Month November 2021
LIT-SIS board elections opened Wednesday! All members should have received an email to vote. If you did not, we encourage you to check your Junk and Spam folders! Or you can use https://vote.aallnet.org/sis-lit/ballotlogin.asp with your credentials. There is a link… Continue Reading →
Join the rest of LIT-SIS in welcoming our new board members: Chelsey A. McKimmy, Secretary/Treasurer Tanya S. Thomas, Member-at-Large We appreciate all the candidates and thank them for running!Our by-laws provision also passed unanimously, removing the election requirement for a… Continue Reading →
Still image from “The Mixtape: Creating Podcasts for Online Teaching” video by Wesch. With the theme of the “Distance Ed Genie Is Out of the Bottle”, this year’s CALICon didn’t disappoint on the online legal instructional front. From a keynote… Continue Reading →
Once again, a virtual AALL annual meeting deserves a virtual LIT-SIS Karaoke with Ken. And for another reason to celebrate, this marks twenty years since the event first was sponsored by the section. We’ll kick off at 8:00 PM EDT… Continue Reading →
As a newly merged SIS, we are starting from scratch with our committees this year and need both committee chairs and committee members for all of our LIT-SIS committees (although if you’ve served as a committee chair in the past… Continue Reading →
The Problem: Default Preview Images Make Bland Profiles When you upload a document to EGS like the PDF of an article, the default preview and thumbnail image is usually black and white text, and the visual presentation of articles and… Continue Reading →
Android 12 delivers even more personal, safe and effortless experiences on your device. With a redesigned UI, new privacy features and tools that let you jump right in. Source: Android 12 Read the original story
The only unified solution with a shared set of platform services and a powerful UI structured around channel-based communications, checklist-based process automation, and card-based task and project management. https://mattermost.com/platform-overview/ My biggest problem with Slack is it’s great for chat, but… Continue Reading →
I Used Facebook Without the Algorithm, and You Can Too | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-facebook-no-algorithm Read the original story
In the context of a university such as Cornell, open access is often viewed through the lens of academic scholarship. But it can be, and is, so much more. Many Cornell programs further Cornell’s land grant mission by providing open… Continue Reading →