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 SANDALL News
January 2017 Volume 19 Issue 3
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President's Column
Dr. Michele A. L. Villagran
Happy New Year! Did you know that New Year’s celebrations date back to 2000 BC? It is usually the time of year when many are making resolutions for the upcoming year. Let us take this time to learn about what our government relations committee has been working on and what events are in the near future.
The government relations committee have been hard at work collaborating with our neighbors, SCALL and NOCALL. They have developed a process for when members wants to advocate for a statewide or federal issue that may affect all three California chapters. You will soon be able to find the “AALL California Chapter Government Relation Committee’s Collaboration Agreement” on our website.
SANDALL is kicking off the new year with an educational webinar: “Maximizing Your Social Media” by Gayle Lynn Falkenthal on January 18. This webinar will focus on how to maximize your use of social media to connect with your users. I am looking forward to it and learning what we can do for SANDALL. The webinar will be recorded and archived on our website for future viewing in case you cannot attend.
On February 10, Morrison & Foerster will host the SANDALL 2017 Winter Institute – Library Safety & Security: Protecting Our People and Resources. Join us for a day of discussion on personal safety/active shooter training, cyber security, lessons from a library fire, and disaster planning, response and recovery. Speakers represent a broad range of organizations, including San Diego Police Department, Digital Forensics, Inc., San Diego Public Library, and the California Preservation Program. Keith Ann Stiverson, AALL Immediate Past President, will be joining as our VIP guest. Issues related to the security of your library and patrons, and physical and digital resources can affect any organization regardless of where you work. SANDALL could not do what it does without the generous support of our sponsors and donors. Visit the SANDALL 2017 Winter Institute page to register today: http://www.sandallnet.org/2017-institute. I look forward to seeing you there!
The 45th Annual SCALL Institute: ConLaw Conundrum: Constitutional Law & Challenges in Today's Environment will take place March 3-4, 2017 in our own backyard at the Grand Horton Hotel in San Diego. Grants are available to attend and I encourage you to apply. Our neighbors to the north, NOCALL, are hosting their 2017 NOCALL Spring Institute on April 1st. The program will include sessions on how California regulations are promulgated, how to find current regulations, and how to research regulatory history. Visit the SCALL and NOCALL websites for additional information.
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Programming Planner
Lisa Foster
SANDALL Vice President
Mark your calendars for the coming year’s programs. Please don’t hesitate to write me with suggestions about locations, topics, and times for future events at lfoster@tjsl.edu. I look forward to seeing you at our events this year.
SANDALL Educational Webinar – “Maximizing Your Social Media” with Gayle Lynn Falkenthal
Please join us virtually from noon to 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 18, 2017 for a discussion about how to maximize your use of social media to connect with your users.
It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by managing social media, especially if you are the only person responsible for social media at a nonprofit or an organization with limited resources. It can be complicated by staff, board members, donors, or volunteers telling you that you need to be on Snapchat or Periscope or whatever the Next Big Thing is. The good news: maximizing your social media efforts means figuring out how to focus on what really matters to your organization instead of jumping on board the latest greatest social media platform just because someone tells you you've got to be there.
When: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 from noon to 1:00 p.m.
How to Participate: Register here by noon on Tuesday, January 17, 2017.
The session will be recorded and made available on the SANDALL Education Event Materials page if you are unable to attend.
Our guest speaker for Maximizing Your Social Media is Gayle Lynn Falkenthal:
Gayle Lynn Falkenthal, APR, Fellow PRSA, is President of the Falcon Valley Group, a San Diego based public relations consulting firm. Falkenthal worked as an award winning broadcast editor, producer and talk show host prior to pursuing her current career as a strategic communications expert.
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SANDALL Connect Meeting January 21, 2017
Come have brunch at the Studio Diner and meet other people interested in law librarianship. SANDALL Connect is an opportunity for library students, new librarians and experienced librarians to get together and talk about what is going on in the field of law librarianship. It’s fun and you get the inside view from those in the know. Please note that we do not host brunch – attendees individually order and pay for any food or beverages.
When: Saturday, January 21, 2017 at 10:00 a.m.
