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Newsletter of the Western Pacific Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries

Good Fall, WestPac friends!

Another season, another newsletter, another opportunity to

point out all the nice ways WestPac members treat each other, and

to thank you for the opportunity to serve as President of our great

group.

The highlight since our last newsletter was our annual business luncheon in Philadelphia. It was so

good to see over thirty of our members able to attend. No doubt the lucky coincidence that AALL was

holding its annual conference in the same city at the same time helped spike attendance a bit, but either way

it was a great time.

As those attending in Philly heard, or as you can see from the Treasurer’s Report, WestPac is in

fine financial shape. As of July we had approximately $23,000 in checking and savings. Moreover, the

2012 WestPac Annual Meeting in Portland is on track to pay most or all of its own bills, with more than

enough room reservations to meet our hotel minimum, avoiding any unexpected late charges for the

meeting space.

The Portland meeting is shaping up to be a great one. We have over 55 members registered to date.

When considered in light of fiscal realities, I think this a testament to the value of our group, the rich

meeting program, and the important learning opportunities we gain from being together in the same

physical space over two days. That said, there are a number of members who will not be able to travel to

this meeting because of financial limitations. I will certainly continue to work with the Executive Board to

find ways to expand access to the meeting, much as we did this year in expanding the size of our grants.

We have two departing members of the Executive Board. I’d like to thank Swee Berkey for all of

her support and guidance as Immediate Past President. And this message has already gone on too long

without mentioning how much I have relied on Christine Timko as Treasurer. She has been a rock for us,

in the best sense of the word. All groups should have such Treasurers. (continued on next page)

President’s Column

Professor Robert Truman Head of Electronic Information Services

Boley Law Library, Lewis & Clark Law School Portland, Oregon

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President’s Column by Robert Truman (Continued from page 1)

Thanks go as well to all our Committee Chairs

and members willing to serve. We are all plenty busy

in our jobs and lives; the commitment so many make to

WestPac is truly appreciated. At the risk of

forgetting someone (apologies in advance), I do wish

to highlight the work of a few folks who kept us going

this year: David McFadden, for doing such a wonderful

job of keeping us informed as Government Relations

Chair; Kathy Faust for serving as a particularly active

Grants Committee and Local Arrangements

Committee; Tami Gierloff who has taken on any

number of those small, otherwise unnoticed details that

come with hosting a meeting; and Tim Kelly for

keeping our house organ – this newsletter – going

strong. And yes Tim, I will keep my promise to

continue working as Past President to find a perhaps

easier path for our Chapter communications than our

current goal of four newsletters a year.

It’s been a great year partaking in WestPac

from this particular presidential perch. It has been my

pleasure to try to keep the joint running, and I am glad

that the baton is being passed to Stacey and such a

great group of librarians on the 2012-2013 board. See

you all at WestPac Portland. And, yeah, if you ask

nice the first beer will be on me.

(Photo above: Robert Truman awarding PDX book

raffle held in Philadelphia. Photo of Robert on the

first page taken in Philadelphia as well.)


WESTPAC NEW MEMBERS

We welcome the following new

members to WestPac!

News from Nevada

Christine Timko is the new Law Librarian at the Supreme Court of Nevada. Christine had served as

Assistant Law Librarian since May 2005. She is the current WestPac Treasurer and will pass on the treas-

urer's duties to Alana H. Carson-Wilson at the annual meeting. Christine received her MLS from BYU and

has worked in all types of libraries, from public to private. Christine has also worked in the private informa-

tion technology center.

Afuso, Pauline—Thomson Reuters/West

Briscoe, Georgia—University of Colorado Law School

Cloutier, Philippe—Lane Powell, PC

Ellison, Beecher—Josephine County Law Library

Holly, Gerber—Washington County Law Library

Helm, Dannie—University of Oregon

Howard, Peter—San Jose State University

Kenney, Elizabeth—Consolidated Edison Co., Inc.

