A.A. Milne described Winnie the Pooh as "a Bear of Very Little Brain." Well, here I am, new Chair of TS-SIS; and when I consider all of the work and people involved in this organization, I feel compelled to borrow from him and say that I am very humbled and sometimes feel like a librarian of "Very Little Brain."

Perhaps it is because of my desire to learn and grow (so as not to have so little a brain) that I enjoy being in TS-SIS. I know that it is this which leads me to appreciate conferences such as we had in Indianapolis.

There was, among the many session offerings, an abundance of opportunity to meet with people, get reacquainted, and learn. We sponsored many programs, including "The Politics and Practices of Giving to Law Libraries;" "Serials in the Electronic Environment;" "Who's Counting? Who Cares? Delivering the Message with Statistics;" "Format Integration--Finally" and "LC Update." We also sponsored a very interesting Acquisitions Workshop. I am constantly amazed by the quality, variety, and interest we share in the programs we present. Thank you to everyone who was involved in them.

Thank you, also, to Mike Petit, Virginia Bryant, Judy Lauer, Richard Amelung, Joan Howland, Felice Lowell, Curt Conklin, Paula Tejeda and Katherine Tooley and the rest of last year's Executive Board for their work last year in guiding the SIS.

The officers for this year are:

Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect: Leonette Williams
Secretary/Treasurer: Carole Hinchcliff
Members at Large: Susan Goldner, Betty Roeske

The committee Chairs are:

Acquisitions: Brian Quigley
Awards: Regina Wallen
Cataloging and Classification: Carol Shapiro
Program/Education: Rhonda Lawrence
Exchange of Duplicates: vacant
Preservation: Hope Breeze
Serials: Joe Hinger

Please contact any of us with ideas or suggestions of what TS-SIS can do for you.

The 1995-96 Awards Committee, chaired by Richard Amelung, presented the Renee D. Chapman Award to Melody Lembke for her outstanding work and leadership in Technical Services. Congratulations, Melody!

TS-SIS is on a course which, I believe, will lead to some exciting changes. At the time of my writing this, Martin Wisneski (Washburn University) is in the process of developing a TS-SIS Home Page on AALLNET. This will include such things as a directory of officers, copies of TS-SIS publications, perhaps links to interesting TS sites, etc. Feel free to contact him if you have any suggestions for the home page.

Martin is also putting TSLL on the Web. To this end, he will need help putting the back issues into electronic format. If you have a little time and are willing to help edit older scanned issues, please let him know. Transferring the complete archives of TSLL will be a major undertaking, but I am confident that with a little help we can complete it on a timely schedule.

On a related note, Brian Quigley (University of Texas) is developing a site with policy statements for collection development, gifts, weeding/deselecting, etc. Please contact him if you have policy statements you can share.

Finally, we need to push the deadline for submitting program proposals up considerably. This year the TS program/education committee had less than a week from the time the last proposals were received until they had to be submitted to AALL. That is simply not enough time to properly evaluate and help each of us in working through our proposals. In an effort to ease the strain and continue to develop exceptional programs, I am asking that we all think about programs for Anaheim and submit them to Rhonda Lawrence by February, 1997. (For the purpose of submitting proposals to the TS-SIS Education Committee, it is okay to use the same forms as we did for Baltimore until AALL puts out forms for Anaheim). By getting the proposals in early, the Committee will have an opportunity to work with you in developing, coordinating and presenting them to AALL.

I am very grateful for the opportunity to serve as your Chair this year. I hope that we will all work together to continue making TS-SIS a very strong, vital and active section of AALL.