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RSVP for ALL-SIS Events at the 2010 Annual Meeting

DianeMurley | June 09, 2010 12:44

The annual meeting is around the corner. It would be helpful to have an idea of how many ALL-SIS members plan to attend ALL-SIS events that provide food and drink. Please RSVP for the ALL-SIS Breakfast & Business Meeting and the ALL-SIS Reception & Awards by completing a 30 second survey. This survey will close on June 17, 2010. Thank you.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AQQ3JVWAQ

ALL-SIS Roundtable Discussions at AALL Volunteers Opportunity

DianeMurley | May 28, 2010 14:43

The AALL is around the corner and we present you the perfect opportunity to get involved and to add to the overall success of AALL. ALL-SIS will be holding its legal research roundtable discussions and we are looking for moderators and note takers that would be available on Monday, June 12, 2010 at 10:45 am to 11:45 AM. No special training is needed; just a great attitude and willingness to volunteer. Some of the roles to moderate or take notes are already taken, but there still are plenty up for grabs. If you are interested, please click the following link:

https://spreadsheets1.google.com/viewform?hl=en&formkey=dEtJSUh5TUJXaU1qUDI2VzJwZlpzNGc6MQ

You can fill out this simple form to indicate in what capacity and at what
table you would like to participate. First come, first served!

You may also contact Amy Levine at Amy_Levine@ca10.uscourts.gov, or Lucie Olejnikova at lolejnikova@law.pace.edu, directly.

Thank you!

Amy Levine Chair, Legal Research and Sourcebook Committee

ALL-SIS webmaster vacancy

DianeMurley | May 11, 2010 10:09

Dear ALL-SIS,
Sara Kelley Burriesci has decided to step down as the ALL-SIS Webmaster at
the end of this year. On behalf of the SIS, I'd like to express gratitude to
Sara for such prompt and expert updates to the ALL-SIS website this year.

Members interested in the position of ALL-SIS Webmaster should contact me
off-list for more information. A basic familiarity with ASP 3.0 or ASP.net
is preferred. Thank you for your consideration.

Beth Adelman
Associate Director &
Head of Collection Management
University at Buffalo Law Library
The State University of New York
225 O'Brian Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
(716) 645-2089
eadelman@buffalo.edu (More)

Second call for volunteers to staff ALL-SIS table

DianeMurley | May 11, 2010 10:07

Are you planning to go to Denver for the AALL meeting? If so, the ALL-SIS
Public Relations Committee needs your help. As we usually do, ALL SIS will have a table at the Activities Area of the Exhibit Hall.
In order to staff the table the ALL-SIS Public Relations Committee needs volunteers to hand out freebies, talk about the joys of ALL-SIS, and make visitors feel welcome.

So, please volunteer during any one of the available times (please see below):

Sunday, July 11, 2010
10-12 p.m.
2-3 p.m.
4-5 p.m.

Monday, July 12, 2010
9-10 a.m.
12-2 p.m.
4-5 p.m.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010
9-10 a.m.
11-12 p.m.
2-3 p.m.

Please email me (Karen E. Kalnins, kkalnins@okcu.edu) with your choice/s, together with your name and phone number. I'll get back to you to confirm time assignments.

Thank you in advance for your willingness to volunteer.

Karen E. Kalnins
Reference Librarian
Oklahoma City University School of Law
2501 N. Blackwelder
Oklahoma City, OK
73106
kkalnins@okcu.edu
(405) 208-5174

ALL-SIS Committee volunteer opportunities

DianeMurley | May 11, 2010 10:04

To all,

I ask each of you to take some time to make ALL-SIS the best it can be. There are many opportunities to advance our profession, meet and work with colleagues, and enhance your own skills by volunteering to work on an ALL-SIS committee. The work is varied, depending upon the committee, and interesting. To select and sign up for a committee for the 2010/2011 year, please follow this link to a Zoomerang survey.

http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22AMHVHXHQK

The survey will close on Friday May 28, 2010. You will be notified of your committee assignments within two weeks of that date. Thank you for serving.

Jack McNeill
ALL-SIS Vice Chair/Chair Elect

Congratulations to the new members of the ALL-SIS Executive Board!

DianeMurley | April 27, 2010 10:20

Vice Chair/Chair-Elect:
Kumar Percy Jayasuriya

Secretary/Treasurer:
Edward T. Hart

Continuing Status/Tenure Committee Survey

DianeMurley | April 23, 2010 09:30

The ALL-SIS Continuing Status/Tenure Committee is pleased to present the new and improved Continuing Status/Tenure Survey. The survey data will be used to prepare a White Paper addressing the tenure and general status of academic law librarians. Led by Kathy Carrick, this committee redesigned a similar survey administered last year and obtained Institutional Review Board approval through Case Western University. Though you may have taken the survey last year, we hope that you will honor the committee's endless hours of hard work and commitment by taking a few minutes out of your day to complete the redesigned survey.

