AALL Alerts What’s Happening at the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Conference, Washington D.C. July 18-22, 1999
If you attended the AALL Conference, and would like to share any information or experiences with our readers, send an e-mail message to Cindy Chick. This page will be continuously updated as we receive information from our roving reporters at AALL.
Reference from Coast to Coast: Searches and Strategies By Susan Siebers
Susan P. Siebers has been Director of Library and Information Services at Katten Muchin & Zavis for the past 20 years. She is just completing a 3-year term as Secretary of the American Association of Law Libraries.
How to Save Money on Legal Research By Scott Davis
Scott Davis is a Marketing MBA who runs Academy Computer Services, Inc. Academy specializes in computer hardware for legal research. Appropriately enough, their Website is www.LegalHardware.com . Academy products have been resold through West and Lexis. LOIS and Academy are partners in the Law Office in a Box concept. Academy has over 3,000 customers performing legal research on Academy equipment nationwide.
Carol M. Morrissey has been a Legislative Specialist in Washington, D.C. for 14 years. She is a lawyer and legislative expert who has authored a
CourtExpress.com The Web Enabled Docket Retrieval System By Sabrina I. Pacifici and Jeff Bosh
Sabrina I. Pacifici is the Editor, Publisher and Web Manager of LLRX.com. Jeff Bosh has been with Sidley & Austin in Washington, D.C., as the Associate Librarian for the past fourteen years. He has an extensive background in implementing value-added electronic systems for research at the desktop, including a firm-wide intranet.
(Posted July 15, 1999; Archived August 2, 1999)
CERT Coordination Center http://www.cert.org/
This is a federally funded Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Website. The CERT Coordination Center studies Internet security vulnerabilities, provides incident response services to Websites victimized by attacks, publishes security alerts, does security and survivability research in WAN computing, and develops information to improve Website security. There are many valuable links to CERT information at this website: CERT Advisories, Incident Notes, Vulnerability Notes, Security Improvement Notes, Tech Tips, CERT Statistics to name a few. You can subscribe to CERT security alerts via e-mail.
Guide To European Legal Databases, Update 3 By Mirela Roznovschi
The most recent version of this article is available at //www.llrx.com/features/europenew.htm. You will be automatically redirected to that page shortly.
(Posted July 1, 1999; Archived July 15, 1999)
Offices2share.com http://www.offices2share.com/
This site is for attorneys who are seeking professional office space or have extra office space to share and are not looking for traditional leases. Searching the listings is free. Placing a listing is free until July 15, 1999. The site claims to be updated constantly.
Guide on the Side Presentation Software: Tips and Caveats By Marie Wallace
Published July 1, 1999
The Great Citator Debate By Victoria Szymczak
Victoria Szymczak is Electronic Information Specialist & Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School Library. She is primarily responsible for instructional use and collection of electronic materials. Victoria co-teaches an Advanced Legal Research course with her colleague James Murphy, and a Foreign and International Law Research course with her colleague Jean Davis. On July 21, 1999, she will be moderating an exciting session on Canadian and Mexican legal research at the AALL Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. Victoria has co-authored two law journal articles and many columns in Law Lines, the newsletter published by the Law Library Association of Greater New York. She received her MS from Pratt Institute in 1995 and a JD/LLM from Duke University School of Law in 1992.