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Welcome To SCALL - Southern California Association of Law Libraries


The Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL) is a local chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). SCALL was approved as a chapter in 1953 and has an active membership of over 300 librarians and information professionals from academic, private, state, and county law libraries in the Southern California area. SCALL sponsors an annual institute, has over 20 committees, publishes a chapter newsletter, runs a listserv, and maintains these web pages.

Announcements

May/June 2009 Newsletter now available
May/June 2009 If link does not open, right click and select "save target as" to save the file to your local drive. File size is 10MB.
SCALL Online Membership Directory
The Online Membership Directory has been updated, and is now current through June 2009. Any corrections, changes, or additions to your membership information should be sent to Pauline Aranas

Directory is accessible here to SCALL members
SCALL Advocacy
At the request of GRC Chair MaryRuth Storer, AALL Associate Washington Affairs Representative Mary Alice Baish, and Michael Ginsborg, NOCALL GRC Chair, the SCALL & NOCALL boards have submitted a letter to Sen. Barbra Boxer expressing our opposition to the proposed closure of the EPA libraries.
Letter to Senator Boxer

In addition, on behalf of MaryRuth and Mary Alice, the SCALL board has submitted a letter to the Honorable Henry Waxman (D, Los Angeles), Chair, House Oversight & Government Reform Committee, in support of The Presidential Records Act Amendments of 2007 (HR 1193), introduced by Rep. Waxman to nullify a 2001 Presidential Executive order, and which would restore access to Presidential records.
Letter to Rep. Waxman

SCALL has also signed on to letters sent to the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker, US House of Representatives, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Robert Bennett, and Representatives Juanita Millender-McDonald and Vernon Ehlers, in support of direct access to Congressional Research
Service Reports.
Letter to Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Letter to Sens. Feinstein and Bennett
Letter to Reps. Millender-McDonald and Ehlers

In addition, SCALL has submitted a letter to the Hon. Jerry Lewis, Ranking Member, House Appropriations Committee, in support of full funding of the GPO, signed a petition advocating publicly funded research in the U.S. and signed onto a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in support of the Open Government Act of 2007.Full Funding
See Petition


Mailing Address:
Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL)
PMB 334
8391 Beverly Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90048

Email comments, questions, and suggestions to:  scallweb [at] gmail [dot] com


Check out the Rohan Chapter Service Award and Vendor Service Award winners

 

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Other California Law Library Associations:
Northern California Association of Law Libraries
San Diego Area Law Libraries

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