As a newly merged SIS, we are starting from scratch with our committees this year and need both committee chairs and committee members for all of our LIT-SIS committees (although if you’ve served as a committee chair in the past …
Are you searching for a cool tool to fill a need? Heard about one but want to learn more? Already found one you think other people should know about? Let the LIT-SIS Education Committee know by filling out this short …
As someone with hearing loss, closed captioning is an important topic to me, not only for myself but also to remind others about its importance. Zoom recently released its Live Transcription feature for Pro, Business, Education, and Enterprise accounts and …
LIT-SIS is proud to announce our upcoming panel on Advocacy & Accommodation in the Digital Environment, and we welcome all AALL members to attend. Join Kenton Brice, Mari Cheney, and Rena Seidler for a conversation with Amanda Watson as they …
Panel on Advocacy & Accommodation in the Digital Environment Rescheduled for 3/19 Read more »
In legal research, we’ve all gone down rabbit holes: we start researching contracts and end up in wills; we start in landlord/tenant issues and end up in torts. It happens to the best of us, even those of us trained …
Teaching Students to Avoid Legal Research Clickbait Read more »
Looking for a last-minute holiday gift to give your tech-loving friend or family member? From high-tech to low-tech and even tech-adjacent, you’ve come to the right place! Here’s last year’s list in case you want to expand your options. From …
Guest post by Amanda Watson, president of LIT-SIS, Director of the O’Quinn Law Library, and Assistant Professor of Law the University of Houston Law Center. It’s official! CS-SIS is now LIT-SIS: Legal Innovation & Technology SIS. Two years ago, our …
Guest post by Amanda Watson, Director of the O’Quinn Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law. On June 3 and June 5, CS-SIS organized two talks on Controlled Digital Lending (CDL). The first focused on technology and the second on …
Guest post by Amanda Watson, Director of the O’Quinn Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law. “It’s the way we’ve always done it.” Law librarians, like most people, are generally creatures of habit. It isn’t surprising, since so much of …
Thank you to Nancy Bellafante, Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, for this guest post. The Biddle Law Library at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School responded to the COVID-19 crisis by …
Librarians (and their Pets) Send a Video Message to Students Read more »
