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2000 ALLUNY Newsletter 1 (2000)

handle is hein.alluny/all2000 and id is 1 raw text is: ALLUNY Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York - Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries Vol. 25 No. 1/2 January/June 2000 Message from the President: Having just completed my tour of duty as site coordinator for the 2000 ALLUNY Spring Institute, I am pleased to report the April 13 event was a success. This year's educational session dealt with the wide ranging topic of collection development. Our program built upon the AALL videoconference entitled, Books and Bytes: Balancing Formats in Today's Libraries. Even though this presentation was not specific to collection issues of law libraries, its* content was enlightening for any subject specialty. The three speakers on the videoconference were Joan Axelroth, law library consultant; Carol Blohm, public library manager and Diane Perushek, academic library collection manager. Although our site did encounter some technical difficulties with a fuzzy picture, the attendees were offered much useful information during this 90 minute presentation. The ALLUNY program then continued the discussion of collection development issues via a local panel presentation. This was the value added segment which many other videoconference sites did not offer. The attendees seemed to highly value this portion of the program. I was honored to present the distinguished panelists who set aside time to address our membership. Jan Fleckenstein, Acting Director of Syracuse University's Barclay Law Library and past president of our association, initiated the conversation With specific references to collection development issues relating to law libraries including format selection and retrospective access to legal materials. Charles D'Aniello, Coordinator for Collection Development at S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo's Lockwood Library continued the discussion with a general overview of the topic relative to an academic setting. The afternoon was then capped by a provocative presentation made by Peter McDonald, Associate University Librarian for Collection Development at Syracuse University's Bird Library. Mr. McDonald alluded to some troubling collection issues which may result from growing reliance and confidence in electronic formats. A brief question and answer period concluded the Institute. Special thanks must be made to Syracuse University for again hosting our event. That institution's central geographic location makes it conducive for our gatherings since our membership travels from such a widespread region. Jan Fleckenstein and her staff (ALLUNY members, Thomas Baker, Ken Herold and Andrea Rabbia) were instrumental in making arrangements for our room assignments, cookie/coffee service and signage. Thanks. Judy Weiner, ALLUNY Board Member, volunteered to handle on-site registration. Thanks. I am pleased to report that we had 24 registrants, including one student and representatives of Niagara Mohawk and S.U.N.Y.-E.S.F. Special thanks to our members from the Buffalo and Albany areas who chose to support our association event even though other videoconference sites were run in those cities. .. . _ . . 1

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