VOLUME 24
ISSUE 2
Spring 2005
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Message from the Chair
Carole L. Hinchcliff,
Acting Assistant Dean for Information Technology
The Ohio State University
Moritz Law Library
55 W. 12th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210-1391
(614) 292-0903
hinchcliff.1@osu.edu
Greetings All-SIS Members,
I hope that your Winter/Spring semester is off to a productive start. At this mid point in the academic year, ALL-SIS committees are working through their “to do” lists from the Boston meeting, and beginning to plan for making the most of our meeting time in San Antonio. I know that it can be a challenge to carve out time to do committee work, however, if we each contribute, together we can achieve results that benefit ALL-SIS members.
To this end, I will briefly mention some new projects undertaken by ALL-SIS:
- AALL chapters and special interest sections will each be contributing to AALL's upcoming Centennial Celebration, and ALL-SIS will be playing its part. The newly formed ALL-SIS Centennial Celebration Committee will be lead by a former ALL-SIS Chair, Rosalie Sanderson. The other members of the committee are Nancy Adams, Margaret Christiansen, Rick Donnelly, Christopher Knott and Kumar Percy. The first project of this committee is to compile a list of one hundred firsts in academic law libraries. Rosalie and her committee are looking to you to provide interesting facts about academic law libraries and academic law librarians. The result will be a short article, which we hope will capture some interesting snippets of our history - information that may make old timers feel nostalgic, and other facts that will be of interest to newer academic law librarians. So, who did have the first Lexis and Westlaw terminals? Watch for announcements from Rosalie Sanderson about how ALL-SIS members can help celebrate AALL's Centennial.
- Karen Douglas has agreed to report to ALL-SIS on the work of the TS-SIS Committee that is exploring ways to have AALL annual meetings better meet the needs of TS-SIS members. As you are aware, a number of ALL-SIS members are also members of TS-SIS, and the ALL-SIS Executive Board is interested in making sure that the annual meeting provides a worthwhile educational experience for all academic librarians, whatever their job responsibilities may be.
- The ALL-SIS Executive Board approved a proposal from the CONALL/Mentoring Committee to create a grant to pay for one newer academic law librarian to attend CONELL at the 2005 AALL annual meeting in San Antonio. More details about this opportunity will be available this spring on the ALL-SIS website.
- Check out the fresh, new look of the ALL-SIS home page. One terrific new feature is the convenient list of links to the home pages of academic law libraries at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/libraries.html. Please send comments and corrections to ALL-SIS Web Administrator, Diane Murley at dmurley@sui.edu. Also, feel free to contact Diane if you have a suggestion for useful additions to the ALL-SIS web site. We want to continue to build this resource.
As you make plans to attend the San Antonio meeting, keep in mind that the annual ALL-SIS events are scheduled as follows:
Sunday, July 17th: 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. ALL-SIS Breakfast and Business Meeting sponsored by LexisNexis
- Tuesday, July 19th: 7:00 - 8:45 a.m. ALL-SIS Director’s Breakfast & Program. By invitation only, and arranged by Spencer Simons.
- Tuesday, July 19th: 7:00 - 8:45 a.m. ALL-SIS Middle Manager’s Breakfast & Program sponsored by BNA, and arranged by Amy Osborne
- Tuesday, July 19th: 5:15 - 6:15 p.m. CONALL at St. Mary ‘s Law School
- Tuesday, July 19th: 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. ALL-SIS Reception & Awards, St. Mary’s Law School. Hosted by Robert Summer and sponsored by Westlaw.
Watch the ALL-SIS list serv and the next ALL-SIS Newsletter for information about ALL-SIS sponsored programs and meetings in San Antonio.
Wishing you every success and happiness in 2005,
Carole L. Hinchcliff
ALL-SIS Chair
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