Sessions Accepted

The new Lesson Viewer revealed. The main new feature is that CALI lessons can be run on IPads, IPhones and other browser-capable smart-phones. We will talk about the new design and solicit feedback and discussion on features that support student usage of CALI lessons, faculty assignments and other features.

In 2009 the Washington University Libraries, were awarded a grant to digitize, transcribe, and encode approximately 300 freedom suits from the St. Louis Circuit Court Records Project (http://www.stlcourtrecords.wustl.edu/) (of which Dred Scott is a part). Although the suits had previously been imaged, they were not useful to many scholars because they were available only as difficult to read images. The nearly complete project included developing extensions to the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding legal documents to reflect legal function, genres, and roles.

At CALICon 2008 in Baltimore, UNC School of Law Assistant Dean for IT, Doug Edmunds, presented "Mac Attack...But It's OK, They Come In Peace." Three years later, Dean Edmunds will follow up on what he predicted back then as an inevitable shift in the computing landscape, especially among students. Carolina Law has been happily supporting Macs for over 4 years now, and Edmunds will discuss the major benefits and relatively few challenges of doing so. Plenty of time for discussion and Q&A!

The rise of web-based tools with collaborative features in the last few years has resulted in a potential boon for librarians tasked with providing faculty research services. This session will demonstrate a number of ways that librarians can take advantage of tools such as reference and project management systems to optimize faculty services, including receiving and tracking faculty research and document delivery requests, managing multiple research assistants, and delivering research results in the manner most useful to the individual faculty member.

This panel with be conducted interactively with administrators, faculty, librarians and staff discussing how technology at different levels inpacts our institutions and drives the need for support. As laptops become standard, tablets move into the mainstream and faculty, staff and students with mixed knowledge and experiences with technology become more prevalent, the challenges facing IT support grow and change. Two critical tasks become important. Providing quality support and assessing those services in a manner that leads to improvement.

CALI's marketing goon will discuss why you should work within your school to do his job for him. You'll learn marketing techniques, ranging on a scale from "morally ambiguous" to "completely unethical." Classic moves like:

• bait and switch,
• puffery,
• spamming,
• false advertising,
• the Trojan horse,
• the Don Draper,
• the Sullivan nod (yes, that's a thing),
• and much, much more!!*

So attend this free session, where we may just give out a free car to everyone who attends!

*You will learn none of these. This session will explain why we think it's important to get the word out about CALI's services; why we need your help and minimal effort at your school in doing so; and what's in it for you, your students, and your school.

Web and application developers often suffer from neglect or wallow in obscurity while other members of the IT department--those in the trenches offering end-user support--receive the most praise and recognition (or the most wrath, depending on the day). Not so at the UNC School of Law, where developer/programmer, Gary Wilhelm, is recognized for the value he brings to the organization as a whole.

In this session, Brooklyn Law School librarians will discuss their move to an open source integrated library system. We will review the ILS systems considered in the process, address why we selected Koha by ByWater Solutions, and review the steps taken to migrate our database successfully. We will reveal the problems that kept us up late at night, the joyous moments that come to all who participate in an open source world, and the plans we have for future growth.

Join us for a panel discussion that highlights the iPad’s uniqueness and utility. From a variety of teaching tools at a professor’s fingertips to student interaction across campuses, the iPad can transform the legal classroom into much more.

We will hit upon the innovative uses, useful applications, demonstrate real world classroom and teaching methods, and illustrate how to launch an iPad faculty initiative. New features of the iPad 2 will also be highlighted in this fun, interactive discussion.

Digital handout (libguide): http://guides.uflib.ufl.edu/CALI_2011