At your service: Military veterans Steve Gagner and Matt Kehaya deploy righteous beer, and enlisted Brewmaster Dan Sartwell to expand and improve the payload. They're based in St. Albans, Vermont — and find common cause with several regional charities.Beer Talkin' co-hosts Jeff Baker and Jason Strempek, as always, keep the peace.…

Which came first: Beer or Music? Matt Wilson, co-founder of Zero Gravity Craft Brewery in Burlington, VT, talks about the company's musical connections with Chelsea Lafayette, managing director of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival.What's in the Fridge: Zero Gravity's "Bob White" (a Whitbier, ABV 5.0 percent) and ZG "Keller," (dry-hopped lager, …

"Promote the Brew" podcaster Steve Schmidt joins Jeff & Jason for a dive into logos, branding, design and shelf-appeal.Par Farrell Distributing and Burlington Free Press

What is beer, anyway? Why does it pair well with ponderous thoughts?Jeff Baker hosts fellow philosophers Tyler Doggett (who actually teaches philosophy at University of Vermont) and Kenny Richards (who thoughtfully produces ginger beers at Halyard Brewing) in a mostly coherent quest for some answers.What's in the Fridge: Baker is joined by co-host …

Special guests will include, Scott Pagel, Teresa Miguel-Stearns, Frank Houdek, and Darin Fox, current and past members of the ABA Data Policy and Collection Committee and noted experts in law library data and statistics. Regular line up of co-hosts and pundits includes: Ken Hirsh, Elizabeth Farrell Clifford, Roger Skalbeck, Mandy Lee, and Greg Lamb…

Hosted by Richard Leiter, host of Law Librarian Conversations, this episode will focus on a general discussion of issues of concern to the Diversity Committee of the American Association of Law Libraries.Par Richard Leiter

The PLLIP Board invites everyone to a town hall to discuss status of PLLIP.Par Richard Leiter

Our panelists will discuss issues about how citizens access primary state legal material. Our democracy presupposes an informed and educated citizenry, but modern technology has thrown some unexpected monkey wrenches into system and we're all - librarians, citizens, courts and states themselves are working out methods for providing free, unfettered…

Ever increasing number of states that now call for tech competency in their rules of professional conduct. What should law librarians be doing in this sphere. What is our role in teaching technologies that are out of the sphere of legal research? Our panel of experts includes Darin Fox, University of Oklahoma School of Law, Michael Robak, Univesity…

LawLibCon welcomes a new regular co-host, Elizabeth Farrell Clifford. She joins Roger Skalbeck and Richard Leiter in this months "reunion" episode. Mandy Lee joins Richard in studio in the chat room. Special guests this month are Greg Lambert and Jean O'Grady. The discussion ranges over regular news in the field and ends with a discussion of librar…

Join us in our final recap of the AALL Annual Meeting.Par Richard Leiter

Join us for a re-cap of Day Two of the AALL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.Par Richard Leiter

First in a series of daily wrap-ups from the Annual Meeting.Par Richard Leiter

Our panelists will discuss Preservation Week activities and issues, the latest on Net Neutrality and other topics from around the world of law librarianship. Guests include AALL President, Holly Riccio, AALL Board Member Greg Lambert, Emily Feltren and Elizabeth Holland of AALL's Government Affairs Office, Sarah Glassmeyer, CALI, Melissa Bernstein,…

As the numbers of print titles continues to decline law libraries, libraries must address the question of how to re-structure technical services departments' staffs to meet the needs of largely non-print libraries. The names of departments are changing, the nature of the work is changing and the sizes of tech services departments are changing, too!…

This month we'll talk with Professors Penny Hazelton and Mike Chiorazzi about law librarianship as a career and about law library education. NOTE to new listeners: For this episode, I used a new microphone set up and it picked up lots of paper shuffling - and it's annoying. We've identified the problem and future shows will be much cleaner and easi…

Roger, Marcia and Rich will review developments for 2014 - we're catching up after an extended break. We will be joined by regular panelist, Sarah Glassmeyer of CALI. Together we'll be welcoming special guests, Holly Riccio, President of AALL and Emily Feltren, AALL's Director of Government Relations. We're excited to hear how Holly is adapting to …

The PLL Board will discuss the challenges facing today's firm librarians. Among those challenges, we'll discuss whether the term "librarian" is still a good label for what information professionals do in their firms.Par Richard Leiter

Our panel will welcome Elmer Masters from CALI to discuss tech training of law students. We'll also discuss the recent spate of retirements in the law library world, the Edicts of Government Amendment and, talk generally about new developments in the world of legal bibliography and law libraries.Par Richard Leiter

