The following is a listing of articles which appear in the most recent issue of LLRX at the time of this posting. See http://www.llrx.com: The Personal Information Trainer, by Stuart Basefsky http://www.llrx.com/features/personalinfotrainer.htm Criminal Law Resources: Fingerprint Evidence Challenges, by Ken Strutin http://www.llrx.com/features/fingerprintevidence.htm The Social Networking Titans: Facebook and MySpace, by…
Call for Participation Deadline Extended to April 22, 2008 A Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends August 4-5, 2008 Denver, CO Conference website: http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance Sponsored by BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research) and RUSA (Reference and User Services Association), an ALA Division Rumors of the “death of reference” have been greatly…
American Libraries Direct is e-newsletter of the American Library Association. Here is the Table of Contests for the April 4, 2008 issue: TABLE OF CONTENTS U.S. & World News ALA News Booklist Online D.C. Update Division News Round Table News Awards Seen Online Tech Talk Actions & Answers Poll Calendar…
The TS-SIS Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the recipient of the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship for 2008 is Joseph Thomas. Joseph is Head of Technical Services at the Kresge Library, University of Notre Dame Law School. His many contributions…
Not everyone is happy with the discussion in Wikipedia regarding pro se and why people proceed pro se. Today there has been some lively discussion on this topic on the web. Here is the question which seems to have generated much of the discussion and some responses to it. As…
The Legal Division Quarterly is published four time a year as a Newsletter of the Legal Division of the Special Libraries Association. Included in the WinterSpring 2007-08 issue is a very interesting article “Help – The Lifeguard is Drowning!: Thoughts and Reflections on How Librarians Can Stay Afloat in the…
Conference Dates: November 30 – December 3, 2008: You want to join the next IALL Annual Course? The International Association of Law Libraries each year makes available financial assistance to enable law librarians who are normally unable to benefit from Association activities to attend the Annual Course in International Law…
As of March 18, 2008. CE COURSES Saturday, June 14, 9 AM – 6PM (full-day CE) Cataloging for Non-Catalogers – Course covers ISBD (International Standard Book Description), MARC (Machine-Readable Cataloging), and cataloging using an automated bibliographic utility. Saturday, June 14, 8 AM – 12 PM (half-day CE) Creating a Brand…
News from ALA and the world of libraries: New York librarian becomes embedded journalist in Iraq “Twice in the past two years, librarian Shelby Monroe persuaded the 101st Airborne Division to let her be an embedded war correspondent and blogger. In those articles and accompanying photographs, she tries to capture…
The Dominican University Graduate School of Library and Information Science at River Forest, Illinois (near Chicago) has been conducting a series of innovative workshops on this topic, including the following: March 17, 2008: 4-6pm “Get a Voice: Why Writing, Blogging and Speaking Out Are Crucial to Advancing Your LIS Career”…