Legislative Research Librarians

Meeting Handouts

2008 Legislative Summit
New Orleans, Louisiana

• Ontario Journals Digitization Project - Peter Ellinger, Legislative Library of Ontario

2007 Professional Development Seminar
Santa Fe, New Mexico

• Seminar Handouts Page

2007 Annual Meeting
Boston, Massachusetts

• Historical Legislator Databases Biographies
• Historical Legislator Databases: South Dakota - Clare Charlson, Senior Research Analyst, South Dakota
• Historical Legislator Databases - State Websites:
  • Connecticut
  • Massachusetts
  • Minnesota
  • South Dakota 

2006 Professional Development Seminar
Madison, Wisconsin

• Blogging in Libraries - Bonnie Shucha, University of Wisconsin Law Library
• Wisconsin Legislative Oral History Project - Wendy Jackson, Legislative Editor, Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau
• Podcasting Basics - Laura Kunkel, Legislative Editor, Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau
• Podcasting Bilbiography - Laura Kunkel, Legislative Editor, Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau
• Succession Management - Donna Scheeder, Director, Law Library Services, Law Library of Congress
• E-Government: Digital Preservation and Evaluation - Chi-Shiou Lin, University of Wisconsin School of Information & Library Studies

2006 Annual Meeting
Nashville. Tennessee

• Crafting a Successful Diversity Strategy - Christopher J. Metzler, Director, EEO Studies, Diversity and Inclusion, Cornell ILR

2005 Professional Development Seminar (Joint with RACSS & LSSS)
Chicago, Illinois

• Legal Research on the Internet - Kerry Fitz-Gerald, Reference Librarian, Seattle University School of Law, Washington
• Research Skills: Finding 50-state Compilations - Cheryl Rae Nyberg, Reference Librarian, University of Washington, Seattle
• The Use and Misuse of Statistics - Steve Harkreader, Chief Legislative Analyst, Florida
• Whither the Constitution and the Supreme Court? - Stephen B. Presser, Raoul Berger Professor of Legal History, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago
• Why Most of What We Have Been Taught about How to Write Paragraphs Just Won’t Do - George D. Gopen, Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke University, North Carolina
• Legislative Immunity/Privilege -  Larry Shapiro, Chief Legislative Attorney, Legislative Commissioners' Office, Connecticut 
• Legislative Immunity/Privlege - Michael Reig, Legislative Technology Services Bureau, Wisconsin
• Statutory Construction and Statutory Drafting - Jack Stark, retired Assistant Chief Counsel, Legislative Reference Bureau, Wisconsin

2005 Annual Meeting
Seattle, Washington

• Legal Research on the Internet - Kerry Fitz-Gerald, Reference Librarian, Seattle University School of Law, Washington
• Legal Research on the Internet: Selected Sites - Kerry Fitz-Gerald
• Research Skills: Finding 50-state Compilations - Cheryl Rae Nyberg, Reference Librarian, University of Washington, Seattle
• Research and Legal Resources on the Internet - Kristin Ford, Legislative Librarian, Idaho