Annual Meeting Roundtables

The Law Repository Caucus hosts round table discussions during the caucus meeting at the AALL Annual Meeting. Below is the list of topics discussed and, when available, summaries of the discussions. 

2020 (Virtual)	IRs, Access, and Metadata Challenges Impacts and Challenges of our Current Environment You, Too, Can Help Prevent [Metadata] Fires--Librarians as IR "Firemen" What are YOU Doing?--Let's Chat!: Member Sharing Time Covering Projects of all Sorts and Sizes
2019 (Washington D.C.)	USNWR/Hein and Scholarly Impact Workflows and Marketing Your Repository
2018 (Baltimore)	Alternative Repository Platforms: Explore the wide world of Digital Asset Management Systems Elsevier's Acquisition of Bepress and SSRN: Learn about the pilot project to integrate Digital Commons and SSRN records Promoting and Marketing: Promote your repository, both to users and to stakeholders Metadata Standards and Inconsistencies: Discuss cataloging issues for digital repositories IR Tips & Tools Revisited: Reprising the Caucus's popular webinar on repository administration
2017 (Austin)	Special Collections: The unique challenges of hosting special collections in IRs The Many Platforms: The strengths and weaknesses of various Digital Repositories Faculty Participation in IRs: Challenges and methods for getting faculty to participate in IRs Metrics: Different tools for collecting metrics and how collected data are currently utilized Wildcard
2016 (Chicago)	Analytics/Metrics/Reporting Scholarship Tracking sites (ResearchGate, HeinAuthorPortal): How these services relate to our repository programs SSRN/Mendeley/Elsevier: What do we know and how will it impact our repositories Starting a Repository: Questions and Advice Wildcard