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CS-SIS is pleased to announce that our Hot Topic session at this year's annual meeting will cover e-books! Here are the details: 

Tom Boone, Reference Librarian at Loyola Law School Los Angeles, and Jason Eiseman, Head of Technology Services at Yale Law Library, will discuss emerging trends in e-books. This session will include an in-depth look at the technology, tools, and techniques for creating, editing, and publishing e-books in various formats for various platforms. See real-life examples of e-book creation and publishing by law libraries.

Learning outcomes:

1) Participants will identify the software tools required to convert content into e-books.

2) Participants will compare various publishing options for distributing e-books.

It will take place Monday July 23 from 1:15-2:15pm in HCC room 203.

This is an advanced level program on the Information Technlogy track. We hope you will enjoy it! If you haven't already, you can add it to your schedule on the AALL2012 Sched site.

When you register for the AALL annual meeting, don't forget to register for the annual CS-SIS breakfast and business meeting on Tuesday morning as well! Yes, it's at 7am. We know that's wicked early, but once the caffeine gets flowing, it's a last chance to catch up with CS friends and find out what the SIS has been up to all year.

Thanks to our sponsors (Bloomberg Law/Bloomberg BNA, LexisNexis, Thomson Reuters, William S. Hein & Co., and Wolters Kluwer Law & Business--whew!), breakfast is just $15 this year.

See you there!

Photo credit: Breakfast Part I by Matt Sinopoli, CC:BY-NC-ND 2.0 license

CS-SIS invites you to join us again for the premier AALL karaoke outing!  This year's venue will be Elephant & Castle Pub and Restaurant, 161 Devonshire Street, inside the Club Quarters Hotel. We'll gather in the lobby of the Sheraton Boston (HQ hotel) on Saturday, July 21, at 9:00 PM, and then head over to the pub.  We have a group reservation for 9:30.  If you need to come later, e.g., those going to watch the game at Fenway Park,  just meet us at the pub.

Travel options include a cab from the hotel, the T Green Line from Prudential Station to Park Street, or walking the 2 miles for the more adventurous.

Please come along for an evening of music and fun!

CS-SIS is pleased to announce that Bonnie Shucha is this year's winner of the CS-SIS Kenneth J. Hirsh Award.

This award honors a CS-SIS member who has made outstanding contributions to the SIS, to AALL, and who is well regarded for his or her service to the profession. The inaugural award recipient was Ken Hirsh, in whose honor the award is named. 

Bonnie Shucha is currently Head of Reference at the University of Wisconsin Law Library.  Bonnie has been an active member of the CS-SIS since 2000.  Bonnie was elected to the CS-SIS board as Member-at-Large in 2006 and was elected in 2008 as Vice Chair, serving as Chair in 2009/2010.  In addition to this service she was co-coordinator of the Web 2.0 Challenge, Emerging Technologies Committee co-chair, Blawgs Committee co-chair, Grants Committee and Job Descriptions committee member. 

Congratulations, Bonnie!!

On behalf of the CS-SIS board, I'd like to thank the Grants & Awards Committee—DR Jones, Margie Maes, Patricia Monk, Eric Young, and chair, Monica Sharum—for their work on the Hirsh Award selection process this year.