Committee and Task Force Charges
2006–2007
ALL-SIS LISTSERV
- Maintain the ALL-SIS listserv
- Ensure that all SIS members are members of the list
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
ARCHIVES COMMITTEE
- Develop an archives policy for the SIS that summarizes the documents to be found in the archives (including the ALL-SIS website) and post it on the committee page of the ALL-SIS website
- Contact ALL-SIS officers and committee chairs to solicit notes/materials
- Monitor changes in AALL's archives policies and procedures and adjust ALL-SIS policy accordingly
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
AWARDS COMMITTEE
- Solicit nominations for the Hicks Award, Publications Award, and new ALL-SIS Service Award
- Select recipients for 2007 awards
- Work with Chair for Local Arrangements for ALL-SIS reception to arrange award ceremony event
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
BYLAWS COMMITTEE
- Review the ALL-SIS Bylaws and recommend any changes to the Executive Board
- Review the SIS Bylaws to insure compliance with AALL's Constitution and Bylaws
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
CALI COMMITTEE
- Serve as the Advisory Board for the CALI Legal Research Community Authoring Project
- Publicize project
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
- Develop and maintain collection development information for the ALL-SIS web site
- Continue to identify and evaluate commonly used tools for selections
- Identify and evaluate tools for collection evaluation
- Plan and conduct Collection Development Roundtable
- Explore how e-resources are impacting collection development
- Explore relationship between collection development and ILL
- Explore developing a foreign vendors list (partnering with FCIL-SIS and/or TS-SIS)
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
NEW ACADEMIC LAW LIBRARIANS MEETING (NALLM) / MENTORING COMMITTEE
- Set up NALLM event for 2007
- Work with Public Relations Committee to promote NALLM event and mentoring opportunities
- Work with AALL Mentoring Committee to arrange mentoring opportunities
- Work with Membership Committee to spotlight new members in the ALL-SIS Newsletter
- Create web page for ALL-SIS website with information aimed to help newer academic law librarians establish their careers
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
CONTINUING EDUCATION TASK FORCE
- Using the recent member survey and polling ALL-SIS members through the ALL-SIS listserv, identify one or more topics that would be suitable for a continuing education program for academic librarians to be held outside of the AALL Annual Meeting
- Identify individual presenters and/or chapters or SISs that might be willing to partner on producing a continuing education program
- Submit a proposal to the ALL-SIS Executive Board
- With ALL-SIS Executive Board approval, submit a Continuing Education Grant proposal to the AALL Continuing Education Grants Program for this program
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
CONTINUING STATUS / TENURE COMMITTEE
- Develop and maintain the committee's information on the ALL-SIS website
- Develop a "White Paper" that can be used in law schools to demonstrate why tenure or continuing status is of value for the librarian and for the institution
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
DIRECTORS' BREAKFAST COMMITTEE
- Plan Directors' breakfast working with hotel Plan Program
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the program
FACULTY SERVICES COMMITTEE
- Develop and maintain information for ALL-SIS web site
- Plan and conduct Faculty Services Roundtable
- Survey membership and share results on the range of faculty services provided by academic law libraries
- Other projects that the Committee has identified as useful
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
LEGAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE
- Plan and conduct Legal Research Roundtable
- Expand legal research information on the ALL-SIS web site
- Compile information on the use of new technologies and approaches (e.g., email, instant messaging, wikis, blogs) for the delivery of reference services in academic law libraries
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
LIAISON TO ABA SECT. ON LEGAL EDUCATION AND ADMISSION TO THE BAR
- Keep ALL-SIS Executive Board informed about the activities of this ABA Section related to academic law libraries
- Submit one column on ABA developments related to academic law libraries to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
LIAISON TO AALS
- Keep ALL-SIS Executive Board informed about the activities of the AALS related to academic law libraries
- Submit one column on AALS developments related to law libraries to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE
- Make arrangements for 2007 ALL-SIS reception (working with sponsor)
- Make transportation arrangements for ALL-SIS reception
- Work with Awards Committee to arrange for their award ceremony at the reception
- Work with the NALLM/Mentoring Committee to arrange for their program prior to the reception
- Work with Public Relations Committee to promote the reception
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
- Work regularly with AALL Headquarters to identify new members of the ALL-SIS
- Maintain the"Welcome Kit" for new members to the SIS and send it to new members of ALL-SIS
- Work with NALLM/Mentoring Committee to spotlight new ALL-SIS members in the ALL-SIS Newsletter
- Develop recruitment information on the benefits of membership for the ALL-SIS website
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
MIDDLE MANAGERS' BREAKFAST COMMITTEE
- Plan Middle Managers' Breakfast working with sponsor and hotel
- Plan and conduct program for the breakfast meeting
