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Apply for NJLLA’s 2015 Founders Grant to Attend AALL

Make this the year you energize your career! The Grants & Awards Committee encourages our members to apply for NJLLA’s 2015 Founders Grant to attend AALL’s Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, July 18-21, 2015. This is a great opportunity to explore current issues in the field of Law Librarianship and meet Librarians from across the United States. Fill out the application letting us know How you will benefit from attending the 2015 AALL Annual Meeting. And we will look forward to seeing you there!

Grant Application (Word)
Grant Application (PDF)

AALL Scholarships

Every year AALL awards thousands of dollars in scholarships to law school and library school students and AALL members. The following scholarships are awarded annually:

•Library School Scholarships (for those with and without JDs)
•Law School Scholarships (for those with MLS/MLIS and those seeking dual JD/MLIS)
•Scholarships for Library School Graduates Seeking a Non-Law Degree
•Scholarships for Continuing Education Courses
•AALL and Thomson Reuters George A. Strait Minority Scholarship
•LexisNexis John R. Johnson Memorial Scholarship
•Marcia J. Koslov Scholarship (for AALL members who are state, court, or county law librarians to attend continuing legal education programs. Not intended for use at the AALL annual conference)

The application deadline is April 1. More information about the scholarships, instructions, and applications is available at http://www.aallnet.org/mm/Member-Resources/scholarships. For more information, contact AALL Scholarships Committee Chair Ian Bourgoine at ian.bourgoine@belmont.edu or AALL Headquarters.

November Meeting: Business Resources at the Rutgers Dana Library

Ka-Neng Au and Roberta (Bobbie) Tipton, two business librarians with extensive experience at the John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University Libraries, will provide us with the latest details about current business databases and how to find the difficult information we may be asked for. They will cover competitive intelligence, marketing information, data sets, information about private companies and much more.

Au has been a conference speaker in the US and abroad. He is the author of several journal articles and book chapters on information technology and business information resources.

Bobbie has worked in both academic and government libraries. She has written and presented on the business of information, information about business, and information literacy, among other topics.

Date and Time: Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 12:00 noon

Place: Dana Room, John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers Newark
http://rumaps.rutgers.edu/location/dana-library

Cost: Members $10.00; Students $7.50; Non-Members $15.00

RSVP: Anne Shulman by Friday, November 14th, 2014

Community Service Project: The Committee will be collecting canned and boxed food for a local food pantry. Cash donations are also appreciated.

Make check payable to: New Jersey Law Librarians Association
Mail to: Anne Shulman
Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland Perretti LLP
Headquarters Plaza
PO Box 1981
Morristown, NJ 07960

email: ashulman@riker.com or call 973-538-0800, ext 7482.

PDF Flyer for November 2014 Meeting

Practice Tip: Federal Docket Searching

A regular feature of life for law librarians is docket searching. We all know the woes of using New Jersey’s state court public case access. While we have left behind the buzzing and beeping of our modems from the old dial-up ACMS access in favor of public access on the court website, there is still a lot of room for improvement on the state side. For federal courts, the old reliable PACER is of course still the least expensive option, if not the most graceful.

But could there be something a bit better that doesn’t break the bank? I have been playing around with PacerPro for my federal docket searching ever since I learned about them at AALL this summer. I pay just my regular Pacer charges, and get access to batch downloads of the documents (definitely a time saver), free bookmarking of cases I check on regularly (no more visiting several different court sites and logging in to each one to check on my cases), and also free docket tracking with alerts when there’s an update. PacerPro also has the ability to search within a docket using simple Boolean operators to quickly locate entries. There are online demos about PacerPro on their website and they also are actively setting up live online webinars, so feel free to contact them and check out their offerings to see what you think. Is anyone else using PacerPro, or have any tools or tricks that may make our lives a little easier that they’d like to share with the membership? We would love to set up a regular blog feature of practice tips on any topic written by our knowledgeable NJLLA librarians, so please leave a comment or contact us if you have ideas to share!

Cheers,
Carrie Hayter

November Meeting: Legal Education Looking Forward

At our November meeting, Caroline Hatton, a student at Seton Hall Law School and the Symposium Editor of Seton Hall Law Review, will give a review of speeches made at a recent symposium she organized on the future of legal education. The distinguished speakers included deans and professors from several law schools, judges and practicing attorneys, as well as Paulette Brown, the President-Elect of the American Bar Association, who gave the keynote address entitled “Maintaining the Relevancy of a Law School Education in an Evolving Profession.”

Date and Time: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 at 12:00 noon

Place: Prudential Insurance Company of America
751 Broad Street
Newark NJ

Cost: Members $15.00, Students $7.50, Non-Members $20.00

RSVP: Anne Shulman by Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Community Service Project: The Committee will be collecting canned and boxed food for St. John’s Food Kitchen and Pantry in Newark.

Make check payable to: New Jersey Law Librarians Association

Mail to: Anne Shulman
Riker Danzig Scherer Hyland Perretti
Headquarters Plaza
PO Box 1981
Morristown, NJ 07960

email: ashulman@riker.com or call 973-538-0800, ext 7482.

NJLLA Flyer for November 2013 meeting

Subject Experts Need Not Apply?

Although not a discussion of subject expertise for academic law librarians, Todd Gilman’s article in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education, Recent job postings and hires suggest that many academic libraries are losing interest in hiring humanities Ph.D.’s, still raises many relevant questions.

Organization Course Offered by HSLANJ

From a recent email sent to the NJLLA mailing list:

Health Sciences Library Association of New Jersey (HSLANJ) Meeting It’s About Time, It’s About Space: Time and File Management. The intended audience for this program is anyone would like to gather newideas for getting or staying organized. The content is not specific to medical librarians.Wednesday, March 12, 2008. See, http://www.hslanj.org/calendar.html for more.

November Luncheon Presentation Now Available

Kevin Reiss has made available his November 12, 2007 presentation, titled: A Web 2.0 Crash Course. Kevin is the Systems Librarian from the Mina Rees Library at the CUNY Graduate Center. Clcik here for the full presentation.

New Jersey Law Librarians Association November Luncheon

What do Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and their cousin, the social web, mean for law librarians? The 2.0 umbrella includes social networking tools such as facebook, new approaches to library catalogs and resource discovery like aquabrowser, social tagging tools like del.icio.us, and collaborative editing software like the ubiquitous wiki. Web 2.0 is a new approach to building web services based on a philosophy that utilizes technologies that can be rapidly deployed, easily combined, and easily modified. Web 2.0 technologies are rapidly emerging on the web and within vendor products. Come get an introduction to what Web 2.0 is, how 2.0 technologies are currently being used in libraries, and a hands-on demonstration of how some of them work.

Visit http://www.njlla.org/index.cfm for more information.

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]