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Lucie Olejnikova 2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians

The Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians.

The FCIL Schaffer Grant for the July 10-13, 2010 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado provides a waiver of the AALL Annual… Continue

Added by Lucie Olejnikova on February 5, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Lyonette Louis-Jacques About the Law Libraries and Librarians Ning Network

The Law Libraries and Librarians Ning was started by Jim Milles over a year ago. He posted a notice about it on the law-lib list on May 11, 2008. http://lawlibraries.ning.com/ The Ning administrators are: Connie Crosby Lyonette Louis-Jacques Roger Skalbeck Elizabeth Farrell Becoming a member of the Law Libraries and Librarians Ning network wa… Continue

Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on January 4, 2010 at 8:56pm — No Comments

Rob Richards CFR in XML Available for Bulk Download from GPO

The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) for 2007-2009 is now available for bulk download in XML from U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) FDsys. Click here for the user guide.

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Added by Rob Richards on December 27, 2009 at 11:36pm — No Comments

Rob Richards Legal Educational Methods & Technology: Special Issue of JILT

The new issue of JILT: Journal of Information, Law & Technology is a special issue devoted to legal educational methods & technology, and contains a number of articles that may be of interest to law librarians:

  • Simon Ball & Helen James,
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Added by Rob Richards on December 27, 2009 at 11:30pm — No Comments

Connie Crosby Monday - join us for The Law Librarian roundup of the past year!

Join us for the Year in Review on The Law Librarian Dec. 21. Guests include: Connie Crosby, Marcia Dority Baker, Margie Maes, Tracy Thompson Pryzluki, Roger Skalbeck and Richard Leiter discussing this year's legal information developments on BlogTalkRadio's The Law Librarian Monday morning December 21 at 11:00 AM Eastern Thanks to the Law Librarian blog for noting this and other discussions in… Continue

Added by Connie Crosby on December 18, 2009 at 12:57pm — No Comments

marty Libraries of Health Records

What do people think about the new hospital libraries? They are getting all info such as heart surgery and short term health insurance records recorded in a data base for retrieval in health care situations. Is it legal for all personal information to be availabl… Continue

Added by marty on November 1, 2009 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Rob Richards Legal Research Instruction: Recent Developments

Colleagues, Greetings. I've gathered information about recent developments in legal research instruction, in a new post at Legal Informatics Blog. Comments are welcome. Happy holiday weekend, and best wishes for the new semester/quarter, Rob Continue

Added by Rob Richards on September 6, 2009 at 2:22pm — 1 Comment

Betsy Chessler Trying out Ning

As part of AALL's Web 2.0 Challenge, I am getting up to speed on social networking sites, and Ning is one I wanted to try out. Continue

Added by Betsy Chessler on August 21, 2009 at 7:54pm — 3 Comments

Rob Richards Law School Admission Project & Legal Research

Colleagues, Professor Marjorie Shultz of Boalt Hall just gave me permission to distribute a report explaining the methodology used in developing the "effectiveness factors" utilized in the The Law School Admission Project: Looking Beyond the LSAT. Those factors include "Researching the Law." The report also includes a useful literature review of empirical studies that ide… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on August 17, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Rob Richards Susskind on The End of Lawyers

Colleagues: I've put together, over at Legal Informatics Blog, links and cites to a number of resources (including lectures, interviews, commentary, and reviews) related to Dr. Richard Susskind's book, The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services (2008), which is being widely discussed by lawyers and leg… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on August 7, 2009 at 5:50pm — No Comments

Amy Domestico Lavelle Law Ltd. initiated a series of weekly podcasts

Lavelle Law Ltd. initiated a series of weekly podcasts covering topics associated with its various practice groups. The series, "Chicago's Legal Latte," can be heard live Tuesdays at 4 p.m. at http://budurl.com/Chicagolaw Continue

