Were you unable to make it to the Cool Tools session at the 2018 AALL Annual Meeting in Baltimore? The CS-SIS blog is posting video recaps of last year’s sessions so that everyone can get caught up on these new…
Author: Mari Cheney
Assistant Director, Research and Instruction, at Boley Law Library, Lewis and Clark Law School, in Portland, Oregon.
How to Redact a PDF
You’ve seen the headlines and articles about Paul Manafort’s lawyers not properly redacting a court filing; how do you make sure this doesn’t happen to you? First, use Adobe Acrobat Pro. While there are a few other redaction tools out there, Acrobat Pro is…
Annual Meeting Grants
AALL CS-SIS Grant for Students and Newer Librarians: The purpose of the AALL CS-SIS Grant for Students and Newer Librarians is to provide financial assistance for newer librarians or students in library/information school or law school to attend the AALL…
Call for Nominations: Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award
This is a call from the CS-SIS Grants and Awards Committee to submit your nominations for the Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award by March 15, 2019. The Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award honors a CS-SIS member who has…
UC Berkeley Law Migrates to TIND ILS
Editor’s note: After reading the press release announcing UC Berkeley Law’s selection of a brand new ILS, we reached out to the folks at UC Berkeley Law to tell us more about how this transition happened and how the new…
Top Tech for Holiday Gift Giving
Do you have a tech lover in your life? Not sure what to add to your own wishlist this holiday season? Here’s a link roundup of gift guides for tech lovers. From The Digital Edge (a Legal Talk Network podcast):…
Top 30 Browser Extensions
I am an unapologetic browser extension enthusiast, especially when it comes to finding articles behind paywalls and saving money (okay, so those go hand in hand). Below you’ll find a list of our favorite browser extensions that save time, money,…
The Problem with Print Publication Dates
Here’s a reference question I thought I’d easily be able to answer: What’s the publication date of the latest McKinney’s statutory compilation in print, or the equivalent published by Lexis? I need it for Bluebook citation. We no longer carry…
Where the Dead Information Goes
Guest post by David Whelan; originally published on David’s own blog. When you weed – deselect – from a collection, you are focused on a particular audience. No-one can keep everything. I was looking for an album to stream over…
Blocked on Twitter…By the President
The Washington Post reported on June 13 that author Stephen King had been blocked on Twitter by @realdonaldtrump, the Twitter account Donald Trump uses regularly instead of the official @POTUS account. Is this a violation of the First Amendment? A…
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