Today's topic include Thomson Reuters' recent announcements regarding business emphases, FreeLaw developments & metada, Google+ and much more. Special Guests, Jean O'Grady (Library Director at DLA Piper) & Elmer Masters (Director of Internet Development at CALI), will join Hosts Richard Leiter, Marcia Dority Baker and Panelists, Ken Hirsh, Sarah Gl…

The panel will be discussing news and issues of general interest to law libraries: Fall conferences and activities, PLL-Summit, UELMA, vendor developments.Par Richard Leiter

Guests Jeremy Sullivan, Jean O'Grady and Joan Axelroth will join me to discuss the upcoming PLL-Summit and all things PLL.Par Richard Leiter

Lou Andreozzi, Chairman of Bloomberg Law will be a special guest on the podcast and will briefly discuss the BNA acquisition and integration with BLAW. Michelle Pearse, Ben Keele & Valeri Craigle will also join our panel to discuss ways that law libraries and law librarians are uniquely equipped to help academic law journals become all that they sh…

Our panel will review developments in legal bibliography and law librarianship in 2011 and prognosticate about what to expect in 2012.Par Richard Leiter

The panel will discuss various developments since our last conversation and look forward to what's happening this summer: CALI, AALL and more?Par Richard Leiter

A special panel of guests will be on hand to discuss the future of libraries from many different angles. John Palfrey, Ken Hirsh, Sarah Glassmeyer, Greg Lambert, Elizabeth Farrell, and others will take the conversation wherever it will go.... We'll also discuss the ABA's proposed new tenure standards for library directors, and progress on the NCCUS…

Panelists AALL President Joyce Janto, AALL Vendor Liaison Margi Maes, law librarian blogger extraordinaire Greg Lambert, and Cincinnati/Hamilton County Law Library Director and CRIV member Mary Jenkins will discuss AALL's Vendor Colloquium held recently in Chicago.Par Richard Leiter

Greg Lambert, Ken Hirsch and Mark Estes are special guests for a discussion of WestlawNext. Keith Ann Stieverson calls in for a discussion of the Draft NCCUSL Authentication and Preservation of State Electronic Legal Materials Act. Margie Maes and Roger Skalbeck join host Richard Leiter and Co-host Marcia Dority Baker on this week's podcast.…

We'll discuss the development and impact of the Durham Statement with two of the statement's champions, John Palfrey and Dick Danner.Par Richard Leiter

Bob Berring, Connie Crosby, Roger Skalbeck, Marcia Dority Baker and Richard Leiter discuss some of the important issues of the day.Par Richard Leiter

Connie Crosby, Marcia Dority Baker, Tracy Thompson Pryzluki, Roger Skalbeck and I will discuss this year's developments in the world of legal bibliography and law libraries - we'll also look ahead and try to forecast what to expect next year.Par Richard Leiter

This month we'll discuss Google Scholar's new Legal Opinions and Journals, xyggy.com and more.Par Richard Leiter

Carl Malamud, of Public.Resource.org will be our guest. We'll discuss Law.Gov and other digital preservation and open access issues.Par Richard Leiter

We'll discuss how to use, and why we should or shouldn't use in libraries Twitter, Facebook, Martindale-Hubbell Connect, WorldCat.org, Plurk, and all the other social media tools.Par Richard Leiter

We're going to be talking to a group of firm librarians about what resources are being used in law firms today.Par Richard Leiter

We'll discuss highlights of this year's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. [NOTE: This show features some annoying interruptions, such as a fire alarm going off halfway through the show just outside the office where we were recording. And a dog barking. I apologize for inconvenience. Not for the levity. RL]…

We will discuss law library consortia and their roles in supporting members expand their services and extend their purchasing power. Tracy Thompson, executive director of NELLCO will be our special guest.Par Richard Leiter

We will discuss the challenges of electronic titles in law libraries. How should these materials be cataloged, if at all? How should access to digital collections effect our collection practices and policies?Par Richard Leiter

We will discuss move of University Presses other publishers to publish in digital format and the consequences and logistics of adjusting to this. How do libraries "collect" such material? How do we manage it?Par Richard Leiter

This week's topics will be govtrack.us, open access to government information, Lexis and Westlaw's stock prices and the Durham StatementPar Richard Leiter

This month we will discuss, Twitter as a news source, the end of supplementation of treatises, what books are good for and ChinaPar Richard Leiter

The semester begins.... orientations, new faculty, new year: what worked, what didn't. Please join us for a dialog about beginning the new year.Par Richard Leiter

Special Guest will be Jim Milles, SUNY Buffalo who will talk about a few of his favorite things - technology wise: blogging, podcasting, and their application to law librarianship. We'll also talk about the upcoming Annual Meeting in Portland.Par Richard Leiter

Richard Leiter and Brian Striman explore and and all issues of concern to law libraries, law librarians, legal bibliography and the profession.Par Richard Leiter