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Message from the ChairFilippa Marullo Anzalone Dear friends and colleagues, You can tell that the year is coming to a close because excitement about the annual AALL meeting is building. I would like to thank all of the ALL-SIS committee chairs and committee members for a job well done. Please take a look at the ALL-SIS website for a list of your colleagues who have contributed their time and talent to the SIS this year: www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/directories/index.asp.
The ALL-SIS election of new officers was a great success. Our incoming board members will be John McNeill, Vice Chair/Chair-Elect, and Margaret Schilt, At-Large Board Member. Thanks to the Nominations Committee chaired by Gordon Russell for a fantastic slate - and thanks to excellent candidates who were willing to serve and put themselves on the ballot. Finally, thank you to all of you ALL-SIS members who voted in this year’s election. Congratulations are also in order for the recipients of this year’s ALL-SIS awards and grants. They are identified in an article in the newsletter. I especially want to thank Sara Kelley Burriesci, Reference/Electronic Services Librarian, Georgetown University Law Library, as she willingly took over ALL-SIS webmaster job when Diane Murley left for the world of law practice this spring. Heartfelt thanks and kudos go to the Awards Committee, led by Patricia O’Connor, for this year’s ALL-SIS Awards winners. Please be sure to attend the ALL-SIS reception at Georgetown Law Center on Sunday evening (July 26) from 6:30 - 9:00 p.m. at the AALL meeting to meet and greet our new ALL-SIS board members and the ALL-SIS awardees. The Section sponsored/co-sponsored a number of programs that were accepted by the AMPC for the annual meeting. ALL-SIS is also sponsoring two additional programs. See the article in this newsletter for details on these programs and when they will be offered. Thanks to Paul Moorman and the fantastic ALL-SIS Program Committee for this incredible array of programs. Of course, thank you to all of the people who conceived of and planned these wonderful and timely programs/workshop as well! Some other ALL-SIS events that you may want to check into are the Section’s Business meeting on Sunday, July 26, and the Middle Managers’ Breakfast (thanks to Larry Abraham) and the Directors’ Breakfast (thanks to Billie Jo Kaufman) on Monday, July 27 - these events all begin at the ungodly hour of 7:00 a.m. The ALL-SIS VIP this year will be Marshall Breeding, the Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University. Please be sure to come to ALL-SIS events to meet him. We hope that you look into all the exciting ALL-SIS programs and events at the AALL annual meeting in our nation’s capital this summer. For more information, please see the special annual meeting page on the ALL-SIS Web site. If you are a newer academic law librarian, please mark your calendar to attend the New Academic Librarians (ALL-NEW) meeting at Georgetown at 5:30 p.m., on Sunday, July 26, right before the ALL-SIS reception and awards ceremony. It is an invaluable opportunity to network and to meet experienced librarians. The activities of the year will be further chronicled in year-end committee reports and my annual report. It has been a fun and very rewarding year. Thank you for having the faith in me to serve as ALL-SIS Chair this year. Mille grazie a tutti (thanks to all). Until Washington, |
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Last updated: June 3, 2009
Because ALL-SIS volunteers have full-time jobs, the work that they do for our association is really a public service. Often, if not always, members contact each other during the work day. This, of course, eats into their day jobs - the jobs that they are getting paid for. To get their work done for both jobs, they burn the midnight oil. I am indebted to the other members of the ALL-SIS Executive Board (Beth Adelman, Marianne Alcorn, Sara Sampson, and Michelle Wu) for their advice and hard work this past year. Special thanks also to Ron Wheeler for his tireless work as Chair of the AALL Council of SIS Chairs. Ron was always a gentleman and a scholar no matter how much I bugged him. Thanks also to Sally Wise, our AALL Board liaison, and Paul George, the AMPC Chair. Let’s get together and give them all a virtual moment of appreciation and round of applause.