Join us for the NELLCO Member Update on Sunday, July 15 from 5:30 - 6:30 pm in the Hilton Key Ballroom 8. We will be sharing information on NELLCO's projects, the newest happenings, and soliciting your opinions on our future directions.

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Principles of the Declaration:

1. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY WAS NOT DESIGNED TO REGULATE THE FREE FLOW OF FACTS, DATA AND IDEAS, BUT HAS AS A KEY OBJECTIVE THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY

2. PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE THE FREEDOM TO ANALYSE AND PURSUE INTELLECTUAL CURIOSITY WITHOUT FEAR OF MONITORING OR REPERCUSSIONS

3. LICENSES AND CONTRACT TERMS SHOULD NOT RESTRICT INDIVIDUALS FROM USING FACTS, DATA AND IDEAS

4. ETHICS AROUND THE USE OF CONTENT MINING TECHNIQUES WILL NEED TO CONTINUE TO EVOLVE IN RESPONSE TO CHANGING TECHNOLOGY

5. INNOVATION AND COMMERCIAL RESEARCH BASED ON THE USE OF FACTS, DATA, AND IDEAS SHOULD NOT BE RESTRICTED BY INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW

NELLCO member libraries and individual librarians may wish to consider becoming signatories, as well. You can read the press release, and find more information here.

The Legal History and Rare Books (LH&RB) Section of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), in cooperation with Cengage Learning, announces the Seventh Annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The competition is named in honor of Morris L. Cohen, late Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School.

The competition is designed to encourage scholarship and to acquaint students with the AALL and law librarianship, and is open to students currently enrolled in accredited graduate programs in library science, law, history, and related fields. Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. The winner will receive a $500.00 prize from Cengage Learning and up to $1,000 for expenses to attend the AALL Annual Meeting.

The theme this year is Building a Collaboration-Driven Organization. We have developed the agenda based on the feedback we received last year. We hope we've created a conference that will balance the needs of our members to participate in collegial exchanges with the opportunity to gain new insights and skills.

Each Interest Group (IG) will have a half-day carved out for the work of their group. Content will be developed for the sessions by the Interest Group Leaders. There is no overlap between the IG sessions this year, giving everyone the opportunity to attend several Interest Group sessions if they wish.

In addition to the Interest Group Meetings, we will offer half-day Six Thinking Hats Workshops. Each of the four workshops, which run opposite each of the IG sessions, will be limited to 30 participants.  The Six Thinking Hats are an excellent collaboration tool and I urge you to find time during the two day conference to attend. You can select your session when you register.

The third option for attendees in each half-day time slot is an Unconference Session. If you've completed the Six Hats workshop and attended the IG meetings of interest to you, you can join the Unconference group. There you will set the agenda collaboratively, using open space meeting principles.

We hope we'll get the right formula through trial and error, but we won't know if YOU don't come!

More information about the project is available in this overview. A series of informational webinars will be held during the week of Oct. 22 and members are encouraged to sign up to get more detailed information and Q&A.

Several years of exploration, research and listening and learning have gone into this project so far. Librarians across the country are working on the issue of the retention of and persistent access to print materials in an increasingly digital world. A number of different print archiving projects are currently underway, and include both centralized and distributed models.  The Center for Research Libraries hosts a list-serv, the Print Archive Network (PAN) for those involved and interested in the future of print.

NELLCO and LIPA are thrilled to launch this project and hope it will serve as a model for a collaborative solution to print retention, allowing libraries to make different decisions about library space at the local level. In this way, libraries can continue to be responsive to the changing needs of their users secure in the knowledge that primary print materials are within reach, and under the stewardship of the collaborative.

A dedicated committee has brought us to this point and we are grateful for their efforts on behalf of the member libraries. The committee members are:

—Melanie Dunshee (Duke)
—Paul George (UPenn)
—Margie Maes (LIPA)
—Karen Quinn (RI State)
Tracy Thompson-Przylucki (NELLCO)
—Tory Trotta (Arizona State)

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact NELLCO, or any member of the committee.