Meyer, Kurt—Gonzaga University School of Law

Tretter, Laura—State Law Library of Montana


MICHELE FINERTY FROM PACIFIC MCGEORGE

SPEAKS TO CHINESE DELEGATION

WestPac member Michele Finerty, Pacific McGeorge School

of Law, spoke before a delegation from the People’s Republic of

China on August 8, 2011. The delegation was part of an observation

study tour to review current issues in open government/freedom of

information at both the Federal and California state levels. Headed

by Wang Xixin, Vice Dean of the Peking University Law School, the

delegation included officials from the Hunan Provincial Government,

the Administrative Law Research Association, Beijing, and the China

University of Politics and Law. They met with Federal officials in

Washington, D.C., travelled to Mexico City to examine open govern-

ment practices there, and then to Sacramento. After the presenta-

tions at Pacific McGeorge, the delegation moved onto the State Capi-

tol for further meetings with officials.

Michele’s presentation detailed law librarian advocacy initiatives on both the national

and state levels. She described the strategic work of professional law library associations, as

well as the part the associations and individual librarians play in building successful coalitions

with public interest groups in order to get open government initiatives passed.

Other speakers on the panel were Professor John Sims of Pacific McGeorge, who de-

scribed the operation of the Freedom of Information Act, focusing on his own experiences as a

plaintiff in the often-cited Supreme Court case that upheld secrecy about the CIA’s MKULTRA

mind control research; and Tom Newton and Jim Ewert of the California Newspaper Pub-

lishers Association (CNPA), who reviewed open meeting laws that mirror the principles of the

California Public Records Act.

Buck Sterling, in the photo on the right,

having fun in Philadelphia.




WestPac luncheon in Philadelphia.

Minutes, continued from previous page.


PAULA’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE AT AALL IN PHILADELPHIA

By Paula Doty, Librarian V at Supreme Court of Nevada

I’d like to thank the Grants Committee (Chair Kathy Faust, and members Rita Kaiser, Suzanne Darais and

Matthew Downs) for awarding me a grant to attend the AALL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Deb Person

asked me to speak on J6: The Struggle for Information Access and Instruction in Less Populous Areas

and the WestPac grant allowed me to travel to Philadelphia.

I was pretty busy in Philly:

SATURDAY

As the incoming Vice-Chair of the Indexing of Legal Periodical Literature Committee, I was invited to attend

the Leadership Luncheon for Committees, SISs and Chapters. I also attended the Committee Leadership

Training meeting and the Indexing of Periodical Literature Committee meeting. The committee leader-

ship training included meeting the committee’s liaison to the AALL Board, a review of AALL’s strategic di-

rections, a discussion on planning the work of each committee, as well as an overview of the AALL’s new

―My Communities‖ website. Saturday evening was a blur of new and familiar faces at the Exhibit Hall Rib-

bon Cutting/Opening Ceremony, the Pacific Chapters Joint Reception and the TS/OBS/RIPS/CS SISs

Joint Reception.

SUNDAY

Sunday started bright and early with the 7am SCCLL-SIS Breakfast, Business Meeting and Silent Auction.

Outgoing chair Kathy Carlson turned her gavel over to incoming chair Amy Hale-Janeke, who promptly de-

clared this the ―Year of the Wiki.‖ At the auction I scored the Liberty Bell Coffee Cozy. (pictured on the next

page.)


I also scored the Penzey’s Spices Cocoa Lovers Gift Box which I shared with my coworkers back home.

(http://www.penzeys.com/scstore/giftboxes/new/cocoaLovers.html)

After breakfast, I spent some time in the Exhibit Hall and stopped by the Craft Court @ AALL area to drop

off a quilt and admire the handiwork of other crafters. Lesliediana Jones, Debby Norwood and Susan Chino-

ransky of the Jacob Burns Law Library organized the event for knitters, crocheters and quilters.

