I have changed our meeting date to accommodate Julie of the ITC. Let me know if that is a problem.
For our next meeting at Think Coffee, we have the following suggestions for discussion:
Mary Matuszak, Finding the Needle in the Haystack with AI Jacqueline Cantwell wonders if the book The Law of Precedent's black letter rules and the Blue Book's signals' language has been incorporated into AI. Jacqueline would like to be good at any form of intelligence; she feels its lack in her daily thought.
Mikhail Koulikov, Improving Lives by Building Social Capital: A New Way to Frame the Work of Law Libraries, 109 Law Library Journal 631 (2017), Jacqueline Cantwell has posted comments in the Google folder.
Jacqueline Cantwell’s comments on Mikhail’s Social Capital article. Article provides interesting background on the kind of cold calling and outreach necessary to develop an outreach program to business. Unusual for California Public Access Law Libraries which emphasized individualized outreach to homeless or the Bar. Probably the best way to develop name recognition and support; the homeless problem in the libraries has turned the tax paying public against the libraries
ReplyDeleteWhat connections does the Library have to the Court System? California Court System has its own library system. So there is the ongoing problem of duplication of resources. That was a big issue at one time in SF County when within a five block area there were legal materials in the SF Public Law Library, the Public Library, Hastings Law School, and the 9th Circuit, and the Federal and State Buildings.
LA County Law Library’s funding relies upon civil filing. When I left California they had a uniquely strong funding for a public law library. Has that changed?
LA Count at one time had a the best foreign law collection west of the Mississippi. Is the library still collecting those materials and were those materials part of the outreach program?
La public and government depository libraries have specialized collections that also support business. What coordination of collection development does LA Public Law Libraries have with these entities? Was their coordination of outeach efforts and programs.
LA County’s space has an unsavory reputation as a space dominated by the homeless and mentally ill. Was there an attempt to clear up the library? Coordination with law enforcement.
LA county as a uge non-profit sector in the political and art circles. Any places for outreach?
Plans to assign a personnel line to outreach? How was staffing handled to develop this program?
Any changes in collection development policies? What about licensing agreements with online publications?
Any plans to develop resources for judges and court personnel?
We should read these two articles
ReplyDeleteWorking as a librarian gave me PTSD https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-oliver-librarian-the-public-movie-20190419-story.html
Keep Library Workers Safe https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2019/04/23/keep-library-workers-safe/