Officers

2001/2002
Board Members


Committees

Officers

Chair: Anita Anderson, 7/15/01 - 7/21/02     Annual Report
Chair Elect: Michael Miller, 7/15/01 - 7/21/02
Secretary/Treasurer: Cynthia Fellows, 7/15/01 - 7/13/04
Past Chair: Regina L. Smith, 7/15/01 - 7/21/02

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Board Members

Rita Dermody, 2000/2001 - 2002/2003
Tim Lewis, 1999/2000 - 2001/2002
Catherine Lemann, 2001/2002 - 2003/2004

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SCCLL Committees for 2001-2002

Awards Bylaws Education Grants Membership & Mentoring Newsletter Nominations
Publicity/Public Relations Standards Statistics Strategic Planning Trustees Development Web Site/ Listserv

Model County Law Library

Awards Charge:

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Peggy Rogers, Chair
Donna Bausch
Judy Meadows
Ted Smith
  • Solicit membership input and award the "Connie E. Bolden Publications Award"
  • Nominate section members for AALL awards when appropriate
  • Nominate section members for the Spirit of Law Librarianship Award when appropriate
  • Post awards information in SIS communications tools (i.e. listserv, web site, newsletter)
Bylaws Charge:

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Rita Dermody, Chair
Marian Sawyer
Georgiana Wellford
Cynthia Fellows (Board liaison)
  • Strategic Direction #3, Increasing Funding Sources
    • Working with the Secretary and Web Site/Listserv Committee, review and prepare changes to the by-laws to provide electronic balloting. Forward recommended language to SCCLL Executive Board
  • Recommend changes as needed to conform to AALL Bylaws
  • Examine language regarding the Newsletter Editor who is an appointed member of the Executive Board, but not an officer.
Education Charge:

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Susanne Pierce Dyer, Chair
Sara Galligan
Anne Grande
Karlye Pillai
Ana Hinman
Anne Morrison
Mike Miller (Board liaison)
 
  • Prepare and submit program proposals for the 2002 annual meeting
  • Coordinate the SIS Sunday morning program
  • Promote SIS programs to members
  • Maintain model timeline for education committee activities for SIS procedures manual
Grants Charge:

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Ana Hinman, Chair
Judy Brown
John Eichstadt
Nancy Joseph
Chris Tighe
Connie Von Der Heide
  • Strategic Initiative #3, Increasing Funding Sources
    • Encourage member participation in grants program through articles in newsletter
    • Explore additional sources of income for grants
    • Work with Publicity Committee to encourage member donations to the grant fund at activity table in Orlando
  • Post grant availability information in SIS communications tools
Membership and Mentoring Charge:

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Richard Schulke, Chair
Kathy Carlson
Jane Colwin
Isabel Paul
Gretchen Van Dam
Regina Smith (Board Liaison)
  • Strategic Initiative #2, Strengthening Membership
    • Continue to promote the "Each One Reach One" campaign
    • Poll chapters to see how many local members are potential SCCLL members
    • Increase member participation by establishing a network of liaisons to AALL Chapters to promote SIS membership
    • Continue to promote the SIS by distributing our section's brochure at CONELL during next year's AALL Annual Meeting in Orlando
    • Continue to develop mentoring activities by preparing
      a list of trustees who are interested in mentoring opportunities
  • Continue to develop activities to foster increased member usage of the SCCLL listserv
  • Award 20 year pins
  • Create documentation for maintaining the membership longevity lists
Newsletter Charge:

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Mary Ann Parker, Editor
Amanda Collins
Charley Dyer
Pris Streightoff
Donna Williams
Anita Anderson (Board liaison)
  • Strategic Direction #3, Increasing Funding Sources
    • Seek additional advertising for the SCCLL Newsletter so that subsidy will insure that all issues of the newsletter can be subsidized through advertising or sponsorship and also sent out as First Class Mail
    • Encourage more members to drop print subscriptions
  • Continue to publish and distribute a newsletter three times a year on a timely basis
Nominations Charge:

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Anne Morrison, Chair
Barb Golden
Gail Warren
  • Prepare slate of officers for annual election
  • Follow timeline for announcing candidates and coordinating ballot process with Secretary and Webmaster
  • Prepare a list of names of potential candidates from among our SIS membership and submit to the AALL Nominations Committees
Publicity/Public Relations Charge:

