Blog

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

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 is offering several online workshops in Fall 2005.

source: Peter Scott’s Library Blog

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.

Just a reminder that presentation materials submitted in advance of the San Antonio conference are still available for downloading at http://programmaterials.aallnet.org/

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.

The LLNE Introduction to Legal Research Course meets Tuesday Evenings from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM
September 13, 2005 to November 1, 2005 (no class on Oct. 4).
The registration form is available at http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/ilr/registration05.pdf

The LLNE Fall Meeting, hosted by Roger Williams University Law Library, will be held on Friday, November 4, 2005. More details will follow.

Abbie Bradfield Mulvihill at AbsTracked mentions the new Burning Ears, a new blog with local news items about law libraries and law librarians.

source: AbsTracked

We have noticed that presentation materials from some programs at the AALL Annual Meeting in San Antonio have been posted in various locations. Be sure to check out the following examples:

Professor Jerry Kang (UCLA School of Law) has posted presentation materials from Plenary II: Pervasive Computing: Embedding the Public Sphere to the Talks page of his website.

Lolly Gasaway’s PowerPoint presentation for Multimedia Presentations: How to Get Copyright Clearance and other Permissions for Digital Projects which is linked at the Computing Services-SIS Resource Page for Copyright and Licensing Digital Materials, also prepared for the program by Therese A. Clarke Arado.

Supplementary materials for “Don’t Throw That Away!”: Ensuring Future Access to Legal Information in an Age of Digital Media” have been posted at http://www.sandiego.edu/lrc/aall.html

Want to “hear” what you missed? Tapes and CD’s of San Antonio programs are available for purchase.