Membership and Mentoring

Chair 2012-13: Cornell Winston
Paula Hoffman
Joanne Vandestreek
SCCLL Board Liaison - Coral Henning

Charge

• Explore and implement creative techniques designed to increase membership and participation among various library types, especially Federal court and government law libraries.
• Target trustees as potential members and as mentors for newer trustees.
• Promote SIS at CONELL in Portland- speaker, revised SIS brochure, and a gadget (mascot?) handout.
• Conduct analysis of AALL membership roles to ascertain who are potential SCCLLers and incentives needed to get them to join the SIS.
• Create and define a "mentorship bureau" which will identify at least one SCCLL mentor coordinator for each state or region of the country.
• Along with the Chair of SIS, send out "Welcome to the SIS" letter to all new members - create new member list each October from AALL records. Also, notify Section Listserv owner of all new members.
• In coordination with Publicity/Public Relations Committee, update and re-design SIS brochure.
• Identify AALL Chapter liaisons and empower them to promote Section membership in local Chapters.
• Award 20-year pins and continue to generate documentation for maintaining membership longevity lists.

Reports