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…
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Added by Lucie Olejnikova on February 5, 2010 at 4:30pm —
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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…
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Added by Rob Richards on December 27, 2009 at 11:36pm —
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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…
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Added by Connie Crosby on December 18, 2009 at 12:57pm —
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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…
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Added by marty on November 1, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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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
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Added by Rob Richards on September 6, 2009 at 2:22pm —
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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.
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Added by Betsy Chessler on August 21, 2009 at 7:54pm —
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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…
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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
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Added by Amy Domestico on August 4, 2009 at 8:35pm —
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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…
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Added by Lucie Olejnikova on July 10, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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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…
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Added by Rob Richards on July 1, 2009 at 5:12pm —
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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…
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Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on June 26, 2009 at 12:15pm —
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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…
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Added by Lyonette Louis-Jacques on June 5, 2009 at 4:34pm —
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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…
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Added by Sally Irvin on June 3, 2009 at 11:59am —
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Added by Rob Richards on May 22, 2009 at 2:03pm —
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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…
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Added by Rob Richards on May 17, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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Colleagues:
Richard Macmanus summarizes Greg Boutin's presentation on Web 3.0 at
http://bit.ly/ROmgs ; both look useful and current.
Rob Richards
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Legal Informatics Blog: http://legalinformatics.wordpress.com
Legal Information Systems & Legal…
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Added by Rob Richards on May 15, 2009 at 5:26pm —
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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…
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Added by Rob Richards on May 15, 2009 at 5:00pm —
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