Criminal Law Library BlogThe Organisation of South African Law Libraries (OSALL) is one of the sponssors and will be participating in this Conference:
NINTH Southern African Online Information Meeting
Tuesday 3rd of June to Thursday 5th of June 2008 CSIR Conference Centre
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National Library Week
National Library Week is being observed April 13-19, 2008 with the theme, “join the circle of knowledge @ your library.”
First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. All types of libraries – school, public, academic and special – participate.
National Library Week affords a wonderful opportunity for librarians and non-librarians to both promote and reflect on the importance of libraries to our society. Here are some examples of various groups are observing National Library Week:
New on LLRX for April 2008
The following is a listing of articles which appear in the most recent issue of LLRX at the time of this posting. See http://www.llrx.com:
The Personal Information Trainer, by Stuart Basefsky http://www.llrx.com/features/personalinfotrainer.htm
Criminal Law Resources: Fingerprint Evidence Challenges, by Ken Strutin http://www.llrx.com/features/fingerprintevidence.htm
Library Reference Renaissance Conference: August 4-5, 2008, Denver
Call for Participation
Deadline Extended to April 22, 2008
A Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends August 4-5, 2008 Denver, CO Conference website: http://www.bcr.org/referencerenaissance
American Libraries Direct April 4, 2008
American Libraries Direct is e-newsletter of the American Library Association. Here is the Table of Contests for the April 4, 2008 issue:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
U.S. & World News ALA News Booklist Online D.C. Update Division News Round Table News Awards Seen Online Tech Talk Actions & Answers Poll Calendar
Joseph Thomas Receives 2008 Renee Chapman Award for Outstanding Contributions in Law Librarian Technical Services
The TS-SIS Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the recipient of the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship for 2008 is Joseph Thomas.
Joseph is Head of Technical Services at the Kresge Library, University of Notre Dame Law School. His many contributions to the field of technical services law librarianship include:
8 program presentations delivered since 1991 at the AALL annual conference as well as at other venues
Wikipedia on Pro Se
Not everyone is happy with the discussion in Wikipedia regarding pro se and why people proceed pro se. Today there has been some lively discussion on this topic on the web. Here is the question which seems to have generated much of the discussion and some responses to it. As always, I have edited out all names and other forms of identification in order to protect the confidentiality of the participants:
QUESTION:
Wikipedia’s listing for Pro Se under “Why people proceed Pro Se”
SLA Legal Division Quarterly
The Legal Division Quarterly is published four time a year as a Newsletter of the Legal Division of the Special Libraries Association. Included in the WinterSpring 2007-08 issue is a very interesting article “Help – The Lifeguard is Drowning!: Thoughts and Reflections on How Librarians Can Stay Afloat in the Information Age” by T. Z. Maleef, (the article begins with a great quote from Linton Weeks of the Washington Post). In addition to this article the issue also includes the following which collectively highlight the broad range of activities of this organization:
Editor’s Letter Liz Smith
From the Board Room Nola Vanhoy
International Association of Law Libraries (IALL) Bursaries to Attend Conference in Puerto Rico
Conference Dates: November 30 – December 3, 2008:
You want to join the next IALL Annual Course?
The International Association of Law Libraries each year makes available financial assistance to enable law librarians who are normally unable to benefit from Association activities to attend the Annual Course in International Law Librarianship that forms the annual conference of the