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Must-Have Program Topics

The Annual Meeting Program Committee will compile a list of “must-have” program topics (see FAQ) for the 2026 Annual Meeting & Conference鈥�timely topics that 糖心视频 members have identified as being vital to their professional education. These topics support various competencies and skills comprising 糖心视频’s Body of Knowledge (BoK) domains.

Review the 糖心视频 2026 “must-have” program topics by Body of Knowledge domain:

  • Professionalism + Leadership at Every Level

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    Shepherding Our Careers

    1. Leadership skills that empower us to influence policy, mentor peers, and drive innovation
    2. Managing up and sideways
    3. Navigating the tenure process
    4. Defining your role when there is no documentation

    Collaboration, Communication, and Cooperation

    1. Working with internal and external partners to enhance library services and visibility
    2. Showcasing how collaboration and cooperation efforts can enhance services

    Approaching Work with Wellness

    1. Setting and maintaining boundaries, creating balance, managing overburden
    2. Finding and maintaining passion
    3. Minimizing perfectionism
    4. Embracing new models of excellence in librarianship

    Different Faces, Different Roles of Law Library Workers

    1. Explore specialized law library work
    2. Non-traditional and unconventional roles law library staff fill and/or lead in their larger organizations

    Navigating Professional Ethics and Institutional Standards

    1. Advocacy, strategy, priorities, and legislative efforts to enhance our professional ethics
    2. Historical impacts on today鈥檚 law libraries

  • Research + Analysis

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    FCIL Research

    1. Basic foreign law research
    2. Foreign court research
    3. Foreign law research on a budget
    4. Covering a range of skill levels and work environment

    Legislative and Regulatory Research

    1. Regulatory research, including regulatory agency dockets and histories
    2. Resources for legislative histories
    3. Using GenAI to assist in legislative and regulatory histories

    Best Practices in Using Technology for Research

    1. Verifying citations and identifying hallucinations
    2. Leveraging data and analytics
    3. Current awareness 鈥� creating and managing alerts for all content types

    Legal Information Professionals as Investigators

    1. Using public records in competitive intelligence
    2. Creating best practices for finding and using public records
    3. Using financial data in competitive intelligence reports

    Developing Integration of Research Tools

    1. Creating benchmarking for AI and other technology resources
    2. Developing process for integrating new tools into the research process
    3. Comparing general and niche research tools

  • Information Management

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    Preservation and Collection Management

    1. Digitization lifecycle
    2. Digital ownership and retention
    3. Collection and digitization policies

    Collaboration and Information Sharing

    1. Library internal knowledge bases
    2. Open access
    3. Institutional repositories
    4. Knowledge management
    5. Collaborative collections

    Cataloging and Classification Systems

    1. AI work/tools for cataloging
    2. Classification
    3. Metadata

    Accessibility and Website Usability

    1. Information access
    2. Changes to ADA requirements for digitization
    3. Discovery and searching optimizations

    Standards and Best Practices

    1. Efficiencies and workflows
    2. Incorporating AI
    3. Fair use and copyright compliance

  • Teaching + Training

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    Teaching in Law School Settings

    1. Understanding current and future generations, where they are coming from, and how to support them moving forward
    2. Helping students regain attention span and management, reducing digital distractions, promoting deep reading
    3. Preparing students for clerkships and internships with government libraries/offices
    4. Working with law firms to prepare students for internships and practice

    Teaching Beyond Law School Settings

    1. Designing effective training for lawyers with adult learning theory
    2. How to bridge the gap between the AI skills taught in law schools and the way AI is used (or not) in law firms and courts
    3. Training attorneys and the public in ethical and responsible AI usage and how to identify AI hallucinations
    4. Best practices for creating instructional materials for new lawyers, law clerks, and pro se patrons

    Teaching and Training Professional Skills and Behaviors

    1. Helping students, including research assistants, develop their professional identities and professional skills
    2. Training law students, lawyers, and librarians about responsible AI usage and identifying AI hallucinations
    3. Working with different law school departments to teach emotional intelligence, study habits, professionalism, communication

    Teaching Non-Research Classes

    1. Librarians teaching non-research courses (ex: copyright, etc.)
    2. Teaching students to identify when to use AI for a task compared to doing that task the 鈥渙ld fashioned鈥� way
    3. Teaching non-research technology skills (Word, Excel, data analytics, etc.)
    4. Teaching legal history or using historical collections to teach legal concepts

    Instructional Design

    1. Celebrating classroom failures to create better classes, better teachers
    2. Teaching philosophies, instructional design principles, and adult learning theory
    3. How to design research exercises that prepare students for the Next Gen Bar
    4. Using AI to develop instructional sessions and materials
    5. Best practices and tools for creating asynchronous and on-demand materials, such as videos, podcasts, filing packets, and LibGuides

  • Marketing + Outreach

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    Support and Outreach for Diverse Users

    1. Incarcerated and decarcerated patrons
    2. Foreign-language speaking patrons
    3. Immigrants and undocumented patrons
    4. Patrons with disabilities
    5. First-gen students and first-gen lawyers

    Collaboration and Partnership Opportunities

    1. Partnering with other departments within your institution
    2. Building and maintaining community partnerships
    3. Public legal education
    4. Access to justice

    Marketing Our Own Professional Value

    1. Using metrics and data to convey our value
    2. Conveying our value in the age of AI
    3. Capitalizing on our expertise with emerging technologies
    4. Self-marketing and self-promotion of libraries and librarians
    5. Communicating the skills and services that librarians and libraries offer to current and future generations

    Outreach with Technology and Tools

    1. Branding as a tool
    2. Virtual or AI reference including chat or chatbots
    3. Emerging technologies for outreach

    General Education and Marketing

    1. Marketing special collections and e-resources
    2. Publicizing collection or policy changes
    3. Supporting organizational publications and marketing
    4. Creative marketing to reach new patrons and engage the community

  • Management + Business Acumen

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    Staff Development & Wellness from the Ground Up

    1. Recruitment, interviewing, onboarding, retention and succession planning for managers
    2. Cultivating a positive and welcoming work/organizational culture
    3. Learning from past mistakes, best and worst practices
    4. Leading a diverse and/or intergenerational team

    Strategic Planning & Change Management

    1. Basic and advanced strategic planning skills
    2. Change management to meet new library needs/demands
    3. Employee engagement and collaboration as a vehicle for better productivity, workplace satisfaction, and outcomes
    4. Reimagining the law firm librarian

    Managing Budgets, Collections, & Vendors 鈥� Beyond the Basics

    1. Vendor consolidations, contract management, and negotiations
    2. Budgeting for services, personnel, and resources, doing more with less
    3. Weeding and (re)arranging physical collections and spaces

    Measuring & Communicating Impact

    1. Advocating for yourself, your staff, and/or your library
    2. Combating the devaluation and underfunding of positions
    3. Redefining customer service
    4. (Re)creating and/or utilizing library advisory committees to your advantage

    General Business Skills

    1. Basic and advanced project management skills
    2. Librarians as entrepreneurs
    3. Integrating technology beyond AI, a manager鈥檚 perspective