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Thanks to the candidates in this years election, and congratulations to the newly elected board members. The Closing Reception will be on May 18 at the CUA Law School, with special guest speaker, Jon Garcia of ABC News. We are grateful to Westlaw for their generous sponsorship of this event. I am grateful to the many volunteers who have made this year a success. We are fortunate to have so many talented, energetic, and dedicated people as members of the Society.

The Town Hall meeting was a great success. More than 40 members joined the Board and AALL Board Member Donna Williams for a review of LLSDC and AALL over the past year. This year's election will be held from April 15 through May 9. You will receive an email with voting information. For a list of candidates and their biographies, visit the Election Committee's web site. Our Closing Reception will be held in the latter half of May. We will welcome new board members, and ...

Looking to attend the AALL annual meeting this year? AALL has provided LLSDC with grant funds to pay the registration fee for one of our members. April 1 is the deadline for applying for this scholarship, and for all other LLSDC scholarships. More information is available on the Scholarships Committee web page. On April 4, Jenner & Block will host our annual Town Hall Meeting. This is your chance to meet the current board and learn more about how LLSDC functions. Our guest ...

In our continuing effort to respond to the needs of our members, LLSDC has added a third training session on FDsys, the new online database for government documents, hosted by the Government Printing Office. Per GPO rules, training sessions can be held only at depository libraries. Our thanks go out to the staffs at Georgetown's Law Library, George Washington's Gelman Library, and American University's Law Library for hosting these sessions. If you haven't attended already, your next ...

January promises to be a busy month for LLSDC with several terrific programs planned. This year's Sandy Peterson lecture features Arnold P. Lutzker, who is an expert on copyright and licensing issues facing libraries. The Private Law Libraries SIS is sponsoring a training session for FDSys, the Federal Digital System that is replacing GPO Access. The Federal Law Libraries SIS is hosting Q&A with FLICC/FEDLINK Executive Director, Blane Dessy. All of these programs are open to all ...

The mid-term elections may be over, but LLSDC elections are just getting started. We are looking for volunteers to work on the Nominations Committee or to run for office. The Nominations Committee prepares the slate of candidates for the 2011 election. Candidates are needed for the following positions: Vice President / President Elect (3 year term) Assistant Treasurer / Treasurer (2 year term) Corresponding Secretary (2 year term) Board Member at Large ...

This annual event for members of the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section takes place on November 3 at the George Washington University Law School. Come and kick off the new year with your colleagues. More information is available on the calendar.

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The Opening Reception will be on Wednesday, September 22, from 5:30 to 7:30, at Bryan Cave. Additional information and registration is available online (http://www.llsdc.org/en/cev/264). Please come and meet the new board, SIS presidents, and committee and focus group chairs. Thank you to Lexis-Nexis for sponsoring this event.

Volunteer opportunities at LLSDC.

In April 2010, the Department of Justice, the Library of Congress, and the Supreme Court co-hosted the first ever Federal Law Librarians’ Conference. Previously, the Justice Libraries had held internal conferences for the DOJ librarians in 2006 and 2008. Following a discussion at the Federal Law Librarians Caucus meeting at AALL in 2009, it became apparent that the existing conferences held by the major library associations were not meeting the needs of federal law and ...

To help in these tough times, LLSDC is offering a discounted membership rate for current LLSDC members who are recently unemployed. The discounted membership appears as an "Active" membership but is billed at the student rate ($25 instead of $50). The discounted rate is good through May 31, 2011. Unemployed LLSDC members should contact Frances Brillantine (brillantine@law.edu) to sign up.

On March 18th, Bloomberg Law hosted the LLSDC's monthly Brown Bag Meeting at the Bloomberg Washington News Bureau. The presentation topic covered Bloomberg Law,(www.bloomberglaw.com) the newly released research platform designed for law firms and inhouse counsel. Led by Product Manager, Michael Montalto the topic focused on the capability and functionality of Dockets on Bloomberg Law. This includes integrated dockets from news, search and litigation profiles. Shawn Meehan, a Risk & ...

The LLSDC Legislative SIS and Federal SIS co-hosted a very successful program on February 23rd called: "Lost Laws: What We Can't Find in the United States Code." The brown bag lunch program conducted by Will Tress, Law Library Director and Assistant Professor at the University of Baltimore and held at Troutman Sanders, was attended by 33 people. Professor Tress gave an excellent discussion on conducting official and essential research on the U.S. Code for federal statutory law research. He ...

The Franklin Square group hosted a lunch at Paul Hastings on February 4th. The guest speaker was Victoria Barnes from Questel-Digipat. Questal is a database service focused on international patent and trademark information (but not copyright information) and it features databases covering 85 patent and trademark authorities around the world. It can be searched by various languages, by invention-specific family, and by numerous other categories. If you would like a copy of the PowerPoint that ...

The LLSDC Federal SIS and the Federal Library and Information Center Committee’s (FLICC) Human Resources Working co-sponsored a Learning @ Lunch talk on November 5, 2009. The guest speaker was Roberta Shaffer, Law Librarian of Congress. The topic of the session was competencies needed by Federal Law Librarians in today's workplace. Ms. Shaffer started the discussion on competencies by tracing the development of the GS pay system from its inception in the early 1950s to its present and ...

Save the date for the 2010 Joint Spring Workshop: 360º Marketing: Selling Libraries to both Users and Decision-Makers Date: April 27, 2010 Time: 8:30am – 4:00pm Location: Library of Congress Mumford Room in the Madison Building Featured Speaker: Katya Andresen, Author of "Robin Hood Marketing: stealing corporate savvy to sell just causes" Sponsored by: LLSDC, DCLA, DC/SLA, FLICC, and OCLC Registration: $60/members, $25/students and retirees, $85/non-members ...

I am pleased to announce that the LLSDC Scholarship and Grants Committee is offering up to 5 grants for the upcoming Legal Research Institute. Because the Institute is in March we have a special deadline for applications for this program. All applications must be submitted to me by noon on February 5. Applications are available at http://www.llsdc.org/en/cms/?78 They can be e-mailed to me at shererjm@state.gov or faxed to 202-647-2971. Please feel free to contact me if you ...