CS-SIS members:  There’s still plenty of time to submit a proposal!  The deadline for submitting program and workshop proposals for the 2011 Annual Meeting was pushed back this year.  You now have until Sept. 15, 2010, to submit your proposals on the AALL website (http://proposals.aallnet.org/).  If you’re planning to submit a proposal, please take a look at the resources available on the CS-SIS wiki at http://aallcssis.pbworks.com/AALL-Annual-Meeting-Program-Planning.

If you’d like CS-SIS to sponsor your program or workshop, please share your proposal with the Program Planning Committee. The timeline is:

• August 30: Send draft to the Committee.  You can either email the draft to me (dginsberg@kentlaw.edu) or use the “Share” feature on the online form.
• Sept. 8:  The Program Planning Committee will respond with any suggestions they have for making the proposal more likely to be accepted.
• Sept. 15: Final proposals must be submitted using AALL’s online form.

If you’re looking for ideas, possible topics could include:

• Digital signage
• Data creation/curation/display
• User-based web design
• Instructional video software and design
• Lecture capture software

We look forward to seeing your proposal ideas.

Law Librarian Conversations Welcome to the New Year: Net Neutrality and the Death of the World Wide Web
Join Richard Leiter and the crew for a live podcast tomorrow, August 20, from 3:00-4:00 PM Eastern with special guests:
Prof Marvin Ammori, leading telecommunications scholar and expert on net neutrality and
Prof Richard Dooling, author, “Rapture for the Geeks,” “White Man’s Grave,” “Brainstorm,” and New York Times contributor
Other topics:

1. The Elephant posts on process versus product, on the 3Geeks blog

2. New developments on the Ning Law Library network

3. End of advance sheets

4. West’s Casebook rentals

5. Microsoft Office/Lexis

Reserve your space now at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/508078138

Follow the conversation in the chat room during the live broadcast at http://lawlibcon.classcaster.com/chat.

Subscribe to LawLibCon on iTunes here: http://u.cali.org/2jwf

The AALL is offering six-week online course, to be held from September 28 to November 2, 2010, designed to “help you achieve higher management performance and advance your career potential.” The course will be taught by Maureen Sullivan, owner of Maureen Sullivan Associates and Professor of Practice in the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Ph.D. Program in Managerial Leadership. The course will consist of a combination of live interactive GoToWebinar sessions and course work conducted through RCampus, an education management system and collaborative learning environment. There will also be assignments and readings between sessions.
You can register for the course on the AALL website by Sept. 17; the cost is $275 for AALL members, $375 for non-members.

Even though the 2010 AALL Annual Meeting is over, there will still be one more issue of the AALL Summit News that will be out in August. If you have anything you’d like to submit (photos, articles, announcements), send them to Meg Martin at the Wyoming State Library (mmartin@courts.state.wy.us) by July 26.

The Law Librarian Conversations crew will have an online “AALL Annual Meeting debriefing” today at 3 pm Eastern time. You can register here and participate in the chat room during the broadcast here.

Zotero, the free, open source add-on for the Firefox browser, has taken notice of law schools, according to a letter posted to the teknoids listserv. from Frank Bennett . Zotero enables users to manage bibliographic data and to store web-page snapshots and other electronic objects during their research and writing, but until now was not able to compose citations in Bluebook format. Now the development trunk version of Zotero has acquired the basic capabilities needed for legal writing, has a user interface and is ready for action of a sort.
And Zotero would welcome our help! From this point, the project will benefit greatly from the input of actual legal writers. Unfortunately, there are very few lawyers in the Zotero community now, for the obvious-enough reason that Zotero has until now not been terribly useful for things legal.
The developers are looking for people to do beta-testing: who are comfortable with a few basic technical things (installing Firefox, installing plugins), who are able to invest a small amount of time playing with software with limited and occasionally broken functionality, and who have the patience to report a bit of detail when things do not work correctly. We can help build a Zotero that is useful and welcome to law students and other legal writers.
Links to the development forum and utilities:
Zotero-legal (Google group): A forum for discussion and a repository of notes and proposals.
Zotero development trunk (main and word-processor plugins): The utilities that run in Firefox.
Bluebook style (CSL 1.0): The current version of the Bluebook style in CSL 1.0.

Law librarian, CS-SIS member and crackerjack crooner Ken Hirsh has blogposted information for this, the 10th anniversary annual conference AALL Karaoke outing. Do visit his blog for all the info. The brief info is this: this year’s evening will be held Monday, July 12, beginning at 9:30 p.m. at Armida’s Restaurant, 840 Lincoln Street, Denver, CO 80203. We’ll meet in the lobby of the Hyatt Regency at 9:15 and take cabs to the restaurant (Ken’s blogpost has a map as well). Armida’s does have a $15 cover charge or two-drink minimum, so you might as well plan to loosen up while you’re there. Twitter hashtag is #karaokeken2010. Get your vocal cords (and chords) ready to make beautiful music.

This week’s Law Librarian Conversations webinar will discuss the Twitter/Facebook/Google land grab, Librarians and KM, and summer plans, including a review of this summer’s conferences.The live show will air on Friday May 7 at 3 pm Eastern, 2 pm Central time. You can register online at https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/623703251; after registering you will receive a confirmation email with info about joining the Webinar. During the show you can follow the conversation in the chat room and you can also subscribe to Law Lib Con on iTunes.

Friday April 16 at 3:00 Eastern, 2:00 Central time, Law Librarian Conversations with special guests Tom Boone, Jason Eiseman and Sarah Glassmeyer will discuss recent news items and technology developments including:
- Library of Congress acquires Twitter content
-White House to crowdsource policy priorities using Think Tank
-iPad
-Net Neutrality
-WestlawNext
-National Library Week.
Register at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/434480083 . After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.