VOLUME 23
ISSUE 3
Summer

Inside this issue:

• The ALL-SIS: A Brief Historical Profile
• ALL-SIS Directors' Breakfast
• ALL-SIS Discussion Group Instructions
• ALL-SIS Events in Boston
• ALL-SIS Milestones
• ALL-SIS Legal Research Committee Activities
• ALL-SIS Reception to be Held at Harvard's Law School Library
• Are You A New Academic Law Librarian Or Do You Know Somebody New?
• Collection Development Committee Roundtable
• Editorial Changes
• For the Boston Bound …
• Hein Fun Run 2004 (PDF)
• Join Us as We Celebrate 25 Years!
• New Faculty Services Roundtable
• Newer Law Librarians - Register for CONELL Now
• The Peculiar Burden of the Academic Law Library
• Share Your Advanced Legal Research Materials
• Trials and Tribulations of a Law Librarian
• Volunteer for ALL-SIS

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

Thoughts of Summer…Boston in July!

It is getting warmer and warmer here in South Florida so my thoughts are turning to summer. And, of course, summer means Boston. Come to Boston! We will be celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the SIS. Our Anniversary Committee is hard at work to be sure that the event will be memorable.

A few of our Boston activities …

Our SIS will be very active in Boston. Shaun Esposito, our Newsletter editor, has included in the Newsletter a list of all our activities and we will be updating you on the listserv. I wanted to mention in more detail a couple of these events.

First, our Breakfast and Business meeting will be held on Sunday, July 11th from 7 - 9 am. West will be hosting the Breakfast. Please circle the ALL-SIS Business meeting in the Program Selection box of the AALL Registration Form so that we will have an accurate count for the Hotel. The Breakfast and Business Meeting are tentatively scheduled for the Sheraton Hotel.

During the meeting we plan to carve out some time to discuss the ABA Standards for Approval of Law Schools and Interpretations [http://www.abanet.org/legaled/standards/standards.html].

The ABA Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar is systematically reviewing the Standards. The Standards Review Committee is charged with reviewing proposed changes in or additions to Standards, Interpretations, Rules, Policies, Procedures and Criteria. This committee hopes to begin review of the Library Standards next year and they would like recommendations from the ABA Law Libraries Committee by August 2004.

The Law Libraries Committee is chaired by Judith Wright and is composed of librarian members Rita Reusch (Utah), Tim Kearley (Wyoming), Glen-Peter Ahlers (Barry), Charles Ten Brink (Michigan State), Pauline Aransas (UCLA), Steve Hinckley (South Carolina), Carol Nicholson (North Carolina), and Chris Simoni (Northwestern).

Judith and members of her committee will be at the Breakfast and Business Meeting seeking recommendations for either changing or not changing the Library Standards. We will have more information about this issue on our Boston web site.

These issues will also be discussed and all members are welcome at the ALL-SIS Statistics Committee meeting Monday, July 12 from 7:30 am - 8:45 am and at the Program on Monday, July 12 from 4:15 - 5:15 pm titled “ABA Statistics: Tackling Topical Questions - 2004 Update.”

We will also be discussing the results of our Membership survey at the Breakfast and Business meeting.

Second, our reception will be at the Harvard Law Library on Tuesday, July 13th from 6:30 - 9:00 pm. We will be celebrating our 25th Anniversary in style at our Reception at the Harvard Law Library. You will be receiving an invitation from BNA who is hosting the event. There will also be information about the reception on our Boston web site.

Third, we will be putting up in May our Boston web site in which you will be able to find more information about the Boston meeting including information about visiting [on your own] the Law Schools in the Boston area.

Thank You, Shaun …

This is Shaun’s last Newsletter. I want to thank him on the behalf of the SIS for all of his hard work in publishing our Newsletter for the last number of years. We certainly appreciate his time and effort.

See you all in Boston. Be sure to get and wear your 25th Anniversary Ribbon.