The Micrographics/Audiovisual Special Interest Section Business Meeting will be Sunday, July 13th, 12noon-1:30pm, in the Convention Center. Check the final program for exact location. Light refreshments will be provided. We will discuss M/AV SIS organizational issues and program proposals for the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting. Looking forward to seeing many of [...]

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The Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section has programming every day at this year’s Annual Meeting. On Saturday, July 12th, we are co-sponsoring, with the Technical Services SIS, the full-day workshop “Yikes! What’s In This Box? Managing Archive Collections.” Speakers will include Janice Anderson, Associate Director of Collection Services, [...]

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The 21st century has been witness to an unprecedented explosion in Web-accessible digital information, and, as law librarians are well aware, important legal materials are increasingly digitally born and distributed online, as opposed to published in print.
When it comes to long-term access and preservation, this proliferation of legal information in digital formats has presented the [...]

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Don’t miss the innovative Micrographis/Audiovisual Special Interest Section programing at this year’s Annual Meeting. On Sunday, July 13th, 3pm-4pm, Program B-4 is “Mandatory Digital TV and the Evolution of Library DVD Collections.” Speakers will be Laura Ray, Educational Programing Librarian, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library, and Terrence McCormack, AV Librarian & Head of [...]

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The first class of AALL Leadership Fellows will be chosen next month by the Leadership Development Special Committee. Although 30-35 will be selected, we know that more than twice that amount of young, entrepreneurial law librarians has applied to join this first cohort.
They will attend the first AALL Leadership Academy, to be held at Oak [...]

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Since 1985 AALL’s Lexis-Nexis Call for Papers Committee has coordinated an annual competition that recognizes authors who write outstanding articles related to law librarianship.  Each year Call for Papers award winners discuss their articles at a session of the AALL Annual Meeting.
Judith Lihosit, Instruction and Outreach Specialist at the University of San Diego Legal [...]

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One of the ways in which AALL members say thank you to our host cities – such as beautiful Portland, Oregon is through our annual Children’s Book Drive. The 2008 theme is “A Book for Every Child”. All donated books, gift cards, and checks will be given to the Willamette Writers Books for Kids program. [...]

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China – United States Conference on Legal Information and Law Libraries will be held May 27-30, 2009 in Beijing, China. This Conference is officially co-sponsored by the State Commission on Legal Education of the Ministry of Education, China and the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), among others.
The Conference is intended to promote Sino-U.S. [...]

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Learn about assisted living laws at the program: “Energizing Senior Citizens: Exploring the Evolving Field of Assisted Living for the Elderly”. Americans are living longer; currently almost one million of them live in an assisted living situation. In addition, there is a strong national trend of Americans who say that they plan to [...]

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The Legal History and Rare Books SIS is pleased to announce the first annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition. The competition is named in honor of Professor Morris L. Cohen, one of the founders of the Legal History and Rare Books SIS and an eminent scholar. Morris Cohen is Professor Emeritus of Law at [...]

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