Last year CS-SIS sponsored the first Web 2.0 Challenge, an online course to introduce law librarians to social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was so popular CS-SIS is sponsoring it again in 2009. The …
Congratulations to our newly elected CS-SIS Board members: Debbie Ginsberg (Chicago-Kent), ViceChair/Chair-Elect Melissa Serfass (Univ of AR at Little Rock), Secretary/Treasurer Jason Eiseman (Yale), Member at Large Thanks to all who ran for office this year; we had a great …
Westlaw has heard from many in the law school community about the Lexis ASPIRE program (blogged last week) and will be launching its own plan for those soon-to-be law school graduates impacted by start date deferrals and similar circumstances. The program …
A recent post from the rips-sis listserv points to a recently published article entitled “The Virtual Tax Library: A Comparison of Five Electronic Tax Research Platforms” by Katherine Pratt, Jennifer Kowal & Daniel Martin of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles …
CS-SIS has recently created a wiki for members to share ideas and information such as use of technology in law libraries, reviews of various tools & gadgets, resources used or produced by law librarians, and more. You'll also find information …
Kudos to LexisNexis for their Associates Serving Public Interests Research (ASPIRE) Program which provides up to 15 months of free legal research services to law school graduates doing work for the public good. Law school graduates can sign up to access certain …
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On Monday, July 27th, CS Member Scott Frey will lead a Roundtable discussion a the AALL Annual Meeting titled “Mashing Up the White House.” We will focus on how libraries are using the technological initiatives by the Obama administration to enhance …
There has been increasing attention to the difficulty of accessing Congressional Research Service Reports. As many of us know, the only way to get these reports is through the efforts of dedicated people who want them to be more …
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There's been a lot of buzz lately about the new search engine computational knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha (which is still in beta but due to debut later this month). The search engine, developed by Stephen Wolfram (a former partical physics prodigy), is “like …
Amazon has announced its new, larger Kindle eBook Reader. Called the Kindle DX, it has a 9.7-inch screen (about a third larger that the current Kindle), costs $489 (pre-orders are being taken for summer delivery) and will hold up to …
