special “thank you” to Diana Koppang who volunteered to take notes.

Topic: What do academic law librarians teach the law students in law school? What skills do law firm and court librarians wish new attorneys learned in law school? Continue reading What’s Buzzin’?

Law Firm Librarian Current Awareness Resources

My colleagues and I have been taking turns leading our weekly Reference meetings. For my colleague, Britnee Cole’s meeting, she discussed all of the professional current awareness resources we use as law firm librarians. As we all know, we are inundated with news alerts, feeds, tweets, blogs, listservs, emails, newsletters and more. But where do we start? Many of us use news aggregators such as Manzama, Zite, FlipBoard, Feedly or Pulse to keep organized.

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What are the professional current awareness resources we are using?

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