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

DianeMurley — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:43:07 -0400

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of rules, practices, and commentary limiting or expanding applications of legal information (e.g., citation to unpublished opinions and to foreign law);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.

ALL-SIS 2009 Reception & Awards Presentation

DianeMurley — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:18:45 -0400

The ALL-SIS Reception and Awards Presentation will be held Sunday, July 26, 2009, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. at Georgetown University Law Center, McDonough Hall, 2nd Floor Atrium, 600 New Jersey Avenue Northwest. Complimentary buses will shuttle guests between the Renaissance Washington Hotel and the Georgetown University Law Center from 6:00 pm to 6:45 pm. Returning bus service will begin at 8:00 pm and continue until the close of the reception.

RSVP online at http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/aall2009/all-sis-rsvp.cfm

Many thanks to BNA for their generous sponsorship of this event.

AALL 2009 Service Project - Uncle Sam Wants Your Books!

DianeMurley — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:20:07 -0400

It’s time to start gearing up for our Children’s Book Drive! This book drive is held every year in conjunction with the AALL annual meeting, and in honor of our host city this year’s theme is “Uncle Sam Wants Your Books!” You can contribute a book from the project's wishlist at http://www.amazon.com/wishlist/20S6D48IVIM66, send a check (made out to AALL) to Ms. Stacy Etheredge, University of Richmond School of Law, Muse Law Library, 28 Westhampton Way, Richmond, VA 23173, or drop off books or online gift cards or checks in D.C. during the AALL Meeting at the Social Responsibilities SIS (SR-SIS) table in the Exhibit Hall.

Heather Hill Elementary is in the Prince George’s County School District, a Maryland county that borders D.C. It is the 17th largest school district in the country, with a high population of under-served minorities and immigrants. It is also one of the most disadvantaged and economically distressed districts in Maryland, struggling with recent budget cuts and a community that has one of the highest foreclosure rates in the country. Heather Hill Elementary serves a special population as it is a TAG magnet school which, although it provides many opportunities for the students, also creates an extra burden for the constant renewal of library resources.

If you have questions about the book drive, please contact one of the members of the SR-SIS Book Drive Team (Leslie Campbell, leslie.campbell@ao.uscourts.gov, and Stacy Etheredge, sethered@richmond.edu).

The Social Responsibilities SIS and AALL continue the tradition of giving something back to the community that hosts our Annual Meeting through this, our eleventh annual Children’s Book Drive. For a list of the prior book drives see, http://aallnet.org/sis/srsis/projects.html

2009 ALL-SIS Awards Announced

DianeMurley — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:02:07 -0400

The Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship: this award recognizes the individual or group who has made outstanding contributions to academic law librarianship through continued efforts to improve law librarianship. The award is named in honor of Frederick Charles Hicks, the first great American law librarian/scholar who was also the first academic law librarian to serve as president of AALL. The winner of the Hicks Award for 2009 is Nancy P. Johnson, Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law.

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award: this award honors section members for contributions to the enhancement of academic law librarianship through publishing. The winners of the award for 2009 are: Daniel W. Martin, Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Katherine Pratt, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, and Jennifer M. Kowal, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Loyola LL.M. Tax Program for their article The Virtual Tax Library: A Comparison of Five Electronic Tax Research Platforms, 8 Florida Tax Review 931 (2008).

Outstanding Service Award: this award honors an ALL-SIS member who has made outstanding contributions to the SIS in areas of section activity and in professional service. The winner of the Outstanding Service Award for 2009 is Sara Kelley Burriesci, Reference/Electronic Services Librarian, Georgetown University Law Library.

Proposed ALL-SIS Bylaw Amendments

DianeMurley — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:36:39 -0400

The ALL-SIS Bylaws Committee, led by Chair Dragomir Cosanici, has suggested the a change to our SIS bylaws (and the AALL Bylaws Committee has preliminarily approved such a change should it be voted in). Would you please read the modification on the ALL-SIS web site and be ready to vote at our ALL-SIS business meeting on Sunday, July 26 from 7-8 a.m.

ALL-SIS Annual Meeting program and event information now available

DianeMurley — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:01:34 -0400

For information about ALL-SIS meetings, programs and events during the 2009 Annual Meeting, see http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/annualmeeting/2009/.

Volunteer for an ALL-SIS Committee

DianeMurley — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:16:23 -0400

ALL-SIS needs you! Please consider volunteering for an ALL-SIS Committee. Volunteering is easy! Just complete the volunteer survey below.

Volunteers will be selected from the pool of survey respondents. NOTE: All 2008/09 volunteers who have an interest in continuing on a committee in 2009/10 are required to fill out the survey. The volunteer survey closes on May 29. Committee assignments will be distributed by the end of June.

Learn more about each ALL-SIS Committee here:http://aallnet.org/sis/allsis/committees/charges/index.asp

Volunteer here:http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/?p=WEB22948GGUE7Y

List of Academic Law Libraries' New Acquistions RSS Feeds Added

DianeMurley — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:42:28 -0400

The Collection Development Committee has added a listing of academic law libraries' new acquisitions RSS feeds to its web page. The list of RSS feeds is available at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/committees/colldev/acq_rss.asp; the Collection Development Committee's page is at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/committees/colldev/index.asp.

ALL-SIS Award Nominations

DianeMurley — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:12:59 -0400

The Academic Law Libraries SIS Awards Committee (Patricia Harris O’Connor, Chair) is soliciting nominations for three ALL-SIS awards:

The Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship; This award recognizes the individual or group who has made outstanding contributions to academic law librarianship through continued efforts to improve law librarianship. The award is named in honor of Frederick Charles Hicks, the first great American law librarian/scholar who was also the first academic law librarian to serve as president of AALL.

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award which 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 during 2008 are eligible; and

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 deadline for nominations for each award is March 31, 2009.

For the specifics on the criteria for each of these awards, see http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/criteria.asp.

Patricia Harris O'Connor
Director of the Law Library
Western State University College of Law
1111 N. State College Blvd.
Fullerton, CA 92831-3014

Phone: (714) 459-1175
Fax: (714) 871-4806
poconnor@wsulaw.edu

ALL-SIS Candidates for 2009 Election

DianeMurley — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:02:55 -0500

The ALL-SIS board has approved the following slate of candidates:

Vice-chair/Chair-elect:

Jack McNeill, Associate Library Director, Pace
Paula Tejeda, Associate Law Librarian and Head of Technical Services, Charleston School of Law

At Large Board Member

Peter Egler, Interim Director, Drexel University School of Law
Karen Nuckolls, Head of Technical Services, University of Kentucky, Evans Law Library
Margaret Schilt, Faculty Services Librarian, D'Angelo Law Library, University of Chicago Law School