See the Program Descriptions for more information about the program topics.
All programming, including breakfasts and lunches, will be held in the Tinkham Veale University Center. The Tinkham Veale University Center is a .2 mile walk from the conference hotel. You can get directions from Google Maps or you can follow the shortcut route filmed by SaraJean Petite. The only events not happening at the Tinkham Veale University Center are the Wednesday night opening reception (which is being held at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law) and Thursday night dine arounds.
Full conference registration includes the following meals: Wednesday breakfast, Wednesday lunch, Wednesday night opening reception, Thursday breakfast, Thursday lunch, and Friday breakfast.
You do not need to be a MAALL or MALLCO member to participate in the roundtable discussions hosted by MALLCO--all are welcome!
| Time | Ballroom A | Ballroom B |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 am - 8:15 am | MALLCO Breakfast | |
| 8:15 am - 9:15 am | MALLCO Law Practice Technology Roundtable and Institutional Repository Roundtable | |
| 9:30 am - 10:30 am | MALLCO Reference and Faculty Services Roundtable and Acquisitions and Collection Development Roundtable | |
| 10:45 am - 11:45 am | MALLCO Resource Sharing Roundtable and Paper Workshop | |
| 11:50 am - 12:00 pm | Break for room reconfiguration | |
| 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm | Lunch and Hitting an Orientation Home Run: Training Legal Rookies for the Big Leagues | |
| 1:15 pm - 1:25 pm | Break for room reconfiguration | |
| 1:25 pm - 2:25 pm | Old Dogs, New Insights: What Decades of Writing and Publishing Have Taught Us—And What's Next | ORALL Private Law Librarians SIG Meeting |
| 2:25 pm - 2:35 pm | Break | |
| 2:40 pm - 3:10 pm | Lexis Spotlight | N/A |
| 3:15 pm - 4:15 pm | Meet the Bots: Exploring AI Personas for Legal Information Needs | ORALL County Law Librarians SIG and County Consortium Business Meeting |
| 4:20 pm - 5:20 pm | Sun Tzu's Legal Research Strategies: The Art of War for Law Librarians | |
| 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm | Opening Reception at Case Western Ben C. Green Law Library | |
| Time | Ballroom A | Ballroom B |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 am - 9:00 am | Breakfast | |
| 9:05 am - 10:05 am | Law Librarians and DEI: Where Are We Now? | Uncovering Buried Treasure: Tips and Tricks for Searching Patents, Trademarks, and Copyright Records (2 hours) |
| 10:10 am - 11:10 am | All Aspects of Law Librarianship | |
| 11:15 am - 12:15 pm | Always a Bridesmaid Never a Bride: The Important Role of the Interim | Guardians of the Legal Research Galaxy: Developing a framework to ethically review AI output |
| 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm | Final Remarks and Conference Wrap-up | N/A |