ALL-SIS COMMITTEE CHARGES

2001-2002

AWARDS COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of the Nominations Committee is stated clearly in the By-laws, Article VI, Section 1. According to the by-laws :

The Nominating Committee shall submit the names of candidates for the office of Vice-Chair/Chair-elect, Secretary/Treasurer, and the elected member, together with their written acceptances, to the Chair by January 30.

In the event that the Vice-Chair/Chair-elect cannot assume the duties of Chair, and such fact is known prior to January 15, the Committee shall also submit the names of candidates for the office of Chair for the term of one year.

BY-LAWS COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of the By-laws Committee is the following:

1. review the by-laws and recommend appropriate amendments, repeals or new by-laws.
2. complete work on by-law proposal from 2000-2001 regarding replacing vice-chairs who are not able to complete or continue their terms as chair. Since this report is not yet available on the web either as a committee report or in the 2001 Business Meeting Minutes, you should work with Mary Hood, chair of last year's committee, to get a copy of the amendment and other information as it stood at the end of the 2001 Business Meeting.

CONALL/MENTORING COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of the CONALL roundtable is the following:

1. to plan, develop and execute a mini-CONELL introduction for new academic law librarians.
2. The chair of the CONALL/Mentoring Committee in consultation with the ALL-SIS chair will have wide latitude in determining the particular form the CONALL roundtable takes each year.

Background: For several years the CONALL roundtable committees have introduced new law librarians to the profession via humorous means with skits which offered some fairly heavy content. In 2001 the focus was on publishing as an academic law librarian. Single theme topics such as tenure or publishing would be appropriate, as well as topics such as "professional issues facing the new academic law librarian." The format could be a panel, a skit and song and dance routine, or even a standard presentation.

In 2001 Rosalie Sanderson, ALL-SIS chair appointed Jim Heller chair of the CONALL/MENTORING Committee. Mr. Heller proposed and Ms. Sanderson agreed that the 2002 CONALL Roundtable would focus on the ROLE OF ACADEMIC LAW LIBRARIAN IN LEGAL RESEARCH INSTRUCTION IN LAW SCHOOLS. Mr. Heller was given wide latitude to develop this theme and present it at the annual meeting in the way he thought would be most beneficial to new law librarians.

CONTINUING STATUS/TENURE COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of this committee is to

1. Set up a web page where the work of the committee can be viewed by all academic law librarians. You may consult David Burch at Loyola in Los Angeles who is the ALL-SIS webmaster for help with linking this information.
   1. The web page should include useful original work which this committee has completed such as any surveys and responses.
   2. The web page should include a chart which indicates for each ABA approved law school (and others if the information is available) whether that school's
      1. library director is in a tenure accruing position or not
      2. library director accrues tenure as a law faculty member or as a library faculty member
      3. other librarians are in tenure accruing positions, continuing status positions or do not accrue tenure
   3. The chart should have URLs which link to each law library's written policies on tenure, continuing status, etc. if available.
   4. The web page should include links to other useful material such as articles on tenure and continuing status for law librarians or other academic librarians.
2. Two years ago roundtable members suggested that a "Brief of Value" should be developed. The committee should begin gathering ideas about why tenure or continuing status is of value for the librarian and for the institution. This "brief" could begin as nothing more than a bulleted list. Next year's committee could use your list to draft a document.
3. Hold a roundtable meeting at the annual meeting in Orlando where you present your work of this year and engage interested participants in related discussion.
4. The 2001-2002 chair Leah Sandwell-Weiss has submitted a program proposal developed during the last year. This committee should work with Merle Slyhoff, ALL-SIS chair for 2003 and her education chair to submit that program by August 2002 to be considered for the 2003 annual meeting.

(Note: Tim Coggins was the ALL-SIS 2001-2002 Education Chair, and he and his committee worked throughout 2000-2001 to submit proposals for the 2002 annual meeting by the August 2001 deadline.)