Where: Studio Diner, 4701 Ruffin Road, San Diego, CA 92123, (858) 715-6400
RSVP to Lisa Foster at lfoster@tjsl.edu
SANDALL Winter Institute
You are cordially invited to the SANDALL Winter Institute; “Library Safety and Security: Protecting Our People and Resources” which will be taking place Friday February 10, 2017, and hosted by the San Diego Office of Morrison Foerster. SANDALL is pleased to present an institute on a variety of topics related to library safety and security, including:
- Personal Safety/Active Shooter Training
- Cyber Security
- Lessons from a Library Fire, and
- Disaster Planning, Response and Recovery
No matter what type of institution you work for, you could be faced with issues related to the security of your library staff and patrons, physical resources and digital resources. See the Winter Institute page for more details and information about the donors and sponsors for our event.
The Institute is scheduled from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and will include lunch, and morning and afternoon breaks with refreshments.
When: Friday, February 10, 2017
Where: The San Diego Office of Morrison Foerster
12531 High Bluff Drive, Suite 100
San Diego, CA, 92130
For directions and a map see this link.
Cost: $50 for members of SANDALL, AALL, and its chapter members.
Registration: Register Online here.
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IN LOVING MEMORY
A Tribute at the Passing of a Fearless Leader
Karl Gruben
Director of the Pardee Legal Research Center
Karl Gruben was a tall and courtly Texan who came to academia via a diverse route that prepared him in unusual and traditional ways for his associate deanship at the law school. Yes, he had a law degree and a masters in librarianship, both acquired in Texas, but in his earlier years, he worked in his father's feed store and in the Texas oil fields, and he also served in the military.
Karl started his library career in the Texas state library and moved on to a long stint in the Houston office of the law firm Vinson & Elkins, where he met and fell in love with his wife, Linda McCloud. He ultimately left Texas for a stint at the Cleveland office of Squire, Sanders & Dempsy while preparing for his transition to academia.
Karl is one of very few librarians who have switched from the private sector to academia. After two years of Midwestern winters, he and Linda moved to Miami, and Karl joined the faculty of St. Thomas University Law School as the library director.
During Karl's long career in law libraries, the world of information science changed dramatically, and Karl enthusiastically mastered the nuts and bolts of the new technologies, evolving into a self-taught expert on the new infrastructure of legal research.
Karl brought all of this experience and expertise to USD when he became the Associate Dean for Library & Information Services at the law school. He took a leadership role in classroom technology and design both in the law school and on the campus at large.
Furthermore, his background in the legal field and his vast knowledge of legal resources benefited the law library immeasurably. He was able to institute great economies to the management of the collection without sacrificing depth or efficiency.
But most of all, Karl brought to us his great warmth and the kindness of a heart the size of Texas. He exuded a charm that was truly genuine and sincere. Everyone he worked with was drawn in by his amiability and his concern for others. If Karl had a fault, it was his distaste for saying no to any request. He inspired a deep loyalty in all who worked with him or whose path crossed his. His death leaves a vast Texas-sized chasm in our lives and our hearts.
- Submitted by Ruth Levor
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Memorial Service for Late USD School of Law Professor and Associate Dean Karl Gruben
Date and Time: Wednesday, January 18, 2017 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Location: Pardee Legal Research Center, 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110
Please join us for a memorial gathering to honor Karl Gruben, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, Library and Information Services, Pardee Legal Research Center.
The memorial gathering is open to all colleagues, friends as well as current and former students to remember Dean Karl Gruben's commitment to the library, his students, support of the law school and contributions to the legal information profession.
RSVP here
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Board Membership
SANDALL is seeking members interested in becoming Vice President and Treasurer beginning in June 2017.
Please contact Michele Knapp at mknapp@sandiego.edu if you are interested or have questions.
