LLNE News Spring Issue

Greetings and Happy Spring! The newest edition of the LLNE News is here!

This issue features the new LLNE Strategic Plan, notes on the upcoming LLNE Spring Meeting, an article on the New England Historic Genealogical Society and much more.

See you at the LLNE Spring Meeting in Maine!

LLNE Scholarship Announcement

The 2008 AALL Meeting in Portland is only a few months away. The LLNE Scholarship Committee is now accepting applications for support to help pay the costs of attending. Applications are due by April 30. The policies and application forms are available on the LLNE website at: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/forms/index.htm.

Completed applications should be sent by mail or fax to:

Margaret Cianfarini Chair,
LLNE Scholarship Committee
Harvard Law School Library
1545 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Northeastern Law Library Presents: Bringing Human Rights Home

Northeastern University School of Law Library is co-sponsoring a panel discussion on Human Rights in the United States

Bringing Human Rights Home: A Panel Discussion on Human Rights in the United States

Moderated by Professor Martha Davis

Thursday, April 3, 2008

At Noon

333 Curry Student Center

Refreshments will be served

Sponsored by the NU School of Law Library, NU Libraries, the NUSL Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, and the NU Bookstore. Formore information or for special needs assistance, please contact MariaCarpenter at m.carpenter@neu.edu or 617.373.2821.

Program: The anthology Uncertain Freedoms—the struggle for human rights, edited byMartha Davis, recounts the tumultuous history and politics of socialjustice action in the US. It examines the ways in which human rightsactivism has flourished and faltered within the US—and the differencesbetween the US’s domestic and international involvement in human rights.
Join us for an illuminating discussion by a panel of experts on topics asbroad ranging as civil rights, globalization and terrorism, and theirintersection with human rights.

Panel: Editor of the anthology and Northeastern Law Professor Martha Daviswill moderate a panel discussion with guests Hope Lewis, NU Professor ofLaw; Wendy Pollack, Senior Attorney for the Sargent Shriver National Centeron Poverty Law; Alec Irwin, Associate Director of the Francois-XavierBagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of PublicHealth; and Catherine Albisa, Executive Director of the National Economicand Social Rights Initiative.

LLNE Newsletter Call for Articles

Hello LLNE Members -

The next issue of the LLNE News in is the works. We are calling for submissions for our new issue! Feel free to choose any topic, and email us with your ideas.

Also, please forward any news about our members such as recent publications, new jobs, achievements, etc. We need your materials by April 11th so we can get the issue out before people head off to the LLNE meeting in Maine!

Thanks,

Kyle K. Courtney & Susan Vaughn

LLNE Spring 2008 Meeting

Information on the LLNE Spring 2008 Meeting, which is taking place at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport, Maine, is now available at the University of Maine Garbrecht Law Library's website.

November 2007 Volunteer Opportunities

The LLNE Service Committee is pleased to announce two upcoming volunteer opportunities with Community Servings, an organization that prepares, packages and delivers meals to individuals homebound with acute life-threatening illnesses and unable to shop or cook for themselves. The events, both associated with the organization's annual Pie in the Sky fundraiser, will take place Saturday, November 10th and Saturday, November 17th. For additional details, please contact Jennifer Kessler, LLNE Service Committee Chair, at jkessler@goodwinprocter.com or (617) 305-6708.

Pie Box Labeling and Distribution to Restaurants
Saturday, November 10th
9:00am – 2:00pm
Greater Boston Food Bank

Help make and label 13,000 pie boxes at the Greater Boston Food Bank. After labeling, we'll deliver bundles of pie boxes to the restaurants that will fill them.


Pie Baking
Saturday, November 17th
Time and Location TBA

Additional details will be provided once confirmed. Last year a large group convened at Hynes Convention Center to help bake extra pies needed to meet the impressive demand. Depending on this year's numbers, shifts will be planned for either the morning or afternoon of November 17th. Please let Jennifer know if you are interested and when you might be available to assist that day.

Reference Survey

I have created a short (really very short) survey on survey monkey which asks questions about chat and roaming reference. If you have 5 minutes, could you please respond to this survey at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BrNkZNwq25Ni9mYVJ1FhaQ_3d_3d

Thank you,
Susan Vaughn
Legal Reference Librarian
Suffolk University Law Library
(and your LLNE News co-editor)