Starting Wednesday (10/19), the New Hampshire Supreme Court will start broadcasting live over the Internet. Read its announcement. Audio recordings of oral arguments have been available since June 2004.
source: Robert Ambrogi’s LawSites
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MA Trial Court Law Libraries blog
The Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries has a blog.
reminder: LLNE Fall Meeting registration deadline today
Just a reminder that the deadline for registration for the LLNE Fall Meeting is today! For more information, visit http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/calendar/fall05.htm .
If you have questions about the meeting, please contact Lucinda Harrison-Cox (lharrison-cox@law.rwu.edu or (401) 254-4533).
Looking forward to seeing many of you there!
Michelle Pearse
LLNE President
2005 AALL Annual Salary Survey
AALL President Susan Fox announced that the 2005 Biennial Survey and Organizational Characteristics is now available for free in the members-only section of aallnet.org. Print copies will be available for purchase.
source: From the Desk of Susan E. Fox-AALL Executive Director
Scholarships for Fall Meeting
LLNE will be offering scholarships to the Fall meeting, Law, Nature & Gifts from the Sea. Please use the form on the LLNE web site http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/forms/llneschol.htm and mail or fax it to me. The deadline for applications is October 17. The mailing address is: Margaret Cianfarini, Harvard Law School Library, Langdell Hall, 1545 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138. The fax no. is 617-496-4409.
Margaret
Margaret Cianfarini
Serials Librarian
Harvard Law School Library
617-496-2105
fax: 617-496-4409
cianfari@law.harvard.edu
LLNE Fall Meeting
Members should be receiving in the mail the attached brochure for our Fall Meeting: Law, Nature and Gifts from the Sea. Hosted by the Roger Williams University School of Law Library, the meeting will be held on Friday, November 4, 2005 at the Bristol Inn in Bristol, Rhode Island. For more information, see http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/calendar/fall05.htm (Thank you to Raquel Ortiz for putting this page together!) Please note that the deadline for registration is October 17, 2005.
If you have any questions about the event, feel free to contact Lucinda Harrison-Cox (lharrison-cox@rwu.edu). Special thanks to Lucinda and the rest of the Conference Planning Committee (Nanette Balliot, Emilie Benoit, Stephanie Edwards and Kathleen MacAndrew) for their hard work in preparing for the meeting.
I look forward to seeing you there!
Michelle Pearse
LLNE President
Simmons GSLIS Continuing Ed. online workshops
Simmons is offering several online workshops in Fall 2005.
source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog
Concerned about our colleagues affected by Hurricane Katrina?
A recent message from AALL President President Claire Germain annouced that AALL Headquarters has developed AALLLawLibAsst, a blog for members in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina to report on their own well-being, as well as that of others from the law librarian community. See today’s Claire’s Desk for thoughts about helping our colleagues in need.
AALL materials still available
Just a reminder that presentation materials submitted in advance of the San Antonio conference are still available for downloading at http://programmaterials.aallnet.org/
new LLRX article discussing Maine and New Hampshire legislative histories
Susan H. Paschell, a Legislative Specialist at Gallagher, Callahan and Gartrell, P.C. recently published The State of Online Legislative Research and What Makes a Good Legislative History on LLRX. The article discusses researching legislative histories in Maine and New Hampshire.