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AALL Librarian Advisory Breakfast Wrap-Up and Raffle Winner!

Many thanks to everyone who came to our Librarian Advisory Breakfast during AALL! We had a full house, great conversation, and delicious food!

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Alexa Robertson (Director of Legal Information Services & Electronic Publishing) reviewed the changes we’ve made to PLI Discover PLUS since last summer’s conference and highlighted the many new titles that are now in our catalog.  Alexa also updated those in attendance on the archive project and showed our enhanced date range filter, which allows you to filter by decade as well as individual year.

Next, Christina Davis (Library Relations Manager) provided a demo of both Discover PLUS and the Discover PLUS app, which showcased our platforms, the ease of use, and our invaluable content.

On to the raffle. In an effort to pay homage to Chicago–known for its deep dish pizza, pierogies, and jibaritos–we raffled off a $150 gift certificate to Open Table. It was a fitting prize since Discover PLUS allows you to bring the experts to your table! Congratulations to Gina Cartusciello of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, who won!

PLI AALL Librarian Advisory Breakfast

2016 AALL Breakfast

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding its fifth Librarian Advisory Breakfast at
the AALL 2016 Annual Meeting & Conference in Chicago.

In an effort to pay homage to this year’s host city, known for its deep dish pizza, pierogies, and jibaritos, we will be raffling off a $150 gift certificate to Open Table. Bring the experts to your table with Discover PLUS,
PLI’s online research database!

During the breakfast, we’ll take a deep (dish) dive into Discover PLUS.

SUNDAY, JULY 17
7:30 – 8:30 AM
Hyatt Regency Chicago

Please RSVP to libraryrelations@pli.edu, and we’ll include location details in
your confirmation.

We hope to see you in Chicago!

PLI Will Be Exhibiting at the 109th AALL Annual Meeting & Conference!

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Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be exhibiting at the 109th AALL Annual Meeting & Conference… please stop by and say hello!

This year’s conference will take place from July 16-19 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. We look forward to connecting with law librarians from across the country and communicating the latest Discover PLUS news.

This year we are excited to highlight our Discover PLUS app! Yes, you heard right—PLI created a mobile app that not only mirrors the desktop version of our award-winning online research database, but also simplifies the existing navigation and allows you to download content to access while you’re offline.  With the app, you can access your account from your iPhone® and iPad® and have the most up-to-date, relevant information and techniques practiced by the industry’s leading law firms, corporations and government agencies at your fingertips. It’s like fitting an entire library in your pocket!

Stop by our booth #225 to get a quick demo and to enter a drawing to win a $1000 Orbitz giveaway gift card!

We look forward to seeing you in Chicago!

Meet Our AALL 2015 Orbitz Gift Card Winner: Nicole Dyszlewski

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Tell me a little about yourself?  Why did you become a librarian?

I am the new Research/Access Services Librarian at Roger Williams University School of Law in beautiful Bristol, RI. I just moved to Southern New England in January from Maine in hopes of avoiding some of the snow. I became a librarian because I like working with patrons.  

 

What do you like most about your job as at Roger Williams University School of Law?

My patrons, of course! My second favorite thing about RWU is that we are surrounded by water on nearly every side of the campus.

 

What is the most common research question of law students?

I am fairly new to RWU and I don’t think I have a good sense of what the most common questions are here, yet. Surprisingly, I have not gotten a single question about the father of religious freedom, Roger Williams!  

 

Have you used PLI publications for your own research? Which ones?

I particularly like the Answer Book Series. It is like Yahoo Answers…but written by actual experts…

 

What did you think of AALL 2015? Did you do any sightseeing in Philadelphia?

The AALL Annual Meeting was great. I really enjoyed some of the presentations. As a tourist, I visited Eastern State Penitentiary (at http://www.easternstate.org/) and The Franklin Fountain ( at http://www.franklinfountain.com/).

 

Tell me about your best vacation ever.

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.

 

Where do you plan on traveling with your Orbitz gift card?

I don’t know. I’m hoping somewhere relaxing!

 

Win a Free Ancestry.com World Explorer Package at AALL

Join us on Smagnifying-glass-68204_640unday, July 19th at 7:30AM at the Philadelphia Marriott for a breakfast discussion on Discover PLUS historical content.

During the breakfast, we will offer a participant the chance to explore their very own history: attendees will be placed in a drawing for a chance to WIN a FREE World Explorer Ancestry.com package

Please RSVP to libraryrelations@pli.edu, and we’ll include location details in your confirmation.

PLI Librarian Advisory Breakfast at AALL 2015

PLI Librarian Breakfast

Practising Law Institute (PLI) will be holding a Librarian Advisory Breakfast at the AALL 2015 Annual Meeting & Conference in Philadelphia.

At PLI, we recognize that past practices greatly affect future dealings and decisions, and we’re working hard to upload our vast archived content to PLI Discover PLUS, our eBook library containing our authoritative Treatises, Answer Books, Course Handbooks, Program Transcripts, and Legal Forms. Since PLI has been publishing authoritative secondary sources on legal matters since 1933, we are in a unique position to be able to provide our subscribers with a treasure trove of expert opinions. By the end of 2014, we had released over ten years of Course Handbook content going back to 2004, and we are continuing to provide subscribers with more archived titles every week.

During a breakfast discussion on Discover PLUS historical content, we will offer a participant the chance to explore their very own history: attendees will be placed in a drawing for a chance to WIN a FREE World Explorer Ancestry.com package
($224 value).

We will also demonstrate the exciting future enhancements that are currently planned for Discover PLUS.

SUNDAY, JULY 19
7:30 – 8:30 AM
Philadelphia Marriott

Please RSVP to libraryrelations@pli.edu, and we’ll include location details in
your confirmation.

We hope to see you in Philadelphia!

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