About
three weeks ago, we sent you the
AALL Career Development Needs Assessment
Survey. We know that such requests
sometimes slip to the bottom of
the pile despite the best intentions.
We’re again asking for your
cooperation because this project
will benefit many members.
If
you have not responded to the survey,
you will soon receive a second copy.
Your responses will be completely
confidential and your completed
questionnaire will be seen only
by the staff at the Gary Siegel
Organization (GSO), the independent
opinion research firm hired to conduct
this project.
When
you receive your questionnaire,
please return it directly to GSO
in the envelope provided or bring
it with you to Seattle – there
will be a drop box at the Annual
Meeting.
On
behalf of all the AALL members who
will benefit from this information,
we thank you for your cooperation.
AALL
needs your completed salary surveys
returned by July 25 in order to update
and report current and prospective
salary levels for law librarians for
the 2003 Biennial Salary Survey and
Organizational Characteristics.
The
salary survey questionnaires were
mailed to law library directors and
heads of law libraries on June 20.
AALL strongly urges all who received
the questionnaires to participate.
The Association also asks law librarians
to encourage their library directors
to complete their surveys. As with
any salary survey, the compiled results
are anonymous and are suppressed if
there are too few responses in a category
to assure anonymity.
The
AALL 2003 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.
If
you have not already done so, please
complete and return the surveys by
July 25 directly to Association Research
Inc., the independent research firm
AALL has employed to carry out the
survey in complete confidentiality.
The
2003 Biennial Salary Survey and Organizational
Characteristics will be available
for purchase and shipment in October;
$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.
Monday,
July 14 -- 10:15-11:30 a.m.
E-6: INCLUSION OF COPYRIGHT MATTERS
IN FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS: A DEBATE
The
Hot Topic program at the AALL Annual
Meeting in Seattle will focus on the
attempts of the United States Trade
Representative to expand the scope
of copyright provisions beyond present
international requirements under the
TRIPS and Berne agreements. Although
the information industry applauds
this expansion, public access advocates
find the current TRIPS and Berne requirements
adequate and further expansion unnecessary.
Earlier this year, AALL and other
library associations filed objections
with the USTR to the expanded scope
of the copyright provisions in the
draft of the Free Trade Area of the
Americans Agreement (FTAA). Should
Congress yield legislative authority
to the president that imposes U.S.
standards on its trading partners,
short-circuits domestic legislative
processes, and locks-in current standards?
Don’t miss this lively debate,
which will feature Fred von Lohmann,
senior staff attorney at the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, and Eric Smith,
president of International Intellectual
Property Alliance. Samuel Trosow,
member of the AALL Copyright Committee,
will serve as moderator. Keith Ann
Stiverson, chair of the Copyright
Committee, is the program coordinator.
AALL
Spectrum Article of the Year Award:
Mary
Rumsey, University
of Minnesota Law Library receives
the honor for her article “Libraries
Confront the Challenges of Accommodating
Disabled Users,” in the April
2002 issue of AALL Spectrum. More
information is available here
VALL
Wins Chapter Professional Development
Award: The Virginia Association
of Law Libraries is the recipient
of the 2003 One-Time Chapter Professional
Development Award for its educational
program Exploring Connections
at VALL – 2002. More
information is available
here
AALL/West
Excellence in Marketing Awards:
The winners of the 2003 AALL/West
Excellence in Marketing Awards have
used their creative and innovative
means to market, promote, and publicize
their libraries to their communities.
This year we announce winners in
five categories. More information
is available here
Law
Library Publications Award:
The law libraries at Catholic University
and Suffolk University received
the 2003 Law Library Publications
Award for useful and valuable library
materials they created to help librarians,
students, and patrons. More information
is available here
Law
Library Journal Article of the Year
Award: Nancy Carol Carter,
University of San Diego School of
Law and Research Center, received
the honor for her article, “American
Indians and Law Libraries: Acknowledging
the Third Sovereign.” More
information is available here
AALL
Public Access to Government Information
Award: The University of
Georgia Libraries and the Virginia
Department of Planning and Budget
are the recipients of the 2003 AALL
Public Access to Government Information
Award. More information is available
here
Please
note: Due to the annual
meeting, there will be no edition
of From the Desk Of for the next
two weeks, July 10 and July 17.
We
are sad to learn of the death of
Julius Marke. He was a past President
of AALL (1962-63), the second recipient
of the Marian Gould Gallagher Award.
In the words of his colleagues at
New York University, Toni Aiello
and Barbara Traub:
“Julius
Jay Marke merged in one distinguished
career the best in service to both
the law and librarianship. With
a law degree from New York University
and a Library degree from Columbia,
Professor Marke was admitted to
the New York Bar in 1938. He held
increasingly more responsible positions
in the New York University Law Library,
beginning in 1942, and served New
York University as Librarian (1948-1982)
and Professor of Law (1952-1982).
He served the St. John's University
School of Law Faculty as Professor
and Librarian from 1984 to 1995,
and continued to write, publish,
and be a guiding light of the Law
Library as Distinguished Research
Professor until his death.”
He
will be sorely missed by his friends
and colleagues in the Association,
and by those who benefited from
his many contributions to the field.
