Grants for ALLUNY Meeting

Grants Committee Chair Linda Dean reminds us that, "There is grant money available for attendance at the upcoming ALLUNY Annual Meeting to be held in Syracuse September 11-13. There are two grants available: the Ernest H. Breuer Memorial Grant which awards $250 to an ALLUNY member, and the Library Studies Student Grant which gives $150 to a Library Science/Studies student to attend the annual meeting. Please visit the ALLUNY website to access the application forms, and submit the forms to my attention by August 26. Annual Meeting registration materials will be emailed to you by August 10."
Full information, including Linda's contact info, is online at http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/grants.asp

Lawberry Camp

Organizers Sarah Glassmeyer and Jason Eiseman will be talking about the first AALL Lawberry Camp tomorrow on Blog Talk Radio.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thelawlibrarian/2009/08/07/Annual-Meeting-Review

Loons in the (funny) news

Loon and ALLUNY lovers alike should appreciate this Mutts strip from 7/9:
http://muttscomics.com/art/images/daily/070709.gif
For the full archive of strips, visit The Official Mutts Comics site at http://www.muttscomics.com/strip.aspx

Competitve Intelligence in 10 Minutes or Less? Not!

http://aallspectrum.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/the-10-minute-competitive-intelligence-report-is-an-oxymoron/

McKinney's we hardly knew ye....

Check out William Manz's article, "Researching Superseded New York Statutes" in the June 2009 issue of the New York State Bar Association Journal (81(5):46-49). Although the article is primarily about searching those elusive superseded statutes, the first half provides a brief history of the Edward Thompson Co. and the man for whom our statutes are named, William Mark McKinney.

Five Things Lawyers Should Know About Social Media

Nicole Black, ALLUNY Spring Institute and Annual Meeting speaker, has a recent article posted at LLRX, the Law Librarians Resource Exchange:


http://www.llrx.com/features/lawyersandsocialmedia.htm

Competitive Intelligence Using Twitter

If you're not already a reader of 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, do check them out. Here's a recent post about using Twitter to find company employees:

http://www.geeklawblog.com/2009/07/competitive-intelligence-in-web-20.html