What’s Around the Next Bend: Future Currents in Resource Sharing is the theme of the November 15 online interlibrary loan conference, co-sponsored by Amigos Library Services and the Texas State Library. Cyril Oberlander, winner of the 2012 Virginia Boucher-OCLC Distinguished Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Librarian Award, will present the keynote address, "The Future of Interlibrary Loan – Valued Role in Transforming Libraries.”

If she might participate with those who would collaborate.

Fifteen directors at the table decided that they might be able

to share the risks and the rewards of sometimes acting in accord,

so they set out to formalize the group that they would organize.

A vison! Mission! Bylaws, too! We'll rule the world when we are through!

Their power-lust was finally sated when NELLCO, inc. was created.

Now almost 30 years expire and on the Board sits Judy Gire,

The last of the founding library dirs to hang up her NELLCO spurs.

Much has changed across these years and there's been lots of shifting gears,

The regional org that NELLCO once was is now an international cause,

we've gone from no web to 2 or 3.0 web

and from desktops that dial-up to cloud-hosting a mile up.

Judy's been there through it all, answering every NELLCO roll call,

so we thank her for her vision and the leadership she's given

and we wish her all the best in whatever may come next!

Frank's obituary appears in the Boston Globe.

As a remembrance consider a contribution to the New England Innocence Project whose mission is to provide pro bono legal assistance to persons wrongly convicted in CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, and VT. Mail donations in memory of Professor Frank Bae to: Intake Coordinator, New England Innocence Project, Exchange Place, 53 State Street, 17th Floor, Boston, MA 02109.

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Beginning and experienced grant writers from city, county and state agencies as well as nonprofits, K-12, colleges and universities are encouraged to attend.

Multi-enrollment discounts and discounts for Grant Writing USA returning alumni are available. Tuition payment is not required at the time of enrollment.

Tuition is $425 and includes all materials: workbook and accompanying 420MB resource CD that's packed full of tools and more than 200 sample grant proposals. Seating is limited, online reservations are necessary.

Complete event details including learning objectives, class location, graduate testimonials and online registration are available here.

Contacts:

The Client Services Team
at Grant Writing USA
800.814.8191
cs@grantwritingusa.com

Tracy L. Thompson-Przylucki
New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO)
518.694.3026
tracy.thompson@nellco.org

More than 10,000 agencies across North America have turned to Grant Writing USA for grant writing and grant management training.

Register now to attend the first annual NELLCO Symposium! The Symposium will be held March 12-13 at the Albany Law School in Albany, NY.

This interactive event consists of two full days, with the first day dedicated to Content and Collaboration. Industry partners and law librarians will have the opportunity for robust exchanges in small classroom settings. Companies actively involved with the law library community will have the opportunity to provide product training, demo new products, host focus groups, or offer content sessions of interest.

Also on day one, NELLCO Interest Groups, including Acquisitions, Interlibrary Loan, IT, and Reference, will hold brief meetings to explore and expand on their collaboration efforts. Holding Interest Group meetings during this event will allow attendees to participate in more than one interest group without travelling to many different locations throughout the year.

Day two offers a series of hour long content sessions and workshops aligned with the remaining themes: Curation and Innovation. Some of the sessions on day two will include Reverse Strategic Planning, an innovative technique for examining your library's infrastructure, and Twitter 101, during which participants will set up their own Twitter account, generate their first tweet, and learn how and whom to follow (@nellcoinc!). Theresa McCue will offer sessions throughout the day on using the new NELLCO website for trials, acquisitions and renewals. We'll also offer sessions on managing a budget, managing your time, and improving your effectiveness as a speaker.

The NELLCO Symposium promises lively interaction between law librarians and content providers in an informal and collegial environment. In addition to the excellent networking opportunities, a special ticketed evening event will be held at the New York State Museum, Library and Archives.

Please plan to join us here in March and be part of the success of this new event!