Kathy Kelly, a law librarian from Erie County, has started making purses and messenger bags out of treatise titles. Not only is it incredibly creative of her, but they look really cool!
I want one. You can read all about it in the Pittsburgh Tribune, here.
A bunch of you have been calling in about the large volume Tax Strategies 2009 set, also known as “The Corporate Tax Practice Series: Strategies for Acquisitions, Dispositions, Spin-Offs, Joint Ventures, Financing, Reorganizations and Restructurings.”
We’ve gotten word from publishing that the books are ready to go, and are shipping out by the end of the week.
If you don’t receive them in the next week and a half, you can always contact us at 877-900-5291 or email LibraryRelations@pli.edu and we’ll give you a hand.
Whether its 1Y library introduction or advanced database instruction, getting your law students to sign and show up to an event can be challenging.
Now Google Docs and Calendar is here to make your life just a little bit easier. Allie Jordan has a guest post on the LibraryTech blog where she goes through how to create a form and sign-up process through Google Docs and calendars, allowing your students to register for an event with the click of a button.
Article here.
This year’s conference in Denver is going to be amazing, I can already tell. If you’re a first year attendee, or just want a guaranteed way to meet some amazing people, volunteer! You can see the whole kit and caboodle from the inside, while ensuring a wonderful and smoothly run conference for your fellow law librarians.
(And when you’re there, stop by our booth and say hi. We’ll give you a pig.)
Volunteer information here.
For today only you can get a free copy of “Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates” from the University of Chicago Press.
The e-book displays in Adobe Digital Editions, provided by the press free of charge.
You can download your copy here.
LISNews is the first stop on my internet reading list every morning, and yesterday they announced a Librarian Essay Contest:
“The first ever LISNews Librarian Essay Contest invites librarians to write an original essay about issues that impact librarianship. The contest will run for the entire month of February, 2010, with the fabulous prizes awarded sometime in March. Winning essayists will receive one of several prizes including Amazon or Borders gift cards, and a year of hosting from LISHost.org.”
Who doesn’t love fabulous prizes?
The folks over at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law have updated their Bar Exam Guide for students. The site is impressively inclusive, going so far as to provide hotels near the Ohio bar testing locations, outline the costs that a student can expect to accrue, and giving advice on which classes to take and when.
A great outlay of information, here.
With gesture based computing quickly becoming The New Idea for librarians, Zyxio is a company that’s creating “breath-enabled interfaces.” Blow a steady stream of air to scroll, blow a quick burst to click on a link.
Zyxio says that their products will start shipping in the second quarter of this year.
Wired news story here.
We’ve gotten a couple of calls from people concerned about not receiving Release # 12 for Evidence in Negligence Cases.
While it was originally slated for September 2009, it hasn’t been released yet, so as long as you have # 11, you’re all up to date. If you’re concerned as to whether your book is current, or want to know if you will automatically receive the update when it comes out, you can always give us a call at Library Relations:
877-900-5291
or email at Library Relations.
Not that this is news to any of the librarians out there, but it’s great to be one. CareerCast.com places librarian at #46 on the list of 200 Best Jobs for 2010.
You can view the whole list right here.