Register now for the February 23 CALL Business Meeting

Please use the following link to register: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/33V6YL2

Reminder: Registration is NOT complete until you click on the Submit button

Your registration must be received by Friday, February 17, 2012.
Please contact Jill Matulionis, jmatulionis@gmail.com or Maribel Nash, m-nash@law.northwest with any questions.

Registration: 11:30 PM; Lunch: 12:00 PM
Location: Lloyd’s, 1 S. Wacker Dr.
Cost: $20

Speaker: Prof. Jerry Goldman – Creator and Director of Oyez Project
Research Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, IIT

The Community Service Committee will be holding a food drive for the Greater Chicago Food Depository (http://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/site/PageServer) and collecting donations to  benefit Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly (HOME) (http://www.homeseniors.org). For more information, contact Joe Noel at jwnoel@gmail.com, Jamie Sommer at jsommer@jmls.edu, or Maribel Nash at m-nash@law.northwestern.edu.

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Slides from ‘RDA and Your Library’ now available

The PowerPoint slides from Wednesday’s Brown Bag, RDA and Your Library, are now available as a .pdf file (4.15 MB) at http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/call/protected/RDAandyourlibrary.pdf .  A login & password is required to access this document.

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Continuing Education Brown Bag: RDA and Your Library

Bring your lunch and learn about Resource Description and Access (RDA). Please join the Continuing Education Committee and Pat Sayre-McCoy, Head of Law Cataloging & Serials from the D’Angelo Law Library, as she discusses how the new code will assist in finding resources, impact staff and other library functions, and issues with implementing RDA.

Speaker: Patricia Sayre McCoy, Head of Cataloging & Serials, D’Angelo Law Library

When: Wednesday, January 25, 2012, noon-1:30pm

Where: Perkins Coie, LLP, 131 S. Dearborn St., 16th Floor

Cost: $5.00. Payment will be collected at the door. Please make checks payable to Chicago Association of Law Libraries.

The event is limited to 30 attendees.  Light refreshments will be served.

Please note that CALL’s no-show policy will apply for this event:  http://new.chicagolawlib.org/?page_id=33

Complete your registration here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KHZ86K9

Registration ends on January 20, 2012.

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Winter 2012 CALL Bulletin now available

The Winter 2012 CALL Bulletin is now available.  This issue includes a series of articles on “What’s new in legal research,” as well as regular columns and features.

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