The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School hosts a conference today (webcast here) on The Future of Law Libraries:

This is supposed to be the future of law libraries. A decade into the 21st century, how is it working? Is the digital utopia all it’s cracked up to be? What’s taken off like a rocket? What’s misfiring? Join us on June 16, 2011 for a day of reviewing where we’ve come from, looking at how the predictions panned out, examining what’s going well, and dissecting missteps. We’ll also discuss and critique blueprints for the next iterations of our future.

Welcome:  John Palfrey (Harvard)

Opening Keynote:  Robert Berring (UC-Berkeley)

The Open Law Movement

Provocateur:  Carl Malamud (PublicResource.org), 12 Tables or 7-11?
Respondent:  Joe Hodnicki (Butler County Law Library), Print is Just a Technical Accident

The Open Access Movement

Provocateur:  Richard Danner (Duke)
Respondent:  June Liebert (John Marshall)

The Open Collections Movement

Provocateur:  Robert Darnton (Harvard), Google’s Loss: The Public’s Gain.
Respondent:  Siva Vaidhyanathan (Virginia), The Googlization of Everything

Working Together
Provocateur:  Michelle Wu (Georgetown), Building a Collaborative Digital Collection, a Necessary Evolution in Libraries

Hacking the Casebook: eLangdell and other Studies in Cases
Provocateur:  Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard)
Respondent:  John P. Mayer (Executive Director, CALI)

Developing Human Resources: Skills Needed for Law Librarians of Today and the Future

Provocateur:  Kathie Price (Florida)
Respondents:  Sarah Glassmeyer (Valparaiso), Ronald Wheeler (San Francisco)

As listed above, Joe Hodnicki, my partner in the Law Professor Blogs Network, is one of the participants. He has an extensive post on the conference on our Law Librarian Blog. For additional readings, see here.