LPSS Conferences & Events
Final 2012 Annual Conference Schedule
Please join LPSS in Anaheim, California for the ALA Annual Conference.
Friday, June 22
* 7:30-8:30 PM - Executive Committee Meeting
DIsneyland Hotel, Frontier Boardroom (in Frontier Tower)
* 8:30-10:00 PM - LPSS Annual Conference Social at Tortilla Jo's (1510 Disneyland Dr, Anaheim, CA)
If you would like to attend, please RSVP Brian Coutts at brian.coutts@wku.edu or (210) 745-6121.
Saturday, June 23
* 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM - All Committee Meetings
Disneyland Hotel, Castle A & B Rooms (Lower Level)
* 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM - General Membership Meeting
Disneyland Hotel, Wilderness Room (in Frontier Tower)
* 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM - "National Security vs. the Right to Know," Social Responsibilities Round Table/LPSS Conference Program
Hilton Anaheim, Pacific B Room (Second Floor)
* 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM - Discussion Group **CANCELLED**
Sunday, June 24
* 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM - the Marta Lange/CQ Press awards event. RSVP available at the end of April 2012.
Disneyland Hotel, Castle A & B Rooms (Lower Level)
National Security vs. the Right to Know: 2012 Annual SRRT/LPSS Program
What is the line between protecting society and defending the truth? The ALA Social Responsibilities Round Table (SRRT), along with the Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) of ACRL will present “National Security vs. the Right to Know,” a panel discussion during the 2012 ALA Annual Conference that will address the potential conflict between security concerns and the requirements of transparency, democracy, free press and the protection of whistleblowers. The panel will take place Saturday June 23, 1:30-3:30 pm in the Pacific B ballroom at the Hilton Anaheim. View the Instruction Committee's related LibGuide.
“National Security vs the Right to Know” will include featured speaker William Binney, who served with the National Security Agency (NSA) for over 30 years, including serving as director of the NSA’s World Geopolitical and Military Analysis Reporting Group. Since his retirement in 2001, he has become a whistleblower, warning that the NSA’s data-mining program has become so vast that it could "create an Orwellian state."
Mr. Binney will be joined by Emma Cape, organizer for the Bradley Manning Support Network, named for Pfc. Bradley Manning, who stands accused of passing classified information to Wikileaks, and Patrice McDermott, director of OpenTheGovernment.org and former director of the ALA Office for Government Relations.
Archived Conference Information
- 2011 Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
- Minutes: Executive Committee | General Membership Meeting
- Program: The Legal Consequences of Environmental Crises: What Librarians Need to Know about the Gulf Oil Spill with Jenna Ryan, Robert Gramling, and Jonathan Ramseur. Read Western Kentucky University Library's summary of the program. View the conference pathfinder/bibliography.
- 2011 Midwinter Meeting, San Diego, CA
- Minutes: Executive Committee | General Membership Meeting
- 2010 Annual Conference, Washington, DC
- Minutes: Executive Committee | General Membership Meeting
- Program: Participatory Democracy in an Internet Age with Bryce Cullinane, Dave Karpf, and Decker Ngongang. View the conference pathfinder/bibliography or listen to the podcast of the program. See Dr. Karpf's presentation.
- 2010 Midwinter Meeting, Boston, MA
- Minutes: Executive Committee | General Membership Meeting
- 2009 American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON
- LPSS-GODORT Preconference/Short Course, "Library 2.0: Knowledge, Power, and Pedagogy in Net Space -- Evolving Collaborations and Roles" Welcome by Bruce Pencek, ACRL LPSS, and Jenny Mendelsohn, University of Toronto
- Workshop I: "'Stories': How to Help Undergrads Discover, Define, and Keep their Research on Track" - Virginia Tech. See presentations by Scott Nelson, Scott Nelson and Craig Brians, and Craig Brians and Bruce Pencek.
- Workshop II: "A Collaborative Model for Maximal Learning in the M.A. Political Science Research Seminar: Faculty, Graduate Student and Librarian Perspectives" - University of Toronto. See presentations by Michael Stein, Evan Rosevear, and Jenny Mendelsohn.
- Plenary I: "Who are They Really? Studying the Millennial Generation’s Research Behaviors" - University of Rochester, Ann Marshall (video unavailable)
- Plenary II: "Distributed collaboration through Accessible Cyberinfrastructure-enabled Knowledge Communities." See presentation by Derrick Cogburn.
- 2009 Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
- Minutes: Executive Committee and the General Membership
- Program: Political Engagement: Facilitating Greater Participation in Civil Society with Elizabeth Hollander, Nancy Kranich, Joanne Griffin and Holly Sorensen. Listen to the program podcast or view the pathfinder/bibliography.
- Vendor/Publisher Review Committee Discussion Group: "Political Science Databases and Publishers Roundup: EBSCO, ProQuest and Sage"
- 2009 Midwinter Conference, Denver, CO - LPSS's first virtual conference
- Minutes: Executive Committee | General Membership
- 2008 Annual Conference, Anaheim, CA
- Minutes: Executive Committee | General Membership
- Program: Giving Voters a Voice with Direct Democracy with Herbert Cihak, Kareem Crayton, and Romulo Rivera.
- Direct Democracy Research: Background and Sources for Scholars and Voters conference program pathfinder/bibliography
- Got Elections? Informing the Public Preconference
- 2008 Midwinter Conference, Philadelphia, PA
- Minutes: Executive Committee | General Membership
- Library Instruction Discussion Group, "The Political Science Information Literacy Standards"
- 2007 Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
- Minutes: Executive Committee | General Membership
- Can Blogs Be Trusted? conference program pathfinder/bibliography
- Blogs and related technologies panel presentation and discussion:
- Blogs for Anticipatory Reference and User Awareness , Jennie M. Burroughs
- Blogs...now Wikis? What's Next in Social Software , Cathy Carpenter
- Who Reads ‘em? presentation and handout, Jennie Gerke
- Philadelphia: City of Brotherly Love and Political Blogging , Julie Still
- 2007 Midwinter Conference, Seattle, WA
- minutes: Executive Committee | General Membership
- Library Instruction Discussion Session, "Google Scholar and Wikipedia"
- 2006 Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
- 2006 ALA Midwinter Conference, San Antonio, TX
- 2005 ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
- Making Sense of Public Affairs Research: What the Pros Can Teach Us conference program pathfinder, bibliography and Investigative Reporting and The Big Story presentations
- 2005 ALA Midwinter Conference, Boston, MA
- 2004 ALA Annual Conference, Orlando, FL
- 2004 ALA Midwinter Meeting, San Diego, CA
- 2003 ALA Annual Conference, Toronto, Ontario
- Minutes
- Program: Crossing New Borders: Globalization and Copyright
- 2003 ALA Midwinter Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
- 2002 ALA Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA
- Program: Librarians in the Big Leagues: Are You Ready for the Teaching Academy?
- 2002 ALA Midwinter Meeting, New Orleans, LA
- 2001 ALA Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA
- 2001 ALA Midwinter Meeting, Washington, DC
- 2000 ALA Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
- Agenda
- Program: Legal Websites Aren't Just for Lawyers
- 2000 ALA Midwinter Meeting, San Antonio, TX
- 1999 ALA Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA
- Agenda
- Program: Politics of Scholarly Communication
- 1999 ALA Midwinter Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
- Historical information on older conferences
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