Jessica Zairo Riggins opened the meeting with a welcome to all.

The new slate of officers was elected unanimously, with Whitney Curtis rising to President, Wanita Scroggs serving as the incoming Vice-President/President-Elect, and Helen Beaulieu serving as Secretary/Treasurer.

Ellie Lopez, retired librarian from Fowler White and a long time member of CFALL, was voted in as an honorary member.

The Executive Board voted to award out-going President, Jessica Zairo Riggins, a travel stipend of $250.00 to attend the AALL meeting. This award, along with a thank you card, was presented to Jessica by incoming President, Whitney Curtis. The members all agreed that Jessica has revitalized CFALL during her terms as Vice President and President.

The next meeting will be held in September at the Stetson Tampa Campus and will be hosted by Tim Bagley of Fastcase.

In October or November, the Florida State and County Court Law Libraries association will hold their annual meeting in Tampa.

The December meeting will be a Holiday mixer with Suncoast Information Specialists. Pam Burdett suggested the Tampa Bay History Center as a location and she was elected to Chair the Holiday Meeting Planning Committee.

Jessica Zairo Riggins will begin work on a bi-monthly newsletter of the Association.

It was decided that a committee would be formed to plan a joint Summer Associate education session for the summer of 2010.

Treasurer’s report:     
Balance on Hand – June 16, 2009…………………$638.01

Adjourned – 7:00 pm

Jessica Zairo opened the meeting with a welcome to all and expressed thanks to Stetson for hosting the meeting.

The upcoming June Annual meeting will be a Business and Networking meeting held in Gulfport. The location for the meeting will be announced at a later date.

Wanita Scroggs volunteered to head the election committee for the upcoming elections in June.

The 2009 FLA Annual Conference will be held from May 5th to 8th.

CFALL thanked Westlaw and Lexis for donating items to fill the basket.

Upcoming Events
FLA - Orlando FL - May 5th – 8th
AALL – Washington DC – July 25th – 27th
FSCCLL – Tampa FL – date TBD

Treasurer’s report:

Balance on Hand – January 29, 2009………………$964.54   

Deposits…………………………………………………………..$30.00
            Memberships……………$30.00
           
Balance on Hand – March 31, 2009…………………$994.54

Jessica introduced speakers Diana Hayes and Justin Horan from Trenam Kemker Law firm in Tampa. Diana is an attorney in the Business transaction department and Justin is in the commercial litigation department. The speakers were invited to discuss Summer Associates and their transition from Law school to the Law firm.

Highlights of the discussion consisted of the following:

-Transition from the use of free electronic research in law school to cost effective usage in the firm setting. Research skills are not stressed enough in law school.

-Law Schools: offer an advanced legal research course in addition to electronic research. Supplementary instruction in legal writing (motions and memorandums) and analyzing research. Useful to have a print out of terms and connectors and field descriptions.

-Law firms:   Librarians interact with summer associates frequently as SA’s tend to fear asking questions. In addition to library tours and policies, offer a written summary of secondary print sources available and to recommend other (free) online resources. Wanda Barrett suggested seeking out a mentor at the Law firms with advanced research skills to assist the Summer Associates.

Pam Burdett reiterated the fact that Summer Associates and Attorneys are able to contact the school for reference help and information at any time. Discussion was open regarding a firm-wide Summer Associate group training session at the Stetson Tampa Campus.

Adjourned – 1:15 pm
 

Jessica Zairo opened the meeting with a welcome to all and expressed thanks to Ellie Lopez for hosting the meeting.

The upcoming March meeting will feature speakers on the topic of Summer Associates relative to Library Training.

The 2009 FLA Annual Conference will be held from May 5th to 8th. The members agreed to donate a basket to raffle off as we did last year.

Jessica solicited suggestions for future meetings.

