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Meet New CALL Member Trezlen Drake
New CALL member, Trez Drake, is the Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Her Northwestern colleague, Tom Gaylord, recently interviewed her so we could get to know her.
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Chicago Where in the World? Map
As this is the international issue of the CALL Bulletin, it seemed appropriate to find out where our members have traveled. In September 2015, we sent out a three question survey to CALL members and plotted the answers on a map. The responses to each of the questions are layered in different colors. “Where is…
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Traveling in Madagascar
In September 2003, I took a two week trip to Madagascar using my Delta Air Lines miles. Traveling solo, I had my excellent guide Jocelyn and my excellent driver Solofo, and together we traveled the whole country by air and car. When traveling by road, we would come upon various villages. At these villages, I…
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International Travel Adds So Much to Your Life!
For the last few years, I have been traveling internationally with a group I formed called Literary Sisters. The women are together because we share a love of reading, in book clubs, or on our own. We enjoy traveling with like-minded people and have a great time. If you love reading and movies, there is…
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Meeting the Global Library Community at IFLA
Cape Town, South Africa, was the destination for over 3200 delegates who converged there in August 2015 to take part in the annual World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA). An IFLA conference presents attendees with a unique opportunity to meet face-to-face with colleagues from over 100 other…
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Chicago Ethnic Foods Map
You will never go hungry in the city of neighborhoods. Each neighborhood offers a diverse and eclectic dinning experience. Click on the Chicago Ethnic Foods Map (.pdf) link to download an infographic featuring a sampling of restaurants that represents Chicago’s ethnic diversity.
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Chicago Donut Spots
Chicago Donut Spots Everyone knows that Chicago is known for our delicious deep dish pizza, Italian beef and hotdogs. However, Chicago donut spots are popping up all over the city. We thought we should highlight some of the best donut spots for you!
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2015 AALL Business Skills Clinic Attendee Report
There may have been a time, a long time ago, when all librarians had to worry about was “technical competency.” If they had good skills, knew their sources, work would come their way because, well, they were the librarian, the keeper of knowledge and the passkey to the sources of wisdom.
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2015 AALL Meeting Recap (CALL Grantee Report)
Much of my participation in the 2015 AALL Annual Meeting has already been fully documented in the 2015 Summer Supplement Issue I helped publish live during the conference. In this post I’ve also collected resources for the two sessions I presented in and compiled notes for some of the conference sessions I attended with links to the videos you…
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Keeping the Conversation Going: Session Summary from AALL 2015, In the Wake of the Kia Audit
Posted on December 9, 2015 by pllprivatelawlibs As we get to the end of fall, it seemed timely to revisit associate and law student training topics discussed at this summer’s AALL Annual Meeting and see if anyone had implemented new associate training initiatives or new approaches to legal research classes this fall. The post…
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