Nominations are now being accepted for the following 2010 AALL Awards.  Note that there are several new awards this year, including the Innovations in Technology Award.  I can think of a few excellent CS-SIS candidates!   Please take the time to recognize a deserving colleague, library, or organization.  Or considering nominating your own work!

Nominations are due by February 1st.

• AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Award
• AALL Excellence in Marketing Award
• Chapter Professional Development Award
• CRIV New Product Award
• Emerging Leader Award
• Innovations in Technology Award
• Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award
• Law Library Journal and AALL Spectrum Article of the Year Awards
• Law Library Publications Award
• Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award
• Public Access to Government Information (PAGI) Award
• Robert L. Oakley Advocacy Award
• Volunteer Service Award

AALL would like your comments on the draft revision of the Law Librarian Competencies.   Note that the original version is on AALLNET for comparison purposes.

Send your comments to April Schwartz, Associate Professor and Library Director at the Gould Law Library, Touro Law Center.

The year-end edition of Law Librarian on Blog Talk Radio has been rescheduled for Monday Dec. 21 at 11:00  Eastern Time.  The group of law librarians, including hosts Richard Leiter and Marcia Dority Baker as well as  guests Connie Crosby, Tracy Thompson-Pryzlucki and Roger Skalbeck  will review  the year’s developments and  controversies in law librarianship and  take a stab at looking into the future.

Anyone with insights, gripes, predictions, praises, reflections, questions, comments, or anything in between or other, is invited to call and/or join the chat room and participate.

Some tentative topics:
Connecticut law libraries, xyggy.com, West down-sizing, Intelliconnect, free law, Google Scholar, tinyThomases, Twitter, Govtrack.us, and much, much more.

Good news, fellow cssis-zens:  Richard Leiter and his always-interesting guests will broadcast a special show this Wednesday, December 16, at 1:00PM Eastern/Noon Central/11:00AM Mountain/10:00AM Pacific Note: rescheduled for Monday Dec. 21 at 11:00 am Eastern.

Richard says:  ”the gang and I will be reviewing the year’s developments and interesting controversies, and we’ll take a stab at looking into the future. Connie Crosby, Margie Maes, and Roger Skalbeck will join Marcia Dortiy Baker and I.

Please join us as we talk about Intelliconnect, free law, Google Scholar, tinyThomases, Twitter, Govtrack.us, and much, much more. Join in the chat room, listen live or download from iTunes.

Help us ring in the end of the academic year….we welcome your comments and ideas.

Please join us live at http://blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian, where you can listen live, call in with questions or comments or join us in the chat room. If you miss the show, you can always download them as a podcast on iTunes. Join the show’s Facebook page here: http://tinyurl.com/nouem4

We always welcome your suggestions for topics to consider, or guests that you’d like us to interview.”

And if you missed any of the past broadcasts you can subscribe to the podcast at iTunes.

Registration is now open for Lawberry Camp Midwinter, taking place January 16, 2010 at Harvard Law School Library.  Visit the new and improved Lawberry Camp website to register and for details: http://lawberrycamp.com/

Lawberry Camp Midwinter will be an all day affair.  The day will be divided up into round table discussions andlightning talks and end with the always fun and exciting Battle Decks competition (a sort of karaoke powerpoint presentation improv).

As always, the subjects of these programs will be up to the attendees, so after you register, be sure to suggest a topic you that would like to discuss or give a quick talk about.  If you’re feeling really adventurous, you can also sign up to compete in Battle Decks.

Anurag Acharya, Chief Engineer of Google Scholar,  will be the guest on this week’s edition of BlogTalkRadio’s “The Law Librarian.”  The discussion will focus on  Google Scholar’s new Legal Opinions and Journals product.
Co-hosts Richard Leiter, Marcia Dority Baker, Greg Lambert, and Roger Skallbeck will discuss the development of Google SLOJ and Google’s plans for their future foray into legal research. They welcome in advance any questions or suggestions for topics to talk about with Mr Acharya.
The show will air this Friday, December 4, at 3:00 PM Eastern Time.  Listen live at http://blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian, where you can listen, call in with questions or comments and join the discussion in the chat room.