Treasurer’s report 1/29/09
Balance on Hand – September 25 2008…………$1,034.19
Disbursements………………………………………………..$ 189.65
            Lunch at meeting 9/25 - $89.65
          SIS Holiday Mixer - $100.00
Deposits…………………………………………………………..$120.00
            Lunch reimbursements
At 9/25 meeting (made a $30.35 profit)  

Balance on Hand – January 29, 2009………………$964.54   

Jessica introduced Monica Poole from West ThomsonReuters who in turn introduced Anne Ellis the Senior Director of Librarian Relations at West ThomsonReuters. Anne is a librarian with 30 years of experience, including over 15 years of experience as a law firm librarian. She has worked as Director of Library Services for law firms in both Florida and Colorado. She began working at West in 1998 and started West’s Librarian Relations program.

Anne then introduced Erika Beck Librarian Relations Manager. Erika serves as the Librarian Relations Manager for Georgia, Florida and the Carolinas. Her goal is to ensure that law librarians get the most out of their relationship with West people, products and services. Erika represents West in regional and local professional library associations such as SEAALL, ALLA and SFALL.

The topic of Erika’s presentation: My Favorite Things

Highlights of “New Content on Westlaw” consisted of:

Litigation Tools
            Expert reports
            Keyrules
            Form finder – like the forms-all database, but eliminates the all database
New Content
            Survey builder – build your own multijurisdictional state surveys
New functionality
            Key searching by key numbers – create a custom digest
New Platforms – Westlaw Tax &   Westlaw China
 Tax.westlaw.com – not part of westlaw.com, but user passwords remain the same.
 If tax databases are part of your existing contract; tax.westlaw.com will be as well.
            Keycite by subsection
Sneak Peek
            Customize Westlaw: create 50 tabs, move screens to have your favorites displayed
Video/Audio of courtroom proceedings
            Can request what type of videos to be added
E-learning Centers
            Administrative tools lets you manage how much training time the firm is being given.
PeopleMap
Public records – searches all databases and displays results at one time. No need to search individual databases (Business, Assets, People, etc…)

Adjourned 1:05pm

President, Jessica Zairo, welcomed everyone and discussed upcoming meetings. CFALL and SIS will have a Christmas Mixer in Gulfport at the Habana Café.   FSCCLL meets in October.  Jessica proposed   providing a scholarship for someone from CFALL to attend next year. Bret from West offered to have a speaker present for an upcoming meeting.

The Treasurer reported a balance of $1,034.19

Norma Wise, Head Librarian of the HCLL provided everyone with Pro Se litigant material from HCLL, a brochure of the new library as well as Westlaw training and a brochure.

Norma then gave a brief tour of the new library which recently relocated to a new building.
 

Meeting adjourned at 1:00 pm

Vice President, Jessica Zairo, welcomed everyone and introduced Attorney, Michael Hayes of Hill Ward & Henderson.  Mr. Hayes presented a lecture on legal research and the

CFALL members voted on amendments to the CFALL bylaws that were proposed at the May 2008 executive board meeting. All changes were adopted and entered into the current bylaws.

Ballots for the CFALL 2008 – 2009 General Election were distributed. Members voted unanimously to elect Whitney Curtis as Vice President/President Elect. Helen Beaulieu remains in office as Secretary/Treasurer.

A new CFALL brochure prepared by Jessica Zairo, to distribute in libraries and to potential ne members was presented.

Meeting adjourned at 1:15 pm

Vice President, Jessica Zairo, welcomed everyone and introduced speakers Jennifer Bluth and Robin McManigal with LexisNexis. Jennifer presented LexisNexis’ Total Litigator; a “tool which enables attorneys to uncover vital information necessary to gain strategic advantages throughout the litigation lifecycle, all in one place.” Jennifer then discussed the LexisNexis Courtlink product which is an online docket access, research and tracking solution.

Treasurer, Helen Beaulieu, reported a balance on hand as of February 12, 2008 of $859.77 which includes dues collected at the October 20th 2007 meeting in the amount of $140.00.

