AALL Wrap-Up Awards: Session Law (Librarian) award

The final award, the Session Law (Librarian) award is going to the most memorable, best, or my favorite session at the conference.

Winner: Energize! Teleporting to Second Life: Exploring the Legal and Library Communities in a Virtual World, presented by D. Prano Amjadi, Kate Fitz, and Meg Kribble

I have to admit that I haven’t really gotten into Second Life at all, and in fairness this presentation is not likely to make me more geared towards trying it out. But it was still a well done and effective presentation. The angle it took of discussing Second Life from its potential for education was very helpful.

All the speakers were well prepared and gave good talks. There was even a presentation from a fourth speaker from within Second Life which was very well done. There was also a video discussing forays into Second Life by library students at San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science.

Honorable Mention: Cool Tools: Energizing Law Librarianship with Web 2.0, presented by Victoria J. Szymczak, Kincaid C. Brown, Deborah Ginsberg, Barbara Ginzburg, Jewel Makda, Bonnie Shucha

This session gets honorable mention for the interesting format. It included a presentation by several panelists, after which there were small breakout sessions. People could roam around the room listening to parts of several breakout sessions, or they could listen to an entire breakout session if they wanted to. This was a very interesting format, and a great way to break up a 90 minute time block.