2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians

The Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section (FCIL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries is now accepting applications for the 2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians.

The FCIL Schaffer Grant for the July 10-13, 2010 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado provides a waiver of the AALL Annual Meeting full registration fee and a grant of a minimum $2,000 to assist with accommodations and travel costs.

Applicants must be law librarians, or other professionals working in the legal information field, currently employed in countries other than the United States with significant responsibility for the organization, preservation, or provision of legal information. The application deadline is March 15, 2010. The Grant Committee will not consider late or incomplete applications.
Details regarding the FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians, as well as the application form, can be found at the link below:

http://www.aallnet.org/sis/fcilsis/grants.html

Please contact Lucie Olejnikova, 2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians Committee Member, if you have any questions about the 2010 FCIL
Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians.

Sincerely,
Lucie Olejnikova
2010 FCIL Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians Committee Member
email: lolejnikova@law.pace.edu

Need help with grants? Try NELLCO

The New England Law Library Consortium (NELLCO) will be hosting a two-day grantwriting workshop at  Albany Law School - March 18-19, 2010.  The workshop will teach participants both how to find grants and how to write proposals.

All city, county and state agencies as well as nonprofit organizations, colleges and universities are welcome to attend.  You do not need to work in the same profession as the host agency.

PLACE:
     Albany Law School, Schaffer Law Library, Room W 212
     80 New Scotland Avenue,Albany, New York 12208

TIME:
     Thurs. March 18 & Fri. March 19
     9:00am -4:00 pm both days, lunch on your own


Please visit http://www.nellco.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Feature.showFeature&CategoryID=1&FeatureID=63 for more information.

ALLUNY Needs You!

It's almost the end of January and you know what that means?  Not just the start of February (although yes, that's true, too) but also TIME TO RENEW your ALLUNY membership.  The deadline for 2010 dues is January 31.  More information is online at http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/members.asp and membership application is online at http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/alluny/forms/membership.pdf

Please help to make ALLUNY the kind of organization you want it to be!

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ALLUNY from head to toe

So interesting to find online what the well-heeled ALLUNY will be wearing this season:

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Looking to beat the January blahs? Try Lawberry Camp

Registration is still open for the January 16 event! Interested?

Sarah Glassmeyer writes,

Many of us are returning from holiday breaks this week and looking toward a long, grey stretch of winter ahead of us. (Note: This blanket statement probably does not apply to people in Florida, the Southwest or California. Good for you.)  But wait!  What's that bright spot ahead?  IT'S LAWBERRY CAMP MIDWINTER!

Yes, if you can get yourself to Boston on January 16, you can spend a day meeting with other law librarians, discussing issues that are important to you and wrapping up with the always fun and exciting Battle Decks competition. (Think of it as powerpoint karaoke.)  The day will be opened with a presentation by Dr. Dave Weinberger of the Harvard Berkman Center for Law and Technology.  He is the author of "Everything is Miscellaneous", co-author of "The Cluetrain Manifesto" and studies how the Internet is changing the way people organize information. Also, don't forget, ALA Midwinter is occurring simultaneously in Boston that weekend so you can double your professional development fun.

More information about Lawberry Camp and the registration list can be found on its website at http://lawberrycamp.com/ It's absolutely free to attend Lawberry Camp. 

If you attend, please report back to your ALLUNY friends -- let us know what you think.