Added by Amy Domestico on August 4, 2009 at 8:35pm — No Comments

Lucie Olejnikova Building Law Library After 30 Years of War

The Foreign, Comparative & International Law (FCIL) SIS invites you to attend an Annual Meeting event … FCIL-SIS Executive Committee Presents The Past, Present, and Future of the Law Library and Librarianship in Afghanistan: The Challenges and Rewards of Building a Library After 30 Years of War Please join the recipient of the 2009 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians, Mr. Ahmadullah Masoud (Independent Nati… Continue

Added by Lucie Olejnikova on July 10, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Rob Richards Law Student Learning Styles: Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population

Colleagues: Jim Milles recently pointed us to the following new article on SSRN, which may be of interest: Robin Boyle et al., Law Students Are Different from the General Population: Empirical Findings Regarding Learning Styles, http://ssrn.com/abstract=1416866. Abstract: "The authors conducted an empirical study comparing the learning styles of law students with young adults at other educational institutions. The law school sampl… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on July 1, 2009 at 5:12pm — No Comments

Lyonette Louis-Jacques Greening the Legal Profession (and Law Libraries)

In the "it's never too late" department, I just finished listening to the "Greening the Legal Profession" webinar co-sponsored by AALL for Professional Legal Management Week (PLMW), September 2008. The .wmv file is here: http://bit.ly/pOSIC The PowerPoint file is here: http://bit.ly/wJxwA Related files from AALL are here: Spending Green How law libraries can save energy and money with cow-bel… Continue

Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on June 26, 2009 at 12:15pm — No Comments

Lyonette Louis-Jacques The Law Librarian on Blog Talk Radio (Richard Leiter and Brian Striman's show)

Just listened in to the most recent radio show on "Managing Electronic Titles in Law Libraries" with guests, Yael Mandelstam and Angela Jones providing a technical services perspective. Great stuff! And there's a chat room where listeners can exchange information, links, and ask questions. There were up to 82 listeners today. The shows are archived so you can listen in later: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian/ In previous e… Continue

Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on June 5, 2009 at 4:34pm — No Comments

Sally Irvin Announcing the Web 2.0 Challenge 2009 A Free, Online Course to Introduce Law Librarians to Web 2.0 Technologies

Last year the AALL Computing Services Special Interest Section 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 Web 2.0 Challenge will provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity designed for law librarians that incorporates hands-on use of these technologies. The course is intended for law librarians who have… Continue

Added by Sally Irvin on June 3, 2009 at 11:59am — No Comments

Rob Richards Future of Private Legal Services Market: Discussion

Jim Milles has a fine post at Out of the Jungle about the debate over the permanence of the contraction in the private legal services market. This is an important contextual issue respecting legal informatics, legal education, and law libraries. A lively debate is taken place in the comments to Jim's post… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 22, 2009 at 2:03pm — No Comments

Rob Richards WolframAlpha & Legal Research

Colleagues: Some of us have done some testing of legal questions on WolframAlpha this weekend; results so far are reported in the comments to this post at Legal Informatics Blog. What are your experiences with WolframAlpha and law-related questions? Please add comments to this post or join us for discussion of this topic… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 17, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Rob Richards Web 3.0 Presentation: Macmanus & Boutin

Colleagues: Richard Macmanus summarizes Greg Boutin's presentation on Web 3.0 at http://bit.ly/ROmgs ; both look useful and current. Rob Richards ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert C. Richards, Jr., J.D.*, M.S.L.I.S., M.A. Law Librarian & Legal Information Consultant Philadelphia, PA richards1000@comcast.net Legal Informatics Blog: http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com Legal Information Systems & Legal… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 15, 2009 at 5:26pm — No Comments

Rob Richards Legal Informatics Blog Now Available

Colleagues: Legal Informatics Blog, offering scholarly and professional commentary on legal information systems, is now available. It's a companion site to Legal Information Systems & Legal Informatics Resources, which gathers resources on legal information systems research. We also have a Twitter feed at h… Continue

Added by Rob Richards on May 15, 2009 at 5:00pm — No Comments

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