There were lots of CS-SISsies at the CALI conference in Boulder last week both as attendees and presenters. CS-SIS held a preliminary meeting at the conference to talk about potential CSSIS programs for the 2010 AALL meeting in Denver. If …
LibGuides is a “web 2.0 library knowledge sharing system” offered by the company Springshare. LibGuides is growing in popularity among all kinds of libraries, including law libraries as a platform for creating web-based research guides. Elizabeth Farrell of Florida State …
The Computing Services Special Interest Section continues our practice of providing grants to worthy AALL members to attend the Annual Meeting. The Grants committee, chaired by Monica Sharnum, gave grants to the following four members who we look forward to …
Sheri Lewis, Assistant Director at the D’Angelo Law Library, University of Chicago, was unanimously endorsed to receive our highest award. Sheri is distinguished by her service to our Section and AALL in many official and unofficial capacities, including the Chair …
And The Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award goes to… Read more »
There is an AALL Continuing Professional Education webinar on Tuesday, June 9 at 1 pm eastern that may be of interest to CSSISies. It's called “Shared Electronic Resource Understanding (SERU): Can It Work in My Library?” SERU allows libraries and publishers …
Last year CS-SIS sponsored the first Web 2.0 Challenge, an online course to introduce law librarians to social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was so popular CS-SIS is sponsoring it again in 2009. The …
Congratulations to our newly elected CS-SIS Board members: Debbie Ginsberg (Chicago-Kent), ViceChair/Chair-Elect Melissa Serfass (Univ of AR at Little Rock), Secretary/Treasurer Jason Eiseman (Yale), Member at Large Thanks to all who ran for office this year; we had a great …
Westlaw has heard from many in the law school community about the Lexis ASPIRE program (blogged last week) and will be launching its own plan for those soon-to-be law school graduates impacted by start date deferrals and similar circumstances. The program …
A recent post from the rips-sis listserv points to a recently published article entitled “The Virtual Tax Library: A Comparison of Five Electronic Tax Research Platforms” by Katherine Pratt, Jennifer Kowal & Daniel Martin of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles …
CS-SIS has recently created a wiki for members to share ideas and information such as use of technology in law libraries, reviews of various tools & gadgets, resources used or produced by law librarians, and more. You'll also find information …
