Committee and Task Force Charges
2005–2006
ALL-SIS CENTENNIAL COMMITTEE
- Plan and carry out activities involving the ALL-SIS membership to contribute to the AALL Centennial Celebration in 2006
ALL-SIS LISTSERV
- Maintain the ALL-SIS listserv
- Ensure that all SIS members are members of the list
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
ARCHIVES COMMITTEE
- Prepare a summary of the documents to be found in the archives
- Develop an archives policy for the SIS, which includes the ALL-SIS website
- Begin gathering archival materials
- Monitor changes in AALL's archives policies and procedures
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
AWARDS COMMITTEE
- Solicit nominations for Hicks Award, Publications Award and new ALL-SIS Service Award; select recipients for 2006 awards
- Work with Chair for Local Arrangements for ALL-SIS reception to arrange award ceremony event
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
BYLAWS COMMITTEE
- Review the ALL-SIS Bylaws and recommend any changes to the Executive Board
- Review the SIS Bylaws to insure compliance with AALL's Constitution and Bylaws
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
CALI COMMITTEE
- Serve as the Advisory Board for the CALI Legal Research Community Authoring Project
- Publicize project
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
- Identify and evaluate commonly used tools for selections
- Identify and evaluate tools for collection evaluation
- Identify librarians who make the collection development decisions for their institution
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Recommend ways of bringing Collection Development issues to academic law librarians for discussion
- Develop collection development information for the web site
- Recommend methods for maintaining and improving collection development information
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
CONALL / MENTORING COMMITTEE
- Set up CONALL event for 2006
- Set up mentoring opportunities during 2005–2006
- Work with AALL Mentoring Committee on appropriate activities
- Work with Membership Committee on appropriate activities
- Work with Public Relations on appropriate activities to promote CONALL event and mentoring opportunities
- Develop proposal for grant program for new academic law librarians to attend CONELL
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
CONTINUING STATUS / TENURE COMMITTEE
- Update and publicize web page
- Continue to identify existing policies and post them on the web page
- Consider adding links to the webpage to other useful materials such as articles on tenure and continuing status for law librarians or other academic librarians
- Consider putting together a "White Paper" of why tenure or continuing status is of value for the librarian and for the institution
- Other projects that the Committee identifies as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
DIRECTORS' BREAKFAST COMMITTEE
- Plan Directors' breakfast working with hotel
- Plan Program
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
EDUCATION COMMITTEE
- Investigate alternative education resources other than attending AALL annual meetings
- Work with other relevant committees including the Legal Research Committee
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
FACULTY SERVICES COMMITTEE
- Develop information for ALL-SIS web site
- Survey membership and share results of range of services provided
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
LEGAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE
- Identify areas for development and expand legal research information on web site
- Work with Education Task Force
- Identify and work on legal research projects
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
LEGAL RESEARCH SOURCEBOOK COMMITTEE
- Make Legal Research Web Sourcebook available
- Add content to Legal Research Web Sourcebook
LIAISONS
- Report to ALL-SIS Executive Board and SIS on the relevant activities of the other organization
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
- Make arrangements for Tuesday evening ALL-SIS reception
- Make transportation arrangements
- Work with reception sponsor
- Work with Awards Committee to arrange for their event at the reception
- Work with Public Relations Committee to promote Tuesday evening reception
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
- Establish liaisons to TS-SIS, CDS-SIS and RIPS-SIS
- Work with CONALL/Mentoring Committee on appropriate activities
- Update membership brochure
- Put together a "Welcome Kit" for new members to the SIS and work with AALL Headquarters to identify new members to the SIS
- Work with Headquarters to welcome potential new members to the SIS
- Work with ALL-SIS Newsletter Committee to short profiles of new members to the ALL-SIS for the ALL-SIS Newsletter
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
MIDDLE MANAGERS' BREAKFAST COMMITTEE
- Plan Middle Managers' Breakfast working with sponsor and hotel
- Plan program for event
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE
- Identify areas to be covered in newsletter
- Create electronic newsletter in pdf format
- Appoint columnists
- Create committee columns (all committee chairs are expected to submit at least one column during the year)
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
- Solicit candidates for 2006–2007 slate
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- Solicit program (and workshop) proposals for 2006 Annual meeting
- Work with program coordinators to meet AALL deadlines
- Work with Public Relations Committee to promote programs to membership
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE
- Set up ALL-SIS table in exhibit area and in CONELL Marketplace
- Work with web administrator to have brochure put up on webpage
- Work with CONALL/Mentoring Committee to promote their work
- Work with Local Arrangements Reception Chair to promote Tuesday evening reception
- Promote ALL-SIS business meeting/breakfast
- Work with Program Committee to promote programs for 2006 Annual Meeting
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
RELATIONS WITH ONLINE VENDORS COMMITTEE
- Monitor CALR vendor issues as they affect academic law libraries
- Work with CRIV
- Plan Roundtable program at the Annual Meeting
- Other projects as the Committee identifies as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
STATISTICS COMMITTEE
- Investigate ABA, ARL and local statistics
- Report findings to appropriate organizations
- Work on proposing understandable definitions for statistics questions
- Work with liaison to Committee on Law Libraries to the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter which discusses the statistics roles of the ALL-SIS Statistics Committee, and the Committee on Law Libraries of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
SUPPORT FOR LAW JOURNALS
- Develop information for ALL-SIS web site
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
VISITING LIBRARIAN TASK FORCE
- Work with appropriate AALL entities to facilitate visiting librarianships
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
WEBSITE COMMITTEE
- Keep ALL-SIS web site current
- Check for dead links, out-dated information on a regular basis
- Develop web content and re-design ideas
- Work with ALL-SIS Committees and ALL-SIS Executive Board to determine new information that should be on the web site
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
Previous Committee Charges
- 2004–2005 Committee Charges.
- 2003–2004 Committee Charges.
- 2002–2003 Committee Charges.
- 2001–2002 Committee Charges.