![]() ![]() First off, the content of the program had generally shifted from the general rhetoric of “death of books,” to “here are some cool things that we can do on a computer.” It was inspiring. This year, however, I was very surprised at what I found. I sure do like Macs.) When I would warn of the impending rise of the Mac, I would usually be dismissed with a sniff. Well, I suppose there’s some truth to that. (People accuse me all the time of being a Mac fanboy. In those early days, I was also one of the few Mac users. And there were some things that just didn’t need to be done at light-speed. Computerization for it’s own benefit just simply made an existing thing faster. I remember one member lamenting the near-unanimous of rejection of e-textbooks by 1L’s in a poll after they were part of an experimental class which was given no print casebooks for the entire first year, “Until someone can invent an e-book that has the look and feel of print, students will never accept them!” The fact that the person thought that simply mimicking the look and feel of paper would somehow make the experience better somehow, simply rang hollow. Some tools were destined for complete metamorphosis, or death: print versions of Shepard’s, various indexes, directories, paper filing, bluebook test-taking and admissions tracking to name a few. ![]() It always seemed to me that technology should be adapted to appropriate purposes, thereby creating new tools for administration and research, that sometimes, but not necessarily always presumptively replaced old tools. There were other ways to keep current with technological developments in computer hardware and administrative systems, and none of the rhetoric convinced me that simply by “putting everything on computer” would necessarily make researching or running a law school any better. But after a while, I grew tired of the rhetoric and attended every other year, and, lately every three years. IT attendees tended to look upon librarians with pity, and librarian attendees fell into two camps, either they were revolutionaries who agreed with the prevailing prevailing point of view that libraries were dead, or they were left in the uncomfortable position of having to defend themselves, knowing all the while that their mere attendance at the conference was a tacit admission that things were, at least, changing in mysterious or threatening ways.Īs an Associate Dean of library and Information Technology, I attended regularly every year for a few years. The general topic of the conferences was fairly routine for the early 90’s: books were dead and the world was going paperless. When I began attending CALI in about 1992 or 1993, I initially found it to be a disturbing experience. I have been attending CALI conferences for years. And if you go to Boulder, even if you have no interest in visiting just for the fun of it academic law libraries, be sure to visit the law school at the University of Colorado.īut more pertinent to this column, there were many surprises. If you haven’t been to Boulder, add it to your bucket list and move it into the top ten. As conferences go, this one was remarkable for several reasons.įirst of all, the venue was fantastic. In this tutorial we'll cover: 3.4 Demonstrate ability to write template preprocess functions for overriding custom outputĪ front end specialist should be able to use preprocess functions to override, improve, or get extra data needed for templates.Two weeks ago I attended the 19th annual CALI conference in (beautiful/splendid/amazing) Boulder, Colorado. You might for example use a different page template for authenticated users, or a custom block template for someone's birthday. This powerful feature allows for the definition of custom logic in your application that can tell Drupal to use different templates based on your own unique needs. Themes and modules can alter the list of theme hook suggestions in order to add new ones, remove existing ones, or reorder the list. ![]()
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