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Winter 2013 CALL Bulletin
Hello, CALL members, The Winter 2013 issue of the CALL Bulletin has been posted and is available here. This issue is filled with interesting accounts of CALL members’ travels in pursuit of professional and personal enlightenment. Five CALL librarians attended IALL’s Annual Course on International Law Librarianship and 3 of them have described their…
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Mayor Emanuel Ushers in New Era in City Data Access
Reported by Walter Baumann: Mayor Emanuel has moved quickly to have city agencies assemble and distribute data from their operations. This data will also be used internally for data analysis to improve city decision-making and management. To carry out these missions, he has appointed a Chief Data Officer who will be working with an Open…
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Finding Illinois Law
The CALL Government Relations Committee is proud to publish Finding Illinois Law: A Librarian’s Guide for Non-Lawyers. Recognizing that legal research is a specialized skill practiced by attorneys and law librarians, but that the general public often has a need to locate and understand legal information, the Committee presents this guide as a tool to aid…
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Catherine Sanders Reach’s presentation on Information Overload
Catherine Sanders Reach, Director of Law Practice Management & Technology at the Chicago Bar Association, gave a wonderful and very informative presentation on managing information overload at our November Business Meeting. If you missed it, or want a review, download her slides (PDF).