Richard Leiter, host of “The Law Librarian” on BlogTalkRadio, recently announced that the radio show has changed its name to “Law Librarian Conversations” and will be hosted by CALI from now on. The show will continue to provide stimulating conversation and discussion of key issues facing law librarians and the world of legal bibliography.
This Friday, March 5, the inaugural episode of “Law Librarian Conversations” will be broadcast on CALI’s classcaster at http://lawlibcon.classcaster.net.  As always, listeners have  the opportunity to listen live and participate in the discussion in the live chat room; past episodes will be available on iTunes.  Guests include Margie Maes who will be sharing developments in the world of preservation.  You can register online and automatically add a reminder to your calendar by clicking here.

This Friday, February 19 at 3:00 pm Eastern, 2:00 PM Central, Richard Leiter and his gang  will discuss WestlawNext and other hot topics in the world of law libraries….  You can join the discussion  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.

Rich says that they will  also have some exciting news about the future of the podcast, and they  welcome  suggestions for topics to consider, or guests that you’d like them to interview.

Host Richard Leiter has announced that this week’s edition of Blog Talk Radio: The Law Librarian will be broadcast on Thursday, Feb. 4th at 11 am Eastern (10 am Central) time.  The discussion will focus on The Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship (which will be one year old on Feb. 11, 2010) and will feature guests Dick Danner (Duke) and John Palfrey (Harvard), two of  the authors of the Durham Statement.
You can join the show live at at http://blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian Thursday Feb. 4 . Note that it is on Thursday morning, not the usual Friday afternoon.

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.

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.

The next Law Librarian Radio show on Blog Talk Radio will be next Friday, Dec. 4, at 3 pm Eastern time with host Richard Leiter, Director of the Schmid Law Library at the University of Nebraska.  Topics for discussion will include Google Scholar’s Legal Opinions and Journals, Intelliconnect, tinyThom.as, and  XYGGY.COM.  There may even be a guest from Google joining the discussion!

You can join the Law Librarian Radio show  live at http://blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian, where you can listen live, call in with questions or comments and  join your fellow law librarians in the chat room. If you miss the show, it will be available as a downloadable podcast on iTunes. You might also want to join the show’s Facebook page to keep in touch with upcoming events.

Just in time for the AALL Annual Meeting next month, CS-SIS has a shiny new, printer-friendly PDF brochure.

Big thanks are due to Melissa Serfass of the Communications Committee for her work with AALL in designing the brochure.  Thanks also to Deborah Schander for adding it to the CS website and for her work on spiffing up the site navigation.