Committee and Task Force Charges
2008–2009
AALS/ABA LIAISONS
- Keep ALL-SIS Executive Board informed about the activities of the AALS and the ABA related to academic law libraries
- Submit one column on AALS and/or ABA developments related to academic law libraries to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
ARCHIVIST
- Develop an archives policy for the SIS that summarizes the documents to be found in the archives (including the ALL-SIS website) and post it on the committee page of the ALL-SIS website
- Contact ALL-SIS officers and committee chairs to solicit notes/materials
- Monitor changes in AALL's archives policies and procedures and adjust ALL-SIS policy accordingly
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
AWARDS
- Solicit nominations for the CONELL Award, Hicks Award, Publications Award, and ALL-SIS Service Award
- Select recipients for 2009 awards
- Work with Chair for Local Arrangements for ALL-SIS reception to arrange awards ceremony event
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
BYLAWS
- 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 describing the work of the committee during the current year
CALI
- Serve as the Advisory Board for the CALI Legal Research Community Authoring Project
- Publicize projects
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
- Develop and maintain collection development information for the ALL-SIS website
- Continue to identify and evaluate commonly used tools for selections
- Identify and evaluate tools for collection evaluation
- Plan and conduct Collection Development Roundtable
- Explore how e-resources are impacting collection development
- Explore relationship between collection development and ILL
- Explore developing a foreign vendors list (partnering with FCIL-SIS and/or TS-SIS)
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
CONTINUING EDUCATION
- Identify one or more topics that would be suitable for a continuing education program for academic librarians to be held outside of the AALL Annual Meeting
- Identify individual presenters and/or chapters or SISs that might be willing to partner on producing a continuing education program
- Submit a proposal to the ALL-SIS Executive Board
- With ALL-SIS Executive Board approval, submit a Continuing Education Grant proposal to the AALL Continuing Education Grants Program for this program
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
CONTINUING STATUS / TENURE
- Develop and maintain the committee's information on the ALL-SIS website
- Develop a “White Paper” that can be used in law schools to demonstrate why tenure or continuing status is of value for the librarian and for the institution
- Collect and disseminate data on librarian and library staff compensation
- Examine trends and inform membership of broad status and/or compensation related developments in law libraries
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
DIRECTORS' BREAKFAST
- Plan Directors' breakfast working with hotel Plan Program
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the program
FACULTY SERVICES
- Develop and maintain information for ALL-SIS website
- Plan and conduct Faculty Services Roundtable
- Keep abreast of the Section members' faculty services activities and share results on the range of faculty services provided by academic law libraries
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
LEGAL RESEARCH & SOURCEBOOK
- Plan and conduct Legal Research Roundtable
- Expand legal research information on the ALL-SIS website
- Compile information on the use of new technologies and approaches (e.g., email, instant messaging, wikis, blogs) for the delivery of reference services in academic law libraries
- Develop and maintain the Sourcebook for Teaching Legal Research on the ALL-SIS website
- Work with Public Relations Committee to publicize the Sourcebook
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
LISTSERV MANAGER
- Maintain the ALL-SIS listserv
- Ensure that all SIS members are members of the list
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS
- Make arrangements for 2009 ALL-SIS reception (working with sponsor)
- Make transportation arrangements for ALL-SIS reception
- Work with Awards Committee to arrange for their awards ceremony at the reception
- Work with the Mentoring/NALLM Committee to arrange for their program prior to the reception
- Work with Public Relations Committee to promote the reception
MEMBERSHIP
- Work regularly with AALL Headquarters to identify new members of the ALL-SIS
- Maintain the “Welcome Kit” for new members to the SIS and send it to new members of ALL-SIS
- Work with Mentoring/NALLM Committee to spotlight new ALL-SIS members in the ALL-SIS Newsletter
- Develop recruitment information on the benefits of membership for the ALL-SIS website
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
MENTORING / NALLM (NEW ACADEMIC LAW LIBRARIANS MEETING)
- Set up NALLM event for 2009
- Work with Public Relations Committee to promote NALLM event and mentoring opportunities
- Work with AALL Mentoring Committee to arrange mentoring opportunities
- Work with Membership Committee to spotlight new members in the ALL-SIS Newsletter
- Keep information on ALL-SIS website to help newer academic law librarians establish their careers up-to-date
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
MIDDLE MANAGERS' BREAKFAST
- Canvass appropriate segment of membership and decide whether to hold a Middle Managers' Breakfast
- If there is interest to have the breakfast, work with sponsor and hotel
- Plan and conduct program for the breakfast meeting
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
NEWSLETTER
- Identify areas to be covered in newsletter
- Appoint columnists
- Create committee columns (all committee chairs are expected to submit at least one column during the year)
- Index past issues of the Newsletter
- Submit one column on the activities of the committee to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
NOMINATIONS
- Solicit candidates for this year's ALL-SIS elections
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
PROGRAMS
- Solicit and submit program (and workshop) proposals for 2009 Annual meeting
- Solicit and select programs for the ALL-SIS program time slots
- 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 describing the work of the committee during the current year
PUBLIC RELATIONS
- Create and maintain PR materials that promote the work of the ALL-SIS (including the ALL-SIS new member brochure and the exhibits for the CONELL Marketplace and the Annual Meeting Exhibit Hall)
- Solicit news from ALL-SIS officers and committees throughout the year
- Submit ALL-SIS news for each issue of the AALL Spectrum (including information about awards, election results, and Annual Meeting programs, meetings, ceremonies, and receptions)
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
STATISTICS
- Solicit ALL-SIS member input on problems found with ABA, ARL and questionnaires
- Work on proposing understandable definitions for statistics questions on ABA and ARL questionnaires
- Work with the liaison to the Committee on Law Libraries of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar to report concerns about questionnaires
- Investigate how online reference transactions and any other quantitative information is gathered and reported
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
STUDENT SERVICES
- Continue working with the survey data collected by last year's committee regarding the range of innovative services provided by academic law libraries to law journals, moot courts, student organizations, and individual students (e.g., guides/websites tailored to student activities, programs preparing students to practice, legal research instruction courses)
- Develop and maintain information for ALL-SIS website for each service or program identified including:
- the scope of the service (e.g., objectives, recipients)
- the staff involved in delivering the service (e.g., how many, types of staff, directory of staff)
- costs and benefits of the service
- sample informational/promotional materials
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
WEBMASTER
- Keep ALL-SIS website 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 website
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
Previous Committee Charges
- 2007–2008 Committee Charges
- 2006–2007 Committee Charges
- 2005–2006 Committee Charges
- 2004–2005 Committee Charges
- 2003–2004 Committee Charges
- 2002–2003 Committee Charges
- 2001–2002 Committee Charges