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Jim Milles, Director of the Charles B. Sears Law Library of the University at Buffalo Law School has launched the JD-MLS Blog.

source: University of Baltimore Law Library Web Log

The LLNE Spring Meeting is still to come, but it is time to think ahead to AALL this summer. If you are worried about paying for the trip to San Antonio, consider applying for an LLNE scholarship. If you know someone who may not be able to attend without some financial help, please encourage him/her to apply.

For each Annual Meeting & Conference, AALL underwrites one free full registration for a number of chapters on a rotating basis and it is LLNE’s year in 2005. AALL’s intent is to encourage newer members, though the chapter Board may consider other criteria. The Scholarship Committee will consider all applicants for both the AALL registration grant and the LLNE funded awards.

Application forms are available on the LLNE website at : http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/llne/forms/index.htm
Please complete the application and send or fax it to:

Margaret Cianfarini, Chair
LLNE Scholarship Committee
Harvard Law School Library
Langdell Hall
1545 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fax: 617-496-4409

The deadline for applications is Wednesday, April 20, 2005.

The Spring LLNE Meeting at Harvard on April 1st (International Justice in a Time
of Terrorism) is quickly approaching. The deadline for registration is March
15, 2005. Registration forms are available on the LLNE website at
http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/about/LLNE_Spring_05/index.php

At a recent meeting, the Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar approved for notice and comment revisions to Chapter 6 (Library and Information Resources, Chapter 7 (Facilities) and Chapter 1 (General Purposes and Practices). http://www.abanet.org/legaled/standards/memochapters6_7_1.pdf
(Note that the Chapter 7 revisions include a new section regarding technology.)

Read a March 8th memorandum containing the proposed revisions at http://www.abanet.org/legaled/standards/memochapters6_7_1.pdf

The memo encouages comments by May 3, 2005 for their adequate consideration. You may e-mail Stephen Yandle, Deputy Consultant at yandles@staff.abanet.org.

sources: ABA’s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar and Law Librarian Blog

Just a reminder to depository libraries that the
Survey to Identify Essential Titles for Public Use in Paper or Other Tangible Format is due this Friday, March 18th. See http://www.gpoaccess.gov/essential/

Are you a newer law librarian or graduate student in need financial support to attend the AALL Annual Meeting or one of the workshops in San Antonio? Apply for an AALL Annual Meeting or Workshop grant. See http://www.aallnet.org/committee/grants/grant_application.asp for the application. Note that the deadline is April 1, 2005!

Get Assistance from a Federal Depository Librarian, http://www.gpoaccess.gov/govtinfo.html. “The Government Information Online Pilot Project provides librarian assistanceto the public for locating and using government information. Users of theservice interact with librarians via chat or email.”Source: gpoaccess

It seems that Yahoo has added RSS feeds for a number of its directory sites. Read more about it in Tara Calishain’s Research Buzz. She credits Antsville for pointing it out.

source: ResearchBuzz

Do you feel like you overwhelmed by e-mail messages? Stever Robbers offers Tips for Mastering E-Mail Overload at the Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge.

source: beSpacific

CoolGov is an interesting weblog that highlights the coolest government web tools. For example, recently it reviewed the current Treaties in Force. If you like it, you can subscribe to the RSS or Atom feed.
Source: inter alia