Cornell Law Library seeks new director

"Position Announcement -- Title: Edward Cornell Law Librarian
Cornell University seeks an experienced and innovative academic leader to serve as Director of its Law Library. The Law Librarian provides strategic vision, fiscal stewardship, operational management, and ensures outstanding service to faculty and students in the Law School. In order to support the teaching, research, and outreach mission, the Librarian builds collaborative relationships across the law school, within the library system, and throughout the profession. The Law Librarian works closely with the dean and vice dean of the law school, the library administration, and the faculty to understand the current and anticipated needs of the community. Within the Law Library, the Librarian has the opportunity to develop a strong team of service-oriented research attorneys and library assistants and to work with the staff to develop a compelling and cohesive vision for a 21st century law library."
Read full post and link to application at http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/Announcements.cfm#librarian

Winter Wonderlands

Here in Western New York winter has fully arrived, despite any protestation the calendar may make.  It's cold.  It's snowy.  But you know you're a real Western New Yorker when your first response to cold and snow is, "Oh, good -- the lakes will freeze!"  It's never the heat but the humidity, nor never the snow but the Lake Effect.

Does that wisdom hold true throughout the ALLUNY region? How would you fill in these blanks?

You know you're a real  _________  New Yorker ______________ ...

ALLUNY Newsletter Volume 35, No. 3 : Winter 2010

Greetings,

The Winter 2010 issue of the ALLUNY newsletter is now available: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/2010-03winter.pdf

Updated web page: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/newslett.asp

Thanks to everyone for their hard work on this issue. Enjoy!

Venessa

A Smart Resource for Smart Litigators · Robert Ambrogi's LawSites

Robert Ambrogi reviews an new ALM product for attorneys practicing in New York State:

Legal media company ALM has rather quietly launched a new Web resource for litigators, Smart Litigator. The site is intended for litigators in New York state but will become the template for the eventual roll-out of similar sites in other states where ALM has offices.

AALL Webinar: What Law Firm Administrators Want Librarians to Know

AALL has announced the following webinar, which may be of interest to ALLUNY members (and others).

AALL Webinar: What Law Firm Administrators Want Librarians to Know
December 8, 2010 - 11:00am central 12:00pm/eastern

Librarians often discuss what firm management should know about the library, but do we know all we should about what it takes to manage our firms? Over the next several months, PLL members will moderate a series of five programs to provide a primer in law firm management from the view point of firm managers and administrators. How do they spend their time? What are the major challenges of their jobs? What keeps them up at night?

This series is part of a two year program undertaken by the Private Law Library Special Interest Section (PLL-SIS) of AALL. The goal is to identify significant changes taking place in the legal world, to understand how these changes provide opportunities for assuming leadership roles, and to develop concrete plans for librarians to become leaders within their organizations (Note: although the speakers are from an IP firm, they will be addressing issues applicable to firms of all types and sizes).

Speakers:

• Robert Burger, Executive Director/Chief Operating Officer of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C
• Thomas Annick, Director of Finance/Chief Financial Officer of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox
• Joan Axelroth, President, Axelroth & Associates

http://www.aallnet.org/calendar/eventdisplay.asp?eid=333&arc=no

Please contact Joan Axelroth at jaxelroth@axelroth.com or Celeste Smith at csmith@aall.org for more information.

Stephen Abram at University of Buffalo Nov. 18

The Special Libraries Association of Buffalo (SLAB) is excited to present “Stephen Abram: Future Ready,” a visit to the University at Buffalo from past SLA President Stephen Abram.

Abram's will explore the new issues that libraries face in the technological world, as well as ways that librarians can prepare for the future. A groundbreaking, revolutionary thinker, he will provide insight on the big changes that will transform libraries forever.

SLAB will host the lecture on Thursday, November 18th in the Natural Sciences Complex, room 215, at 7pm. Tickets will be sold at the door. This event is free for students and faculty of UB’s Graduate School of Education. $10 for all other attendees. Seats are limited and are on a first come, first served basis.

For more information on this event, visit: http://gse.buffalo.edu/org/slasg/Stephen_Abram_Event.html

Upcoming ALLUNY Newsletter Submissions for Winter 2010 Issue

Have some words of wisdom, worth, or wit to impart? It's not too late to do so in the upcoming edition of the newsletter. Contact alluny.news@gmail.com with your query today. Next deadline: 10 November 2010.