2009 Annual Meeting Information

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Business Meeting

The TS-SIS Business Meeting will be held Sunday, July 26, 2009, 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Renaissance Hotel, Renaissance Ballroom East.

• Get the Business Meeting Agenda
  • Get the 2008 Business Meeting Minutes (Portland meeting)
  • Learn about the 2009 Proposed Bylaws Amendment
• Annual Reports
  • MARBI Representative (added 7/22/2009)
  • Technical Services Law Librarian (added 7/21/2009)
  • CC:DA Representative (added 7/18/2009)
  • SAC Representative (added 7/16/2009)
  • Chair's Report to AALL (added 7/16/2009)
  • Member at Large: Brigandi (added 7/16/2009)
  • Education Committee (added 7/16/2009)
  • Ad Hoc Committee on Professional Development (added 7/16/2009)
  • Membership Committee (added 7/16/2009)
  • Acquisitions Committee / Roundtable (added 7/16/2009)
  • Exchange of Duplicates Program (added 7/16/2009)
  • Serials Standing Committee (added 7/16/2009)
  • Task Force on the Annual Survey (added 7/15/2009)
  • Nominating Committee (added 7/15/2009)
  • OBS/TS Joint Research Grant Committee (added 7/15/2009)
  • Preservation Standing Committee (added 7/15/2009)
  • Awards Committee (added 7/14/2009)
  • Cataloging and Classification Standing Committee (added 7/14/2009)
  • Secretary/Treasurer (added 7/14/2009)
  • Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (added 7/14/2009)
  • Bylaws Committee (added 7/13/2009)
• TS-SIS Annual Meeting VIP
  Gabriel Horchler is the section's 2009 Annual Meeting VIP. Gabe is the Head of the Law Section of the U.S. and Publisher Liaison Division of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Services Directorate of Library Services at the Library of Congress. That section does 90% of the law cataloging for the Law Library of Congress. Gabe has never attended an AALL meeting before, so please say hello and thank him for coming if you see him at the Alphabet Soup Reception or one of our various meetings. We are extremely fortunate to have him as our guest. (Learn how Gabe commutes to work.)

TS-SIS Activities Table

Volunteer at the TS-SIS Activities Table

The Technical Services Special Interest Section is sponsoring an activities table in the Exhibit Hall at the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. It's fun to be at the table to meet your old friends and greet new colleagues who come by to see what makes TS The SPECIAL Interest Section that it is! Volunteer Now!

Planning for the 2010 AALL Annual Meeting to be held July 10-13 in Denver, Colorado

Join us at the TS-SIS Education Committee Meeting
Monday, July 27, 2009, noon-1:15 p.m.
Washington Convention Center, Room 148

Overview
Now is the time to plan for AALL in 2010 due to the short time-frame for submitting program ideas after the 2009 Annual meeting. We have abundant flexibility to propose learning opportunities that are important to us, but we need your ideas and proposals! If you would like TS-SIS to consider sponsoring your program, please read on...

Theme
The theme for the Denver meeting, Summit 2010: Mapping Our Future, evokes all sorts of program possibilities. One little idea can inspire us to reach new heights as we plan, chart and build a brighter future! See incoming AALL President Catherine Lemann's description for more information. Also, Steve Anderson, 2010 AMPC Chair, describes some of what the AMPC would like to see for programs in Denver.

Deadline if Requesting TS-SIS Sponsorship
Final deadline for submitting your program, workshop or topic to the TS-SIS Education Committee is Monday, August 10, 2009, 5:00 pm PDT.

Process
All TS-SIS Education Committee members are available to assist you. We are open to collaborating with other SIS's or committees. Please don't limit your presentation to the traditional three talking-head panels. Page 18 in the Handbook includes several alternative presentation formats (see link below).

