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The Conference for Law School Computing® – aka CALIcon – is the only conference that brings together law professors, IT professionals, law librarians and law school administrators to discuss technology and its impacts on legal education.

Hugh McGuire, founder of Pressbook, an online book publishing platform and Michael Feldstein, a Partner at MindWires Consulting, a consulting firm helping schools, educational companies, and policy-makers navigate the new world of digital education will be the keynote speakers at the 26th Annual CALIcon Conference. They will address this year’s theme “Year of Learning Dangerously” and share their eperience and expertise on a range of topics facing the publication industry.

About Hugh McGuire

I often run across interesting ways that faculty can and do use technology in their courses – law faculty and others – and I decided to collect them all in one place for the benefit of law faculty seeking interesting ideas.  Some ideas are more substantive than others, and they all require some small effort to implement, but I hope you find something useful in the list.  

During the CALI Annual Member Meeting, held June 9, in New York City, attendees unanimously elected one new member and re-elected four others to its Board of Directors. “We are very fortunate to have these outstanding individuals on our Board to contribute valuable insight to the research and development, strategic planning and governance of CALI”, John Mayer, Executive Director.

The new CALI’s board member:

Professor Debra R. Cohen

University of the District of Columbia School of Law

Current term: 2016-2019

Join us at the CALI® Annual Breakfast and Membership Meeting. This is an invite-only membership meeting where John Mayer (Executive Director – CALI) will give a brief overview of the trends in legal education technology and CALI’s initiatives for 2016. You’ll also have a great networking opportunity with fellow members.

Space is limited! Send your RSVP to LaVonne Molde (Membership Services Director – CALI) at lvmolde@cali.org. by Sunday, December 27, 2015.

The word or phrase “law library” used to mean “the place to get the law”. Before online databases, there wasn’t any other place to get the law – it was too big to put in your pocket or sit in your office. Even law firms with a few shelves of books called it their “law library”.

“Law librarians” were the people who knew where to find the law and how it interrelated. Law is certainly not self-organizing, nor is it immediately obvious what the best path is to finding the law and its meaning. You need help, guidance and tutoring, That was the law librarian.

Most of the good stuff on www.cali.org requires you to have a CALI account. Accounts are available for everyone at CALI member schools, all you need to do is register. Registration is very easy and should take about 2 minutes. Before you get started you need two things: (1) Your school’s authorization code and (2) a valid email address.  Yep, that’s it!