2004 Objectives

Hi. My name is Amy Hale-Janeke and I am the 2003-2004 chair of the LISP special interest section. LISP has a large membership and the ability to go great things and I wanted to share with you what I would like to see happen. This year, I would like to see LISP members do these three things.

1. Offer a program at least once this year in your community to either regular public librarians or to the public on how to find and use legal resources. I have a powerpoint presentation that I give to the public librarians in the San Diego area and I will be glad to share. I also have a powerpoint on how to give classes to the public that I can share.
   
   Some LISPers already do programs for librarians and I’d love for people to post to this listserv and talk about what they do and how they do it. I met briefly with the AALL chapter presidents at AALL and asked them to help support this kind of effort too. Please e-mail me with information about your program so I can keep a list of who is doing what where.

2. Have a LISP member from each state write a model suggested collection development list for public libraries in their state. Many general suggestions are already posted on the librarians toolkit page on the LISP site (http://www.aallnet.org/sis/lisp/toolkit.htm) but they don’t give names, prices or publishers, which frustrates some of the public librarians who want to use this info. I realize that law books change publishers and prices so we may have to review these lists annually, but we need to get the lists created first and then it will be easy to update them as needed.
   
   One the law librarians from San Diego County Law Library did a model collection development list for a public library in CA as part of her final project in library school. I have a copy of this and can e-mail it to you to give you an idea of what the list needs to cover. Past LISP chair Lee Warthen has volunteered to coordinate this effort so if you would like to volunteer to use this model and do one for your state, please contact him at warthenl@law.utah.edu.

3. Work with the Social Responsibility Special Interest Section to create a model policy for dealing with prison mail and prisoners. I spoke with the current chair, Alison Alifano, and she has agreed to work with us on this. The contact person is Ann Hemmens at hemmens@u.washington.edu

I hope that we can accomplish these goals in the 2003-2004 year and I look forward to receiving your comments.

Sincerely,

Amy Hale-Janeke, J.D., M.L.S.
Reference Librarian/Media Coordinator
San Diego County Public Law Library
1105 Front Street
San Diego, CA 92101-3999
(619) 531-4437
ahale@sdcll.org
http://www.sdcll.org