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6.2 May 2006 Connecting... The Newsletter of the Computing Services SIS Volume 6, Issue 2 American Association of Law libraries May 2006 Spca Cofrec In this issue Udto 7 Keeping Up with the War on Spyware by Susan M. Boland 11 Message from the Chair 12 Calendar of CS-SIS Events and Meetings at the Annual Conference 13 Volunteers for Recruitment Committee Needed in St. Louis! 13 Karaoke with Ken Celebrates 10th Annual Outing 14 How to Navigate the Maze: Recollections from San Antonio by David Lehmann 18 Show Me the Books! SR-SIS 8th Annual Children's Book Drive 19 CONALL/Mentoring Program 20 Gateway Arch/Jefferson National Expansion Memorial 21 Top 12 Things to do with Kids in St. Louis 23 Offbeat St. Louis 2 On the Front Lines: Writer's Cramp and Writer's Block 3 Liz Glankler to Receive Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award 4 CS-SIS Election Results 5 CS-SIS Ad Hoc Committee Considers Name Change and Launches A Wiki 6 Grants Committee Announces Awards for Annual Meeting The Back Page Connecting ... Volume 6, Issue 2 -- May 2006 Page 2 On the Front Lines Writer's Cramp and Writer's Block Ken Hirsh I envy diehard bloggers. They have the creativity and discipline to write an essay as often as daily. I strain to put out these columns twice per year. How do they do it? Writing smooth, flowing sentences has never been my strong suit. My wife says my writing reads like a newspaper article: short sentences that just give the facts. Not the kind of reading that draws you in and deeply involves you until the final sentence. Some of you know that I have been elected as Vice President/President Elect of SEAALL. Among other things, that means in a year I'll also be writing a president's column for every newsletter issue. So you SEAALL members in the section can look forward to reading my "words of wisdom" twice as often. At least what I write CAN now be read. My handwriting is as bad as anyone's, and until I started regularly using a computer no one, including myself, could read what I had written. If you think interpreting a prescription is difficult, you should try reading one of my handwritten notes. I took my typing class during law school, but dropped out before we did the top row. So the number keypad is a blessing. As simple as typing on a computer keyboard may now seem, it revolutionized my life. I suspect some aspect of computing has revolutionized your life as well. Let me know - send me a message at ken(dlaw.duke.edu with a note telling me how personal computing or related technologies have revolutionized your life. Bloggers work in the realm of the printed, albeit online, word. Podcasters record their thoughts and opinions and webcast them into our lives. I wonder if hoarseness is as much an occupational hazard for them as writer's cramp and repetitive stress diseases are for writers. Every new technological development carries with it unexpected side effects. Blackberry and cell phone users are now beginning to experience the hazards of prolific thumb typing. Cell phone radiation remains a concern among some users. Eyes strain from reading monitors. Please take care of yourself by paying attention to the effects your use of technology may have on your body - and mind. 0 0 0 Ken Hirsh is Director of Computing Services and a Senior Lecturing Fellow at Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina. 6 Volume 6, Issue 2 -- May 2006 Page 3 SConnecting ... Liz Glankler to Receive Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award James E. Duggan "Liz works The 2005-06 CS-SIS Awards Committee is pleased to announce that Liz Glankler is the tirelessly to recipient of the 2006 Kenneth J. Hirsh strengthen the Distinguished Service Award. The award is presented to a CS-SIS member who has CS -SIS,... made outstanding contributions to the SIS, to helps it fulfill AALL, and who is well regarded for his or her service to the profession. its mission to Liz, Head of Access Services at Omer Poos serve all of Law Library, Saint Louis University, was AALL, and... nominated by Ken Hirsh, the first recipient of the award (and for whom the award was helps each of subsequently named). In his nomination, Ken us realize the praised Liz, indicating that she "[works] tirelessly to strengthen the CS-SIS,. *. help[s] it fulfill its mission to serve all of AALL, and . .. help[s] each of us ties that bind realize the ties that bind us." In addition, "Liz [as co-editor of Connecting .. .], ushered our previously dormant newsletter into the Internet age . us.... She [and] . cajoled members into submitting quality articles that provide perennially education and inspiration. She perennially