AALL is asking for feedback on specific issues related to the AALL annual meeting.  The AALL Annual Meeting Review Special Committee is taking a comprehensive look at the AALL Annual Meeting and is soliciting comments from AALL members on an online form that it has developed.  The committee values everyone’s viewpoints and needs input as it works to develop recommendations for Annual Meeting. The comment form will be available through Weds. March 17.

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Interested in attending the AALL Annual Meeting, July 10-13, 2010 or one of the workshops affiliated with the conference in Denver, CO?  Consider applying for an AALL Grant to cover your registration costs. There are two categories – Experienced Members and Student/New Members. The deadline is April 1, 2010.
Please note that prior recipients may still apply as long as they have not received a grant within the past three years.
AALL Grants
Purpose:
The AALL Grants Program provides financial assistance to experienced law librarians who are actively involved in AALL or its chapters and to newer law librarians or graduate students who hold promise of future involvement in AALL and the law library profession. Funds are provided by AALL, AALL individual members, and vendors.
Grants cover registration costs at either the Annual Meeting or workshops associated with the Annual Meeting. Individuals eligible for the Experienced Member Grant are active members with five or more years of AALL or AALL chapter membership. Individuals eligible for the Student/New Member Grant are active members with less than five years of AALL or AALL chapter membership or student members of AALL or an AALL chapter.
Qualifications:
An applicant must meet all of the following criteria to be considered for the award:
*   be a member or student member of AALL or an AALL chapter;
*   not have received a grant in the past three years.; and
*   submit a timely and complete application.
*If circumstances prevent a recipient from using the grant, it reverts to the Committee; however, the recipient remains eligible to apply another year.

Instructions:
Submit one application package with the following items:
*   a complete, legible application form;
*   two letters of recommendation that comment on your potential to contribute to AALL and the field of law librarianship and address your need for the grant; and
*   a current resume is strongly suggested.
Note: Applications and letters of recommendation must be on 8 1/2″ x 11″ paper.
Deadline:
The complete application package must be received by April 1 at this address :
Grants Committee Chair
American Association of Law Libraries
105 W. Adams Street, Suite 3300
Chicago, Illinois 60603

Application for Experienced Members
http://www.aallnet.org/services/grant_application_experienced.pdf
Application for Student/New Members
http://www.aallnet.org/services/grant_application_new.pdf

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

• Cool Tools: The Workshop (full day workshop), 8:30 am, Georgetown Law
• CONELL Marketplace, 10:30 am, WCC 146A: come see our CS SIS table!
• Lawberry Camp, An “Unconference” 3 hours, 3:00 pm, WCC 156
• Alphabet Soup Reception, 90 minutes, 7:00 pm, Ren. Ballroom West

Sunday, July 26, 2009

• Reception for Web 2.0 Challengers (discussion with snacks for the 2008/9 Web 2.0 Challenge), 75 minutes, 12:00 pm, Ren. Congressional Hall A
• A-1, Making Your ILS Web 2.0 Happy,* 75 minutes, 1:30 pm, WCC 145
• A-2, Beyond Copyright?: How Licensing Agreements and Digital Rights Management Pose Challenges to Fair Use and the Provision of Electronic or Media Services,* 75 minutes, 1:30 pm, WCC 152
• C-1, Network Neutrality: The Debate Over the Internet Superhighway, 60 minutes, 4:15 pm, WCC 145
• CS HOT TOPIC: Connie Crosby on ‘Why Librarians Should Care About Emerging Technologies,” 60 minutes, 5:30 pm, WCC 144.

Monday, July 27, 2009

• D-1, I Want My Web 2.0: Lessons from the Web 2.0 Challenge Everyone Can Use (or “Get your MySpace for nothing and your RSS for free.”), 60 minutes, 8:45 am, WCC 145
• Roundtable Discussion: Mashing Up the White House, 60 minutes, 10:45 am, Rens. Room 2
• CS Open Program Planning Meeting 2010 (brown bag – everyone welcome!), 75 minutes, 12:00 pm, WCC 158
• G-4, WYDSIWYG: What You Don’t See Is What You Don’t Get, 75 minutes, 4:00 pm, WCC 150
• Bloggers Get Together, 5:30 pm, Old Dominion Brew House, 1219 9th St, NW
• Karaoke with Ken (a CS SIS institution!!) 9:15 pm, Café Japone, 2032 P St NW

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

• CS Breakfast Business Meeting and Awards, 1 hr. 45 minutes, 7:00 am, Rens. Rm 3 (tickets req’d)
• H-2, Web 2.0 Driving Innovation in the Law Firm Library, 90 minutes, 9:00 am, WCC 146
• K-1, Vlogging for Law Libraries, 30 minutes, 3:30 pm, WCC 145

*  We know there is a conflict with these two programs and will try to make both available on the CS web site.

A PDF handout of CS-SIS events is also available.  Or see ScheduAALL for an interactive list of CS-SIS Activities.

A list of program ideas for the 2010 AALL Annual Meeting is now available on the CS wiki.

Please take a look at the existing ideas and add in any of your own. If you would like to add a program idea and don’t yet have access to the CS wiki, please contact Bonnie Shucha, CS-SIS Vice Chair and 2010 Program Committee Chair.

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.

I expect that most CSSISies are doing the same thing I’m doing these days – helping stressed-out law students and dreaming of summer.  I’m looking forward to 2 conferences this summer: CALI in Boulder in June and then the Big One, AALL in Washington DC in July. 
For everyone who’s going to the AALL – and I hope it’s everyone – you need to look at fellow CSSISie Tom Boone’s genious Web 2.0 creation for the conference, ScheduAALL 2009. With this interactive, personalizable site Tom has made it easy to plan your time during the conference and keep track of all your official and unofficial plans. 

Of course, the AALL has it’s own official online schedule for the Innovate 2009 conference, and props to them for major improvements over previous years.  Tom’s site uses the AALL schedule and builds on it.  You create an account and then you can make your own personal AALL schedule and – this is great – share it with your friends. When you’re ready, Tom’s made it easy to print up your program.

 The site also has links to the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting , the Capital Crier Blog (official blog of the conference), the excellent Local Arrangements Committee site, and the Unofficial Conference Wiki.  The Local Arrangers already have an online sign-up sheet prepared for the Dine-Around on Saturday July 25. 

So kudos to Tom for creating ScheduAALL and sharing it with all of us, and I hope to see y’all there! Here’s the street view of the Convention Center to give you something to look forward to.
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Award applications for attendence or participation at the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting are now available.

Experienced Librarians (three or more years experience): grant-application-for-experienced-librarians

Library Students and Newer Librarians (less than three years experience): grant-application-for-students

Applications should be sent to the Awards and Grants Committee Chair Monica Sharum at msharum@pacific.edu by May 1, 2009.

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

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

Update: Karaoke has been added.