Get member rates at ALIA events

Thanks to the memorandum of understanding signed with ALIA, our members now get member rates to ALIA conferences and events.

The program for ALIA Access 2010 conference 1-3 September is shaping up to be really exciting. Find out more by signing up to receive regular updates. Registration opens 1 April.

BIALL Scholarship announced!

How would you like $A3000 towards travel and accommodation costs to attend the BIALL Conference ?

This scholarship, generously sponsored by Justis, is a great professional development opportunity, offered only to ALLA members.

The British & Irish Association of Law Librarians conference "Risks and Opportunities" will be held in Brighton, UK in June 2010. The conference program is highly relevant to Australian law librarians, including such topics as alternate models for managing information resources in law firms, outsourcing, and managing online library spend. Previous scholarship winners have reported that this is very worthwhile.

Applications close soon (12 April) so if you're interested, get yourself to the Scholarships page on the ALLA website to find out the selection criteria and how to apply.

CCHatter - keep up to date with CCH

To keep up to date with Intelliconnect developments, check out CCH's blog Cchatter .

This is where they release information about feature updates - like the recent inclusion of source details in the title of each search result, and the new "print for court" capability.

Not a lot of content there at the moment, but it does look promising and certainly worth adding to your RSS reader.

Podcast: RTI Act CPD event

Podcast of the Right to Information Act CPD event held 8 March 2010.

Podcast: QCAT CPD Event

Podcast of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT) CPD event held 17 February 2010.

Podcast: National Model Discussion

Podcast of the discussion on the Proposed National Constitution for the Australian Law Librarians' Association, held 28 January 2010.

data.australia.gov.au

http://data.australia.gov.au/
data.australia.gov.au is the home of Australian government public information datasets. Currently in beta.

"The australia.gov.au search is a fast, current and comprehensivefull-text search service with access to over 4 million resources fromover 900 Australian Government sites as well as State and TerritoryGovernment sites."

It also has a RSS feed capabilityhttp://australia.gov.au/news-and-media/media-release-rss-feeds

Alerting services

Recently there was a product launched called FeedWatch, with combines RSS with InterAction (widely used as a client management system by lawfirms) - http://fellsoft.com/feedwatch.aspx

Moreover has been around for a while, but is now utilising Open Calais to create feeds on topics - http://w.moreover.com/