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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

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

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.

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.