Archive for June, 2008

Come to the CS-SIS Karaoke Night 2008!

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Come have fun at our officially-sponsored karaoke event on Saturday, July 12. Full information is here.

CSSIS Web 2.0 Challenge

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Starting June 13th, register for the CS-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge!

The Web 2.0 Challenge will provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity designed for law librarians by directing them in hands-on use of these technologies. The course is intended for law librarians who have little experience with these technologies but are interested in learning more.

The online course will take place between July 21 and August 18. The five week course will cover these areas:

Week 1: Blogs & RSS
Week 2: Wikis
Week 3: Social Networking Software and Second Life
Week 4: Flickr & Social Bookmarking Software
Week 5: Selling Social Software @ Your Library

For more information, including how to sign up, go here.

CSSIS Program Schedule for AALL Conference

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Check out the schedule of events planned by CSSIS for Portland. We’ll see you there!

Update: Karaoke has been added.

CS-SIS Election Results

Friday, June 6th, 2008

The Computing Services SIS Executive Board would like to congratulate the winners of this year’s CS-SIS elections.

Bonnie Shucha has been elected Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect and Meg Kribble has been elected Member-at-Large.

Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award Winner

Friday, June 6th, 2008

The CS-SIS Awards Committee (Prano Amjadi, Therese Clarke Arado, Sheri Lewis) is pleased to announce this year’s recipient of the Computing Services Special Interest Section’s Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award:

Mr. Mark Folmsbee, Associate Dean of Computer Services and Associate Director of the Law Library, Washburn University School of Law Library

The award will be presented at the 2008 AALL Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon.