2009 ALLA Evolution Conference

Papers

Conference papers are now being added to the ALLA website.

Program

The mini Conference program is now available (encompassing Thursday and Friday only)

The full Conference program, including satellite events is now available.
-tour information has now been updated

Speakers

The Committee is delighted to confirm that our two keynote speakers are:

Professor Gino Dal Pont, well known author and Professor at the University of Tasmania, and Ian Gray, Chief Magistrate (Victoria)

The Committee is pleased to announce that our closing speaker will be Ted Egan, former Administrator of the NT.

Ted is author of  "Justice for All" (amongst other titles) in which he describes himself as a "singer, songwriter, author and professional vagabond".

For further information about our closing speaker, including a full biography, please visit his website at: http://www.tedegan.com.au/

Other confirmed speakers are:

• Marisa Bendeich, Research Librarian, Blake Dawson
  Beyond the ToC: evolving current awareness services
  
• David Bratchford, Library Services Manager, Legal Aid Queensland
  Evolution - from gorillas to guerrillas?
  
• Fiona Brown and Donald Barker, ALLA History Project
  Method and memory : the writing of the ALLA 40 year history
  
• Branko Bulovic, Librarian, Hicksons 
  Staying relevant : how to adapt the library services to other firm operations at this time of financial crisis
  
• Martin Cvelbar, Senior Librarian, Law Library, University of Queensland
  Online replication of first year legal research classes - the pods have arrived!
  
• Carole Hinchcliff, Law Librarian, University of Melbourne
  Evolving and devolving : Melbourne Law School Library's new law research service
  
• Hayley Leaver, Academic Librarian, University of South Australia
  Mission impossible or how to establish a special library on time and on budget
  
• Damien MacRae, Knowledge Consultant, Mallesons Stephen Jaques
  Digital content and the new consumer : what Radiohead, The Huffington Post and Perez Hilton can teach legal information professionals
  
• Mark McCarthy, Senior Assistant Director, Commonwealth DPP Darwin
  Setting the net : the evolution of measures for the detection and prosecution of illegal foreign fishing in Australian waters and the waters above the Australian Continental Shelf
  
• Linda Moore, Senior Information Specialist, Wolters Kluwer Asia Pacific
  Professionals and Web 2.0
  
• Lyn Newlands, Judgments Publication Co-ordinator, Family Court of Australia
  Lifting the veil - the changing face of judgments publishing in the Family Court of Australia
  
• Naish Peterson, Library Services Manager, Arnold Bloch Leibler 
  Holdings ALLA Vic libraries : a new approach to ILLs
  
• Karen Rowe-Nurse, Sydney Law Librarian, University of Notre Dame
  Are legal research skills the equivalent of the Dodo? Students seem to think so, or do they?
  
• Kayleen Wardell, Liaison Librarian, Southern Cross University
  From caveman to CaseBase : the evolution of legal research through the technological age

It promises to be an exciting and busy program, so get your registrations in soon - early registration (with Welcome Reception cut-off) closes on 31 July 2009, final registration is 25 August 2009.

Sue Coates
Speaker Co-ordinator
on behalf of the 2009 ALLA Evolution Conference Committee