The Northeast Foreign Law Librarians Cooperative Group convened an ad hoc meeting of American academic foreign law selectors for the Annual Meeting of AALL. Approximately 20 selectors met on Monday morning, July 18th, to consider how they might work cooperatively to improve foreign law collecting in this country. Dan Wade reviewed some of the items the Northeast Group had addressed over the past year, and Linda Tashbook discussed the progress she had made on the website "Foreign Law Collections in U.S. Libraries." Dan passed out a handout that covered Sarah Carter's email on English reports on Lexis and Westlaw, a list of Mexican law journals from Zamora et. al.'s Mexican Law, a list of German antiquarian books, a list of major authors of Spanish administrative law treatises, and an analysis of the database "The Tax Treaty Analyst" by Mirela Roznovschi.

The Group made several decisions in the course of their meeting:

1) It agreed that it should meet again next year. While new publications are announced in the various regional interest sections, there is really no forum for Europe.

2) Selectors agreed that they would encourage neighbor or regional libraries, i.e., the libraries they network with, to respond to the "Foreign Law Collections" survey. Please contact Linda Tashbook at tashbook@law.pitt.edu to request a form if your institution has not already responded.

3) Barbara Gavaglia of the University of Michigan Law Library, volunteered to conduct a project to determine the state of the old RLG Latin American PCR's.

4) Heidi Kuehl of Northwestern, in consultation with several selectors including Lyonette Louis-Jacques from the University of Chicago, offered to establish a blog where selectors could announce major new publications and new foreign and international law journals. (Heidi has subsequently set up the blog, and selectors can access it at http://foreignlawcollections.blogspot.com/ . Please contact Heidi at h-kuehl@law.northwestern.edu , so that she can add you to the member list, which will allow you access.

Selectors are encouraged to attend the 2006 meeting and share their discoveries with their colleagues. It is hoped through such cooperation we can build a better national foreign and international law collection. Agenda items for the meeting can be sent to me, the Convenor of the Northeast Foreign Law Librarians Cooperative Group, at Daniel.Wade@yale.edu.