I'm happy to say that, as of this morning, ScheduAALL has 80 user accounts. Assuming approximately 2,000 people attend the AALL Annual Meeting, that means 4% of attendees are already using ScheduAALL. Not bad, considering that the conference is still 4 months away. Full Story »

Earlier today I launched ScheduAALL 2009, a personal scheduling application for attendees of the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference, July 25th - 28th, in Washington, D.C. Full Story »

The American Association of Law Libraries recently released the preliminary program for this July's Annual Meeting and Conference in Washington, D.C. Since the program is over 50 pages long, I thought it might be helpful to condense the schedule of educational programs into a shorter, more visually-oriented document. Full Story »

Tomorrow morning I'll be in the air headed to Portland, Oregon, for the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries. I'm excited to be returning to AALL following a ridiculous budgeting kerfuffle by my former employer a year ago that caused me to throw my hands in the air and say, "Screw you, guys! I'm going home."

Things have been much smoother this year. So smooth, in fact, that I got a complimentary upgrade to first class for tomorrow's flight. Nice. (Sounds like a good time to catch up on the Lullabot and Acquia podcasts.)

There's a lot to look forward to. On Saturday evening I'm going to dinner with several colleagues (including Portland's funniest law librarian, Rob Truman) at Andina with several colleagues, then when the conference officially starts on Sunday I have David Pogue's keynote and the bloggers' meetup to keep me busy. Monday brings a CS-SIS roundtable, two CS-SIS hot topics, the Indiana University (see you there, fellow Hoosiers!) reception, and of course the infamous West party. On Tuesday I'll be up bright and early for the CS-SIS breakfast and business meeting (though due to a registration error there'll be no breakfast for me). If that's not enough to keep me busy, I think there's an educational program going on, too. (Perhaps I should look at the program sometime.)

One of the great things about AALL is that it recharges my librarian spirit and makes me want to be excellent at what I do. It's a great feeling. I also get to see a lot of people I rarely communicate with outside of email, IM, and Twitter. Heck, I'll probably be meeting a couple of them in person for the first time.

I doubt I'll ever match the exhaustive (and exhausting) coverage I gave to the 2006 meeting over on Library Laws, but hopefully I'll be able to give people a taste of what's going via Twitter, flickr and this blog. (Look for the "official" conference tag: aall2008.) See you in Portland!

For all you AALL members out there...

Are you interested in learning about applications like blogs, wikis, and Second Life, but don’t have a lot of time? Take the Computing Services-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge!

The Web 2.0 Challenge — a free, comprehensive, and interactive online course — will use hands-on exercises to introduce law librarians to many kinds of social technologies in just five weeks. The course will take only 1-3 hours per week.

The course runs from July 21st to August 18th. To learn more, check out the CS-SIS Web site or read the brochure (PDF).

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