Category: Technology

April Meeting: Identifying Fake News and Managing Its Effects with Dr. Asta Zelenkauskaite and Pablo Molina 🗓

Expert speakers specializing in Mass Communication and Information Security will discuss what fake news is, how it is created, and best practices for curbing its effects. This is a must-see program for anyone who has any responsibilities for curation, dissemination, or analysis of information.

Dr. Asta Zelenkauskaite

Asta Zelenkauskaite earned her PhD in Mass Communication from Indiana University, Bloomington with two minor specializations in Information Science and Linguistics. She is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Drexel University. Her research focuses upon the intersection between social media and mass media, analyzing the user-generated content contributions of social media users, their content selection practices, and the value extraction through theoretical frameworks of interactivity, gatekeeping, and Big Data. She has an extensive record of collaborations with computer scientists and information science scholars.

Pablo Molina

Pablo Molina serves as Drexel’s Chief Information Security Officer, charged with planning and implementing cybersecurity policy across the university. He has an extensive background in ethics of technology and information management and he regularly comments on stories about privacy, ethics of tech companies, and laws related to technology and information management. He has written extensively on technology and information management and is a regular speaker at conferences related to technology, education and policy, and has presented to the United Nations, the American Bar Association, the Congressional Hispanic Leadership Institute and others.

DATE and TIME: Tuesday, April 16, 2019, 12 noon to 1:30 PM
PLACE: McCarter & English LLP, Newark NJ. Directions
COST: $20 members / $25 nonmembers / $15 students
RSVP: By Wednesday, April 10th to Caroline Young, caroline.young.rutgers@gmail.com

Make check payable to: New Jersey Law Librarians Association
Mail to: Caroline Young, Rutgers Law Library, 123 Washington St, Newark, NJ 07102

Community Service Project: Collection for the Jersey Battered Women’s Service in Morris County. Current needs are girls and boys briefs, diapers, diaper wipes, pull ups, ziplock bags for freezer/refrigerator (all sizes!), aluminum foil, and plastic wrap. Travel mugs and refillable water bottles are also needed, as well as snacks, including animal crackers, pretzels, trail mix, fruit snacks, popcorn, nuts, cookies, juice boxes and bottles of water. Gift cards to discount stores and supermarkets are especially appreciated. Cash and checks made out to JBWS are also welcome. JBWS is a non-profit tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization.

NJ SLA Event: “From Crypto to Data – What Librarians Need to Know About Blockchain” with Debbie Ginsberg 🗓

You’ve heard the hype: Blockchain will either revolutionize the Internet or will fizzle out by the end of 2019. The reality is both more practical and more pervasive than the hype suggests. Blockchains and related technologies will change how we track data.

Debbie Ginsberg is the Educational Technology Librarian at Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago – Kent College of Law. Debbie has given technology presentations for the American Association of Law Libraries and the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. She has also written numerous articles on legal technology. Debbie will explain the foundations of Blockchain as well as demonstrate how important this technology will be to librarians in the upcoming decade.

This NJ Special Libraries Association Event is open at the member rate to NJLLA members. Click here for full event details, including payment information and directions.

Where:
The Rutgers Club
Livingston Dining Commons, Second Floor
85 Avenue E
Piscataway, NJ 08854

When:
Tuesday Evening
September 25, 2018
5:30 – 6:00 Networking
6:00 – 7:00 Dinner
7:00 – 8:00 Speaker

SLA Event: “Explore the Internet of Things” with Speaker Projit Aon from Verizon 🗓

Special Libraries Association
Princeton-Trenton Chapter AND New Jersey Chapter

“Explore the Internet of Things”

Speaker: Projit Aon
Senior Manager of Product Management & Development
In Verizon’s Global Product and Services

Projit Aon leads product management for the Connectivity Management Group of ThingSpace IoT Platform.  He previously led product management for the Machine to Machine Management Center. He launched a series of network technologies, services and tools that address a large part of the IoT connectivity management market.  His career spans over 19 years in the technology and telecommunications industries.

Projit has an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Master of Engineering from Widener University and a Bachelor of Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology in India.

In his presentation, Projit will cover an overview of IoT, why IoT is important to us as consumers and why/how IoT is important for us to understand as Information Professionals. He will provide resources to follow to learn more.

Where:
The Rutgers Club
Livingston Dining Commons, Second Floor
85 Avenue E
Piscataway, NJ  08854

When:
Thursday Evening
Nov. 2 , 2017
5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Cost:
SLA/SCIP/ALA/AIIP/NJLLA-Members (any chapter): $30
Non-Members: $40
Members who are Retired or Not Working/Any Students: $20

Click here for full information on RSVP, payment, and for directions to the event.

