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A belated thank you to West for sponsoring our wonderful Holiday Party this year. We would also like to extend our gratitude to Margaret Bartlett and Pepper Hamilton for providing us the great location and hosting the party. And last but not least, thanks to our Arrangements Chair, Pam Lipscomb.

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Please join us for the LLSDC Holiday Party at Pepper Hamilton on December 3, 2008. Online registration is open (you can pay online or print your form and mail a check). Thank you to Westlaw for sponsoring the Holiday Party.

The Fall 2008 issue of Law Library Lights is now available. Access it via the Lights webpage or go directly to the issue here. The theme for this issue is "What I Did Last Summer." Take a look to see what your colleagues were up to last summer. Want to write for Lights? The theme for the next issue is The Global Library: how law libraries of all types are addressing issues with foreign/international materials; how librarians are working with attorneys and other librarians ...

The LLSDC Foreign & International Law Special Interest Section needs you! Volunteers are needed to serve as President and Vice President / President Elect for the Foreign & International Law SIS. The President is responsible for maintaining the SIS website, holding 3-4 educational and/or social events per year, and keeping members informed via articles on the LLSDC website. The VP helps the President as necessary and becomes familiar with how the SIS is run. Please contact ...

The AALL Latino Caucus requests the help of LLSDC members for it's annual meeting, to be held at the AALL convention next year. The Caucus needs: An LLSDC member willing to serve as a contact person for their Annual Baile (salsa dancing). The contact person would identify potential locations for the baile and help with directions and maps. Speaker recommendations: the Caucus would like someone local (an attorney or professor) to speak on legal issues facing ...

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The "CALL FOR PAPERS" HAS BEGUN! Have you been thinking of writing an article of interest to law librarians? The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee has just the incentive to get started. The Committee is soliciting articles in three categories: Open Division: for active and retired AALL members and law librarians with five or more years of professional experience; New Members Division: for recent graduates and AALL members who have been in the profession ...

Please join us at the LLSDC Opening Reception for a Viennese Tea on September 17, 2008. Online registration is open (you can pay online or print your form and mail a check). Thank you to LexisNexis for sponsoring the Opening Reception.

On behalf of the InterLibrary Loan - Special Interest Section, I would like to thank Susan Golden of Spiegel & McDiarmid for her service last year as the ILL-SIS president. We had a great year highlighted by a very well attended presentation by Mike Songer regarding copyright compliance in April. We also had a tasty presentation in February of the services HeinOnline offers which was very generously sponsored by HeinOnline. There were lots of opportunities throughout the year to ...

I would like to introduce myself as the editor of Law Library Lights for the 2008-09 year. Last year, I served as the assistant editor for the excellent Shannon O’Connell, and I, along with this year’s assistant editor Sara Sampson, look forward to advancing our society’s award-winning publication. And the reason that Lights is so well regarded in the D.C. area and well beyond is because of the contributions of LLSDC members like you, so please consider writing for one of the ...

The Legislative Research SIS is gearing up for a new year of activities. Here are some of the things going on with the SIS this fall: Expanded Legislative History Resource Now Available. The Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet, part of the Legislative Source Book on the LLSDC website (http://www.llsdc.org/Leg-Hist) was recently updated and expanded. The site now encompasses almost all commercial as well non-commercial (free) Federal legislative histories available on ...

Welcome to a new year of informative Federal Law Librarians programs and community outreach. Both Secretary/Treasurer Tania Andreff of the U.S. Tax Court and myself as President are excited about serving the 2008-09 term and welcome your comments and suggestions! We launched our new year in June with a business, planning and get-acquainted session. Besides discussing program ideas, all in attendance agreed that updating the Directory of Federal Law Libraries in the D.C. ...

Education Committee's latest upcoming event: brown bag lunch Th 9/25 on moving between different types of law libraries in DC

We are excited to start the PLL-SIS season this year with an events planning meeting on Friday, September 19th at Squire Sanders (1201 Penn NW, 5th Floor). Feel free to bring your lunch and some great ideas! All of the PLL-SIS officers will be in attendance and the objective will be to set the calendar of PLL-SIS events for the year and get your input about what works and what doesn't. Please let me know if you will be attending at sbailey@ssd.com. Thanks and we look forward to a ...

Federal Law Librarians programs and community outreach

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