Please complete the survey by May 15, 2010.

ALL-SIS Annual Meeting program and event information now available

DianeMurley | April 13, 2010 12:13

For information about ALL-SIS meetings, programs and events during the 2010 Annual Meeting, see http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/annualmeeting/2010/. (More)

ALL-SIS 2010 Awards Announced

DianeMurley | April 13, 2010 10:08

The ALL-SIS Regular Member Stimulus Grant goes to Swee Berkey of the University of Hawaii School of Law.

The ALL-SIS Active Member Stimulus Grant goes to Courtney Selby of the Mabee Legal Information Center at the University of Tulsa College of Law.

The ALL-SIS CONELL Grant goes to Theresa Strike of the University of New Mexico School of Law Library.

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Service Award goes to Leah Sandwell-Weiss of the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law Cracchiolo Law Library.

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award goes to Nancy P. Johnson of Georgia State University College of Law Library for her article What First Year Law Students Should Learn in a Legal Research Class.

The Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship goes to Mary Kathleen Price of the University of Florida Levin College of Law Legal Information Center.

ALL-SIS Awards - Nominations Now Being Accepted - Due March 1

DianeMurley | February 17, 2010 09:53

The Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL-SIS) has a history of recognizing its members for outstanding scholarship, outstanding service, and outstanding overall contributions to academic law librarianship. We do so annually by awarding the Outstanding Article Award, the Outstanding Service Award, and the Frederick Charles Hicks Award respectively.

Now is the time to make nominations for these awards. THE DEADLINE FOR AWARD NOMINATIONS IS MARCH 1, 2010.

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award honors section members for contributions to the enhancement of academic law librarianship through publishing. Articles published in any format in any publication other than Law Library Journal and AALL Spectrum (articles from those publications are eligible for AALL Article of the Year awards) during the year prior to the award qualify for consideration. Any aspect of academic law librarianship may be addressed.

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Service Award honors an ALL-SIS member who has made outstanding contributions to the SIS in areas of section activity and in professional service.

The Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship recognizes an individual or group that has made outstanding contributions to academic law librarianship through continued efforts to improve law librarianship.

WE NEED YOUR HELP! You can help us to find the ALL-SIS members most deserving of recognition. You can help by nominating a coworker or colleague for one of the above mentioned awards.

THE DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS IS MARCH 1!!

Details on the awards and the nomination procedures can be found at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/criteria.asp Nominations should be sent via email to the ALL-SIS Awards Committee Chair, Ron Wheeler, at wheeler@gsu.edu

Ron Wheeler
Associate Director
Georgia State University College of Law Library
P.O. Box 4008
Atlanta, GA 30302-4008
(404) 413-9142 phone
(404) 413-9144 fax
Email: wheeler@gsu.edu
Homepage: http://law.gsu.edu/directory/wheeler

ALL-SIS CONELL Grant - Applications Due March 1st

DianeMurley | February 17, 2010 09:43

Don't miss out on the chance to receive an ALL-SIS CONELL Grant. APPLY TODAY!!!

The Conference of Newer Law Librarians (CONELL) is held every year in conjunction with the AALL Annual Meeting. The purpose of CONELL "is to welcome the newer members of the profession to the organization, introduce them to the Association and its leaders, and provide a setting for newer members to become acquainted with each other."

The ALL-SIS CONELL Grant will be given to a newer law librarian to attend CONELL. The grant will cover the cost of CONELL registration and a hotel room for one night. The purpose of the CONELL Grant is to promote participation by newer academic law librarians in AALL and the ALL-SIS.
For a list of past recipients, see http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/conellgrant.asp.

To qualify for the grant, the winner must be an ALL-SIS member with demonstrated financial need. The winner must: (1) agree to become a member of the New Academic Law Librarians Meeting (NALLM)/Mentoring Committee for the year following the grant and (2) write a short article for the ALL-SIS Newsletter about CONELL.

To apply for the CONELL grant submit (1) a current resume and (2) two letters of recommendation from current or former teachers or employers
that discuss your potential to contribute to the field of academic law librarianship and your need for the grant. Grant recipients will be
chosen, in large part, based on demonstrated financial need. Send the
resume and letters of recommendation, by March 1, 2010, to the Chair of the ALL Awards Committee, Ron Wheeler at wheeler@gsu.edu.