NJ Greater Princeton/Trenton SLA Chapter and the New Jersey SLA Chapter Present Tech Fest

NJ Greater Princeton/Trenton SLA Chapter and the New Jersey SLA Chapter 

PRESENT:

Tech Fest:  One evening, three presentations

and one hack session to solve the world’s tech problems, or maybe only yours 

Date: Wednesday, September 30th, 2015

Location:
Rutgers University Inn & Conference Center
178 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Meeting Agenda:
5:30 – 6:15   Registration/ Networking/Meal

6:15 – 7:45    Presentations:

John LeMasney – Internet of Things
Stacy Carton — Makerspace Updates and STEAM Programming
Cynthia Lambert – Device and Data Security
Final session- All registrants can participate – 7:45 – 8:30   Guerilla Tech Hack 

Registration:

To register, please use the registration form available on the SLA New Jersey Chapter website (http://newjersey.sla.org/event-registration/?ee=15).

 

THERE WILL BE LIMITED SEATS AVAILABLE FOR THIS MEETING; ONLY THE FIRST 50 REGISTRANTS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

 Many thanks to our sponsors for the evening:

LibraryLinkNJ  Ebsco   Lucidea

Directions to Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center:
The Rutgers Inn & Conference Center is accessible by car, bus or train. We are located off Route 18, less than two miles from Route 1 and Exit 9 of the New Jersey Turnpike. The New Brunswick train station, with New Jersey Transit and Amtrak service, is located downtown, and is across from the Suburban Transit station, with commuter bus service to NYC.

For the most accurate driving directions, please use these preset map links GoogleMaps or MapQuest to plan your trip.

By Public Transportation:
Guests may use Rutgers’ campus buses to travel downtown or to other points on the New Brunswick/Piscataway campuses.
For more location information, check Rutgers University maps and directions for this building. http://ruicc.rutgers.edu/ 

NOTE:  Same cost to any librarian in any professional association.

 

 

April Meeting: Social Media and the Law Librarian

How might you use social media to grow as a professional? To promote your library? For research and current awareness? To monitor the competition? Joyce Valenza, an Assistant Professor and Director of the MLIS program at Rutgers SC&I, will tour strategic ways our colleagues are leveraging new tools to translate and update traditional practice. Please come prepared to share your own tricks!

Learn more about Professor Valenza at http://about.me/jvalenza.

DATE & TIME:
Tuesday, April 14, 2015, 12 noon to 2PM

PLACE:
The New Jersey Law Center
One Constitution Square, New Brunswick, NJ
http://www.njsbf.org/directions.html

COST:
$15 members; $20 nonmembers; $7.50 students

RSVP:
By Thursday, April 9, 2015 to Leigh DeProspo,
email: ldeprospo@greenbaumlaw.com

Make check payable to: New Jersey Law Librarians Association
Mail to: Leigh DeProspo
Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis, LLP
99 Wood Avenue South
Iselin, NJ 08830

Please note: The Brown Bag book discussion on “Quiet” has been postponed until the next Association year.

Community Service Project:

Donations to The Ronald McDonald House of New Brunswick

Individual flavored non-dairy coffee creamers, canned goods, salad dressing (lite, fat free or regular), Latex or vinyl gloves (large), Umbrellas, Red pot holders and/or dish towels, Oxy Clean products, 33 gallon & 28 gallon trash bags, Newborn clothing, Resin cutting boards (12”x10”), cereal (variety packs).

Cash, checks, gift cards: Target, Staples, Stop & Shop, Bed, Bath & Beyond, Costco, Best Buy.

 

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

The Virtual Chase Closing Up Shop: Thanks for the Memories…

From Genie Tyburski, Web Manager, Virtual Chase [dot] com:

Everything Has an End

To paraphrase Shakespeare, the inaudible and noiseless foot of time passes almost without notice. Indeed, the past 12 years, spent writing about research strategies and resources, flew by in no small part because of the fun I had doing it. Yet change is the essence of the times, making 12 years rather a long stretch.

Saying goodbye is never easy. I’ve enjoyed the generous support of Ballard Spahr for my creative endeavors. I’ve received much encouragement over the years from the legal community. My peers have kindly awarded my efforts.

But the demands of managing a Web site increasingly took me away from my first love – providing library and research services to lawyers. Now I have an opportunity to return to working closely with Ballard Spahr’s lawyers and library staff. Starting today, I will be library manager, overseeing all services and assisting the director of the library.

While the decision to close The Virtual Chase was not made lightly, I’m convinced it’s the best choice for both the firm and me. I will take down the site gradually over the next several months unless I find someone willing to archive it or continue its development. I anticipate that the site will be completely offline by no later than May 2009 (and quite possibly, sooner) except in the event of a new owner.Thank you for your patronage over the years. This chapter of my professional life was truly a most extraordinary and rewarding experience.

Genie Tyburski, Web Manager
tvceditor [at] virtualchase [dot] com

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