MAY/JUNE 2010, v.37, no. 5
The SCALL Newsletter is published electronically five times per year (September/October, November/December, January/February, March/April, and May/June by the Southern California Association of Law Libraries, a chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries. PDF versions of the SCALL Newletter can be downloaded here: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/scall/newsletter.htm
FROM THE PRESIDENT... Brian Raphael
As my year as SCALL president comes to a close, I want to first express how fulfilling it has been to lead our association and work closely with so many committed and enthusiastic SCALL members. I also wish to express my appreciation for the support I received from my fellow members of the Executive Board. Three of our board members, Jessica Wimer, Robert Wright, and Margot McLaren, are completing their terms, and I want to give special thanks to them for all of their hard work and dedication while serving on the board.
While the year is winding down, there is still time to sign up for one or both of our two June programs. The brown bag lunch on June 9 will provide a forum for members to share ideas and perspectives regarding downsizing and other cost-cutting measures in libraries and how we can best adapt to the new economic realities we are all dealing with. Remember that this session is free and designed to be relevant to librarians from all types of law libraries.
Our last event of the year will be our annual business meeting on June 29 at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Courthouse in Pasadena. I would like to thank Kathy Way for once again making it possible for us to have our meeting at this historic and beautiful location. I hope many of you will be able to attend the meeting and see this year’s SCALL award recipients honored as well as our new SCALL Executive Board members installed. Congratulations to Mark Gediman, Galeen Roe, and Kelsey Chrisley, who were nominated for the 2010-11 Executive Board positions of Vice President/President-Elect, Secretary, and Board Member respectively.
If you plan on attending the AALL Annual Meeting in Denver in July, I hope you will be able to stop by the Pacific Chapters Joint Reception on Saturday, July 10. It is SCALL’s turn to organize the reception this year, and past presidents Jennifer Berman and Diana Jaque have been working hard in planning this event, which is being sponsored jointly by William S. Hein & Co., Inc. and the five Pacific chapters (LLOPS, NOCALL, SANDALL, SCALL, and WestPac). Also at the Annual Meeting, we will have our SCALL table set up in the Exhibit Hall, thanks to the efforts of our public relations chair, Wendy Nobunaga. Wendy will need SCALL members to help staff the table during the Exhibit Hall hours and will send out a request for volunteers via the SCALL listserv in the coming weeks. I hope that many of you will be able to visit the SCALL table as well as help staff it so that we can increase the visibility of our chapter in our national organization.
You may have already received your SCALL membership renewal form and committee volunteerform in the mail. Please make sure you complete and send in the renewal form along with your dues to maintain your status as an active SCALL member. Also please submit the volunteer form, even if you wish to continue serving on the committee(s) you served on this past year. I encourage those of you who are not on a committee to volunteer this coming year. For those of you who have never served on a SCALL committee, I can attest to the fact that it is a rewarding endeavor that will help you build relationships with your colleagues and allow you to make meaningful contributions to your professional association. I truly thank each and every one of you who chaired and/or served on a committee this past year for all of your efforts on behalf of our association.
I look forward to continuing to work with the new Executive Board in the coming year as past president. 2010-11 should be an exciting year for our association, as we continue to explore new types of educational programs for our members, automate and streamline some of our communications and other functions and processes through our new membership management database, and continue to work on a redesign of our SCALL webpage. I am confident that our new president, Hugh Treacy, will do an outstanding job of leading our association and working collaboratively with our other chapter leaders to enable us to continue to innovate and grow as a professional organization. Once again, I hope to see many of you at our remaining events this year, and I wish you all a very enjoyable and relaxing summer.