They collected handmade blankets and quilts for the children at Hahnemann University Hospital NICU. Pho-

tos of the crafters and their blankets are on Flickr.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65733975@N05/

Next up was the Opening General Session/Keynote with Dahlia

Lithwick. Lithwick’s talk ―The Supreme Court and Free Speech‖

was funny, informative and well-received. If you haven’t listened

to it on AALL2go yet, go do so now.

PAULA’S ADVENTURE CONTINUES …

http://www.penzeys.com/scstore/giftboxes/new/cocoaLovers.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/65733975@N05/



After a quick lunch I went to A6: Best Practices for Evaluating a New Electronic Resource, but snuck out

early to check out the last few minutes of the CS-SIS Program: Cool Tools Café where I saw a demo of a

couple of alternatives to Powerpoint: Prezi and Ahead. (The handout for this presentation is posted on the CS

-SIS Wiki.) Afterwards I skipped the TS-SIS Professional Development Committee Meeting to attend the

SCCLL-SIS Program: The Value of a Public Law Library: How County Law Libraries in Pennsyl-

vania Collaborate with Courts to Provide Service to the Self-Represented Litigant. Librarians from

Berks County and Lancaster County talked about the evolution of self-help centers in their courts/libraries.

C3: Battledecks AALL was hilarious. Volunteers created ten slides (one slide was labeled Peeps in Kanda-

har, others include an images of a TV dinner and an alien autopsy) and another volunteer presents a talk based

upon slides they have never before seen. Each presenter won an award, but my favorite was Mary Whisner of

the Gallagher Law Library.

That evening I went to the SCCLL Reception at the Jenkins Law Library. I walked five blocks in the

wrong direction before figuring it out and turning around. I caught up with some other AALLers and we got

rained on but eventually made it to the Jenkins Library, which was awesome.

MONDAY

On Monday I intended to go to D3: The New Collaboration Tools: Let’s Work Together! Or D5: The

Role of the Law Library in Serving the Illiterate in Their Quest for Access to Justice but decided I

needed to do some work on my presentation. At which point the sprinkler alarm system in my hotel went off

so I had to evacuate the hotel with all the other guests. I grabbed my laptop and materials for the presentation

before evacuating. One must have priorities.



Giving up on presentation prep for a bit I headed over to the Con-

vention Center and sat in on the What’s New in HeinOnline pro-

gram (slides available at http://heinonline.org/HeinDocs/

HEINONLINE_AALL2011.pdf). The Spinelli Law Librarian’s

Reference Shelf was demonstrated and new databases and enhance-

ments were discussed. Updates include faceted searching available

in every database, links to publishers’ websites for recent issues of

journals, eTOC alerts and an iPad app.

F3: “Friending” the Courts: Grappeling with Social Network-

ing in Litigation and the Justice System was inspiring. One of

the speakers discussed use of YouTube to share videos for pro se

patrons and attorneys. Another reported on the survey of state court

judges and magistrates on use of social media conducted by Confer-

ence of Court Public Information Officers, the National Center for

State Courts and the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University. The full report can be found at

http://www.ccpio.org/newmediareport.htm.

Next up was LISP/SR/SCCLL-SIS Joint Roundtable on Library Services to Pro Se Patrons and Prison-

ers moderated by Amy Hale-Janeke. Amy followed up on her earlier comments in the SCCLL-SIS Business

Meeting on 2011 being the ―Year of the Wiki‖ and gave us a sneak peak at a Google site she’s working on,

https://sites.google.com/site/2011bestprosepatronsprisoners/, a ―Best of‖ Show of Services to Pro Se/Pro Per

Patrons. Sara Galligan, director of the Ramsey County (MN) Law Library updated us all on the civil Gideon

case, Turner v. Rogers and the impact it may have on our libraries and patrons. For more on the case, see

http://www.philadelphiabar.org/page/CivilGideon. Sara also talked about the so-called Turbo Tax-type inter-

active kiosks used in some courts by self-represented litigants to prepare legal filings.

