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AALL Call for Papers Competition Announcement

From a recent email sent to the AALL State, Court & County SIS <sccll-sis@aallnet.org> mailing list:

The “CALL FOR PAPERS” HAS BEGUN!

Have you been thinking of writing an article of interest to law librarians? Need a push to get started? Well, here it is.

The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee is soliciting articles in three categories:

Open Division: for active and retired AALL members and law librarians with five or more years of professional experience.

New Members Division: for recent graduates and AALL members who have become law librarians since July 1, 2003.

Student Division: for students in library, information management or law school. Participants in this division need not be members of AALL.

The winner in each division receives $750 generously donated by LexisNexis plus the opportunity to present the winning paper at a program during the AALL Annual Meeting in Portland! Winning papers are also considered for publication in the Association’s prestigious Law Library Journal.

A list of previous winners is available at the Call for Papers web site. This list can give you an idea of the range of topics that law librarians have chosen. The web site also has additional information about the competition, including information on how to submit your entry and and application form. That web site is at: http://www.aallnet.org/about/award_call_for_papers.asp.

Articles in the Open and New Members Division must be submitted by March 1, 2008.

Articles in the Student Division must be submitted by April 15, 2008

If you have any questions, please contact a member of the AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee:

Chair, Joseph Gerken, gerken at buffalo.edu
James Donovan, jdonovan at uga.edu
James Heller, heller at wm.edu

HeinOnline Seeks Beta Testers

From the HeinOnline Weblog: New “MyHein” feature coming soon! Beta testers needed Our development team has been working on a new feature called “MyHein” which will allow users to bookmark relevant links as well as track their research time.We are looking for users interested in volunteering to help us test this new feature and provide feedback as to what we should change to make this feature as valuable as possible to the legal researcher. The following screen shot is a sneak peak of this new feature:If you are interested in testing this new feature, please e-mail us atsmarmion@wshein.com. We will then contact you to set up access and provide more information regarding the functionality of the new MyHein feature.

Thank you, HeinOnline http://heinonline.blogspot.com/2007/10/www.heinonline.org.

Happy Birthday SCILS

Message From Renee Cullmann, President of NJLLA:

Hello NJLLA members: [] [Linked below] is an invitation for Rutgers School of Communication, Inofrmation and Library Studies (SCILS) 25th Anniversary celebration on 10/12/07 at the Heldrich Hotel in New Brunswick. The Board thought that this event would be of interest to our members and we wanted to make you all aware of it. As our local library school we congratulate them on their 25th anniversary, and for turning out so many fine librarians, many of whom are NJLLAers. [Invitation]

ATS Corporation Awarded Contract In Support of the Law Library of Congress

The ATS Corporation has been awarded a 5-year, $14 million Global Legal Information Network contract in support of the Law Library of Congress. Under this contract, ATSC will host, maintain and enhance GLIN.gov and a supporting distance learning program. Currently available in 13 languages, ATSC will add Hebrew and simplified Chinese language support for GLIN.gov in the first contract year.

For further details, click here.

HeinOnline Enters the Blogosphere…

From a post on their new blog: Introducing the New HeinOnline Blog! Welcome!With so many exciting things happening everyday in HeinOnline, we are launching this blog to provide on-demand information to users around the world! This blog will offer insight to our newest products, notify customers of our latest interface enhancements, and share tips to help improve customers research experience. Anyone from students and librarians to professionals world-wide will be able to use our blog to communicate with our development team, share tips with other subscribers, or simply to read what other HeinOnline users are saying.Additionally, we will be offering Blog giveaways to our faithful readers. Don’t miss your chance to win prizes including: ipods, iphones, and much more! This blog was created for you, our loyal users, therefore we encourage your feedback to tell us what particular topics you would like to hear more about in this blog. We are always looking for ways to better serve our loyal customers.