Continuing Education Task Force Formed

The ALL-SIS board recently formed a Continuing Education Task Force. The goal of the Task Force is to put together some programming that could reach academic law librarians beyond the AALL Annual Meeting. We hope to package it as streaming video and make it available from the ALL-SIS website or somewhere on AALLNET. With the approval of the ALL-SIS Board, the Task Force will present a grant proposal to the AALL Continuing Education Grants Program to fund this project.

We are in the early stages of identifying programming ideas. We have reviewed the recently conducted ALL-SIS Member Survey and have been brainstorming. We also plan to monitor regional and chapter programming to identify excellent programs that could be captured and disseminated to the membership via streaming video.

We want to hear from you. What types of continuing education programming would you like to see? Our ideas thus far include the following:

• Faculty Services - specifically in the area of electronic publishing and repositories. Perhaps a program on how the law library can play an integral role in a law schools faculty repository and how to go about creating one.
• Using virtual reference methods to serve patrons who aren’t coming into the library.
• Management/Professional Development - conducting empirical research.
• A program on digital preservation efforts in law libraries featuring the Legal Information Preservation Alliance (LIPA).
• The changing ABA Standards for Law Libraries and counting electronic titles.
• Training on particular software/how to podcast.

Please send your ideas to a Task Force member listed below:

• Lee Peoples, Task Force Chair, lpeoples@okcu.edu
• Merle Slyhoff, Task Force Member, mslyhoff@law.upenn.edu
• Mary L. Wells, Task Force Member, mlwells@stthomas.edu