Committee members may find Leah's report of the 2001 Roundtable helpful. It will be published in the Fall ALL-SIS Newsletter. You may also find last year's report useful. "Working Group Continuing Status/TenureRoundtable," as reported in the Fall 2000 ALL-SIS Newsletter http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/20_1/tenure.htm

EDUCATION COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Note: The Education Committee is usually appointed two years early so that members can meet the deadlines required for annual meeting programs.

Charge:

1. Solicit education program proposals on topics of interest to academic law librarians
2. Work with the individual who proposed the program to complete the appropriate 2002 meeting proposal form complete with suggested speakers, learning outcomes and targeted audience information.
3. Review all proposals and select proposals to submit for the ALL-SIS which the committee deems most useful and interesting for members of the section.
4. Get all information pertaining to annual meeting program proposal deadlines and be sure that program proposals submitted by this section meet all deadlines.
5. Serve in coordinator capacity if necessary for programs which are approved.

MEETING LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of the Local Arrangements Committee is to make all logistical arrangements for the various ALL-SIS events with meals at the annual meeting, and to arrange for programs for those events with meals which traditionally have programs such as the Directors Breakfast and the Middle Managers Breakfast.

Background: This committee does not have a neat and precise charge because as the year progresses we often discover local arrangements which have to be made that we did not know about initially. Members of this committee simply have to be flexible enough to handle arrangements issues as they arrive and to anticipate them if possible. The chair of this committee is usually the academic law library director at the local academic library which hosts the ALL-SIS Reception during the annual meeting.

In 2001-2002 Rebecca Trammel, Law Library Director at Barry University, agreed to chair the committee and chair arrangements for the ALL-SIS reception at Barry University at the 2002 AALL Annual Convention. Committee members Sally Wise and Anne Klinefelter, agreed to chair the subcommittee for the Directors Breakfast and Middle Managers Breakfast. These commitments involved planning programs for both of the breakfasts.

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of the committee is the following:

1. Establish a method of getting a list of new ALL-SIS members from AALL headquarters on a regular basis, e.g., once every two months, perhaps once a quarter, or even once a month.
2. Establish a method of getting a list of ALL-SIS members who have DROPPED their membership, either from the SIS or from AALL from headquarters on a regular basis.
3. Develop a "welcome" package, as well as a "good-bye" package which the SIS can send by email as well as by snailmail mail to all new members and all dropped members.
4. Determine the most efficient way to send these communications, either via automatic email out of HQ or some other method.
5. Develop a liaison with the ALL-SIS Public Relations Committtee to be sure that the "new" ALL-SIS brochure is available to be distributed to new members as soon as it is printed.

NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of the committee is the following

1. Publish the ALL-SIS Newsletter three times during the year. This includes soliciting articles and news as necessary, notifying members of deadlines and sending appropriate reminders, editing articles, preparing the layout, having the newsletter printed and distributed. The editor should stay in close contact with the chair and executive board of the section and consult with them about current topics, articles, news, etc.
2. Coordinate ALL-SIS news and articles to be published in the convention dailies during the annual convention, ensuring that these stories reach the appropriate editors in a timely fashion.
3. Work with the Website Committee and ALL-SIS webmaster to publish the ALL-SIS Newsletter on the web.

NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of the Nominations Committee is stated clearly in the By-laws, Article Vi, Section 1. According to the by-laws: The Nominating Committee shall submit the names of candidates for the office of Vice-Chair/Chair-elect, Secretary/Treasurer, and the elected member, together with their written acceptances, to the Chair by January 30.

In the event that the Vice-Chair/Chair-elect cannot assume the duties of Chair, and such fact is known prior to January 15, the Committee shall also submit the names of candidates for the office of Chair for the term of one year.

PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge to the committee is to

1. Publish the ALL-SIS brochure with the help of Maya Norris, the AALL Director of Publications. This should be done in consultation with Bonnie Koneski-White, the chair of last year's Publication Relations Committee who has already done a substantial amount of work on this project.
2. Establish a liaison with the ALL-SIS Membership Committee so that the Membership committee has access to the brochure for use as soon as it is available.
3. Schedule ALL-SIS volunteers to staff the ALL-SIS booth in the activities center at the annual meeting during the hours when that is necessary.

STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Background:

This is a very important committee this year, not only for our own SIS, but because the AALL has recently adopted a new strategic plan and the Strategic Planning Committee of the AALL Executive Board is trying to implement that plan with help from members and entities like the ALL-SIS. The strategic plan for the ALL-SIS is important because it will help us identify more clearly our goals and objectives, and to identify particular strategies in order to fulfill our goals.

As you know, ALL-SIS is one of the larger SISs, and we have members who work in every aspect of librarianship with the single unifying factor being that we all work in law schools. It is hard if not impossible to meet the professional needs of every member of the SIS, but it is certainly possible for the Strategic Planning Committee to start with who we are, academics engaged in librarianship at law schools, and identify goals we can work toward and strategies we can employ to meet those goals.

Members of this committee should scrutinize the AALL's new 2000-2005 strategic plan with an eye toward identifying strategic directions and outcomes that relate specifically to academic interests. It is possible that we will find already identified initiatives that our SIS could embrace as a project, or that we as a group could identify other initiatives unique to academia that would help bring about desired outcomes identified in the plan.

As you are working to develop the ALL-SIS Strategic Plan, please take a look at the AALL plan and other documents below:

AALL Strategic Plan: Leadership for the 21st Century: New Realities, Changing Roles, http://www.aallnet.org/about/strategic_plan.asp

My article, "Opportunities for ALL-SIS in AALL's new Strategic Plan" in the Summer 2001 ALL-SIS Newsletter, http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/20_3/strategic.htm

2001 Technical Services-SIS Draft Strategic Plan, http://www.aallnet.org/sis/tssis/strategicplan/draft/

1994 ALL-SIS Plan, "A Vision for the Academic Law Library," http://aall.wuacc.edu/sis/allsis/vision.html

Charge:

1. Develop a strategic plan for a three-year period.
2. Review, adopt or amend the previously adopted ALL-SIS A Mission Statement and Preamble to an ALL-SIS Strategic Plan which were published in 1999 in v.18, no.2 of the newsletter at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/18_2.html
3. Submit a preliminary report by mid-January which includes a progress report and a timeframe.
4. Submit a draft strategic plan by late spring 2002 to be considered at annual meeting.

WEBSITE COMMITTEE 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge to the committee is to

1. Publish material which is useful to the section on the ALL-SIS website.
2. Consult with the ALL-SIS chair and members of the executive committee as necessary.
3. Work with the Newsletter editor to publish the newsletter on the web.

ADVISORY GROUP—CALI RESEARCH PROJECT 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of the project is the following:

To act as liaison with CALI and to act as an official reporter of information about CALI projects and proposals to ALL-SIS.

ADVISORY GROUP—VISITING LIBRARIAN PROJECT 2001-2002

Background:

This project had its beginning with informal talk at the annual meeting several years ago. Several academic librarians talking together suddenly realized that they had all spent a number of years as law firm librarians and then discussed how much that law firm experience had helped us as academics. The librarians felt that they were able to understand what law students faced "on the other side" better as a result of their law firm experience, and to do a better job preparing students for their future in law practice.

The purpose of the visiting librarian project is to provide the opportunity for academic law librarians to visit firm libraries and "shadow" firm librarians for a brief period of time to gain a better understanding of how law firm librarians functions, services offered in law firms, and how summer associates and new associates do research in the law firm environment. The idea of the project is to find law firms and law schools in the same city which are willing to experiment with this program. By working within a single city, problems of finding short term housing are avoided.

Note: While this project is focused on bringing academic law librarians into law firms, it goes without saying that there would be mutual benefits from bringing law firm librarians or court or corporate law librarians into law school libraries.

