2010 Annual Meeting Information

Business Meeting

The TS-SIS Business Meeting will be held Sunday, July 11, 2010, 5:30-6:30 p.m. in the Hyatt-Centennial Ballroom G.

• Get the Business Meeting Agenda
  • Get the 2009 Business Meeting Minutes (Washington, D.C. meeting)
• Annual Reports
  • CC:DA Representative (added 7/8/2010)
  • MARBI Representative (added 7/7/2010)
  • SAC Representative (added 7/7/2010)
  • Report of the Law Genre/Form Editorial Group (Cataloging and Classification Committee) (40 KB PDF) (added 7/7/2010)
  • Technical Services Law Librarian (added 7/2/2010)
  • Nominating Committee (added 7/2/2010)
  • OBS/TS Joint Research Grant Committee (added 7/1/2010)
  • Education Committee (added 7/1/2010)
  • Chair's Report to AALL (added 7/1/2010)
  • Bylaws Committee (added 6/29/2010)
  • Membership Committee (added 6/29/2010)
  • Serials Standing Committee (added 6/29/2010)
  • Project COUNTER Task Group (added 6/29/2010)
  • Exchange of Duplicates Program (added 6/29/2010)
  • Secretary/Treasurer (added 6/29/2010)
  • Cataloging and Classification Standing Committee (added 6/28/2010)
  • Acquisitions Committee / Roundtable (added 6/28/2010)
  • Awards Committee (added 6/28/2010)
  • Member at Large: Roeske (added 6/28/2010)
  • Professional Development Committee (added 6/28/2010)
  • Vice-Chair/Chair Elect (added 6/28/2010)

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 2010 AALL Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado. 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!

Silent Auction at Activities Table

This year TS-SIS is sponsoring a silent action to promote and raise money for the Marla Schwartz Grants. These grants enable law librarians to attend conferences. If you would like to contribute an item to the auction send an e-mail to Katrina Piechnik ( kpiechnik@jenkinslaw.org ). In the e-mail include a description of the item you are donating AND the minimum bid. Bring your item to the TS-SIS activities table in Denver (do not ship it to Katrina). Questions? Contact Katrina or any other TS-SIS Executive Board Member. Contributions may be tax deductible. This opportunity is open to all AALL Members. Donations, some handmade, so far include:

• The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West (hardcover book)
• Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water, and the Future of the West (hardcover book)
• One dozen handmade greeting cards
• Ceramic book box (old leather binding look)
• Ceramic colorful flower vase
• Green ceramic goblet
• Felted bookmark

Planning for the 2011 AALL Annual Meeting to be held July 23-26 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Have you ever attended a program that piqued your curiosity about other topics that should be presented to the membership? Have you ever wondered how these programs come to be? It all begins with an idea and a proposal form!

Join us at the TS-SIS Education Committee Meeting
Monday, July 12, 2010, noon-1:15 p.m.
Colorado Convention Center, Room 206

The TS-SIS Education Committee is ready to accept program, topic, and workshop ideas from the membership for presentation at the 2011 AALL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 23-26. Now is the time to begin planning and developing your program and workshop ideas, and the Education Committee is more than willing to assist you in this endeavor. If requesting sponsorship or co-sponsorship from TS-SIS, the deadline for submission of your program, topic, or workshop proposal to the Education Committee is August 16, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. PDT.

This is the time to begin the proposal process, which ends with proposal submission to the Annual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC) on September 15, 2010, at 11:59 p.m. CST. It is not a long time period from now until then, so the time to begin on your proposal is now. There are a variety of timeslots from which to choose: workshops of 1 or 2 day length and program slots of 30, 45, 60, 75 and 90 minutes.

Process
Unlike our annual meetings of the past, there is no theme announced for the Philadelphia meeting, just a strong effort to get the best programs and workshops possible. Programs can be sponsored by TS-SIS and be co-sponsored by another SIS or committee also. The general process is as follows:

• The Program Planner's Handbook is now available (1.3 MB PDF).
• The handbook will contain instructions with step-by-step guidelines for using the online website to create your proposal.
• Proposals do not have to be created and finished all at once. You will have the opportunity to save your work and return to it as often as you need to in order to complete the proposal.
• If requesting TS-SIS sponsorship (or an additional co-sponsor), identify that group as such on the proposal.
• When you have completed your proposal, if you are requesting sponsorship from TS-SIS, do not hit the "SUBMIT" button, but click instead on the "SHARE" button and enter Ajaye Bloomstone's address (ajaye.bloomstone@law.lsu.edu); your proposal will then be forwarded to and reviewed by the TS-SIS Education Committee. A Committee member will be back in touch with you to discuss your proposal before the AMPC proposal deadline, and you will be asked to submit your final proposal to AMPC by their final submission date.
• NOTE: Do not click on the "SUBMIT" button until you have heard back from the TS-SIS Education Committee. Clicking on "SUBMIT" will immediately forward your proposal to AMPC in which case it cannot be retrieved and/or revised.

When will TS-SIS notify people about sponsorship?
The TS-SIS Education Committee will notify everyone who has requested TS sponsorship by 5:00 p.m. (CST) on August 27, 2010, as to whether the SIS will sponsor your program. Following that notification, your proposal can be submitted to AMPC for consideration. Optionally, individuals can choose to submit programs to AMPC directly without TS-SIS sponsorship.

Please plan to attend the TS-SIS Education Committee meeting, Monday, July 12, 2010, 12:00 -1:15 pm, in the Colorado Convention Center, Room 206.

We look forward to working with you to submit the best program possible!

Members of the 2010 TS-SIS Education Committee are:

• Ajaye Bloomstone
  Education CommitteeChair
  Louisiana State University
  ajaye.bloomstone@law.lsu.edu
• Eric Parker
  Chair
  Acquisitions Standing Committee
  Northwestern University
  ecp278@law.northwestern.edu
• George Prager
  Chair
  Cataloging and Classification Standing Committee
  New York University
  pragerg@exchange.law.nyu.edu
• Shyama Agrawal
  Chair
  Serials Standing Committee
  Duke University
  agrawal@law.duke.edu
• Marilyn Estes
  Chair
  Preservation Standing Committee
  American University
  mestes@american.edu
• Pam Deemer
  Ex officio
  TS-SIS Chair
  Emory University
  libped@emory.edu
• Ismael Gullon
  Ex officio
  TS-SIS Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect
  Mercer University
  gullon_i@law.mercer.edu
• Suzanne Graham
  University of Georgia
  sgraham@uga.edu
• Edward Hart
  University of Florida
  hart@law.ufl.edu
• Alan Keely
  Wake Forest University
  keelyda@wfu.edu

2011 program planning links on this page:

• Program Planners Handbook
  » http://www.aallnet.org/events/programplannershandbook.pdf
• AALL proposal submission web site
  » http://proposals.aallnet.org/

AALL Annual Meeting Educational Grants

The following are recipients of TS-SIS grants to cover program registration fees to attend the Denver, Colorado Annual Meeting.

• Ajaye Bloomstone, Louisiana State University Law Center Library.
• Amanda Quist, San Diego County Public Law Library, is the fourth recipient of the TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant to support her attendance at CONELL. Amanda also received a program registration grant.
• Courtney Selby, University of Tulsa, Mabee legal Information Center.
• Caroline Young, Rutgers University (Newark) Law Library.

TS-SIS Sponsored Educational Programs

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