Thursday, May 22, 2003
Congratulations!
Congratulations to D. R. Jones, Deputy Director and Adjunct Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University Law School Library, and Research Instruction & Patron Services SIS Chair, on her election as SIS Council Chair and to Susan Goldner, Technical Services Librarian, University of Arkansas At Little Rock, and President of Mid-America Association of Law Libraries, as Chair of the Council of Chapter Presidents for 2003-2004.
Congratulations also to Barbara Selby, Documents Librarian University of Virginia Law Library, upon her appointment to the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer, serving a three-year term to commence on October 1, 2003.
George A. Strait Minority Scholarship Endowment Update
We have now raised $45,333 toward our goal of $100,000 by 2005! Thanks very much to all who have contributed and especially to our latest chapter contributor, the Southeastern Chapter of AALL (SEAALL), who donated $2,000 and to our Technical Services SIS, who donated $1,000.
Career Development Needs Assessment Survey
We will be mailing out our Career Development Needs Assessment Survey to all members who did not respond online by the week of May 30. When you receive the survey in the mail please take a few moments to fill it out. We need as large a response as possible from all our members in order to guide our decision making over the course of the next several years. It will only take 15 to 20 minutes of your time and your opinion will have great weight.
It is with the generous support of BNA, Inc. that we are able to produce this survey. BNA Inc.'s ongoing support of continuing education for law librarians has enabled AALL to reach a new level of maturity in programming. We deeply appreciate their financial assistance.
Career Development Needs Assessment Focus Groups Need Volunteers
We will be conducting focus groups to elicit your opinions about career development and how AALL can best meet your needs at the Annual Meeting. We have four time slots available:
- Sunday, July 13 4:15 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. (light refreshments)
- Monday, July 14 7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. (light breakfast)
- Monday, July 14 4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. (light refreshments)
- Tuesday, July 15 11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (light lunch)
If you are interested in volunteering, please rank the time slots in order of preference and send them to
Phyllis Marion, Chair of the
Career Development Task Force
AALL/LEXISNEXIS Call for Papers Winner
The AALL/LexisNexisTM Call for Papers Committee has selected Samuel Trosow as the winner of its 2003 Award for his thought-provoking paper The Database and the Fields of Law: Are There New Divisions of Labor?
Trosow will receive a cash award of $750, generously donated by LexisNexis, in July at the Association Luncheon of the AALL Annual Meeting in Seattle. His paper will be forwarded for consideration to the editor of the Law Library Journal and the author will have the opportunity to discuss his paper during the Annual Meeting in a program (F-1) titled Writing for Fame and Fortune: AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers. The session also features a panel discussion in which Trosow will be joined by senior members of the profession who are all successfully published authors and educators: Richard Danner, senior associate dean for information services and research professor of law at the Duke University School of Law Library; Penny Hazelton, professor of law and law librarian at the University of Washington Gallagher Law Library; and Frank Houdek, law library director and professor of law at the Southern Illinois University Law Library. They will reveal the secrets of great writing and the criteria for getting papers accepted for publication.
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Maximize Your Annual Meeting Experience - Visit Other Libraries
Check out firsthand how Seattle's private, government and academic law libraries operate in July at the 2002 AALL Annual Meeting in Seattle.
AALL has scheduled tours of the following libraries for Annual Meeting attendees: Seattle University Law Library, King County Law Library, University of Washington Gallagher Law Library, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, Perkins Coie LLP, Heller Ehrman White and McAuliffe LLP, and Preston Gates and Ellis LLP. These informative library tours will provide attendees with a wonderful opportunity to pick up tips, policy guides, bibliographies, pathfinders and information sheets. If a picture is worth a thousand words, an actual visit must be worth millions!
Advance registration is required. See Pages 52-53 of the Preliminary Program for registration information.
(Contributed by Thomas French, Member, 2003 Annual Meeting Program Committee)
Sincerely,
Carol Avery Nicholson
AALL President