I want to thank the Computer Services Special Interest Section for awarding me the 2009 CS-SIS Grant for Students and New Librarians with less than Three Years of Service. This grant enabled me to attend the most important conference in …
Caroline Young, grant recipient, on the AALL Conference! Read more »
RECAP is a free extension for Firefox that improves the experience of using PACER, the electronic public access system for the U.S. Federal District and Bankruptcy Courts. From the RECAP website (and do watch the little video called “Watch RECAP …
Below is a list of our new committees along with the chairs for the 2009-10 term. Thanks to these individuals for volunteering their time and talent. Committee 2009-10 Chair Adaptive Technologies Committee Ryan Overdorf Awards & Grants Committee Monica Sharum …
Now that we’re back from AALL 2009, CS-SIS is off and running with this year’s Web 2.0 Challenge. We’re very excited to have 104 law librarians from all over the world (including Belgium and Rwanda) and representing a good mix …
Saturday, July 25th, 2009 Cool Tools: The Workshop (full day workshop), 8:30 am, Georgetown Law CONELL Marketplace, 10:30 am, WCC 146A: come see our CS SIS table! Lawberry Camp, An “Unconference” 3 hours, 3:00 pm, WCC 156 Alphabet Soup Reception, …
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CS-SIS is pleased to be sponsoring Lawberry Camp, An “Unconference” at the AALL conference. It will be held Saturday July 25 from 3 to 6 pm in Room 144 , the Washington Convention Center . Registration is limited to 50 …
Librarian and Digital-Scholarship founder Charles W. Bailey Jr. has compiled a Google Book Search bibliography, with selected articles and other works useful in understanding Google Book Search and the legal, library, and social issues associated with it. Where possible, links are …
The National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind have announced that they've filed a discrimination lawsuit against Arizona State University, claiming that the University’s Amazon Kindle DX Pilot Program discriminates against the blind. The NFB and …
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This Wednesday, Richard Leiter will talk with guest Tracy Thompson-Przylucki, Executive Director of NELLCO, on Blog Talk Radio. NELLCO is a consortia of ABA approved law libraries with the motto “the whole is greater…”. NELLCO's goal is to negotiate the …
A list of program ideas for the 2010 AALL Annual Meeting is now available on the CS wiki. Please take a look at the existing ideas and add in any of your own. If you would like to add a …
