CALL Bulletin

  • 2015 AALL Hackathon

    2015 AALL Hackathon

    This year at the 2015 Annual Meeting, I attended the AALL Hackathon: Connecting Legal Information workshop. This second annual event was held on Saturday, July 18 from 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at Peirce College in Philadelphia. According to the organizers, the purpose was to “bring together those with knowledge of available resources and needs, like law librarians,…

  • Summer Institute of the Association for Collaborative Leadership

    Summer Institute of the Association for Collaborative Leadership

    Boston, Massachusetts is like Chicago in that, no matter how many times you visit, there is always something new to discover, something new to learn. I had the opportunity, thanks to a CALL travel grant, to learn something new by attending the Summer Institute of the Association for Collaborative Leadership (ACL) in Boston. The purpose of…

  • MAALL 2015 Annual Meeting

    MAALL 2015 Annual Meeting

    The Mid-America Association of Law Libraries (MAALL) is having their Annual Conference October 22 – 24, 2015 in Kansas City, MO. The theme is “Everything’s Up to Date in Kansas City!” A preliminary program schedule is available. [PDF]. There is also a mobile-friendly version  of the program. You can stay in touch with MAALL on Twitter: @MAALLibraries. The  conference hashtag is…

  • AALL 2016 Local Arrangements Committee

    AALL 2016 Local Arrangements Committee

    CALL’s AALL 2016 Booth at AALL 2015 in Philadelphia Many thanks to everyone who helped to promote the 2016 AALL Annual Meeting in Philly! AALL is so excited to host the first Annual Meeting and Conference in Chicago since 1987, the year: The Bangles had a #1 hit with Walk Like an Egyptian Paul Newman…

  • AALL 2015 Conference Sessions Available on AALL2go

    Were you unable to attend this year’s AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Philadelphia? No need to worry! Not only did the CALL Bulletin cover the conference through our AALL Summer Supplement, AALL has also placed session recordings on AALL2go. Best of all, these are free! You can access these here.

  • 2015 AALL Business Skills Clinic

    The AALL Business Skills Clinic was held on October 16-17, 2015 at the Hyatt Chicago Magnificent Mile located at 633 N. St. Clair Street Chicago, IL, 60611. AALL Business Skills Clinic describes itself as: “The AALL Business Skills Clinic will provide legal information professionals the opportunity to learn core business skills to make effective contributions within…

  • AALL2go Pick of the Month–Surveys: When to Use Them and Why

    In the webinar Surveys: When to Use Them and Why, Debbie Ginsberg, Educational Technology Librarian at Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law, shares insights and best practices regarding creating and distributing surveys. She proposes the following steps for seeing a survey through from its creation to its distribution and review: plan, draft, test…

  • From the Editors

    From the Editors

    In case you missed it, this year’s AALL Annual Meeting & Conference took place in Philadelphia from July 18 – July 21.  As promised, our correspondents were on location in Philadelphia to represent CALL and to report back to our members who were not able to make it to the conference this year. This supplement…

  • Next Year’s AALL Conference – in Chicago!

    It’s never too early to start planning for the next AALL conference.  In case you haven’t heard (but of course you have), it’s in Chicago in 2016. We’re very excited to host the meeting in our home town!   “Make it New, Create the Future” is the title: a rallying cry of  Chicago leaders following the great fire…

  • After Hours at AALL

    After Hours at AALL

    There’s nothing like relaxing at the end of a long day of committee meetings and educational programs.  CALL members took full advantage of the many after hours activities at AALL, from receptions to tours to parties of all kinds.