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16 PLL Persp. 1 (2004-2005)

handle is hein.lbr/aaplper0016 and id is 1 raw text is: THE QUARTERLY OF THE PRIVATE LAW LIBRARIES SiS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES Volume 16 Issue 1 BJMB LING IN BOSTON: MY FIRS1EXPERIENCE ATTHE AAI CONVENTION by Jennifer Schroth Tusche, Drinker Biddle & Reath Philadelphia, PA The 2004 AALL convention in Boston was not only my first trip to Boston but also my first real experience of the AALL convention. To be honest, this was my first convention ever! I arrived a day in advance to allow a little time to enjoy the city before diving into the hefty schedule I had devised for myself. I must say, I absolutely loved visiting Boston. I strolled through some of the lovely gardens, browsed various shops and went on one of the historic Boston trolley tours. I even had the opportunity to attend a Red Sox game, which was high on my list of activities. Being in Fenway Pa-a-a-rk with its rich baseball history and the huge, energetic crowd was definitely a memorable experience. I have never had so much fun at a baseball game. To be truthful, the convention is a bit overwhelming to a first-timer. My original schedule, consisting of days packed with various lectures, exhibits, lunches, dinners and tours somewhat went out the window by the end of the second day. There was just no way I could do everything I had originally planned on doing. One of my major frustrations was that most things that I wanted to attend were held at the same time. Nw this was a dilemma. At first I tried juggling. If there were two lectures I wanted to hear, I would go to one then leave half way through to catch the last half of the other. When there were two events going on at the same time that I felt I really must attend, I did the same thing. Thus, in the first few days I felt like I was constantly on the run and I should have brought my sneakers instead of my fashionable high- heeled sandals. I quickly realized that this plan was not going to work, especially since I felt I was losing out by not being able to stay to finish hearing some very interesting presentations. There were several lectures I attended that provided me with useful and insightful information. I tended to focus my attention on the information technology series of programs offered. One such lecture, CreativeCommons. org: Publishing in the Digital Age was not quite what I expected. I went to the lecture mistakenly thinking it was going to discuss the types of digital projects librarians undertake. Instead, it dealt primarily with copyright issues in the digital age and how librarians are constantly struggling with what is or is not acceptable under this law. The first speaker, Elisabeth M. Long, from the University of Chicago Library, presented the law librarians' side in dealing with copyright. Because librarians have the responsibility to celebrate as well as safeguard the process of sharing information, copyright laws tend to cause librarians much frustration since these laws tend to keep our hands tied. Librarians are in turmoil because we not only want to abide by the law, but we also want to do our job, which is to provide our users with all the information they need. Strictly copyrighted materials frequently prevent us from doing this. Librarians recognize the barriers between making works available, safeguarding access and protecting authorship rights. Due to the fact that debate over creative control often leans toward the extreme, a group of cyber law and intellectual property experts founded CreativeCommons, which is an organization that devotes its time to increasing the range of available works so that others can share and build upon them. The speaker from CreativeCommons, Glen Otis Brown, stated that they are using private rights to create public goods. The expansion of intellectual protection is leaving fewer and fewer creative works in the public domain. Consequently, CreativeCommons tries to offer creators a way to utilize a best of both worlds approach that will not only protect a creator's work, but also encourage certain uses of it. They call it to declare some rights reserved. According to Glen Brown, their fundamental goal is to promote a culture of sharing, creative interaction and public education. Continued on page 4 P ECI S

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