Jessica Zairo said that she tried to contact the SLA regarding our assistance with the FLA conference in April, yet no one has responded. Cathy Rentschler tried, as well, and received no response.

The attendees were asked to approve a dollar amount for CFALL to spend on the Scholarship Silent Auction basket at the FLA conference in April. Jessica and Helen came up with initial ideas and some other ideas were added. In the end, Bill Cronin suggested spending between $100.00 and $200.00 and this amount was approved by all.

Jessica Zairo asked for volunteers to create a CFALL brochure and bookmarks to hand out at the SARC/FLA conference. Wanda Barrett, Helen Beaulieu & Jessica Zairo offered.

Jessica Zairo solicited ideas to acquire new members in CFALL. Suggestions included asking the members of SFALL to join our association. Another idea was to contact the Florida State Court County Law Libraries (FSCCLL) organization. Earlene Kuester recommended asking the law firm Librarians, who used to attend regularly, if there might be a better day to hold our meetings. Wanda Barrett is sending the CFALL email list to Helen Beaulieu so that emails can be sent to the law firms with a follow-up letter for emphasis.

Meeting adjourned at 12:45pm

President, Rebecca Trammell, welcomed all, introduced herself and asked the same of all in attendance. She discussed the upcoming SLA Southeastern Conference, Feb 27 to Feb 29 in St. Petersburg. Also in the Spring, the FLA conference will be on St. Pete Beach. Help with registration is especially needed and CFALL may volunteer to help.

Contact has been made with SIS and a joint meeting in December will be planned. The place and date are yet to be determined.

Unfortunately, the Secretary/Treasurer has left his position at PCLL and has resigned his office with CFALL. Rebecca Trammell called for volunteers. Nora Everlove said she would do it if no one else was interested. After the meeting, Helen Beaulieu said she could assume the duties. All parties present agreed to the change.

A complete and accurate membership roster needs to be compiled and Stetson needs to be billed as an institutional member. Dues remain at $15 per year for an individual and $30 per year for an institutional membership.

Our guest speaker was Dr. John Gathegi, Director of USF School of Library and Information Science. He discussed expanding copyright control and the factors affecting the expansion. In response to questions from our membership, Dr. Gathegi said he intended to create a “certificate program” for law librarians. The first step will include expanding law librarianship classes at USF. It was noted that Stetson in Tampa has graciously opened its doors to Special Library classes for local (as opposed to online) learners.

Wanda Barrett was thanked for making all of the lunch arrangements.

The meeting was adjourned.

The annual meeting of the Central Florida Association of Law Libraries was held at 11:45 on Tuesday, August 28, 2007, at the Stetson College of Law Tampa Campus, with twelve members in attendance.  The meeting was organized by Rebecca S. Trammell and Pamela Burdett, and the luncheon was graciously provided by Stetson College of Law. 

Vice President / President Elect Rebecca S. Trammell welcomed the group to Stetson, and discussed upcoming changes to the Tampa campus library.  The Library is expanding to the second floor of the Law Center, and will include additional reading rooms and  meeting space.

Cathy Rentschler, chair of the nominating committee, presented the slate of officers for 2007-2008 as follows:

President – Rebecca S. Trammell, Stetson College of Law

Vice President/President Elect – Jessica Zairo, Everlove & Associates

Secretary/Treasurer – Jeffrey Shibley, Pinellas County Law Library

It was moved and seconded that the slate be elected as presented and all present voted in favor.  Congratulations to the new officers, and thank you for graciously agreeing to serve the organizing in the coming year.

Rebecca S. Trammell led a discussion of future group meetings.  Pamela Burdett and Jessica Zairo will work on the October meeting, with a focus on inviting the new director of the University of South Florida School of Library and Information Science, John N. Gathegi, PhD, JD.  Pam and Jess will contact Dr. Gathegi to discuss arrangements for the October meeting.  Wanda Barrett will contact the Suncoast Information Specialists to discuss the possibility of holding a joint social event in December. 