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Please Help Provide 2017 Law Librarian Work/Life Balance Report
By Anna Russell
For the January/February issue of AALL’s Spectrum magazine, I co-wrote an article on Work/Life balance for law library professionals. The article was based upon insights from conversations with 17 librarians, working in varying types of law libraries. You can view the article here. We gained what I think are very fresh insights on the current issues facing law librarians such as a marked rise in educational debt, healthcare cost coverage concerns, childcare-eldercare needs, job satisfaction indicators adjusting overtime and work relocation challenges. We, Ingrid Mattson and myself, do not want to end the conversation, though, by simply vocalizing some general challenges and opportunities the law library community is currently facing. We want to research (because we are librarians!) these concepts more fully and provide an updated, more comprehensive report at the end of 2017. To help with our efforts, we are asking you to take a moment to answer anonymously a 10-question survey found here. Your time is greatly appreciated!
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San Diego Natural History Museum Research Library Tour
By Jan Hedlun
On November 18, 2016 several members of SANDALL were given a tour of the new Eleanor and Jerome Navarra Special Collections Gallery at the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park. This recently opened exhibition is an obvious labor of love between the Library Director Margaret Dykens, museum staff, and local philanthropists.
From left to right: Christian Durini, James Mullins, Sandra Dawson, Margaret Dykens, Lisa Foster, Leigh Inman, Bonnie Brown, Jan Hedlun, Izabela Aleksieva
The San Diego Natural History Museum (The NAT) began as the San Diego Society of Natural History in 1874 and is the oldest scientific institution in southern California, becoming the focal point of the scientific community hungry for information on the local environment and natural resources of the area. Since its inception, the NAT has grown and currently houses up to 8 million research specimens of birds, mammals, botany, entomology, herpetology, marine invertebrates and paleontology.
Note: when I quote numbers they are approximate as The NAT's collection is fluid, growing with every donation or purchase.
The NAT’s first official location, in June 1912, was the Hotel Cecil on Sixth Avenue until 1917 when the Society purchased a building in the vacated Panama-California Exposition area of what had become Balboa Park. As the Museum grew it moved into various buildings about the park until the need for a permanent structure was acknowledged. Thanks to a grant from Ellen Browning Scripps and the public, William Templeton Johnson, San Diego’s premiere architect, designed the 65,000 square foot building which was formally dedicated in 1933. In 2001 a 90,000 square foot addition was completed although, as any museum staffer around the world will tell you, it’s still not enough room. Thanks to gifts through the Mildred Hughes Meeder Endowment and the W. W. Whitney Fund, the library has continued through the years as part of this legacy.
The library has been located on the third floor, primarily as the former reading room, sequestered behind security doors until a generous donation from Eleanor and Jerome Navarra, and other sources, gave The Nat needed funding for remodeling this little used resource. Taking over a year, they have renovated 3,100 square feet within the 7,300 square-foot Research Library, opening its doors to the public on August 13, 2016. Now it is an alluring location with exhibit space for patrons to enjoy displays of the print, art, and photographic collection that reside within.
Exact enlarged replicas of 10 of their rare books frame the glass doors on the third floor entryway with a beautiful Griffin pediment above, designed by staff as homage to the original architecture.
Once inside, it takes a moment for the eyes to adapt to the muted light but slowly you find yourself drawn to display cabinets, wall art, and computer displays of portions of the collection.
Our guide, Margaret Dykens, became the Director of the Research Library in 1997. She received her MILS from the University of Michigan and a Master's Degree in Biology. There was obvious pride in her voice (well-deserved) as she shared that aside from one display case, and some of the interactive computer applications, all of the design, creation, and manufacturing for the gallery was done in-house. Special cases were created to protect the displayed items. The lighting was specially designed, tested and filters invented to keep rare tomes safe from damage. Skylights were covered with a shading material, then fake “leaves” were created and decoratively placed to provide atmosphere while further muting the light to protect the numerous displays.
Many of us, who’ve been Natural History Museum attendees for years, shared a child-like delight in seeing the top of the Foucault pendulum that had been installed in the 1950’s now encased in Plexiglas. With our noses pressed to the covering, we watched the inexorable path of the pendulum cable, none of us seeing the tiny mouse crafted by a staff member set in a corner as a subtle jest until Margaret pointed it out. One SANDALL member murmured “Hickory Dickory Dock” before we drifted away to view more treasures.
Moving about the exhibition you couldn’t help but notice the gorgeous artwork that had been chosen from marbled end papers from a few of the rarest of their 56,000 volumes that includes standard and obscure references, journals, rare books and maps that are an integral part of the collection.