The speakers were Marissa Boyers Bluestine, legal director for the Pennsylvania Innocence Project, and Fer-

nando Bermudez, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in the shooting death of Raymond Blount in 1991

and served more than 18 years in New York State maximum security prisons before proven innocent in late

2009 with assistance from pro bono attorneys from Washington, D.C., New Jersey and New York. Mr. Ber-

mudez, accompanied by his wife and children, gave a very moving talk.

At this point presentation panic was starting to set in so I missed G1: Library Operations and the Evolution

of the ILS: Backfield in Motion? and the TS-SIS Program: The Elusive Updating Loose-Leaf:

Cataloging Standards and Practices for the 21st Century and met with Deb one last time to discuss our

presentation.

http://heinonline.org/HeinDocs/HEINONLINE_AALL2011.pdf

http://heinonline.org/HeinDocs/HEINONLINE_AALL2011.pdf

http://www.ccpio.org/newmediareport.htm

https://sites.google.com/site/2011bestprosepatronsprisoners/

http://www.philadelphiabar.org/page/CivilGideon



TUESDAY

Tuesday started early with another multi-block detour in the wrong direction and the 7am SCCLL-SIS State

Law Librarians Roundtable. By 9am I was back at the Convention Center for H2: Providing Excellent

Customer Service in the Law Library: Hold the Pickles. Vanessa Uribe from the El Dorado County (CA)

Law Library and Kelley Browne of the Sacramento County (CA) Public Law Library made an excellent pres-

entation with lots of practical and useful tips. I especially liked this presentation because Vanessa referenced

Zingermans’ training and it reminded me of library school in Ann Arbor.

My SchedAALL said I was supposed to go to I3: E-books and the Future of Legal Publishing, but honestly

I can’t remember if I made it or not as my pre-presentation nerves were kicking in. I do remember going to

the WestPac Luncheon at Maggiano’s Little Italy Restaurant, sitting between David McFadden and Galen

Fletcher and having a lovely conversation. And I know I was presented with a grant check (and Kathy or I

made a joke about carrying it from Nevada for my colleague and WestPac treasurer Christine Timko only to

have it presented to me twenty minutes later by Kathy). Many thanks to Rob Truman, who graciously moved

up the grant award in the agenda so that Deb and I could leave the luncheon early to prepare for our talk.

Deb and I ducked out of the luncheon early and went over to the Convention Center to check out our room for

J6: The Struggle for Information Access and Instruction in Less Populous Areas. The room seemed scar-

ily large. Though originally proposed as a one hour program, we had only 30 minutes to discuss information

needs of rural populations. Debbie identified several ways in which law schools in rural areas might differ

from those in urban areas and discussed the positives and negatives that come with working in a rural setting.

I provided a general demographic overview (only two county law libraries of significant size and staffing) and

then discussed some of the ways Nevada courts are serving rural users. For more information on this program,

see Deb’s article

I closed out the Exhibit Hall (they turned off the lights on us!) and then went to K5: Innovations in Services to Self-

Represented Litigants. Glenn Rawdon of the Legal Services Corporation gave an interesting talk about the Technol-

ogy Initiative Grants (TIG) program which promotes full access and high-quality legal representation through the use of

technology. I left the conference room energized and ready to find a community partner with which to apply for a grant.

I had a wonderful time at the Annual meeting and learned so much. I couldn’t wait to get back to share what I learned

with my colleagues at the Nevada Supreme Court.


“Rural States, Legal Services, and Legal Education”

By Deb Person, Associate Law Librarian,

University of Wyoming College of Law

Every state has isolated rural communities that are more difficult to

reach for delivery of legal services. For those states with a substantial per-

centage of their population in rural areas it is a constant struggle. And the

struggle is not only to serve the population but the legal community as

well, a community that begins with law students.

