While
reading through a series of chapter newsletters
this week I was once again struck by how
effectively law librarians support and
educate one another. From New York to
Ohio to Dallas to Southern California,
you connect with one another and give
each other the inspiration, encouragement
and intellectual tools necessary to become
the best you can be in a field that requires
constant adaptation to radical change.
This
interconnectedness – members to
chapters, chapters to AALL, AALL in turn
to chapters and then further outward to
our national and international alliances,
truly proves the strength of the adage
“Think globally, act locally.”
The chapter newsletters communicate loud
and clear that you dream big dreams and
have the results to show for it. As
Eugenie Prime, Manager
of Hewlett Packard’s corporate libraries,
said in her plenary speech at AALL’s
annual meeting, “The best way to
predict the future is to be the future.”
The
Price Index for Legal Publications, 2nd
ed. has recently been updated to include
2002 data. It is posted in the Members
Only section of our website.
The Index reports average costs of titles
and percentage changes over prior years
for legal periodicals, newsletters, loose-leaf
services, court reporters, digests, codes,
citators and supplemented treatises. An
added feature this year is a listing of
the 915 titles included in the Index. The
Index is the result of work by the Price
Index for Legal Publications Advisory Committee,
chaired by Richard
Vaughan, and the editor, Anne
Poulter. The Committee is currently
working on making a proposal to include
electronic resources in the future.
In
last week’s From
the Desk Of reporting
on AALL’s filing a brief in a prisoners'
rights case (Henderson vs. Crosby), I neglected
to give much deserved credit to our Social
Responsibilities SIS for contributing
significant funding so that the brief could
be written.
This
weekend the 2004
Annual Meeting Program Committee will
meet in Chicago to assess program proposals
for next year’s annual meeting: From
Boston to Mumbai: The World of Legal Information.
We received 230 submissions and at this
time (always subject to change) it looks
like we will fill 66 program slots. Gail
Warren, Program Committee Chair,
reports:
Watching
the east coast prepare for hurricane Isabel’s
fury, right on the heels of the recent
memorial events for the victims of September
11th, we are reminded our world is constantly
changing. Yet, one thing remains a constant
– AALL’s members require relevant,
informative educational programming. The
2004 AMPC hopes to provide Annual Meeting
programs that not only meet our member’s
educational needs, but also nourishes
their spirit in an ever-changing environment.
The
Program Committee also deserves a special
pat on the back for completing their initial
review and ranking of those 230 submissions
in just 17 days!
 Kim
Rundle, Executive Assistant
to the Executive Director, provides administrative
support to me, the Executive Board (especially
the President and Vice President) and to
AALL’s leadership group. Her attention
to detail is superb and she is the one who
keeps track of the multitude of deadlines
essential to running an effective association.
She also is the one who facilitates the
information flow at headquarters and keeps
a full candy jar on her desk to help sweeten
the task. She’s a good first person
to ask when you have any question about
AALL policies, process, or procedures.
 Kim
lives in downtown Chicago in one of the
most photographed buildings in the world,
Marina Towers. It was home to the Bob Newhart
Show and was also the famous scene from
a Steve McQueen movie where the car drives
off the edge of the parking garage into
the Chicago River.
Trivia
question: what was the name of that movie?
Sincerely,
Susan
E. Fox, CAE
Executive Director
American Association of Law Libraries
53 West Jackson Blvd., Suite 940
Chicago, IL
60604
312-939-4764, ext. 11
Fax 312-431-1097
AALL:
Maximizing the Power of the Law Library
Community Since 1906.
“When
I feel the heat, I see the light”
Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen
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