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2025 Conference Schedule

This is a draft schedule for programming at the MAALL/ORALL Annual Meeting on October 22-24, 2025. This schedule is subject to change.

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.

Wednesday, October 22

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 UsAnd 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

Thursday, October 23

Time Ballroom A Ballroom B
8:00 am - 9:00 am ORALL and MichALL Business Meeting and Breakfast MAALL Breakfast
9:05 am - 10:05 am Protecting the People: Providing Law Library Benefits to Public Patrons in a Time of Misinformation Developing Learning Outcomes for Legal Research Courses
10:10 am - 10:25 am LLMC Spotlight N/A
10:30 am - 11:30 am Teaching the Ethical and Effective Use of Generative AI to Students, Faculty, Practitioners and Beyond Law Libraries and ADA Title II
11:35 am - 11:50 am HeinOnline Spotlight N/A
11:55 am - 12:55 pm MAALL Business Meeting and Lunch ORALL and MichALL Lunch
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Guarding Your Sources: How to teach Bluebooking without putting your students to sleep Community Engagement Roundtable
2:05 pm - 3:05 pm Data-Informed Law Libraries: Exploring Benchmarking Methods and Resources "They're Going to Use It Anyway": Rethinking Legal Information Literacy in the Age of AI
3:05 pm - 3:15 pm Break
3:20 pm - 3:50 pm Westlaw Spotlight N/A
3:55 pm - 4:55 pm Guarding Ourselves: Intro to Self-Defense for Librarians Law Librarians/Guardians Discuss Being Heumann by Judith Heumann
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm MALLCO Executive Board (second floor conference room)
Dinnertime Dine-Arounds
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