There is no requirement that the grant be given every year. The grant will be presented annually at the discretion of the ALL-SIS Awards Committee. Previous CONELL Grant winners are ineligible.

For all of the details and the grant criteria, go to http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/criteria.asp#conell.

Ron Wheeler
Associate Director
Georgia State University College of Law Library
P.O. Box 4008
Atlanta, GA 30302-4008
(404) 413-9142 phone
(404) 413-9144 fax
Email: wheeler@gsu.edu
Homepage: http://law.gsu.edu/directory/wheeler

Now Available: Report of the Task Force for the Review of ABA Standards for Libraries

DianeMurley | September 15, 2009 11:14

The report of the ALL-SIS Task Force for the Review of ABA Standards for Libraries is now available on the ALL-SIS home page.

New Directory of ALL-SIS Officers and Committees Now Available

DianeMurley | August 07, 2009 16:36

The 2009-2010 Directory of ALL-SIS Officers and Committees is now posted at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/directories/.

Making the Cut: the 2009 ALL-SIS Collection Development Roundtable

DianeMurley | July 16, 2009 13:36

Please join us on Tuesday, July 29^th from 9:00-10:00 a.m. in WCC 144B for Making the Cut: the 2009 ALL-SIS Collection Development Roundtable

The focus of the roundtable will be collection development in the face of budget reductions—strategies for thoughtful and conscientious collection development. We will be joined by Amanda Runyon & Leslie Street. Amanda’s article, The Effect of Economics and Electronic Resources on the Traditional Law Library Print Collection was just published in the Spring 2009 Law Library Journal. She and Leslie are also currently collaborating on additional research in collection development strategies for cuts. They’ll talk a little about their findings at the beginning of the roundtable and then we’ll open the floor for a discussion of the strategies that folks are employing on an everyday basis in the context of academic law library collection development.

See you there!

Courtney Selby
ALL-SIS Collection Development Committee Chair

ALL-SIS to Co-sponsor SSRN's Legal Information and Technology eJournal

DianeMurley | June 09, 2009 14:43

ALL-SIS has agreed to co-sponsor the Legal Information and Technology eJournal (http://www.ssrn.com/update/lsn/lsn_legal-info-tech.html) on SSRN for the next three years. The eJournal was launched in January of 2009 with the generous support of MALLCO, the Mid-America Law Library Consortium. The eJournal is co-edited by ALL-SIS members Randy Diamond, (diamondrj@missouri.edu) Director of Library and Technology Resources and Associate Legal Research Professor of Law at the University of Missouri Columbia and Lee Peoples, (lpeoples@okcu.edu) Associate Professor of Law Library Science and Associate Director of the Law Library at Oklahoma City University. Randy and Lee welcome submissions of articles from ALL-SIS members and will give any articles submitted by ALL-SIS members priority for inclusion in the weekly eJournal issues. Thematic issues highlighting papers from any ALL-SIS workshops or programs are also possible. A description of the eJournal is included below. Please contact Randy or Lee with any questions.

The Legal Information and Technology eJournal includes working papers, forthcoming articles, and recently published articles in all areas of legal information scholarship. Topics include (but are not limited to):

The impact of legal information on domestic, comparative, and international legal systems;
The treatment of legal information authorities and precedents (e.g., citation studies);
The examination of rules, practices, and commentary limiting or expanding applications of legal information (e.g., citation to unpublished opinions and to foreign law);
The study of economic, legal, political, and social conditions limiting or extending access to legal information (e.g., trends in the legal publishing industry, intellectual property regimes, and open access initiatives);
The finding and use of legal information by academics to produce legal scholarship, by law students to learn the law, by attorneys in practice, and by judges and others decision makers to determine legal outcomes;
The history of legal information systems and technological advancements;
Legal information system design and assessment; and
The relationship of substantive areas of law (such as information law, intellectual freedom, intellectual property, and national security law) and other academic disciplines (e.g., information science) to legal information. This includes the scholarship of law librarians, other legal scholars, and other academic disciplines.

The eJournal also includes working papers, forthcoming articles, recently published articles, and selected documents (such as White Papers, briefings, reports, course materials) on the practice of law librarianship. Submissions are welcome in all areas of law librarianship including:

Administration, management, and leadership;
Facility design and construction;
Evaluating and marketing law library services;
All aspects of public, technical, and technology services;
Collection development, including sample collection development policies and procedures;
Electronic resource management and development including licensing, digitization, and institutional repositories;
Research and reference services; and
Legal research instruction teaching methods and substantial or innovative course materials.

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