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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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