VOLUME 25
ISSUE 1
Fall 2005

Inside this issue:

• AALL Program Reviews:
  • Publishing Outside the Law Library Box: Opportunities Beyond Law Library Publications
  • Roy Tennant - Building the Libraries Our Users Deserve
  • Specialized Legal Research Courses:  When Advanced Legal Research Isn't Enough
• ALL-SIS Advanced Legal Research Roundtable Results
• ALL-SIS Collection Development Committee Roundtable
• ALL-SIS Committee Members: 2005 - 2006
• Developments in Legal Education:
  Law Schools Adopting Business School Teaching Methods
• A Law School - County Law Library Partnership
• Mark Your Calendar: Professional Legal Management Week, Oct. 3 - 7, 2005
• Member News
• New Member Spotlight
• Preservation Committee of TS-SIS Seeks Outreach
• Statistics for Electronic Resources

Message from the Chair

Michael J. Slinger,
Associate Dean, Law Library Director & Professor of Law
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University
1801 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44115
(216) 687-3547
michael.slinger@law.csuohio.edu

Greetings ALL-SIS Friends & Colleagues,

I hope that your academic year is now off to a successful start. Personally, I would like to know how the summer went by so fast? I am confident that ALL-SIS is set for a productive year.

We are truly an organization of members that volunteer of their time and energy to make our profession more useful to our membership. I have the privilege of working with an outstanding Executive Board consisting of:  Suzanne Thorpe, Vice Chair/Chair Elect; Susan Lewis-Somers, Secretary-Treasurer; Carol Bredemeyer, Executive Board Member; and Carole Hinchcliff, Immediate Past President. Our Committees, which are the very heart of our organization and do so much of the important work of our SIS, are staffed with dedicated Chairs and enthusiastic and talented Committee Members all of whom come from our own ranks.

Many of you were able to attend the AALL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, and I trust you, like me, found it very productive. Attendance and interest in our programs and roundtable sessions was high, tributes to the work of our Program Committee (Lee Peoples and Ajaye Bloomstone, Co-Chairs) and all of those who took part in the creation and offering of these events.

Preparations are already underway for the next AALL Annual Meeting in St. Louis. Phil Berwick and the staff of the Washington University Law Library agreed to host the annual ALL-SIS reception. Our Centennial Committee, Chaired by Rosalie Sanderson, is working on some great ideas to help us commemorate the celebration of AALL’s 100th Anniversary. Lee Peoples and the Program Committee have proposed a good many interesting programs to the AALL AMPC. Also, some changes in the AALL method of selecting programs have given us increased flexibility to put together offerings of particular interest to our membership. In the coming weeks and months, please watch the ALL-SIS listserv and this year’s issues of the ALL-SIS newsletter (wonderfully produced by Leah Sandwell-Weiss and her Committee) for more information about our activities in St. Louis.

Serving as ALL-SIS Vice Chair last year afforded me the opportunity to learn more about the great activities and service to our members that are the hallmarks of this SIS. I would encourage you all to spend a little time examining our excellent website (produced and maintained by Webmaster Diane Murley and her Committee) to see for yourself how ALL-SIS can be helpful in so many ways. I hope you will share the good news about ALL-SIS with other academic law librarians, particularly with those who may not currently be members. Please encourage them to learn about what we are doing and to join our ranks.

I think that an SIS such as ours is only successful when it is being responsive to its members. If you have questions about ALL-SIS or ideas for activities that might better serve the ALL-SIS membership, please contact me at michael.slinger@law.csuohio.edu or (216) 687-3547 or contact the Chair(s) of one of our Committees whose contact information can be found on our web site:  http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/directories/index.html.

I look forward to continuing to work to make our SIS a valuable tool for Academic Law Librarians. I want communication to be a key element of our service to you, and I look forward to sharing with you news, questions, and comments from the Board and from our Committees throughout the year. Please consider this to be a two way street and let us know your thoughts and ideas.

With Best Wishes for the New School Year and for your Personal Success,
Michael