VOLUME 23
ISSUE 2
Spring

Inside this issue:

• ALL-SIS Educational Programs @ AALL Boston
• Editor Wanted
• Member News
• Middle Managers Breakfast
• Research Grants Available
• So, Tell Me, What Do You Really Think?
• Socializing in Boston
• Subject Specialists - Are We Too Lean and Mean for Them Today?
• Trials and Tribulations of a Law Librarian
• Two Things Your Library Can Do to Support Faculty Teaching
• Volunteer in Boston

Message from the Chair

Sally Wise
Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law
University of Miami Law Library
P.O. Box 248087
Coral Gables, FL 333124-0247
(305) 284-2755
swise@law.miami.edu

Dear Members of the Academic Law Libraries - SIS,

Our Survey - So, Tell Me, What Do You Really Think?

The ALL-SIS membership committee developed a web based survey. The purpose of the survey is to determine what you think of the SIS.

The survey is online at: www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?523TWHM5WAQG2F4HBMB6GXA6 and will be available until April 15th.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact anyone on the Membership Committee: Marjorie Crawford (mcrawford@kinoy.rutgers.edu), Mahnaz Moshfegh (mmoshfe@iupui.edu), Victoria Williamson (williamv@ulv.edu), or Chair, Erika Wayne (evwayne@leland.stanford.edu).

If, per chance, you were not able to fill out the survey and would like to do so or would simply like to give some feedback to the SIS, please contact Membership Chair, Erika Wayne.

Time to Plan for Boston…..

It is time to begin to think of hotels and plane reservations. Our Boston meeting is just around the corner. The Annual meeting Housing and Conference Registration is now open on AALL’s website at www.aallnet.org/events/.

In this newsletter, you will also find information about the Boston programs that will be offered by the SIS. You can also find out about all the programs in the Preliminary Program available in PDF on the AALL’s website at www.aallnet.org/events/04_preliminary_program.pdf.

Our business meeting will be held on Sunday morning, the Directors’ and Middle Managers’ Breakfasts will be on Tuesday morning, our Reception will be Tuesday evening at Harvard Law Library and our program for Newer Academic Librarians will be on Tuesday afternoon at Harvard right before the Reception. More information on all of these and other events and on our sponsors will be forthcoming on our website and in the next issue of the Newsletter.

We are also in the planning stages of mounting a webpage which will have information on all the academic libraries (Boston University - Pappas Law Library, Boston College Law Library, New England School of Law Library, Northeastern University Law Library, Suffolk University Law Library, and Harvard Law School Library) in the area so that you can learn a bit about all the Libraries and plan your own visit, if you have time.

Volunteers……..

We are always looking for volunteers to work on the newsletter, the web site and on all of our various committees (www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/committeecharges.html). Please contact me if you are interested.

All for now,
Sally