{"id":654,"date":"2018-07-23T19:28:01","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/?p=654"},"modified":"2018-07-23T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T19:42:11","slug":"aall-2018-lil-goes-to-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/2018\/07\/23\/aall-2018-lil-goes-to-baltimore\/","title":{"rendered":"AALL 2018: LIL goes to Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last weekend members of the LIL team traveled to Baltimore for the annual gathering of the <\/span>American Association of Law Libraries<\/span><\/a> (AALL). Armed with our new business cards (thanks Anastasia) and freshly pressed buttons (thanks LILterns) Brett, Adam and I were ready to attend sessions, catch up with colleagues and hit the exhibit hall.<\/span><\/p>\n

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We kicked the weekend off with a keynote speech from Baltimore\u2019s own John Waters, author and director of boundary-pushing cult films such as \u201cHairspray\u201d and \u201cPink Flamingos\u201d.\u00a0Beyond his connection to the conference’s host city, his appearance seemed at first to be an odd fit. However, as he pointed out, \u201clibrarians are brave, smart and sometimes pissed off…and they stand up for people who get overlooked\u201d – all qualities he tries to get at in his movies. His thoughts on access to books for prisoners, the risks of censorship, and equality got everyone ready for the next couple of days.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our friends at <\/span>LIPA<\/span><\/a> once again generously shared their exhibit hall table with the LIL team, for which we\u2019re exceedingly grateful. It was great to work alongside Margie Maes, champion of LIL and Executive Director of LIPA who <\/span>will be retiring this month<\/span><\/a>. Congratulations, Margie! We will miss her, but were also thrilled to meet her successor, Michelle as well. Here\u2019s to future collaborations!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A big goal of ours during AALL (in addition to spreading the word about new-and-improved H20, progress on the Caselaw Access Project, and new batch link creation for Perma) was to seek feedback and thoughts from colleagues about link and citation rot in the broader context. We\u2019ve been rooted in our home of an academic law library – but<\/span> we are seeking input and thoughts about linkrot in other industries and contexts. <\/b><\/p>\n

We want to know: <\/span>Who<\/b> thinks linkrot is a problem for the flow of information and citation? What is their\u00a0<\/span>job<\/b>? What kind of content is <\/span>especially susceptible<\/b> to the dreaded 404 error? <\/span>At what points<\/b> in the creation of the content are citations and links added? Whose <\/span>responsibility<\/b> is that? Are you seeing <\/span>solutions<\/b> to this problem? Email us! We\u2019d love to talk. <\/span><\/p>\n

Stay tuned for some of the answers we got during conversations at AALL! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last weekend members of the LIL team traveled to Baltimore for the annual gathering of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Armed with our new business cards (thanks Anastasia) and freshly pressed buttons (thanks LILterns) Brett, Adam and I were ready to attend sessions, catch up with colleagues and hit the exhibit hall. We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RYx6-ay","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}