Enlarged to grace several of the walls of the facility is the frontispiece of Historia Naturalis Ranarum on the natural history of frogs, and the other is a large-scale reproduction of a Reddish Egret from the rare folio of John James Audubon (1785-1851), The Birds of America: Double Elephant Folio 1858-1860, that was gifted to the museum in 1933 by an Iowa man who wintered in San Diego, and felt this would be the best location for this stunning art compilation.
The library’s first exhibit, Extraordinary Ideas from Ordinary People, A History of Citizen Science, shows off an admirable assemblage of Amateur Naturalists who were the backbone of the museum’s collections. A few of the displays include the efforts of Laurence Huey (1892-1963) – Birds and Mammals of California/Baja California, Laurence Klauber (1883-1968) – Herpetology, Anthony Wayne Vogdes (1843-1923) - Geologist and Paleontologist, and others.
One presentation, a personal favorite, was Microscopes in Victorian England (1830’s – 1900) featuring a sampling of the over 1,800 Victorian microscope slides produced between 1857 and 1917.
Interactive videos were included with most of the displays, as well as hands-on aspects to enhance the experience for children and adults.
As you climb the stairs to the second floor of the library you are greeted by Mariposa Lily wallpaper chosen from the works of A.R. Valentien who, in 1908, was commissioned by Ellen Browning Scripps to paint the “Wildflowers of California.” Ten years later he had produced 1,094 pieces that were donated in 1933 and a rotating display is now featured in the entry hall past the research area mezzanine. On the opposite side is a children’s book nook guarded over by a cat happily dozing atop an archway of enlarged books that encompasses a play area that overlooks the downstairs exhibition.
One final aspect of our tour was to visit the stacks and rare book room. The upgraded climate-control hummed quietly as we strolled through the stacks, many of us refraining from reaching out to stroke the old leather bindings, or prowling through the boxes of stored history.
This wonderful new gallery is included in the price of admission and everyone is welcome. Margaret has been the only librarian of this wonderful collection for her entire 19 years at The Nat, and mentions that volunteers are welcome and there are always intern opportunities for library school students.
Her contact information is:
Margaret N. Dykens, Registrar and Director of Research Library
1788 El Prado
San Diego, CA 92112-1390
619-255-0225
library@SDNHM.org
www.SDNHM.org
If you wish to do more research on the Citizen Scientists displayed in the exhibit their names are:
- Charles Orcutt (1864-1929) – Botanical collector. “The Cactus Man.”
- Margaret Wood Bancroft (1893-1986) – Explorer
- Joseph W. Sefton, Jr. (1881-1966) – Ornithologist and Philanthropist
- Ethel Bailey Higgins (1866-1963) – Botanist
- Anthony Wayne Vogdes (1843-1923) - Geologist and Paleontologist
- Lee Passmore (1874-1958) – Entomology
- Maria Theresa (1717-1780) – French nobility and Conchologist
- Lionel Walter Rothschild (1868-1937) – Zoologist
- Romeyn Beck Hough (1857-1924) – Botanist
- Edward Lear (1812-1888) – Poet, Illustrator
- Amy H. Gross (current) – Scientific Illustration
- A.R. Valentien (1908-1918) – Artist
- Napoleon’s Commision of Sciences and Art - Description de l’Egypte; Book 19 Volume 2 Natural History, and more.
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Online registration for the 45th Annual SCALL Institute is now open!
This year’s SCALL Institute is entitled “ConLaw Conundrum: Constitutional Law and Challenges in Today’s Environment.”
SANDALL members are invited to register for the Institute, which is taking place in San Diego March 3-4, 2017 at the Grand Horton Hotel.
There is a great lineup of speakers who will be partaking in their right to speak and will do it well.
All the information you need can be found at: http://scallnet.org/scall-institute/
Hope to see you there.
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SANDALL Holiday Party 2016 Photos
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Please Send All Newsletter Requests to:
Melissa Abernathy
Foreign & International Law Reference Librarian
Pardee Legal Research Center, University of San Diego
mabernathy@sandiego.edu (619) 260-4734
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