CALL Bulletin

Contributor: Kevin McClure

  • What’s Rotten About Legal Scholarship, and How to Cure It: A Georgetown Symposium

    When Supreme Court justices cite Internet sources in their opinions, how do they ensure the integrity of those sources for future legal scholars? The answer, unfortunately, is not very well, as illustrated by this dose of digital schadenfreude visited upon Justice Alito. This was the central problem explored by a one-day conference at Georgetown University…

  • AALL Management Institute 2015

    The AALL Management Institute will take place on March 26-28, 2015 at the Hotel Palomar located at 505 North State Street in Chicago. The registration fee is $575 and the deadline to register is February 2, 2015. You can reserve your room at the Hotel Palomar until March 4, 2015. The Management Institute will be facilitated…

  • Fall 2014 – Letter From the Editors

    Dear colleagues, Yes indeed, there have been some changes around here at the CALL Bulletin! We are delighted to unveil our new online format, which promises to make your contributions easier to find and link to, in a display that we hope you will find attractive, all at a lower cost for our membership. We’re…

  • From the Editors

    This Winter 2015 CALL Bulletin issue is the second issue in the new blog format. In this issue, we tell you about the 2015-16 candidates for CALL offices. The issue is also bursting with interesting feature articles, regular, and new columns.  We have contributions from all the members of the CALL Bulletin Committee as well as other CALL-eagues. First up,…

  • UELMA Signed Into Law in Illinois!

    By Kevin McClure, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law kmcclure@kentlaw.iit.edu Law librarians across Illinois had much to celebrate on August 26 when Gov. Quinn signed the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act into law, making Illinois the eleventh state to enact the measure (Pennsylvania subsequently became the twelfth). The long road to these victories began with a…

  • Summer 2014 Letter from the Editors

    Editors’ note: This is an online facsimile of the Summer 2014 issue of the CALL Bulletin, which was originally published in PDF format. It’s hard to believe summer is almost over! Classes have started for some of us and the students are back in school. For others, the students have left to return to school.…

  • Federal Government Information on the Web: Here Today … Where Tomorrow?

    The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) devoted a recent two-day program to the vulnerability of digital government information, and one of the highlights was an important discussion of the special risks for “born-digital” information published online by the federal government, led by Jim Jacobs, Data Services Librarian Emeritus of the University of California at San…

  • Spring 2014 Editors’ Letter

    Editors Kevin McClure and Lyonette Louis-Jacques welcome you to our Spring 2014 Issue

  • Winter 2014 Editors’ Letter

    Editors’ note: This is an online facsimile of the Winter 2014 issue of the CALL Bulletin, which was originally published in PDF format. Dear Colleagues, Winter is here! As I’m writing this, we’ve had our first real snow fall. I love fresh snow! Everything seems new, magical, and possible then. But we leave footsteps of…

  • New CALL Member Q&A with Michael Verderame

    New CALL member Michael Verderame is a graduate student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and a member of the CALL Bulletin Committee. Co-editors Lyo and Kevin recently chatted with him so we could all get to know him a little better.