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Combating COVID-19: Addressing Inequality and Access to Justice During a Global Pandemic
Dawn Blagrove, Tara N. Long-Taylor, Beth Thomas, and Itunu Sofidiya
COVID-19 has turned the entire world upside down. With many programs and institutions facing serious budget cuts and public patrons having limited or no access to resources and public libraries, there has been a huge strain on access to justice initiatives and programs. How can libraries assist patrons with getting access to resources when many libraries remain unopened to the public? How can libraries assist patrons with access to justice given the current budgetary concerns? How can libraries work together to provide access to justice to underserved communities?
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Scratching the Repository Itch: Establishing an Institutional Repository from Scratch
Sharon Bradley and Jennifer Pesetsky
Two librarians that recently established an online repository for their institutions will discuss their planning, the process, and what they wish they had known before starting.
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Library as Anchor: Leveraging Expertise to Promote a Safe and Stable Space During Evolving and Unpredictable Times
Victoria Capatosto and Richelle Reid
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Holistic Learning: Accessibility and Inclusion in Distance Education
Mari Cheney, Dr. Racheal Brooks, Kimberly McKarin, Jill Smith, and Richelle Reid
Crucial conversations about diversity and inclusive classroom environments have added significant value to our discourse on legal research instruction. The sudden pivot from in-person learning to remote
learning due to COVID-19 sent faculty scrambling for resources to redesign courses for asynchronous and synchronous instruction. We have learned that distance education can negatively impact students with disabilities, particularly those with vision and hearing impairments. In this program, we will discuss best practices and tools, such as high contrast design themes and closed captions, instructors can use to create a more inclusive virtual environment and improve the learning experience for all students. -
Helping Students Focus in a World on Fire: Using the Science of Keeping Attention to Improve Our Teaching in a Distracting Year and Beyond
Alyson Drake, Christine H. Parker, and Jennifer Mart-Rice
2020 has heightened instructors’ awareness of distractions in educational environments. While keeping the attention of one’s audience has always been a challenge, our students are more distracted than ever as everyone deals with anxieties caused by learning in new formats, societal and environmental stressors, and a constant influx of information via various technologies. Regardless of the times, it is important that instructors in all settings be able to harness evidence-based research on how to earn our students’ attention. This program will introduce the science behind attention and distraction and offer attendees evidence-based examples of how to help keep their audience focused and engaged.
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Making Meetings Matter
Joyce Manna Janto and Carol Bredemeyer
Everyone hates meetings, they waste time and they don't accomplish anything. This program shows how to design a meeting, a meeting agenda, and follow-up actions to ensure that your meetings are productive and even (dare we say it?) enjoyable.
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Dapper Design: Using Infographics for Library Marketing & Institutional Data
Geraldine Kalim and Rachel Evans
With the right tools, law librarians can creatively promote and visualize both their library’s services and resources. This session will showcase specific examples, such as service/event marketing geared toward users/clients, data demonstrating value to administrators like resource use, or reports for stakeholders presenting bar passage or U.S. News stats. From graphical strategic plans to new pandemic workflow signage, or creating social media content to publicizing virtual events, you can do it all with two free web apps: Canva and Piktochart. Tips, tricks, and formats will be discussed, like print and digital signage as well as platform-specific templates
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Cabin Fever Much?
Sarah Mauldin
How has Covid-19 affected your outreach programming? The purpose is to explore how various libraries have adjusted programs to meet the needs of student (law school), general public (county law library), or attorneys (firm) in a virtual world.
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The Moth, SEAALL Leadership Edition: Unleash the Power of Storytelling
Holly Riccio, Carol Watson, Wendy Moore, Greg Lambert, and Joan Bellistri
Great leaders understand the power of storytelling, and the power of stories to connect us as humans and foster mutual understanding. This program will give a brief introduction to storytelling technique basics, and then have panelists share true stories as they remember them. Similar to The Moth podcast, anyone wishing to tell their story will need to pitch their idea, and the pitched stories need to relate to the theme of Leadership. Attendees will not only be entertained, but will learn from watching masterful storytelling in action, share in the collective wisdom around leadership, and hone the essential leadership skill of telling compelling, meaningful stories.
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Pacing and Performance: A Discussion of Time in the Legal Research Classroom
Franklin L. Runge
Upon finishing a legal research class, the first questions that come to my mind are, 'How was my pacing? Did we use our time well? Where did I get stuck? What went by quickly?' These questions have hounded me from my first year teaching to the present. This presentation will serve as a discussion about time in our classrooms. As we learn more about cognitive science and effective pedagogy, what are we doing to reflect those realizations in effectively using the our time with students. How do we engage students with our pace? How do we engage ourselves with our practice?
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