Have you been thinking of writing an article of interest to law librarians?  Need a push to get started?  Well, here it is.

The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee is soliciting articles in three categories:

Open Division:  for active and retired AALL members and law librarians with five or more years of professional experience;

New Members Division:  for recent graduates and AALL members who have become law librarians since July 1, 2005.

Student Division:  Participants in this division need not be members of AALL. To be eligible in this category, you must have been enrolled in law school, or in a library school, information management, or an equivalent program, either in the Fall 2009 or Spring 2010 semester.

The winner in each division receives $750 generously donated by LexisNexis plus the opportunity to present the winning paper at a program during the AALL Annual Meeting in Denver!  Winning papers are also considered for publication in the Association’s prestigious Law Library Journal.

Application form and details, including a list of past winners, can be found at the Call for Papers web site http://www.aallnet.org/about/award_call_for_papers.asp.

Selected winning papers from earlier competitions can also be found at http://works.bepress.com/aallcallforpapers. This list can give you an idea of the range of topics that law librarians have chosen.

Articles in the Open and New Members Division must be submitted by March 2, 2010.

Articles in the Student Division must be submitted by April 15, 2010.

If you have any questions, please contact a member of the AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee:

Chair, James M. Donovan, jdonovan@uga.edu
David Hollander, dholland@princeton.edu
Connie Lenz, lenzx009@umn.edu

Austin Groothuis, the Marketing Manager at CALI, recently sent out an announcement about upcoming free CALI webinars that may be of interest to CS-SISizens. All the webinars take place on Fridays at 3 PM EDT. You can click the links to sign up:

Oct 23: Advanced Twitter (Twitter from a Law School Communications Director’s Perspective Part II)
To effectively master Twitter, there is a lot you need to do beyond what we covered in our first Twitter webinar. Tonya Oaks Smith, Director of Communications at the UALR Bowen School of Law, will present on advanced Twitter topics as a follow-up to her popular August webinar.

Nov 13: Using CALI Lessons in Your Teaching
Professors Deb Cohen, Southern New England School of Law, and Sally Wise, University of Miami School of Law, will guest present for this one.

Nov 27: Using Moodle for Your Law School Course
Professor Vernellia Randall of the University of Dayton School of Law will present on using Moodle (moodle.org), an open-source course management system.

Dec 11: Five Steps to Promoting CALI at Your School
We’ll cover free, easy, and effective ways to ensure your students know about CALI and CALI Lessons, some of the few free study tools available to them in law school. We strongly encourage CALI Reps to attend…this one’s for you.
Video archives of past webinars are available at calivideos.blip.tv.