Speakers
Opening Remarks
Derek Langhauser is a Maine attorney who has practiced law for 35 years. He has served as chief legal counsel to two Maine Governors of both parties, constitutional counsel to a United States Senator, and law clerk to two Maine Supreme Court justices. He has also served as general counsel and president of the Maine Community College System and been appointed by three attorneys general, also from both parties, to be special counsel to the Maine Maritime Academy. Derek has taught constitutional law for the University of Maine School of Law and Marine Policy for Williams College. He is a member of The Council of the American Law Institute and has over twenty-five publications, including his book Powers and Duties of a Governor which the National Governors’ Association distributed to every governor and governor’s counsel in the nation. Across his career, Derek has spent a lot of time in law libraries.A real lot. That’s why he is happy to be here with us today.
Jessica Lundgren, Director, Maine State Law & Legislative Reference Library. Jessica is the Director of the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library. Prior to her career at the Legislature, she was a research librarian for an AmLaw 100 law firm. She has served in leadership positions in the Legislative Reference Librarians staff section of the National Conference of State Legislatures and the New Jersey Law Librarians Association.
Maureen Quinlan, Reference & Government Documents Law Librarian, Garbrecht Law Library, University of Maine School of Law. Maureen is the current President of the Law Librarians of New England.
Current Issues in Law Libraries - Round Table
Moderator, Tanya Johnson - Reference Librarian, University of Connecticut School of Law. Tanya is a Research and Instructional Services Librarian at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where she assists patrons with reference services, including research assistance and instruction. She is also an adjunct professor, teaching Advanced Legal Research, Diversity & Inclusion in the Legal Profession, and Research for Social Justice. She earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as an editor on the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and her M.L.I.S. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Prior to her library work, Tanya practiced law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, specializing in First Amendment law and complex litigation, and served as a Deputy Law Clerk for a Justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
Mary Jenkins - Library & Research Services Manager, Devine-Millimet. Mary is the Library and Research Services Manager at Devine, Millimet & Branch, P.A., a 50-attorney firm in New Hampshire, and serves on the firm’s management team. She manages all library and research services, including access to and management of the print and digital collections, publisher and vendor relations, training, research and competitive intelligence, and issues tracking. Mary’s prior experience includes library and research directorships in law firms and in government, academic, and corporate organizations. Mary serves currently on AALL’s Committee on Relations with Information Vendors and previously served two terms on the AALL Executive Board and a number of other committees. She earned her MLS at Kent State University.
Jessica Lundgren, Director, Maine State Law & Legislative Reference Library. Jessica is the Director of the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library. Prior to her career at the Legislature, she was a research librarian for an AmLaw 100 law firm. She has served in leadership positions in the Legislative Reference Librarians staff section of the National Conference of State Legislatures and the New Jersey Law Librarians Association.
Susan Drisko Zago - Director of the Law Library & Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce School of Law. Sue is a Professor and the Director of the Law Library at the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law in Concord, NH. She manages all aspects of the Law Library and works with a wonderful team of librarians. She teaches a variety of legal research courses and is currently creating a course in law practice management. She also administers the CALR program and a variety of other databases and student training platforms. She also manages the institutional repository and other research information platforms. Professor Zago is very active in local, regional, and national professional law library organizations. She collaborates with New Hampshire library colleagues across the state. She is a board member and past President of NELLCO, an international law library consortium. She is also a member of the New Hampshire Access to Justice Commission.
Update on the Future of Law Libraries Round Table
Richard Buckingham, Director of the Law Library & Information Resources & Associate Professor of Legal Research, Suffolk University School of Law. Rick has been the Director of the Law Library and Information Resources and Associate Professor of Legal Research at Suffolk University Law School since November 2016. He has been at Suffolk University since 2000, starting part-time in the Office of Housing and Residence Life while in library school and moving to the Law School as a Legal Reference Librarian in 2002. He regularly teaches advanced legal research courses, including ones that focus on Massachusetts and foreign and international legal research. He has a JD from Rutgers School of Law—Newark, MSLIS from Simmons College, and BA from Framingham State College.
Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing: How Legal Research Programs Can Provide the Needed Safety Rails for Pro Se Litigants Using AI.
Nicole Belbin, Associate Dean for Library & Information Services, Western New England University School of Law. Nicole is an Assistant Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Library and Information Resources at Western New England University School of Law where she teaches Advanced Legal Research in the Age of AI and Critical Legal Research. She previously taught Computer-Assisted Legal Research and Legal Research and Writing at Bay Path University. Nicole received her B.S. in Criminal Justice from Western New England University and her M.S.L.I.S. from Drexel University in 2011. Most recently, she graduated magna cum laude from Western New England University School of Law in 2020. Before college, Nicole served in the United States Marine Corps, where she met her husband. They have three adult children. Since being admitted to practice in Massachusetts, Nicole has dedicated her spare time to public interest lawyering, mainly assisting veterans with their VA claims. She is passionate about veterans’ law, access to justice, and the role libraries play in student success.
AI At the Podium: Techniques for Teaching AI from Workshops to Stand Alone Courses
Jordan Jefferson, Director Lynne L. Pantalena Law Library & Associate Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University School of Law. Jordan has written and presented on technology, pedagogy, and service improvement in law libraries. Her scholarly interests include critical information theory, trauma-informed services in law schools, and access to justice. Professor Jefferson has extensive research knowledge of the carceral state, veteran's issues, and human rights law. She is active in various professional law library organizations, including the Southern New England Law Librarians' Association, the Law Librarians of New England, and the American Association of Law Libraries.
How AI Rewrites the Archive--For Better and Worse
Jon Ippolito, Professor of New Media & Director of the Digital Curation program at the University of Maine. Jon is a new media artist, writer, and curator who builds networks to help creative people battle tech monopolies, academic insularity, and planned obsolescence. Winner of Tiffany, Lannan, American Foundation, and the inaugural Thoma Digital Art award, he co-founded the University of Maine's Digital Curation program, a digital badges platform, and the Learning With AI toolkit for adapting to a post-ChatGPT world. Ippolito has given over 200 presentations, co-authored the books At the Edge of Art and Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory, and published 70 chapters and articles in periodicals from Artforum to the Washington Post.
AI in Law Libraries: Discussing Ethical Considerations & A Way Forward
Deborah Ginsberg, Manager, Faculty Research & Scholarly Support Services, Harvard Law School Library. Debbie manages faculty research and scholarly support for the Harvard Law School Library. active in AALL (incoming vice-chair for the Economic Status of Law Librarians Committee) and LLNE (chair, technology committee). I joined Harvard in 2021 after working at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where I served as an Educational Technology Librarian. My research interests include AI’s effects on legal research, the intersection of blockchain, the law, and AI, and leveraging technology as an efficient and effective law librarian.
Christine Park, Faculty Research Librarian, Harvard Law School Library. Christine is a Student Services Research Librarian & Instructional Designer at the Harvard Law School Library. She joined the library as a Faculty Services Librarian in 2023 and previously worked at the NYU Law Library. Her scholarly interests include pedagogy, critical theory, and ethics of legal technology. She has served as the Chair of the Professional Engagement, Growth & Advancement Special Interest Section of AALL (PEGA-SIS) and is currently serving as the Vice-Chair of the AALL Asian-American Caucus and the Vice-Chair of AALL Excellence in Community Engagement Jury.
Maya Bergamasco, Faculty Research & Scholarly Support Librarian at Harvard Law School Library. Maya(she/her) is Faculty Research & Scholarly Support Librarian at Harvard Law School Library. Before coming to HLS, Maya worked at Harvard Business School Baker Library Special Collections. She is a 2023 American Library Association Emerging Leader and 2018 Spectrum Scholar. Her research interests include data ethics and data privacy.