Register for the CALL Business Meeting – Thursday, February 27, 2014

Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014
Location: Ditka’s – Chicago
Map: 100 E. Chestnut Street
Chicago, IL 60611

Registration: 11:30 am to noon; Lunch, noon

The Community Service Committee will be collecting food and monetary donations to benefit the The Greater Chicago Food Depository.

The Food Depository distributes donated and purchased food through a network of 650 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters to 678,000 adults and children in Cook County every year. Please bring any nonperishable canned and packaged foods (no glass) that have yet to expire to the business meeting. Some of the most-needed items are: beans, canned fruit, canned vegetables, cereal, chili, jelly, macaroni and cheese, pasta, pasta sauce, peanut butter, rice, shelf-stable milk, soup, stew, tuna.

Alison Siegler, University of Chicago Law School Clinical Professor and Director for the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic, will speak on the Clinic’s experience with authoring an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case of Alleyne v. United States, decided June 17, 2013.

Register here.

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Please come and join our Legal Citation Workshop!

**The Continuing Education Committee has rescheduled the Legal Citation Workshop for Wednesday, February 5, 2014.  All other details remain the same (time and place).  Please be sure to RSVP using the link below, even if you had previously registered for the original event.  We apologize for any inconvenience, and we hope to see many of you on the 5th!**

When is it OK to cite to an electronic version of a statute?  How and when do we apply the new citation rules for Illinois?  What is ALWD, and how does it differ from the Bluebook?  If you have ever found yourself asking questions like these, you are not alone.  Legal citation can be a frustrating and daunting task for even the most seasoned law librarian.  Our next CALL Continuing Education event is intended to clear up some of the most common mistakes and misconceptions about legal citation.    Hope to see you there!    

 ~ The CALL Continuing Education Committee

Speakers:  Heidi Kuehl, Northwestern University School of Law

Clare Willis, Chicago-Kent College of Law

Philip Johnson, John Marshall Law School

When: Wednesday, Feburary 5th @ Noon

Where: DLA Piper, LLC, 203 N. LaSalle St. #1900, Chicago, IL 60601

Cost: $5 Payment will be collected at the door. Please make checks payable to Chicago Association of Law Libraries

 

RSVP at this link

Light refreshments will be served.  Feel free to bring a lunch.

Please note that CALL’s no-show policy will apply for this event.

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CALL Bulletin, Winter 2014, Issue 230 is now available

Just (barely!) in time for the holidays, the Winter issue of the CALL Bulletin has hit the icy streets! So pour your winter warmer of choice, curl up by the fire, and check out the first installment of the Bulletin’s New Member Q&A, a librarian’s tales of teaching law and technology, all the latest library policy dope from Springfield, and much more.

Early in the new year, we’ll be reaching out to all of you for your thoughts about any of your once beloved resources that have been lost to the ages, or any valuable resources that might now be at risk; see the bottom of page 15 for a teaser. But until then, enjoy the holidays, and this issue of the Bulletin!

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AALL Election News: Congratulations to Keith Ann Stiverson

Congratulations to CALL member Keith Ann Stiverson on her election to the AALL Executive Board! Keith serves as the Director of the Chicago-Kent College of Law Library and has been very active in both CALL and AALL over the years. She recently served on the Task Force on the Depository Library Program and the Government Policy Advisory Group, and as AALL observer to the NCCUSL Drafting Committee on the Uniform Electric Legal Material Act. We are all so grateful for Keith’s efforts to help get UELMA passed.

Keith’s term as AALL President will conclude with the 2016 AALL Annual Meeting right here in Chicago. Congratulations, Keith!

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