At a recent AALL session, ―The Struggle for Information Access

and Instruction in Less Populous Areas,‖ Paula Doty from the Nevada Su-

preme Court Library and I sought to address some of the ways that states

with large percentages of rural populations differ in the services they pro-

vide and the training of their attorneys. I looked at the differences in edu-

cating attorneys who would likely practice in more rural environments, and

Paula addressed the issues of services and how states are seeking to meet

the needs of their population. The goal of this recap is to identify other li-

brarians like us with an interest in this issue.

Situated in Wyoming, I come from the state with the second lowest population per square mile (after

Alaska). Laramie, where the University of Wyoming is located, is the third largest city in the state, a state of

around 560,000 people. The College of Law at the University of Wyoming, similar to other law schools in the

region with high rural populations, admits 50%-60% residents, and, though it’s difficult to collect exact fig-

ures from peer institutions, it appears that a similar percentage stay in state to practice law.

We believe the educational experience in law schools with a large rural community varies from schools that

serve a more urban population in small but important ways. Some of the characteristics of these schools are a

holistic approach to admittance, including high resident requirements imposed by the state legislature, which,

in low-population states tends to lower the pool of LSAT-acceptable candidates, slightly older student, and in

some rural states throughout the West, a lack of diversity. Law schools that fell into this loosely-defined cate-

gory of rural schools tended to rank among U.S. News and World Report’s former third and fourth tiers, and

that may be attributed in some degree to those factors listed above.

Using Wyoming as a model, we sought to identify some of the differences. Smaller schools have fewer

curricular choices; it’s more difficult to attract faculty; and graduates will not be walking away with the power

of a big-named university behind them. On the other hand, we offer a very respectable faculty-student ratio;

competitions and law review are open to all students; on-sight oral arguments of the Wyoming Supreme Court

usually involving our own clinic students; and a faculty that has taught a significant portion of the current state

bar association, making them somewhat influential within the state and providing students with solid refer-

ences to prospective employers.

1 I selected schools from states with only one law school, and though I found trends across the board, the greatest similarities

seemed to be regional.


“Rural States” by Deb Person (continued from previous page)

How, then, do we move from the instructional aspect of our states’ attorneys to practicing within the

state? Paula addressed some of the issue in her state that we believe are common to rural areas.

States like Nevada and Wyoming, with low populations, do not have

intermediate appellate courts, meaning every appeal goes directly to the

state’s highest court, congesting their court system. In Nevada, a recent survey

indicated that some rural county law libraries are unstaffed, housed in other

county offices such as that of the district attorney, or supervised by judges’

clerks. Some counties do not have law libraries at all. With the availability of

low-end primary law contracts for Westlaw and Lexis, some counties are pro-

viding online resources, but no training is provided to staff or patrons. Much

of the population that lives within an acceptable distance of the state capitol

still has to travel fifty or sixty miles to use the resources of the state law li-

brary, and many are traveling much farther. Some of the smaller towns do not

have any attorneys and citizens may have to drive over an hour to find one.

And, while constitutionally, those convicted of crimes have access to public

defenders, any treatment programs that are ordered by the courts may not be

available in their county.

These are big problems. Some of the steps towards improving the ac-

cess problems in Nevada are integrated technology to provide the use of video

and telecommunication tools for court hearings and electronic filing of court

documents, the standardization of regularly used forms, districts and counties

allowing the use of court forms that are easily accessible from other districts,

and self help web sites collecting links to state social and legal services, http://

www.nvlawdirectory.org/linksall.html . In California, Vanessa Uribe, Library

Director at El Dorado County Law Library, has set up a Facebook page for

staff in small counties as an open forum, and the State, Court, and County

Law Libraries Special Interest Section is addressing some of these issues, too.

Academic and state court libraries may seem like an unlikely pairing,

and admittedly, larger law schools may feel that they are pretty distant from

these problems. But smaller schools, where the alumni are the leadership of

the state bar association, the state legislature, and the state government, may

find real opportunities here. We’d like to begin the conversation. If you find

your state is experiencing similar problems, if you have happened upon some

really good solutions, if you would like to see your law school working to pre-

pare students for this environment, please contact one of us.

