VALL 2010 ANNUAL MEETING

Friday, October 29, 2010

University of Virginia Law Library, Charlottesville

Schedule of Events

9:00 – 10:00 a.m.                    Registration and Continental Breakfast (courtesy of LexisNexis Librarian Relations Group )

10:00 – 11:15 a.m.                  The Googlization of Everything

Speaker: Siva Vaidhyanathan

Siva Vaidhyanathan is a cultural historian and media scholar, and is currently an associate professor of media studies and law at the University of Virginia.  He is a frequent contributor on media and cultural issues in various periodicals including The Chronicle of Higher Education, New York Times Magazine, The Nation, and Salon.com, and he maintains a blog, www.googlizationofeverything.com.  He also frequently contributes to National Public Radio and to MSNBC.COM and has appeared in a segment of "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart.  Vaidhyanathan is a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book.  His book, The Googlization of Everything, will be published in early 2011.

11:15 – 11:30 a.m.                 Break

11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.         Reference 2010: The Sky Is Falling and a New Day Dawns

Speakers:

Benjamin Doherty, University of Virginia Law Library
Kent Olson, University of Virginia Law Library

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.                   Lunch (courtesy of West, a Thomson Reuters business)

1:30 – 2:00 p.m.                     Business Meeting

The Virginia Association of Law Libraries executive board and program committee would also like to acknowledge and thank the LexisNexis Librarian Relations Group for its sponsorship of the gifts presented to the speakers at this meeting.

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