Thursday, May 12, 2005
Watch Your Mail: 2005 Salary Survey is Coming
The questionnaires for the AALL 2005 Biennial Salary Survey and Organizational Characteristics will be mailed May 13 to all law library directors and heads of law libraries.
To provide the detailed salary breakdowns that members have requested, AALL strongly urges all who receive the questionnaire to participate in the survey. The Association also asks members to encourage their library directors to complete the questionnaires. Completed questionnaires are due on May 31.
The AALL 2005 Biennial Salary Survey and Organizational Characteristics will be the only source for up-to-date information about salaries for law librarians and other law library employees who work in academic libraries; private firms and corporate libraries; and state, court, and county law libraries. The survey is customized to provide information unique to the needs of these types of libraries, including position, region, gender, education, years in current position, years of experience, and membership in AALL. The section on organizational characteristics examines the salary data within the context of the size of library budgets, staff, and user ratios.
The survey will be carried out in complete confidentiality by Association Research, Inc., a professional research firm in Rockville, Maryland, that works exclusively with nonprofit organizations.
The 2005 Biennial Salary Survey and Organizational Characteristics will be available for purchase and shipment in July; $110 for AALL members and $175 for nonmembers. The final report will also be available online at AALLNET in the Members Only section free of charge. The Association is accepting advance orders by e-mail at orders@aall.org, by fax at 312/431-1097, or by calling AALL Headquarters at 312/939-4764, extension 12.
CRIV Site Visit to William S. Hein & Co.
Are you using products from William S. Hein & Co. and have some questions, comments, and/or concerns to raise? Or, perhaps you're interested in Hein's offerings and would like more information. If so, this message is just for you! I am pleased to announce that the Committee on Relations with Information Vendors is heading back on the road this spring with a site visit to Hein's headquarters office in Buffalo, NY.
CRIV's Site Visits Subcommittee, chaired by Larry Meyer, Director of the Law Library for San Bernardino County, CA, will be on site at Hein on June 14 - 15 to meet with high-ranking company officials and others about a number of topics including: 1) Hein's process of producing Hein-OnLine and next steps for this product; 2) Hein's continuations department; and, 3) Hein's process to select Government Document items for printing or reprinting, etc. Please let us know your thoughts on these and/or other topics. - - Forward questions, comments and/or concerns to Larry by no later than Tuesday, May 24. A summary report on the meeting will be made available following the visit.
Ellen Strbak, Chair
AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors
Show Us Your Pearly Whites!
Have you ventured into the redesigned Members Only section of AALLNET of late? If not, you are in for a pleasant surprise. You can now have all the information you want in one succinct place. Best yet, you can add your digital photo to your membership data by clicking on "My Photo" in your Membership Details section. Many of our members have started to do so, we hope you will too.
AALL/LEXISNEXIS® Research Grant for 2005
The AALL Research Committee recently announced that the AALL/LexisNexis® Research Grant for 2005 was awarded to Nancy Carol Carter, Director of the Legal Research Center and Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law, for her project: A Research Template for Building Indian Nation Archives.
Competition for the grants was competitive this year with five submissions, each of which showed great promise. The high number of quality submissions submitted this year (there were 11 submitted in the Fall AALL/Aspen competition) certainly reflects well on the vitality of our profession and the high interest in meaningful scholarship among our members. We thank LexisNexis® for their generous support of this important program.
Legislative Advocacy Leadership Training Planned for San Antonio
Please join the Government Relations Committee, the Washington Affairs Office, and a room full of law librarians for the very exciting Legislative Advocacy Leadership Training in San Antonio on Saturday, July 16th. All politics is local, and this is a great opportunity to learn more about AALL's legislative agenda and how you can help us promote our positions on crucial policy and legislative matters. It's also a great opportunity to network with other active law librarians and make a real impact on the future of our profession.
This year's half day workshop will focus especially on state funding issues for law libraries and changes to the Federal Depository Library Program that are of concern to our community. While there is no cost for this important training session, we ask that you please register by June 15th by contacting Mary Alice Baish. A copy of the agenda is can be found here. We look forward to seeing you there!
Hays Butler
Government Relations Committee Chair
Mary Alice Baish
AALL Associate Washington Affairs Representative
Day in the Life Deadline Looming
Only a few more days remain to turn in your photos for the "Day in the Life of the Law Library Community". You have from now until May 16 to submit your photos online. Simply login with your AALLNET e-mail and password and start uploading your photos. Be sure to read the complete contest rules and guidelines first, and don�t forget to print off and send in your signed photo release forms. Entries will not be valid until all signed photo releases are received at AALL Headquarters. Paper entries will also be accepted. If you have trouble uploading your photos, please contact AALL Director of Publications Julia O'Donnell.
"Day in the Life of the Law Library Community" is sponsored by the AALL Public Relations Committee and is open to AALL members only. Photos will be submitted in six categories with one winner chosen from each category and one overall winner honored. Winners will be recognized in fall 2005 on AALLNET, in a special issue of AALL Spectrum, and during the 2006 AALL Annual Meeting in St. Louis.
Join your fellow AALL members and take part in the nation-wide photo contest to document law librarians working, meeting, teaching, and doing all that law librarians do in a given work week. Send your questions or comments to Public Relations Committee Chair Erika Wayne.
Congratulations
Congratulations to Sandra Howell, Fulton County Law Librarian, on receiving the 2005 Liberty Bell Award from the Atlanta Bar Association in recognition for her work with members of the bar and pro se patrons. Sandra has been at Fulton County for over 15 years and the Fulton County Law Library operates a branch in the county jail, providing direct access to legal information to over 1700 inmates.
Sincerely,
Susan E. Fox, CAE
Executive Director