CS-SIS News and Annual Meeting Events

CS-SIS Grants Committee Announces Awards for Annual Meeting

Since 2000 the Computing Services-SIS has provided a number of grants for registration to the AALL Annual Meeting. The Grants Committee is pleased to announce the 2006 recipients of the CS-SIS grants. Our three grant recipients are very worthy candidates who hold promise of future and continuing involvement in the law library profession. Marin Dell is a new librarian at the Florida State University Law Library, and is pursuing postgraduate study in law librarianship as well. Frank Lima is the new Computer Services and Reference Librarian at Northern Illinois University Law School. Hadi Amjadi is the Systems Librarian at Golden Gate University Law Library, and has been active in the CS-SIS. Please take a moment to seek them out and congratulate them on receiving a grant. Many thanks to the Grants Committee members for all their hard work: James Gernert (Chair), Irene Good, Robert Jacoby, Judith Kaul, Cynthia Lewis, Melissa Serfasss, Bonnie Shucha, and Eric Young.

Don't miss any of these CS-SIS events!

Saturday, July 08, 2006

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM TS/OBS/RIPS/CS-SIS Joint Reception (Sponsored by Innovative Interfaces, Inc.)

8:30 PM - ? Karaoke Night Out 2006
Where: Tom's Bar & Grill, 20 S. Euclid, St. Louis, 314-367-6699. Meet in the lobby of the Renaissance Grand Hotel between 8:30 and 8:45 P.M. Then we will cab over, or take the Metrolink from the Convention Center station to the Central West End Station and walk 3 1/2 blocks. Or meet us at the restaurant later. For more information see http://www.law.duke.edu/ken/karaoke2006.html.

Sunday, July 09, 2006

11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Web Development Committee Meeting. All are welcome!

4:15 PM - 5:15 PM C2: Let's All Wiki Wiki! Creative Uses for Wikis in Any Library with Deborah Ginsberg.

5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Business Meeting

Monday, July 10, 2006

7:00 AM - 8:45 AM Breakfast Meeting
Speaker: John Mayer, Executive Director of CALI

10:15 AM - 11:30 AM Roundtable 1: Organizing Legal Databases on Library Websites
How are the links on your webpage organized and who maintains that organization? Are free legal websites commingling with your online subscriptions? Does your webpage organization make sense to anyone outside the law library? If these questions keep you awake at night please come with suggestions and ideas about the effective organization of links and databases.

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM E3: Invasion of the Podcast People: Podcasting for the Law Library with Fred Barnhart, John Mayer, and James Milles.

5:15 PM - 6:15 PM Program Planning Meeting

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM Roundtable 2: Web Site Design & Maintenance
Have you found a great new web tool that you would like to share? Are you struggling with a design issue and stuck for a solution? Are you trying to figure out how to attract more hits to your web site or track the hits you get now? Come and exchange tips on effective web site design and maintenance.

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM H5: Managing Beyond the Library: Successful Management of IT Departments for Law Librarians with Fred Barnhart, Penny Hazelton, Filippa Anzalone, and Richard Danner.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM K2 : Beyond Google: Hot New & Specialty Search Engines with Susan Boland