We could begin with a Community on AALL, a Facebook page, or,

more formally, a possible AALL caucus. There is a lot more to talk about, and

we’d like you to be part of it.

http://www.nvlawdirectory.org/linksall.html

http://www.nvlawdirectory.org/linksall.html



Inside the Courtroom—

An Artist’s Perspective: Trials from Lane County, 1981-1989

These drawings are a small selection from a gift of 236 courtroom drawings presented to the John E. Jaqua

Law Library. The drawings were commissioned by local television station KEZI during the 1980s and 1990s

and used during its news broadcasts. KEZI employed several artists, working in a variety of media and for-

mats, to cover local trials. The collection includes images from several well-known Lane County cases, includ-

ing the Diane Downs murder trial, the Barbara Harris murder trial, and the official misconduct trial of former

Lane County Commissioner Robert ―Bob‖ Wood.


WESTPAC ANNUAL MEETING

FINAL PROGRAM



PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS FOR PORTLAND

2011 WESTPAC ANNUAL CONVENTION

Bicycle Law Ray will be presenting on bicycle and pedestrian law in Oregon, including the rights and responsibili-ties of motorists, cyclists and pedestrians.

Collaborations: Idaho’s Law Learning Center and the Colorado Law Project This program will present two interesting law library collaborations: Idaho’s Law Learning Center, a collaboration between the University of Idaho College of Law and the Idaho Supreme Court to pro-vide an innovative law library that is shared by students, the Idaho Supreme Court, members of the Idaho bar, and the public; and the other among several Colorado libraries, including the University of Denver Sturm College of Law Westminster Law Library, to provide access to reliable legal infor-mation across Colorado. Both speakers have been part of their respective projects since initiation and will discuss the development of the projects, how their institutions built successful collaborative relationships, and how their projects are doing now.

Hiring the Law Librarian of the Future This program will focus on identifying law librarian skills, knowledge, talents, and other attributes that will be essential for the law library of the future. Panelists will describe the types of people whom they feel will be essential for sustaining the profession of law librarianship as the future brings changes to the legal environment and to legal academe. Panelists representing various generations, types of libraries, skill sets and points of view will share their thoughts. Attendees will be encour-aged to join in a dialogue about the future of library human resources after the panelists remarks.

New Information Delivery Technologies Librarians are using technology in new ways to enhance learning, connect with students, and ad-vance the future of libraries. This program is a presentation of some of those applications. Screen-casting will be discussed as an important tool for enhancing learning with a demonstration of an in-structional application using Jing. Social media will be discussed in the context of promoting library outreach and content development online. The panel will explore uses of social technologies such as blogs, wikis and Facebook to provide point of need instruction onsite or remotely, and provide prac-tical tips for successful implementation.

Discovery Layers in the Law Library Catalog In the past few years, law libraries have made significant strides in the implementation of discovery layer technology. In a recent survey of technical services law librarians, fifty two percent of respon-dents said their libraries were either using discovery layer interfaces in their libraries, or in the proc-ess of implementing them. Law libraries in particular are faced with unique issues in the selection, implementation, and deployment of these new tools. This program will provide an update on the status of discovery layer implementation in Law


Libraries, and address some of the issues specific to law libraries during the process of implementa-tion.

