To find more details about the series, please visit C-SPAN.
This is online in Real streaming format.
If you have any questions about the Library of Congress series, please call the C-SPAN Educators' Hotline at 1-800-523-7586 or email educate@c-span.org.
AALL's Washington Affairs Representative and Past President Robert Oakley attended a meeting in Geneva last month to present a set of library principles to a meeting of experts convened in connection with the upcoming meetings of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
Last fall, WIPO adopted a declaration calling for the development of a new agenda that would better support the needs of developing countries for access to information. To fulfill this mandate, a variety of interested groups are working on the development of a treaty on Access to Knowledge (the so-called A2K treaty) that would bring more balance into the WIPO agenda.
In response to a call for input into the development of such a treaty, the library community developed a set of principles (initially authored by Oakley) to both promote the use of libraries as an engine of knowledge and to establish a set of limits on the use of copyright to provide better balance in the world's copyright system.
The statement has now been adopted by the five major U.S. library associations, as well as the Canadian Library Association (CLA), the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL), and by the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA).
AALL Executive Board member Merle Slyhoff, Document Delivery & Auxiliary Services Librarian and Lecturer-in-Law at the University of Pennsylvania, received the Marta Lange/CQ Press Award. The award, established in 1996 by Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Law and Political Science Section (LPSS), honors an academic or law librarian who has made distinguished contributions to bibliography and information service in law or political science.
This year AALL Special Interest Sections will be able to cast votes for office on AALLNET. The SIS elections will be conducted in the same fashion as the AALL Executive Board election last fall. Beginning March 7, 2005, SIS chairs can request an online election at https://vote.aallnet.org/election_reg.asp. AALL will make the online election system available to AALL chapters in the near future. Check here for future information.
Our 98th AALL Annual Meeting & Conference July 16 - 20, 2005 in San Antonio, TX is fast approaching! We mailed out the 2005 Annual Meeting Preliminary Program with the March issue of AALL Spectrum and conference housing and registration is now open online. As President Victoria Trotta says, "our premier educational event, the Annual Meeting, will provide members with the opportunity to learn from outside experts as well as from one another. This gathering is also an opportunity to celebrate our achievements and,
of course, to socialize. It promises to be a very exciting meeting -- please join us!!!"
From 1989 to 1992, Past President Frank Houdek, Law Library Director and Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University, and Editor of Law Library Journal, created and moderated Annual Meeting programs under the rubric of Overheard at the Bar that featured an illustrious array of participants talking about their experiences in AALL and law librarianship. Marian Gallagher, Julius Marke, Harry Bitner, Morris Cohen, Jack Ellenberger, Earl Borgeson, Jane Hammond, Dan Henke, Mike Jacobstein -- these are just a few of the illustrious law librarians who contributed to these fascinating live oral history programs where the speakers informally chatted as if they were relaxing together in a hotel bar after a long day of meetings.
As you might imagine, the stories they told were instructive, informative, and, above all, entertaining.
Fortunately we videotaped each of the four programs and recently converted them to WMV files, now available courtesy of the Centennial Celebration Committee. So to see and hear AALL history at its best, please visit the AALL Centennial Website.
If you enjoy what you see, make plans to attend the revival of the series during the AALL Annual Meeting in San Antonio: Now Serving at the Centennial Cantina: Margaritas, Nachos, and AALL History,Program B-5, Sunday, July 17, 2005, 2:45-4:00 P.M.
Now that our Centennial year fast approaches, many of you may be inspired to make use of the AALL Archives. Our esteemed archivist, William Maher, asks that before you send items to or request items from the archives to contact him first and also to review the AALL Archives Finding Aid before mounting a centennial exhibit for your chapter or unit.
Mark your calendars. During National Library Week, April 10-16, AALL members will take part in a nationwide photo contest that will document law librarians working, meeting, teaching, and doing all that law librarians accomplish in a given work week.
"A Day in the Life of the Law Library Community" is sponsored by the AALL Public Relations Committee and is open to AALL members only. Photos will be submitted in six categories with one winner chosen from each category and one overall winner honored. Winners will be recognized in fall 2005 on AALLNET, in a special issue of AALL Spectrum, and during the 2006 AALL Annual Meeting in St. Louis.
Complete contest rules and guidelines are available on AALLNET. Stay tuned for more details and photography tips in future issues of AALL Spectrum. The Public Relations Committee welcomes any feedback about this contest. Please send any questions or comments to Chair Erika Wayne.
Sincerely,
Susan
E. Fox, CAE
Executive Director
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