Saturday, July 11, 1998
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Present: Leonette Williams, Joe Thomas, Betty Roeske, Carole Hinchcliff, Mary Burgos and Regina Wallen.

Preliminary Remarks
(Leonette Williams)

Leonette thanked the TS-SIS Executive Board for their hard work during the year.

Secretary/Treasurer’s Report
(Carole Hinchcliff)

Summary of report and balance sheet to be distributed on Wednesday, July 15th at TS-SIS business meeting given by Carole Hinchcliff.

TS/OBS/RIPS/CS SIS Joint Reception
(Betty Roeske)

This year’s reception was organized by Betty Roeske who arranged that the Innovative Interfaces check for $3,500 was sent to AALL before the Anaheim reception. Betty will introduce the III representatives at this evening’s reception around 6:15 p.m.

This year the Academic Law Library SIS reception is at the same time as the TS/OBS reception. This scheduling will affect the numbers expected to attend this evening’s reception and the consensus was that this scheduling conflict should be avoided in the future.

Actions:
» Carole Hinchcliff will arrange for the new treasurer, Linda Tesar, to reimburse Betty for the flowers she purchased for the Innovative representatives who will be attending the reception.

» Joe Thomas will talk to Ed Edmonds (Incoming Chair of the Academic SIS) to find out when the Academic SIS plans to have their reception at the Washington D.C. meeting.

» Joe Thomas will explore the idea of having the other special interest sections contribute time and money towards the TS-SIS reception and determine the appropriate amount of the contribution from Innovative Interfaces.

Committee Reports

Acquisitions Committee
Leonette Williams summarized Cynthia Aninao’s report. The major activity of the committee has been LAWACQ, the moderated listserv started in early 1995 which presently has approximately 120 members and has had 192 postings since July, 1997. The committee sponsored "New Horizons in Collection Development: Approval Plans" which will be presented this coming Tuesday morning. The new Chair of the Committee is Carmen Brigandi from California Western School of Law.

Cataloging and Classification Committee
Leonette reported on behalf of Carol Shapiro that the group is working on several projects including form and genre, developing a list of legal terms, looking at Great Britain versus England in subdivisions, and revisions to AACR2.

Heads of Cataloging in Large Law Libraries
Leonette reported on behalf of William Benemann that the group of twenty-five representatives from the largest law libraries met in Baltimore at last year’s AALL meeting. A number of other librarians attended the meeting to hear about the topics discussed, migrations to new automated systems, and adoption of the new JZ/KZ schedules. The group will reconvene from noon - 1:30 on Tuesday, July 14th.

Education Committee
Regina Wallen reported that one of five proposals submitted was accepted for the Anaheim meeting. This was a disappointing result, but TS-SIS believes that there will be more programs of interest to technical services librarians at the Washington D.C. meeting next year. Joe Thomas already has ten program ideas in hand and some ideas for acquisitions and cataloging workshops. The deadline for submitting proposals for the Washington D.C. meeting is Monday, August 17th. Next year, to our advantage, it appears that roundtables will be able to be scheduled when programs will be running and the TS-SIS business meeting will return to a Sunday time slot. Jack Bissett incoming chair of OBS-SIS has suggested that TS-SIS and OBS have back to back business meetings so that reports can be shared.

Action:
» Joe Thomas proposed that the incoming vice-chair of TS-SIS should be more involved with programming for upcoming meetings. Joe will check to see if a bylaws change would be necessary to do this and he will be keeping this idea in mind as he examines the present organization and structure of TSSIS committees.

Exchange of Duplicates
Leonette Williams reported on behalf of Melinda Davis that they have fiftysix members and their goals are to review their authority list of titles and increase their membership.

Preservation Committee
Leonette reported on behalf of Hope Breeze that the committee sponsored a tour of the Library of Congress conservation lab in conjunction with last year’s AALL meeting in Baltimore and this year’s roundtable will feature Will Meredith from Harvard who will talk about managing the digital imaging project at Harvard.

Rene D. Chapman Award
Leonette Williams announced on behalf of Melody Lembke that this year’s winner of the Rene D. Chapman Award is Peter Enyingi, emeritus technical services librarian from Los Angeles County Law Library.

Serials Committee
Leonette Williams has not yet received a report from Joe Hinger. Technical Services Law Librarian Leonette Williams reported that at this year’s TSLL meeting they will continue last years’ discussion of whether the newsletter should be available only on the web versus web and paper, and the issue of whether the newsletter should include advertising.

Anna Belle Leiserson and Linda Tesar will be taking over the newsletter editorial responsibilities from Mary Dzurinko, and we are looking for a new business manager to relieve Lorraine Lorne from these responsibilities.

OBS/TS Research Committee
Leonette Williams reported on behalf of Brian Striman that Ellen McGrath had received three research grant proposals. The recipient of the grant has not yet been determined by the committee. The new chair of the committee will be Corinne Jacox, Head of Technical Services from University of Orlando School of Law, Euliano Law Library.

Old Business
Leonette explained why TS-SIS would incur the expense of a telephone line for the JZ/KZ workshop.

Adhoc Committee on Regional Educational Programs for Technical Services Librarians
Leonette Williams announced that three librarians had contacted her about this committee.

Action:
» Joe Thomas will develop this idea via the professional development committee.

Membership Survey
Leonette Williams thanked Joe Thomas for putting together an excellent survey. Sixty-eight percent of respondents were from academic law libraries. Joe has already talked to Janet McKinney about adding some new questions to next year’s survey.

New Business
Announcement of Newly Elected TSSIS Officers

Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Janet McKinney

Secretary/Treasurer
Linda Tesar

Member-at-Large
JoAnn Hounshell

Program Proposal
Leonette Williams reported that she has received a letter from Michele Finerty suggesting that the TS-SIS Business meeting could offer an educational program as part of the meeting. This is done by the State Court and County Court librarians SIS, a group that in the past has invited a non-AALL speaker and paid for the person’s expenses and honorarium.

Action:
» Joe will consider this idea as he works on the programming for the Washington D.C. meeting.