Foundations and Developments in Animal Law

Law librarians are increasingly in partnership with animal welfare law activists, practitioners, and

scholars. In the role of activist, they craft, monitor, and lobby for legislation that promotes animal

welfare. They handle questions relating to the topic in law libraries of all types, including public,

firm, and academic institutions. Patrons in public law libraries seek help in locating laws for dog

bites, animal hoarding, the death or injury to pets, and veterinary medical malpractice. The number

of classes taught in academic institutions continues to increase, along with the need for law librari-

ans to teach or provide research assistance. At the core of these developments are programs such as

the Lewis and Clark School of Law’s Center for Animal Law Studies, which operates in conjunction

with the Animal Legal Defense Fund. Pamela D. Frasch, Executive Director of the Center for Animal

Law Studies, and Kathy Hessler, Clinical Professor and Animal Law Clinic Director, will speak to the

Center’s role in furthering the rapidly developing field of animal law.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Stacey Bowers is the Outreach & Instructional Services Coordinator for the Westminster Law Li-brary at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. She practiced law for 14 years prior to join-ing the Westminster Law Library in 2006. She received hery JD in 1992, MLIS in 2006, and PhD in Curriculum & Instruction in 2010 from the University of Denver. She is an adjunct professor in the Sturm College of Law where she teaches legal research courses and also an adjunct professor in the Morgridge College of Education where she teaches library science courses. She is a member of CoALL, AALL, and ACRL. She is also the Co-Principal Investigator on a three-year IMLS grant that has funded the Law Librarianship Fellowship program at the University of Denver to educate ten new law librarians through the Library and Information Science program.

Kathy Carlson has been at the Wyoming State Law Library for 24 years [23 years as Director].

Prior to her tenure there she worked as an Editor for Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company [two

annotations she wrote can still be seen in volumes 70 and 71 of Supreme Court Reports Lawyers Edi-

tion 2d] and as a short term law clerk for a Federal District Judge in the Eastern District of Ken-

tucky. Kathy earned her B.S. in Political Science at The Ohio State University, her J.D. at Capital

University Law Center [Columbus, Ohio] and her M.A. in Library and Information Science at The

University of Iowa. Kathy is active in AALL, SCCLL, CoALL, and WestPac as well as in numerous

community activities. Kathy and her husband, Jerry, live in Cheyenne, Wyoming with their four

spoiled rescued dachshunds.


Tina Ching is the Electronic Services Librarian at the Seattle University School of Law. Her re-sponsibilities include managing and developing the law library website and web catalog interface and evaluating and implementing new technologies and electronic services. In addition, she provides re-search and reference assistance and has co-taught Legal Research Methods. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries and is serving as Chair of the Digital Access to Legal Informa-tion Committee. She has also served as the WestPac webmaster for the past year. Ms. Ching received an M.L.I.S. from the University of Washington with a certificate in Law Librarianship, J.D. from the University of Oregon School of Law with a certificate in Public Interest and Public Service Law, and B.A. from Willamette University.

Philippe Cloutier works as a Reference Librarian at Lane Powell, PC in Seattle. He grew up in Las Vegas where he earned a B.A. at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He then earned his MSLIS from Syracuse University. As an information professional, Philippe has worked in legal, academic, and public library settings.

Valeri Craigle is the Access Technologies Librarian at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the Uni-versity of Utah. Her expertise is in the discovery of and access to scholarly research, particularly in the digital environment. She oversees the Library’s Technical Services Department and has spear-headed a number of digital initiatives aimed at preserving and making electronically accessible the scholarship produced at the College of Law. Valeri also works on a number of special projects for the College of Law, including the Global Justice Project: Iraq, and the Quinney Law School Centennial Digitization project. She has spent much of the past two years migrating the library catalog from one system to another and implementing their new discovery layer interface.

Meredith Farkas is the Head of Instructional Services at Portland State University and an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University's School of Library and Information Science. She is the author of the book "Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and Com-munity Online" (Information Today, 2007) and writes the monthly column "Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. A 2006 Library Journal Mover and Shaker, Meredith was recently honored with the 2009 LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology.

Michele Finerty is Assistant Director for Technical Services at Pacific McGeorge School of Law,

Gordon D. Schaber Law Library. She obtained her B.S. in English Literature at Loyola University,

Chicago, and her Masters in Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign. Michele has been active in AALL as the chair or member of a number of committees;

she has served as a panelist or moderator for educational programs; she provides library research

presentations before animal law classes; and she is the interim president of the AALL Animal Law

Caucus. Her publications include "Leaders of the Pack: Law Librarians and the Advancement of Ani-

mal Law," published the December 2010 issue of the AALL Spectrum, and "Teaching the Lessons of

Proposition 2 - A Legal Commentary," in the May/June 2011 issue of the Sacramento Lawyer (co-

authored with Julie Davies).