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE
- Identify areas to be covered in newsletter
- Appoint columnists
- Create committee columns (all committee chairs are expected to submit at least one column during the year)
- Index past issues of the Newsletter
- Submit one column on the activities of the committee to the ALL-SIS Newsletter
NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
- Solicit candidates for 2007–2008 slate
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
PROGRAMS COMMITTEE
- Solicit and submit program (and workshop) proposals for 2007 Annual meeting
- Solicit and select programs for the ALL-SIS program time slots
- Work with program coordinators to meet AALL deadlines
- Work with Public Relations Committee to promote programs to membership
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
PUBLIC RELATIONS COMMITTEE
- Create and maintain PR materials that promote the work of the ALL-SIS (including the ALL-SIS new member brochure and the exhibits for the CONELL Marketplace and the Annual Meeting Exhibit Hall)
- Solicit news from ALL-SIS officers and committees throughout the year
- Submit ALL-SIS news for each issue of the AALL Spectrum (including information about awards, election results, and Annual Meeting programs, meetings, ceremonies, and receptions)
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
RELATIONS WITH ONLINE VENDORS COMMITTEE
- Monitor and notify ALL-SIS members about CALR vendor issues that affect academic law libraries
- Monitor the work of the AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors affecting academic law libraries
- Plan and conduct Relations with Online Vendors Roundtable program at the Annual Meeting
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
SOURCEBOOK FOR TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE
- Develop and maintain the Sourcebook for Teaching Legal Research on the ALL-SIS web site
- Work with Public Relations Committee to publicize the Sourcebook
STATISTICS COMMITTEE
- Solicit ALL-SIS member input on problems found with ABA, ARL and questionnaires
- Work on proposing understandable definitions for statistics questions on ABA and ARL questionnaires
- Work with the liaison to the Committee on Law Libraries of the ABA Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar to report concerns about questionnaires
- Investigate how online reference transactions are reported
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS TASK FORCE
- Review 2002 ALL-SIS Strategic Plan
- Identify stated goals for the ALL-SIS that have now been achieved
- Identify stated goals for the ALL-SIS that have not yet been achieved and determine (by soliciting input from ALL-SIS members) if they should remain as goals
- Identify new goals (soliciting input from ALL-SIS members) for the ALL-SIS that should be included in a new strategic planning document
- Assure that new goals for the ALL-SIS embody the three goals and targeted objectives identified in the AALL Strategic Directions document
- Draft a new document for ALL-SIS members to approve at the 2007 ALL-SIS Business Meeting
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
TASK FORCE on JOB TITLES
- Create concise job descriptions for the major job titles within academic law libraries in order to help deans, HR administrators and other non-library professionals understand the various purposes and tasks of library personnel. The job descriptions will be added as an appendix to the annual AALL Salary Survey, along with similar job descriptions for positions in private law firm libraries as well as state, court and county law libraries.
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
TASK FORCE on the ABA STANDARDS FOR LAW LIBRARIES
- Solicit input from ALL-SIS members (through online discussions, surveys, etc.):
- What has been the impact of electronic resources on academic law library services and collections?
- How is the use of library services and collections by faculty, students, and law school administrators changing?
- What must academic law libraries do differently to respond effectively to these changes in legal information, legal education, and scholarship?
- Do the ABA Standards for Law Libraries (or the ways they are interpreted and applied in the accreditation and reaccreditation process) support innovation and encourage academic law libraries to respond effectively to changes in legal education and scholarship?
- Do the ABA Standards for Law Libraries (or the ways they are interpreted and applied in the accreditation and reaccreditation process) hinder innovation or prevent academic law libraries from responding effectively to changes in legal education and scholarship?
- Compile findings for the ALL-SIS Executive Board before June 1, 2007.
- Recommend ways the ABA Standards for Law Libraries could be interpreted differently or changed to support innovation and help academic law libraries respond effectively to changes in legal education and scholarship.
- Recommend new measures/benchmarks of services, collections, budgets, and staffing for the ABA Annual Questionnaire that would demonstrate how academic law libraries effectively meet the changing needs of legal education and scholarship.
WEBSITE COMMITTEE
- Keep ALL-SIS web site current
- Check for dead links, out-dated information on a regular basis
- Develop web content and re-design ideas
- Work with ALL-SIS Committees and ALL-SIS Executive Board to determine new information that should be on the web site
- Submit one column to the ALL-SIS Newsletter describing the work of the committee during the current year
Previous Committee Charges
- 2005–2006 Committee Charges
- 2004–2005 Committee Charges
- 2003–2004 Committee Charges
- 2002–2003 Committee Charges
- 2001–2002 Committee Charges