Charge:

The charge of the visiting librarian project is to

1. work with law firm librarians or perhaps the PLL-SIS to identify law firm librarians interested in having academic law librarians visit and "shadow" them in law firms for a short period of time to be arranged by mutual agreement
2. prepare guidelines for the operation of the project which address both expectations of the host law firm librarians and expectations of the guest academic law librarians
3. pilot actual exchanges as soon as can be arranged, perhaps as early as summer 2002

ROUNDTABLE ON RELATIONS WITH VENDORS 2001-2002

Charge:

The Vendor Roundtable is charged to

1. Plan, coordinate and host the vendor roundtable at the annual convention. This entails determining which vendors should be represented and making arrangement for principals in the respective vendor companies who have responsibility for the academic programs to speak at the roundtable.
2. Determine by email or survey issues ALL-SIS members wish to discuss with the vendors.
3. Develop guidelines for maintaining optimal relations between vendor representatives and law libraries (this should be a one time project).
4. Suggest future ALL-SIS projects which would enhance CALR vendor relations in the law schools, particularly in the areas of training and administration.
5. Work with ALL-SIS chair in early fall to be sure that appropriate time slots, size of room, arrangement, signs, etc are selected for the roundtable at the annual meeting.

TASK FORCE ON ADVANCED LEGAL RESEARCH COURSES IN LAW SCHOOLS 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of the task force is to consider the various components involved in administering an advanced legal research course. In particular the Task Force will review and identify model course proposals, law school course descriptions, methods of evaluation, pathfinders, research guides, class exercises and course syllabi. The Task Force will also review course content and the wide variation in topics included in ALR courses. Finally, the Task Force will consider appropriate methods to develop a web sourcebook that addresses these various issues and cumulates sample materials.

TASK FORCE ON COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT 2001-2002

Charge:

The charge of the Task Force is to assist ALL-SIS members in their collection development activities by doing the following:

1. identify and evaluate commonly used tools for selections (not just ads)
2. identify and evaluate tools for collection evaluation (especially important in the wake of the cessation of AALS Recommended Law Books and RLG conspectus)
3. consider methods of making this material widely available to academic law librarians, e.g., via a link on the ALL-SIS website or some other method.

TASK FORCE ON LIBRARY SUPPORT FOR LAW JOURNALS 2001-2002

Charge:

The Task Force is charged with developing GUIDELINES for library support for law journals, including interlibrary loan services and document delivery. The Task Force will have wide latitude to define the type of support and to develop a frame of reference with regard to levels of support. For example the Task Force may want to consider the following variables in drafting guidelines:

• Enrollment of schools
• Number of journals established at a particular law school
• Ranking of the law school
• Whether the journal is a student-edited or faculty-edited journal

The Task Force may want to consider the following questions:

• Should same guidelines apply whether schools have an enrollment of 2000 or 300?
• Should library support for journals decline as the number of journals increases?
• Should library support for journals depend on the ranking of the law school? (e.g., should journals at top tier law schools expect more library support than journals at bottom tier schools. The Committee should deliver a preliminary report and timeframe by December, 2001.)

ALL-SIS LIAISON TO LAW LIBRARIES COMMITTEE OF THE ABA SECTION OF LEGAL EDUCATION AND ADMISSIONS TO THE BAR.

Upon the recommendation of the ALL-SIS Roundtable on Statistics and in consultation with the ALL-SIS Executive Board, Rosalie Sanderson, 2001-2002 ALL-SIS chair, appointed Pauline Aranas to the new post of ALL-SIS Liaison to Law Libraries Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

Ms. Aranas is a member of the Law Libraries Committee, which includes several other law library directors, professors and/or deans. In her role as liaison Pauline will keep the ALL-SIS informed of proposed changes in statistical reporting about law libraries and should be available to convey any concerns ALL-SIS members have about statistical reporting to the Law Libraries Committee. Ms. Aranas is Assistant Dean for Library and Information Technology at Vanderbilt University Law School. This appointment as ALL-SIS Liaison terminates at the same time as Ms. Aranas's appointment to the Law Libraries Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar.

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