Blogg/RSS powerpoint slides

As requested here are the slides from today's session on Blogg/RSS basics, this contains all the sites we looked at today.

It's quite a large 1mb PPT file, so it may take some time to download

Blogs and RSS.ppt

CPD dates for the next few months.

Please mark these dates in your diary:

• Friday 16th June 12.30-2pm RSSSs and Blogs Talkfest presented by Jeannine Goasdoue from/at Blake Dawson Waldron.



• Wednesday 12th July 12.30-2pm Comlaw presented by Cathy Crawford from/at QUT.



• Wednesday evening 19th July 5.30-8pm Shakespeare and the Law at the Supreme Court



• Friday 11th August 12.30-2pm Negotiation skills presented by Michael Klug from/at Clayton Utz.



• Tuesday 5th September 1/2 day morning seminar on Company Searching presented by Elizabeth Swan at CP2



• Wednesday evening 6th September AGM with Leah Giles-Peters giving an update on the State Library - venue TBA.

QUT South Pacific law collection moves to Sup Ct Library

Australian Library News reports that QUT has moved the location of their South Pacific law collection to the Qld Supreme Court Library. The collection consists of over 400 books and journals.

Austlii update

Graham Greenleaf made a couple of announcements about improvements to Austlii

• 4 new databases (Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law 1993-; Australian Privacy Case Summaries 2004 ; Commonwealth Numbered Regulations Explanatory Statements 2005-; Victorian Legal Profession Tribunal 2004-2005
• Search results display - new features include ability to sort by date, title and database
• search engine speeds improved

For more information see http://www.austlii.edu.au/austlii/help/results_interface.html