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13 FCIL Newsl. 1 (1998-1999)

handle is hein.lbr/aafcnlt0013 and id is 1 raw text is: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Special Interest Section / American Association of Law Libraries FC I L Newsletter Volume 13 October 1998 Number I From the Chair Maria I. Smolka-Day University of Pennsylvania Law School Biddle Law Library The FCIL-SIS has been very busy since the last stress here just a few issues. issue of the Newsletter. Fortunately, this Newslet- ter, although very important, is not the only form of As mentioned above there was a lot of dissatisfaction, communication with members who cannot attend the expressed both before and during the Conference, about Annual Conference. Last Spring we started our ownour inability to influence effectively programming and Internet listserve moderated by Mila Rush. In scheduling of events addressing our special interests combination with our Web Page (http:// during the annual meeting. Due to intensive communica- www.lawsch.uga.edu/fcil/fcil.html), edited skillfully tion within the SIS Council, as well as with representa- (together with this Newsletter) by Anne Burnett, it tives of the Annual Meeting Program Selection Commit- has served us well in preparing for our Special tee, with the AALL President and the Board, we hope Meeting in Anaheim. Both the Special Meeting and that next year's programs and schedules will meet our the regular Business Meeting were quite productive needs better than last year's did. The AMPSC has this year (see Minutes inside this Newsletter). In selected six FCIL SIS-sponsored programs for the next addition to our regular activities we discussed Conference in Washington, D.C., including one all-day broader issues relating mainly to our position in the workshop. Please see the report of the Education Association and the relations between Special Subcommittee in this issue for details about the selected Interest Sections generally and FCIL in particular programs. We also hope that committee and working and various bodies of the AALL. This discussion group meetings will be closer to our traditional schedule. resulted in the FCIL Statement on Programming and Looking farther ahead we felt that our SIS should plan its Scheduling, which we addressed to Jim Heller, this activities with a perspective longer than one year. We year's President, and sent to other AALL officials. might also think about new forms of actions in addition to The Statement, reprinted in this Newsletter, has been what we traditionally do. We felt that the section needs available on our Web Page since early August. The a strategic plan. A group of volunteers enthusiastically publication was then announced on the listserve. If continued on p. 2 any of you haven't received any mailings from the list, please make sure that your name is on the membership list, and that your e-mail address is In This Issue correct. We hope not to clog your mailbox with unnecessary mail (and subscribers to INT-LAW Book Review ....................................... 3 know Mila's abilities to keep discipline), but the Annual Meeting Business, listserve will increase our ability to communicate Special, Committee, between issues of the Newsletter. & Working Group Reports ........ 4 Those members who did not attend the Anaheim FCIL Statement re conference will find in this issue a lot of information Programming and Scheduling .......... 14 about it in the minutes of both the Special and Law Librarians Participate in Business meetings, reports from working groups and Sister-School Projects Abroad ........ 15 committees, and in the Statement. I would like to

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