ensur[es] that our section's name is kept in front of the association by personally ordering the popular give ensures that away items at every annual meeting, [and] nearly every year she our section's participates in the CONELL marketplace, exposing our name and purpose to new association members." name is kept in Liz served the section as chair in 2002-03, and was Treasurer in 1998-99. front of the In addition to her role as long-time section newsletter editor, Liz also served association." as co-chair of the Council of Newsletter Editors for AALL from 2004-05, as well as webmaster to MAALL. Liz lives in St. Louis with her husband, Bill, and sons Eric and Sean. The Kenneth J. Hirsh Distinguished Service Award will be presented to Liz 1 during the AALL Annual Meeting CS-SIS Breakfast on Monday, July 10, 2006, from 7:00 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. in St. Louis. Members of the 2005-06 CS- SIS Awards Committee were James E. Duggan, Chair, Don Arndt, Jim Gernert, Judith Kaul, Sheri Lewis, Jean Willis, and Eric Young. 0 0 0 James E. Duggan is Director of Information Technology at Southern Illinois University School of Law Library in Carbondale, Illinois. Volume 6, Issue 2 -- May 2006 Page 4 Connecting ... CS-SIS Election Results Vice-Chair/ Chair-Elect: June Hsiao Liebert Member-at- Large: Bonnie Shucha The section offers its appreciation to all of the candidates, and to the Nominations Committee for putting together an excellent slate. Congratulations to the successful candidates in the recent CS-SIS election. __S1 Volume 6, Issue 2 -- May 2006 Page 5 $ Connecting ... CS-SIS Ad Hoc Committee Considers Name Change and Launches a Wiki Sheri Lewis Is it time to change our section name from Computing Services SIS to < ? >-SIS? Section membership voted in 1996 to change the section name from Automation and Scientific Development SIS to its current name. Some current section members believe "Some CS-SIS is as outdated today as the ASD-SIS name was 10 years ago. So, current what to do? section The CS-SIS Name Change Ad Hoc cssisname I FrontPage members Committee was appointed this year to consider the possibilities. The believe CS- Committee posted on the CS-SIS website a preliminary report, located SIS is as at http://www.aa llnet.org /sis/cssis/ CS SIS SURVEY namechange preliminary.pdf. The wemthetM -50 YtK nk W1~e 90= fwtheCS 5 outdated Ad H4KC-ftw to 9d ,.d a-.a mn report recommends that the section - d* Pa et..le fitasw-im .Adtht n v.w consider a name change to better today as the reflect the professional work and JUST LOG-IN - THEN CUCK ON THE interests of its membership. COMMENTS BUTTON AND ENTER ASD-SIS YOUR COMMENTS !11!!Password: essis name was 10 To enable an open discussion on interest in a section name change and years ago. support for different possibilities, the QUESTIONS PRESENTED Committee has launched a wiki, QUESTION ONE So, what to located at http://cssisname.pbwiki.com/. All CS- Figure 1. Screenshot showing the wiki created by the do?" SIS members are encouraged to log in Name Change Committee and comment on the three questions posed in the wiki: 1. Do you think that the CS-SIS needs a new name? 2. What other name do you think is appropriate? 3. Which of the proposed names do you favor and why? (Information Technology, Information Technology Services, Electronic and Information Technology, Electronic Resources and Technology Services, Electronic Services) The Committee will present the results of the wiki discussion at the CS-SIS business meeting at the AALL Annual Meeting in St. Louis. 0 0 0 Sheri Lewis is Associate Law Librarian for Public Services and Lecturer in Law at the D'Angelo Law Library, University of Chicago Law School in Chicago, Illinois. 4AL Volume 6, Issue 2 -- May 2006 Page 6 111 Connecting ... Grants Committee Announces Awards for Annual Meeting Jim Gernert Since 2000 the Computing Services-SIS has provided a number of grants for registration to the AALL Annual Meeting. The Grants Committee is pleased to announce the 2006 recipients of the CS-SIS grants. Our three grant recipients are very worthy candidates who hold promise of future involvement in the law library profession: Matin Dell is a new librarian at the Florida State University Law Library, and is pursuing post- graduate study in law librarianship as well. Frank Lima is the new Computer Services and Reference Librarian at Northern Illinois University Law School. Hadi Amjadi is the Systems Librarian at Golden Gate University Law Library, and has been active in the CS-SIS. We have invited the grant recipients to attend the CS-SIS Breakfast meeting on Monday, July 10, 2006, from 7:00 a.m.
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