1. Refer to the Program Planners Handbook (1.4 MB PDF) for more information.
2. Beginning on p. 34 of the Handbook are step-by-step guidelines for using the online web site to create your proposal.
3. You do not need to complete your proposal in one session. You can save your work in progress and log back in as many times as needed to complete your proposal.
4. If you are seeking TS-SIS sponsorship, identify TS-SIS as the sponsor (or co-sponsor).
5. When you have completed (but NOT submitted) your proposal, click on the "Share" button and enter Carol Nicholson's e-mail address: Carol_Nicholson@unc.edu as one of the recipients. Your proposal will then be automatically sent to Carol Nicholson, who will forward it to the TS-SIS Education Committee to review.
6. IMPORTANT: Do not click on the "Submit Proposal" button until you have heard from the TS-SIS Education Committee. If you click on the "Submit Proposal" button, the proposal goes directly to AMPC and you will no longer be able to revise it.

When will TS-SIS notify people about sponsorship?
We will notify everyone who has submitted a proposal to TS-SIS no later than Thursday, August 20, 2009 as to whether we will sponsor your program. Individuals may also choose to submit programs directly to AMPC without our sponsorship. The deadline for submitting program proposals to AMPC is August 23, 2009.

Please plan to attend the TS-SIS Education Committee meeting, Monday, July 27, 2009, 12:00 -1:15 pm, in the Washington Convention Center, Room 148.

We look forward to working with you!

Members of the 2010 TS-SIS Education Committee are:

• Carol Avery Nicholson
  Chair
  University of North Carolina
  Carol_Nicholson@unc.edu
• Chris Long
  2009/10 TS-SIS Chair, Ex-Officio
  Indiana University-Indianapolis
  clong@iupui.edu
• Pam Deemer
  TS-SIS 2009/10 Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, Ex-Officio
  Emory University
  libped@emory.edu
• Ajaye Bloomstone
  Acquisitions Standing Committee Chair
  Louisiana State University
  ajaye.bloomstone@law.lsu.edu
• George Prager
  Cataloging & Classification Standing Committee Chair
  New York University
  PragerG@exchange.law.nyu.edu
• Marilyn Estes
  Preservation Committee Chair
  American University
  mestes@wcl.american.edu
• Shyama Agrawal
  Serials Standing Committee Chair
  Duke University
  AGRAWAL@law.duke.edu
• Donna Barratt
  Member At-Large
  Thompson Coburn LLP, St. Louis
  dbarratt@thompsoncoburn.com
• Alan Keely
  Member At-Large
  Wake Forest University
  keely@wfu.edu
• Keiko Okuhara
  Member At-Large
  University of Hawaii
  keikooku@hawaii.edu
• Hollie White
  Member At-Large
  University of North Carolina
  hcwhite1@email.unc.edu

2010 program planning links on this page:

• Catherine Lemann's theme description
  » http://aallnet.org/press/announce-20090519.asp
• Program Planners Handbook
  » http://www.aallnet.org/events/ProgramPlannersHandbook.pdf
• AALL proposal submission web site
  » http://proposals.aallnet.org/

AALL Annual Meeting Educational Grants

Following are the recipients of TS-SIS grants to attend the Washington, D.C. Annual Meeting.

• Leslie Wakeford is the third recipient of the TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant to support her attendance at CONELL. Leslie is the Technical Services Librarian at Wake Forest University Professional Center Library.
• Ajaye Bloomstone is recipient of a Workshop Registration Grant to attend "Managing from the Middle." Ajaye is the Acquisitions Librarian at the Louisiana State University Law Center Library in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• Iris Garcia is recipient of a CONELL Grant. Iris is the Bibliographic Control Librarian for St. Thomas University Law Library.
• Lindsay Beth Given is recipient of an AALL Registration / CONELL Grant. Beth is a library science student at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science.
• Emily Phillips is recipient of an AALL Registration Grant. Emily is the Acquisitions Librarian at Wilmer/Hale, LLP in Washington, D.C.
• Victoria Sukhol is recipient of an AALL Registration / CONELL Grant. Victoria is the Assistant Director of Technical Services for Cataloging at New York Law School.
• Richard Todd is recipient of an AALL Registration Grant. Richard is the Technical Services Librarian at the University of Tulsa, Mabee Legal Information Center.
• Jared Wellman is recipient of an AALL Registration Grant / Workshop Grant to attent "Managing from the Middle." Jared is the Assistant Librarian of Acquisitions and Technology at the Vermont Law School.

TS-SIS Sponsored Educational Programs

Descriptions for the TS-SIS educational programs and roundtables are available.