Black Caucus of AALL

Our Mission:

The mission of the Black Caucus of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is to promote the professional development, recruitment and social interests of black law librarians.

Black Caucus Bylaws

101st AALL Annual Meeting & Conference
July 12 - 15, 2008, Portland, OR
Oregon Convention Center

Contacts

What's New

ARL Scholarships

	Materials from "And Still I Rise: Resurrecting the Legal System in New Orleans"
	Celebrating Diversity
	Black Caucus Program Accepted for 2007 Annual Meeting
	Sexual Orientation and the Law
	Congratuations Ruth!

PROPOSED BYLAWS REVISION TO BE VOTED UPON AT THE CAUCUS BUSINESS MEETING

The Bylaws Committee of the BCAALL present these recommendations for bylaws revisions, for approval of the membership Bylaws Revision.

The major changes suggested are:

	the creation of the office of Past-Chair to promote smooth continuity from one board leadership to the next and help retain institutional memory.
	the creation of the office of Member-at-Large to focus on planning the annual scholarship dinner and to assist with other Caucus matters.
	replacement of the Current Awareness Committee with the Community Service Committee.
	to have procedures not covered by the bylaws governed by the parlimentary procedure rules current used by AALL.

Please review these proposed changes before the Caucus Business meeting, which will take place at the meeting on Sunday, July 13, 2008, 5:30pm at the Oregon Convention Center.

AALL Black Caucus Scholarship Dinner

Saturday, July 12, 2008 6:00- 8:30p.m. Portland State University

Please join us in fellowship at the annual Black Caucus Scholarship Dinner at the AALL meeting in Portland. Cost of dinner is $30.00, which includes a $10 contribution to the George Strait Minority Scholarship fund. Send a check or money order for ticket(s) NO LATER THAN June 20, 2008 to:

Karen B. Douglas

Black Caucus Dinner

Duke University Law Library

Box 90361

Durham, NC 27708-0361

Make checks payable to Karen B. Douglas. Indicate that it’s for the BCLL Scholarship Dinner on the memo line.

AALL Black Caucus Business Meeting

Sunday, July 13, 2008, 5:30pm at the Oregon Convention Center.

Don't forget to join us for the Business Meeting! We will be voting on Bylaws and discussing other issues.

Congratulations Allen!

Allen Moye, Director of the Law Library and Assistant Professor at DePaul University College of Law has been elected Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the Black Caucus of the American Association of Law Libraries.

Congratulations Ruth!

Ruth Hill, Director of Library Services & Associate Professor of Law, Oliver B. Spellman Law Library, Southern University Law Center, has been elected secretary of AALL starting in 2008. I'm sure all of our votes helped her to be elected. Congratulations, Ruth! We're proud of you. Another pioneer has blazed a trail!

Karen B. Douglas
Head of Technical Services
Duke University Law Library

Greetings from your Chair

I am Donna Nixon and it is my honor to serve you as chair of the AALL Black Caucus this year. I was privileged last year to serve as vice-chair under the leadership of Ruth Hill, the new library director of Southern University Law Center. Much thanks to Ruth for her distinguished leadership.

As chair I’d like to work with you on some of the ideas that Ruth and others have suggested to nourish the leadership and positive energy that this caucus generates. Our caucus is filled with extremely smart, talented and ambitious folks and I want to work to foster that potential to benefit the caucus members individually and collectively. I also want us to focus on ways that we can recruit more minority librarians into the profession and mentor our newer colleagues. With those things in mind, I’d like to use this site as a platform to trumpet the great things the caucus does for the profession and to encourage prospective and new librarians to contact us for advice, guidance, fellowship and support.

There are things Caucus members do that we don’t brag enough about, like our support for the George Strait Scholarship, the wonderful new book Celebrating Diversity authored by Carol Avery Nicholson, et. al. (got your copy yet?), and the formal and informal mentorship relationships we form with new librarians and budding law professionals. Also, people need to know about our wonderful successes, like all the Caucus library directors sprouting up, and Carol’s historic presidency of AALL. Those are things I plan to highlight with your help.

As the hectic pace of the fall dies down a little, expect to see some missives from your leadership asking your input and assistance in lighting sparks to shine the Caucus’s light. Together I know we can have a great year!

-Donna Nixon