VOLUME 28
ISSUE 1
Fall 2008

Inside this issue:

• AALL Program Reviews
  • A Century in the Making:  Researching Legal Ethics Today
  • The Librarian as Author:  AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers
  • The Library’s Role in ‘Educating Lawyers’:  Considering the Carnegie Report
  • One War We Are Losing Now:  The Law and Politics of Human Trafficking
  • Technology Highlights from David Pogue’s Keynote Address
  • The Use of Technology and Web 2.0 in Law Librarianship
  • 2008 ALL-SIS Award Winners
• AALL/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grants Program
• ALL-SIS Committee Members 2008 - 2009
• Building for the Future:  Creating an Infrastructure to Preserve ALL-SIS Records
• Continuing Professional Education News
• Member News
  • Battling Ovarian Cancer, Team Nancy Style
• Memorial
  • Roy Martin Mersky, 1925 - 2008

Message from the Chair

Filippa Marullo Anzalone
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Library & Computing Services
Boston College Law School
885 Centre Street
Newton Centre , MA 02459
Phone (617) 552-6809 cell (617)417-5603
E-mail: filippa.anzalone@bc.edu

Greetings and salutations!

A hearty welcome to all members of the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL-SIS). Another annual meeting has passed, the summer has come and gone, and we are ready for fall and crisp, cool air. I hope that you all love this time of year as much as I do. It fills me with a sense of purpose and resolve; in fact, September always seems more like the start of a new year than January 1st. I am sure that many of you have your own good intentions and resolves about the start of another school year. This year, please make a resolution to be really active in our section, the ALL-SIS!

If you need some inspiration or some help in getting yourself psyched for the school year, check out the ALL-SIS website at www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/annualmeeting/2008/ for information about the annual meeting in Portland, Oregon this past July; the theme was energize, explore,and evolve. In fact, to keep up with the goings on of the ALL-SIS all year keep tabs on the ALL-SIS newsletter, www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/newsletter/NewsLetter.html, the all-sis listserv, and the ALL-SIS website, www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/. ALL-SIS committees will be providing information throughout the year.

To familiarize yourself with ALL-SIS committees and to get to know the members of the ALL-SIS executive board, please take a look at www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/directories/. Please contact any of us and let your voices and views be heard.

We heard your opinions about the ALL-SIS reception and Chris Ciambella, the ALL-SIS Local Arrangements Chair, along with the ALL-SIS board, is planning an off-site reception in Washington, D.C. Paul Moorman, Chair of the ALL-SIS Program Committee, is busy with the Committee members, selecting and ranking the ALL-SIS sponsored programs for next year.

May your academic year be off to a wonderful and productive start. Feel free to contact me or any member of the board as the year progresses. In boca di lupo!

Peace,
Filippa

Newsletter Editor:
Leah Sandwell-Weiss
Reference Librarian & Adj. Asst. Prof. of Legal Research
The University of Arizona
Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, James E. Rogers College of Law
P.O. Box 210176
Tucson AZ 85721-0176
Tel: 520.621.3140
Fax: 520.621.3138
leah.sandwell-weiss@law.arizona.edu