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Lisa Mecklenberg Jackson, Chair
Cheryl Gritton
Annette Heath
Marcus Hochstetler
Judy Lauer
Anita Shew
Hugh Treacy
Deborah Ward
Gail Warren
Regina Smith (Board Liaison)
  • Strategic Initiative #1, Changing Perceptions
    • Complete first publication in series to build relationships with SCCLL library "customers"
    • Submit articles as they are written for the first resource guide to target group publications
    • Continue to develop a media/public relations toolkit template for marketing to law library governing boards and committees
      • by soliciting members for samples of public relations items they have created to include as examples
      • put samples with the narrative into a usable toolkit
  • Strategic Initiative #2, Strengthening Membership
    • Work with Membership & Mentoring Committee to publicize their activities
  • Continue to solicit member authors to write articles describing the talents and expertise of law librarian for submission to targeted judicial/court administration/bar publications
Standards Charge:

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Maureen Well, Chair
Joan Bellistri
Mary Grace Hune
Mark Linneman
Mike Miller
Marnie Warner
  • Continue to work on establishing standards or guidelines for electronic services
  • Work in conjunction with Model County Code Committee to review current standards and make recommendations for improvements
  • Work with Statistics Committee to develop statistics necessary for determining standards
Statistics Charge:

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Betsy Vipperman, Co-Chair
Kay Schlueter, Co-Chair
Rosemarie Chrisant
Marcus Hochstetler
Lu Nguyen
Joe Stephens
  • Strategic Initiative #1, Changing Perceptions
    • Conduct a survey of the SCCLL membership to investigate the commonalities and differences among the membership in order to establish more meaningful educational programs and member services
  • Work with Standards Committee to develop statistics that will be serve as data for standards development
  • Work with Membership Committee to develop statistics to use as data to measure of membership committee activities. See strategic direction #2 Strengthening membership
  • Conduct a survey of State Law Libraries to provide members with comparative information for budgeting and planning purposes
Strategic Planning Charge:

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Regina Smith, Chair (Immediate Past Chair)
Anita Anderson
Mike Miller
Cynthia Fellows
Tim Lewis
Rita Dermody
Catherine Lemann
Mary Ann Parker
  • Oversee the implementation of the current strategic plan
  • Strategic Initiative #3, Increasing Funding Sources:
    • Continue to develop ways to increase funding
      (e.g. silent auction)
  • Strategic Initiative #2, Strengthening Membership
    • SCCLL Chair will assign new members to committees and encourage their active participation
Trustees Development Charge:

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Shirley David, Co-chair
Jean Holcomb
Claudia Jalowka
Regina Smith
  • Strategic Initiative #2, Strengthening Membership
    • Work with the Membership & Mentoring Committee to develop mentoring opportunities for members of law library governing bodies who become new members of the section.
  • Work with the Membership & Mentoring and Web Site/Listserv Committees to foster increased member usage of the SCCLL listserv and Web site by members of law library governing bodies who become new members of the section.
  • Promote the "Mini-CONELL" session for Trustees at next year's AALL Annual Meeting in Orlando
  • Determine if there is enough interest for the caucus to petition to be an SIS
  • Recommend programs for trustees to Education Committee
  • Continue the trustees' column in the SCCLL newsletter
Sourcebook Revision Charge:

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Susan Szymula, Co-Chair
Carol Morgan Collins
Rebecca Maxwell
Pat Parker
 

  • Review Sourcebook for enhancements
  • Bring dated sections up-to-date
  • Work with editor at Rothman to review sourcebook
Web Site/Listserv Charge:

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Karla Gedell, Chair
Barb Golden
Henry Gozdz
John Pickett
Anita Anderson (Board Liaison)
  • Strategic Direction #3, Increasing Funding Sources
    • Investigate the technical feasibility of electronic ballots and make a recommendation to the Executive Board
    • Investigate having Newsletter password protected and make a recommendation to the Executive Board
  • Investigate moving the listserv to the AALLnet server for purpose of auto-populating the list and make a recommendation to the Executive Board
  • Continue to develop and maintain the SCCLL web site
  • Continue to develop activities to foster increased member usage of SCCLL listserv working with the Membership and Mentoring Committee and the Publicity and Public Relations Committee
  • Develop activities to foster increased usage of the SCCLL listserv and web site by members of law library governing bodies who become new members of the section.
Model County Law Library
Working Group
Charge:

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Anne Grande, Chair
Joanne Beal
Charley Dyer
Anne Morrison
Karlye Pillai
  • Work with SCCLL Standards Committee to help coordinate updates to SCCLL Standards for County Law Libraries in view of the model code so that they are updated to reflect current county law library needs and requirements
  • Work with Education Committee to submit program ideas for 2002 meeting which encourage membership dialog about the model code draft
  • Submit board approved draft model code to other organizations, such as the Conference of State Court Administrators, for comment.