One of the highlights of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) conference in Austin this year was the Innovation Tournament which pitted three librarians’ tech innovations against each other. With two prizes, each worth $2,500, up for grabs, the competition was pretty tough. There was a scanning project management innovation, a Virtual Reality presentation preparedness tool, and an innovative ChatBot for legal information assistance. The ChatBot really caught my attention as something that I would love to test out on a local level. — Greg Lambert, Now I want a Chatbot, 3 Geeks and a Law Blog, July 27, 2017

Now Greg, you and I can test drive a new chatbot that walks a user through a basic reference interview. According to In Custodias Legis, the new chatbot can connect a user to primary legal sources, law library research guides and foreign law reports. The chatbot can also respond to a limited number of text commands. Go to the Law Library of Congress Facebook page to try the chatbot.

H/T to Gary Price’s InfoDocket report. — Joe