Legal Research

Symposium on Web 2.0 Technologies in Academic Law Libraries

By Biddle Law Library

Biddle Law Library at the University of Pennsylvania Law School will host the first MidAtlantic Academic Law Libraries Symposium on March 13, 2009. The symposium is being sponsored by  Bloomberg, Law Division.

The morning session will feature John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School and a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society will deliver the keynote speech. 

In the afternoon Jordon Steele, Archivist at Biddle,  will facilitate a panel on blogs in academic law libraries and Ed Greenlee, Associate Director for  Public Services at Biddle will moderate a panel on the role of Facebook in academic law libraries.

A few of the institutions attending include the law libraries at Duke, Fordham, Howard, Cardozo,
Hofstra, University of Maryland and University of Pittsburgh.

Ed Greenlee and Tim Von Dulm, Reference Librarian, are the co-organizers of the symposium.

For more information,  please email Ed Greenlee at egreenle@law.upenn.edu. 

Full post as published by Biddleblog on March 10, 2009 (boomark / email).