‘Piping hot content’ from your library via CALI ClassCaster IntraBlogs

Posted on June 17, 2006 by Elmer Masters

Audience: All
Technical Level: Samsonites

Using RSS feeds to distribute news, files, podcasts, and videocasts is one of the hottest new ways law school libraries can capitalize on the CALI Classcaster for promoting their resources and services.

Informing legal researchers/patrons in real-time about premium level content and indispensable legal information that can be found and is readily available in your library is quite easy once you start using one of the newest services provided by CALI to all its members: the ClassCaster server.

Faculty, librarians and staff at all CALI law school members can now open accounts on the CALI ClassCaster and create real-time distribution channels for ‘piping hot content� from their units.

This session will present WSU Arthur Neef Law Library’s approach to ‘piping hot content’ to its law faculty, law students, law library and law school staff via several ClassCaster blogs and �IntraBlogs� (ClassCaster blogs providing feeds to law library and law school Intranets)

This session will also present the collaboration between a law librarian and a law school faculty in producing weekly summary podcasts for the �Legal Education Podcasting Project (LEPP)�. A step-by-step overview of the hardware, software and ClassCaster account set-up will end the session.

MP3: SamsonLR5Sat900.mp3

Play It Now!

Michael Samson
Law Librarian
Wayne State University Law School

About Elmer Masters

Elmer R. Masters is the Director of Technology at the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (www.cali.org) where he works on interesting projects involving technology and legal education like eLangdell, Classcaster, Lawbooks, QuizWright, and the CALI website. He has over 30 years of experience building tech tools for legal education and systems for accessing law and legal materials on the Internet. He is the admin of the Teknoids mailing list (www.teknoids.net) and has been blogging about legal education, law, and technology for over 20 years (www.symphora.com). He has a JD from Syracuse University College of Law and was employed by Syracuse, Cornell Law School, and Emory University School of Law before joining CALI in 2003. Elmer has presented at the CALI Conference for Law School Computing (where he organizes the program), the AALL and AALS Annual Meetings, Law Via The Internet, and other conferences, symposia, and workshops on topics ranging from IT management in law schools to building open access court reporting systems to information architecture design and implementation in law.
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