Given the tech connection, some of you may be interested in the following TS-SIS program:

What’s in a Name: CORE and I-2, New Standards to Improve Efficiency in the Electronic Resources Environment

Sunday, July 11, 2010 — 1:30-2:45 p.m.
CCC-Room 109

The current marketplace has numerous products from many vendors to address different aspects of electronic resources.  Interoperability between them is essential to gain maximum benefits.

CORE (Cost of Resource Exchange) describes a message structure which facilitates the transfer of cost data from Integrated Library Systems to Electronic Resource Management Systems.  Identifying institutions with multiple departments, campuses and their hierarchical relationship can be very difficult.

I-2 (Institutional Identifier) a proposed NISO standard, under development, is a unique identifier assigned to an institution.  I-2 aims to be global, interoperable and unique and will show the hierarchical relationship of an institution with all its subsidiaries.

Working group members of these two standards will discuss the need for these standards, their goals, objectives, data elements used and implementation issues.

Program handouts are available.

* Helen Henderson, Speaker, Ringgold. Member of I-2 working group
* Rose Nelson, Speaker, Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.
Member of CORE working group
* Shyama Agrawal, Coordinator, J. Michael Goodson Law Library, Duke
University School of Law

A few last minute updates to share regarding CS-SIS programs at AALL next week:

Streaming Programs

We’ll be live streaming our CS programs again this year thanks to the Education Committee.  They will appear as they are created at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cs-sis-programs-denver-2010 .

• Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the following programs will be recorded:

  Lawberry Camp, Saturday, July 10, 9:00AM – 5:00PM

  
  Roundtable Discussion in Preserving Born-Digital Ephemera – Monday, July 12, 12:00PM – 1:15PM
  
  Database Ownership: Myth or Reality? – Monday, July 12, 4:00PM – 5:15PM
  
  CS-SIS Breakfast Business Meeting and Awards – Tuesday, July 13, 7:15AM – 8:45AM
  
  Format permitting, these additional programs may also be recorded:
  
  
  
  Cool Tools Cafe – Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:00PM – 1:15PM

  CS-SIS Program Planning Meeting – Sunday, July 11, 2010 5:30PM – 6:30PM

  Bloggers Get Together / Tweet Up – Monday, July 12, 2010 5:00PM – 6:30PM

Evaluations

CS will be conducting online evaluations of our programs this year on Survey Monkey

• Cool Tools Cafe
• Roundtable Discussion in Preserving Born-Digital Ephemera
• Database Ownership: Myth or Reality?

Cool Tools Cafe Demonstrations List

The list of tech demonstrations and presenters for the CS-SIS Cool Tools Cafe is now available on our website.

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.

As you may know, CS-SIS is hosting a program at the AALL Annual Meeting called the Cool Tools Cafe in which our members will be demonstrating new gadgets and technologies for use in law libraries.  It will consist of 5-10 minute informal demonstrations at various tables around the room.  Attendees can wander from demo to demo as they please.

The Cool Tools Cafe is scheduled for Sunday, July 11, 12:00pm – 1:15pm at CCC-Four Seasons Ballroom 1.  This is immediately after the Keynote speaker in the room right next door.

So far, the following people have offered to demo these technologies:

Dan Blackaby – Creating video
Tom Boone  -  Dropbox
Bonnie Shucha  -  Gimlet
Jason Eiseman  -  Google Wave
Debbie Ginsberg -  iPad for Libraries
Stephanie Davidson  -  Jing
Elizabeth Farrell –   LibGuides
Cindy Bassett  (Cindy is one of our grant winners!) -  Tegrity
Hadi Amjadi – Mobile Apps for law libraries
Scott Frey  -  Yahoo Pipes
Jennifer Duperon & Jill Smith  -  Zotero

We are looking for a few more volunteers. If you’re planning to be in Denver, would you consider joining us?

We need a few more presenters. It would be a nice presentation opportunity with minimal prep time or stress for you and it would really help CS make this program a success.  We need:

• One more person to assist Dan Blackaby with a demo on creating video (maybe someone from the Education Committee?) – we’ll need a camera also
• One or two more people with iPads to assist Debbie Ginsberg
• Two or three more people to assist Hadi Amjadi with Mobile Apps (We’d like two people with Droids – Hadi has one – and two with iPhones – any others?)
• One or two people to demo Evernote
• One or two people to demo Twitter
• One or two people to demo Flickr or other photo/video sharing service
• One or two people to demo cool Google apps
• or, if none of these work for you but you have another suggestion, let us know.

It would be ideal if you have your own gadget or laptop to use for the demo, but if you don’t, we might be able to round something up for you. 

We’re also looking for a few greeters/guides to direct people to the appropriate tables and generally help control the chaos.
If you’re able to help, please contact Bonnie Shucha or Sally Irvin, Coordinators of the Cool Tools Cafe

If you’re planning to attend the AALL Annual Meeting in Denver, mark your calendar to attend the TS/OBS/RIPS/CS-SIS Joint Reception (a.k.a. the Alphabet Soup Recpetion) on Saturday, July 10 from 7:00-8:00 P.M. at the Hyatt.  The reception is sponsored by Innovative Interfaces, Inc.

At the reception, the Mersky Spirit of Law Librarianship Award for Public Service will be presented to David Selden, Law Librarian at the National Indian Law Library/Native American Rights Fund.

This reception is a nice segue into the Opening Reception.  Light appetizers will be available as follows:

• Bite Size Cheese & Cracker Display
• Assorted Finger Sandwiches
• BBQ Chicken and Green Chili Quesadilla Asian Vegetable Spring Roll with Sweet & Sour Sauce
• Hot Spinach & Artichoke Dip with Tortilla  Chips
• Potato Chips with Assorted Dips

Join us for the Bloggers Get Together at the AALL Annual Meeting at Denver, CO

Time: 5:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
Date: Monday, July 12th
Place: Katie Mullen’s Irish Pub – Downtown Sheraton (off the 16th Street Mall, 2 blocks from the Convention Center)

We will have a private area of the pub and access to some great food deals!

Speaker: Andrew Dye (Andrew works for Techstars in Boulder)
Blogs: http://andrewhy.de/
http://www.techstars.org/
Follow Andrew on twitter @andrewhyde.

Please feel free to send this message out to other interested parties via email, blogs, tweets, etc.

To reserve your spot, please feel free to contact Barbara.fullerton@morningstar.com or 214-800-4576.

Congratulations to our CS-SIS Grant winners, Marin Dell and Cynthia Bassett.  Both will receive grants to cover the cost of registration at the AALL Annual Meeting in Denver.

Marin (of Florida State University) was selected in the experienced librarian category and Cynthia (of University of Missouri-Columbia) was selected in the newer librarians group.

On June 10, 11:30 a.m. EDT, AALL is sponsoring a webinar with Stephen Abram entitled Interpreting the Tea Leaves: Thinking about the Future.

Here’s more about it from AALL:

The world is constantly changing, and few years have brought as much change to law firms and their libraries as the past year.  Join us as we interview Stephen Abram, named by Library Journal as one of the top 50 people influencing the future of libraries, and find out how this visionary thinker gathers information, formulates predictions, and identifies what it all means for libraries.  Plan to leave the session energized, and armed with ways to see more clearly into the future.