Pamela Frasch is Assistant Dean of the Lewis and Clark School of Law’s Animal Law Program, and Executive Director of the Center for Animal Law Studies. Formerly with the Animal Legal De-fense Fund (ALDF), where she created the organization’s Criminal Justice Program, Executive Direc-tor Frasch is the principal author of Oregon’s first felony anti-cruelty law. She has published numer-ous articles and books chapters in the field, and has authored Animal Law, Cases and Materials (Carolina Press), which is in its 4th edition, and Animal Law in a Nutshell (Thomson West, 2010, co-authored with Kathy Hessler, Sarah Kutil and Sonia Waisman).

Michael Greenlee has recently moved to Boise to be the Associate Law Librarian at the University of Idaho College of Law’s new Boise Law program. He has been part of the UI College of Law’s li-brary faculty since 2002, previously serving as the Head of Public Services. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming book, To Develop Righteous Law and Promote Justice: The University of Idaho Col-lege of Law, 1909-2009. In addition to Idaho legal history, his scholarship interests include interna-tional human rights, freedom of speech, prisoner’s rights, and intellectual freedom.

Kathy Hessler is Clinical Professor and Animal Law Clinic Director at the Lewis and Clark School of Law’s Center for Animal Law Studies. Prior to joining the Center for Animal Studies, Professor Hessler served as Associate Director for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolu-tion at Case Western School of Law. Her background includes teaching clinical programs at Cornell Law School, the University of Dayton Law School, and the Capital University School of Law. She has taught courses on animal law, mediation, and focused problem solving.

Richard Jost is the Information Systems Coordinator at the University of Washington Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library and has previously served as the Assistant Librarian for Technical Ser-vices at the Law Library from 1992 – 2008. He holds an MLIS from the University of Denver (1985), an MA in International Studies from the American University (1980), and a BA in History from SUNY at Cortland (1976). He has taught a class (Library Technology Systems) in the MLIS program at the University of Washington Information School since 2000.

Ray Thomas was born in Minneapolis in 1951. He was admitted to the bar in 1979 and is a member of the Oregon state and federal courts. He obtained his J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School in 1979. Ray’s law firm specializes in personal injury, workers comp, social security issues, and bicycle and pedestrian law. Ray started a series of free legal clinics for bicycle riders in 1994, and gives regu-lar bike law and safety presentations. His book Pedal Power, A Legal Guide for Oregon Bicyclists, is now in its seventh edition.

Ilona Tsutsui is the Law Collections and Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Ore-gon John E. Jaqua Law Library and is currently serving as WestPac Secretary. Ilona has a BS in Gen-eral Science from UO and prior to becoming a librarian spent seven years facilitating program and portfolio management in the biotech industry. Ilona came to the UO Law Library in 2006, the same year she earned her MLS from Emporia State University, and she now works to streamline collection management, demystify acquisitions, and enhance the library space.

Ron Wheeler is the Director of the Law Library & Associate Professor of Law at the University of San Francisco School of Law where he teaches Advanced Legal Research and a writing seminar called Queer Legal Scholarship. Prior to USF, he served in management positions at both Georgia State University College of Law Library and at the University of New Mexico School of Law. Ron is active in professional organizations, and he currently serves on the AALL Executive Board. Ron re-ceived is BBA at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, his JD from the University of Michigan Law School, and his MLIS from Wayne State University.


Documents

Newsletter of the Western Pacific Chapter of the American ...chapters.aallnet.org/westpac/newsletter/No35-1.pdfOther speakers on the panel were Professor John Sims of Pacific McGeorge,