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4 Connecting 1 (2003-2004)

handle is hein.lbr/aallcssis0004 and id is 1 raw text is: Connecting... The Newsletter of Computing Services SIS ......... - A m e r i c a n A s s o c i a t i o n o f L a w L i b r a r i e s ..... .... ....... .. .. ... ..... --- ........................ . ... Blogging AALL 2003 Volume 4, Issue 1 Debbie Ginsberg, lIT Downtown Campus Library, Chicago-Kent College of Law December, 2003 I had planned to tell you about all of the wonderful things I learned at the AALL Annual Conference in Seattle this year. I compiled detailed notes in every session I attended; fully believing I would later review them to discover marvelous insights and useful tidbits. Unfortunately, all of my notes are handwritten. There's a reason I learned to use computers. It has something to do with the hope that some day there would be an OCR intelligent enough to decipher what can only be described -- on a good day -- as hieroglyphic chicken scratches. It's a good thing I kept a blog, or writing about the conference for my fellow CS-SIS members would be something of a challenge! Thanks to CALl Radio Station 13 http://mysite.teknoids.net/users/0000013 I can revisit pithy critiques of the talks I heard, reread my comments on vendor give-aways, and grimace at my urgent pleading to please please please turn off cell phones during sessions. Keeping a blog helped me to focus on the most interesting ideas I heard at the conference and provided a forum for group discussions. I started the blog in June for the CALl Conference for Law School Computing. Duke University School of Law is a wonderful place for laptop users with wireless access. During sessions I typed notes which I later condensed into blog entries. About a dozen other attendees also kept CALl Conference blogs. These turned out to be great hits. Every day the conference bloggers posted summaries and ideas. All of us commented on each other's insights. From our site statistics, we could see we weren't our only readers. Other attendees also read our blogs and participated in our online discussions. I had such a good time keeping the CALl blog, I decided to continue the site when I attended AALL. I wasn't able to type notes on my laptop as I had at CALl, but I did have wireless access in my hotel so I posted new entries throughout the conference. I wasn't alone; another CALl blogger also wrote about her experiences at AALL and others joined us by adding comments. Blogging the conferences gave me a great sense of participation even (Continued on page 2) In This Issue: Blogging AALL 2003 1 CS-SIS Grant sends me to the Technical Briefing Workshop at AALL 2 Report on Internet Librarian 2003 3 UGA Law Library RFID Implementation 5 CS-SIS News 7-8 Message from the Chair 8 On the Front Lines 10 SIS Council Chair's Report 11 2003-04 Executive Board and Committee Assignments 12 CS-SIS Job Descriptions Database Milestone 13 CS-SIS Programs Accepted for the 2004 AAL Annual Meeting 13 Spotlight on the Justice Library 14 Happy Holidays From the Editor of Connecting... __ j. .... \ .

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