CALI Conference for Law School Computing

Brooklyn Law School was well represented at the 19th Annual Conference for Law School Computing sponsored by CALI at the University of Colorado Law School, Boulder CO. BLS Library Director Victoria Szymczak and three of the BLS reference librarians, together with three of the IT professional staff, were in attendance at the conference. The sessions were designed to help librarians, IT professionals and law faculty better serve their objective of providing quality legal education using the latest technology tools. For the first time this year, all the sessions are webcast live. With the use of the open source web meeting software Dimdim, each session had a live video feed and chat room.

The conference ran from Thursday, June 18, through Saturday, June 20. The links for all the conference session webcasts are available on the conference program website. Some sessions which may be of particular interest to readers of this blog include:

• Critical Mass is Critical – A View Into the Changing World of Scholarly Communications
• FaceBook/Social Media Best Practices for Law Schools/Students
• Firefox Add-ons for Legal Research
• No Carrot No Stick No Budget No Problem: Tools for the 21st Century Library
• A Holistic Approach to Academic Computing: Librarians and Instructional Technologists Are Better Working Together
• Introducing and Integrating Free Internet Legal Research Into Classroom
• Kindle for Law Schools
• Using LibGuides to build Legal Research Guides
• Building awesome library web apps with open source
• Thinking Outside the (Glass) Box: Digital Displays in Law Libraries