Cathy Rentschler discussed several upcoming meetings in the Tampa Bay Area.  The Special Library Association Chapters of the South Atlantic states, (Florida & Caribbean, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia) are hosting the South Atlantic Regional Conference IV in the Carillon area of St. Petersburg, February 27-29, 2008.  In addition, the annual meeting of the Florida Library Association will be held in St. Pete Beach, April 23-25, 2008.  The group discussed several ways to provide assistance to the local arrangements committees for these two conferences, by providing lists of local restaurants or volunteering to stuff bags or man registration tables.  Cathy Rentschler will contact the FLA committee, and Nora Everlove will contact the SARC IV committee. 

Jessica Zairo addressed the group regarding the future of the Hillsborough County Law Library.  The Hillsborough County Commission is considering moving the law library into the public library, greatly reducing the print collection and the accessibility of legal information to the public.  Jessica Zairo, Rebecca S. Trammell and Wanda Barrett will draft a letter to be approved by the group via email, to send to the county commission in support of maintaining the independence of the library. 

Our treasury is in the hands of out-going president Keri White, who underwent spinal surgery this summer, and was unable to attend the meeting.  The current account balance is $937.15.  Jeffrey Shibley will work with Keri to transfer the account and deposit the dues collected at the meeting. 

Dues were collected from most members present at the meeting.  Membership forms were available at the meeting, and are available on CFALL’s website at http://www.tblc.org/cfall/membership_form.pdf. 

Rebecca S. Trammell introduced the speaker, Darlene L. Kelly, Executive Director of the Hillsborough Bar Foundation.  Ms. Kelly explained that the Foundation is the charitable arm of the Hillsborough County Bar Association.  The Foundation collects donations to support programs that provide legal assistance to the poor, including Bay Area Legal Services, the Spring of Tampa Bay and the Guardian Ad Litem program.  An annual dinner has raised over $100,000 over the past three years in support of these programs.  A new program was added this year, Connected By 25, which aims to bridge the gap of children who age out of social services.  Speakers at these dinners have included Tim Russert, Fred Thompson, and James Carvell.  The Chester H. Ferguson Law Center is under construction next door to the Tampa campus of Stetson College of Law.  The Center will house the Foundation and the Bar Association, and offers space for meetings and mediation.  Between the two buildings, entire conferences can be conducted at this location.

At the end of the meeting, a drawing was held for prizes donated by Lexis and Westlaw.  No one went away empty handed.

• The last annual meeting was held in November 2005.
• Checking account was updated to correct signers. A check card was obtained to make purchases easier.
• A $500.00 donation was made to the Library Science program at the University of South Florida in the name of Madison Mosley.
  

• Keri White asked that we try to set up CFALL meeting dates as soon as possible.
• Cathy Rentschler told us about the 6th Annual Advanced Management Conference of Law Librarian in Dallas, TX in 4/2007. No cost for conference but you must apply and be selected.
• Should CFALL Continue? Was the main question asked. Keri asked for feed back via email about suggestions, ideas, etc.
• Bill Cronin asked if the CFALL group email list is working and it is.
• Participants were asked to consider joining some of the committees. The committees consist of Program, Bylaws, Newsletter, Membership and Nominating for 2007.
• Future program ideas were discussed including programs sponsored by vendors.
• Jay Fakterowitz offered a Westlaw presentation.
• Rebecca Trammell offered to host a meeting at the Stetson Tampa campus in downtown Tampa.
• BYLAWS COMMITTEE: Bill Cronin, Cathy Rentschler, Helen Beaulieu, Wanda Barrett - to submit bylaws changes to the group by March
• FUTURE MEETINGS:
  BOARD MEETING January
  BYLAWS COMMITTEE MEETING February
  GENERAL MEETING April