Holiday Party – December 4

This years ABLL Holiday party is going to be held at Trident Booksellers on Newbury Street! FREE for ABLL Members $50 for Non-ABLL Members The payment can be applied towards the fee for a new membership if established by 12/31/24 Fill out this form to help tailor the party    

Librarians and Libations – October 28th

Join your colleagues for another Librarians and Libations! Meet up with your colleagues after work this month at The Dubliner for the next Librarians and Libations! Be sure to RSVP if you plan to attend. Date: Monday October 28th Time: 5:30pm Location:  The Dubliner | 2 Center Plz, Boston, MA 02108 RSVP to caroline.safreed@wilmerhale.com ****Cash Bar****  

Welcome Back Bash: Tuesday September 17th

Join your colleagues for drinks and appetizers at the Merchant in Downtown Crossing, Tuesday September 17 at 5:30! Please be sure to RSVP to Caroline Safreed (caroline.safreed@wilmerhale.com) if you are planning on attending! The Merchant 60 Franklin Street Boston, MA 02110  

Author Talk with Susan Zalkind: Tuesday, September 24th at 3pm (in person at Social Law Library)

The Waltham Murders: One Woman’s Pursuit to Expose the Truth Behind a Murder and a National Tragedy.   Need a summer read recommendation? Look no further than Waltham! Local journalist Susan Zalkind will be at the Social Law Library on September 24th to talk to ABLL members about her book the Waltham Murders and the way she approached this research. You can also learn about this gruesome triple homicide in the ABC News documentary The … Read more

Tuesday, August 27 at Noon (Zoom): Brown Bag: Assessing and Choosing News Aggregators

This is a panel presentation with a discussion to follow. Three ABLL firm members will present the processes they went through in order to evaluate different news aggregators, which products they selected, how they rolled it out to their stakeholders, and the pros and cons of each. There will be a discussion after the presentation for participants to ask questions and offer their own tips and tricks. Products being discussed include Vable, Osmosys, Newsdesk, Manzama, … Read more

Librarians and Libations

Librarians and Libations at Citrus and Salt! Be sure to RSVP to Caroline if you plan to attend. Date: Wednesday, July 31st Time: 5:30pm Location:  Citrus & Salt | 319 A St, Boston, MA 02210 RSVP to caroline.safreed@wilmerhale.com ****Cash Bar****

5/14: Virtual Brown Bag: eBooks: Best Practices and How to Increase Adoption

eBooks: Best Practices and How to Increase Adoption.   Tuesday, May 14th at noon by Zoom: Brown Bag, hosted by David Goldman and Christie Schauder   Some topics that will be covered: • How are firms using eBooks today if at all. (i.e. replacement for print desk sets) • Do eBooks have a specific purpose in the current legal research landscape or are they merely duplicative of existing content • What are the challenges to … Read more

4/26: ABLL/LLNE Spring Conference: History in Law | Law in History

For full details please see: http://llnespring2024.socialaw.com/ Presented by ABLL and LLNE Hosted by the Social Law Library Morning Session: Professor Akhil Reed Amar, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale Law School. Hon. Scott L. Kafker, Associate Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Professor Amar is a renowned legal historian and constitutional-law scholar who has been cited by U.S. Supreme Court justices in more than 45 cases.  His most recent book, The Words That … Read more

2/27: Brown Bag: We have access to that?

Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at NOON – “We have access to that?” : When you hear that, don’t you feel like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day”? How do we inform users about our subscription resources? How do we measure the value of these resources to our users? This brown bag meeting is based on a discussion den topic from AALL 2023 (prior attendance not required). Andrea Rasmussen at Latham & Watkins is hosting this hybrid … Read more