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Submit your newsletter articles by Jan. 20!

The next deadline for submitting articles to the newsletter is Friday, January 20th. Please send your submissions to our newsletter editor, Holly Gerber, at holly_gerber@co.washington.or.us.

Fall Newsletter now available

Volume 37, No. 3 of the SCCLL News is now available. Read about our new Wiki, reports from AALL, how to get involved in Access to Justice movements in your state, and more..

Download the Fall newsletter here.

Newsletter articles due Sept. 16

The next submission deadline is Friday, September 16, 2011. Please send your submissions to our new newsletter editor, Holly Gerber, at Holly_Gerber@co.washington.or.us.

Summer newsletter now available

Volume 37, No. 2 of the SCCLL News is now available. Read about statewide task forces on self-representation, public law library services survey results, AALL announcements, "Link Rot and Legal Resources on the Web," the Mersky Award, and a recap of the ABA Access to Justice Conference, as well as regular features like "View from the Chair" and even several job openings on "The Back Page."

Download the Summer newsletter here.

Volunteer for an SCCLL Committee!

This is your chance to be on an SCCLL Committee for 2011-2012! We need a few brave souls to commit a bit of time to SCCLL this upcoming year! Most committee duties are not onerous and it's a great way to meet other SCCLL members.

Listed below are the various committees for which we need volunteers. Please email Amy Hale-Janeke and let her know your first and second choice.

If you don't know what the various committees do, check out their reports on the SCCLL web page.

Silent Auction now open!k

The SCCLL Silent Auction is live online. The auction site is at http://sccll11.wordpress.com/. Items are still being accepted and will be accepted at the breakfast meeting in Philly. If you would like to make a donation but will not be attending the annual meeting, you can submit it for online bidding only.

To donate an item, please send a picture, a brief description, starting bid amount and your name. Please send one donation per email to either Barbara Fritschel or Paula Doty.

Online bidding closes on July 20th at 2 p.m. PT. Items designated for online bidding only will be closed at that time. Bidding on all other items closes Sunday July 24 at 8:15 a.m. at the breakfast.

Please remember that all proceeds raised will go to travel scholarships for SCCLL members to the annual meeting and the Equal Access to Justice Conference.

If you have any questions, please contact Barbara Fritschel.

Joint Roundtable on Pro Se Patrons and Prisoners at AALL

Are you interested in learning new ideas for serving your pro se patrons (self-represented litigants)? Interested in learning how librarians can support prisoner access to legal materials? Please join us for an exciting Joint Roundtable on Library Services to Pro Se Patrons and Prisoners at AALL in Philadelphia. We?ve got great speakers and light refreshments. We?ll be in the Marriott Downtown, Room 401-403, Mon July 25th 12-1:15pm. Our agenda:

(1) A?Best of? show of services to Pro Se/Pro Per patrons from librarians around the country. We?ll post links to some of these ?Best of? resources on a Google Wiki after the meeting. If you would like to have your "best of" pro per item included on the wiki for this event, please email it to Amy Hale-Janeke at ahjaneke@ca5.uscourts.gov. If you would like to bring your item to the meeting for a quick show 'n' tell, or to share with others at the roundtable, please plan on bringing at 40 copies of the item.

(2) Two guest speakers on Wrongful Conviction & Prisoner Legal Research:
  • Marissa Boyers Bluestine, Legal Director of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project (http://www.innocenceprojectpa.org/) and adjunct professor at Temple Law. Ms. Bluestine oversees all legal work undertaken by the Project, which works to exonerate those who were wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit. In addition, Ms. Bluestine works to coordinate the policy initiatives of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project geared toward reforming the criminal justice system to prevent wrongful convictions from occurring.
  • Fernando Bermudez, an exonerated prisoner, served more than 18 years in New York State maximum security prisons following his wrongful conviction of murder in the shooting death of Raymond Blount in 1991 until proven innocent in late 2009 with assistance from pro bono attorneys from Washington, D.C., New Jersey and New York. He will discuss his experience and the role his own legal research played in gaining his freedom. His story was the subject of Innocent: Inside Wrongful Conviction Cases by Scott Christianson (NYU Press 2006).
  • Watch a brief interview with Ms. Bluestine about the Bermudez case and the unreliability of eyewitness identifications (Fox 29).

Thanks to the 3 SISs sponsoring this event: LISP(Bret Christensen, Chair), SR (Jorge Juarez, Chair), SCCLL (Kathy Carlson, Chair).

SCCLL-SIS Reception at Annual Meeting

This year LexisNexis will be sponsoring a reception for SCCLL members during the AALL Annual Meeting. The reception will be held on Sunday evening, July 24th from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Jenkins Law Library which is about 3 blocks from the Convention Center.

Times have changed and you must register for this event, as we need to provide building security personnel with a list of those who plan to attend the reception. You will also need to let us know if you are bringing a guest and we will need his or her name. There will also be an invitation in the SCCLL Spring Newsletter as a reminder.

We sincerely appreciate the support that LexisNexis is offering our section. Please be sure to stop by their booth at the Annual Meeting to thank them. I look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia

Invitation
R.S.V.P. rsmith@jenkinslaw.org by July 19, 2011.

New SCCLL Grant for Leadership Acadamy

The Grants Committee has announced the creation of a new grant for 2011. The SCCLL Executive Board approved awarding one $1000 grant for the AALL Leadership Academy, October 28-29, in Oak Brook, IL. Applicants should use the SCCLL Grant Application form. Submit the application and one letter of recommendation by email to Grants Committee Chair Jane Colwin.