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17 FCIL Newsl. 1 (2002-2003)

handle is hein.lbr/aafcnlt0017 and id is 1 raw text is: Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section / American Association of Law Libraries FCIL Newsletter Volume 17 October 2002 Number I From the Chair Kenneth Rudolf, Chair Over the past few months I have been thinking about how the FCIL SIS can best serve its members. According to our bylaws, the SIS exists to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information of foreign, comparative, and international law; and to represent its members' interests and concerns within the AALL. I believe the SIS has developed a number of ways to encourage the exchange of ideas and information-this Newsletter, the listserv, the website, the Interest Group sessions at the Annual Meeting. However, I am concerned that the FCIL has not been as successful as it should have been in communicating the concerns of the membership to AALL. In part, that may result from the difficulty of precisely identifying the concerns of the members. Of course, the overriding interest of the membership is with foreign, comparative, and international law librarianship. In fact, however, there is an enormous range in the amount of time and the level of expertise members have with FCIL librarianship. Librarians from larger institutions (be they firms, law schools, or governmental entities) have significant FCIL collections with which to work and can devote their full energies to the area and develop a high level of expertise. On the other hand, librarians in smaller institutions will have skeletal collections and duties that encompass much more than FCIL librarianship. Even though these librarians may have a strong interest in the area, they do not have the resources, the time, and (usually) the patron demand to develop the same level of expertise as their colleagues in larger institutions. FCIL can be a significant resource to librarians from smaller institutions. Through the SIS, they can become acquainted with more experienced librarians from larger institutions and develop relationships with these experts as mentors and personal resources. This clearly fits into the SIS objective of the exchange of ideas and information. In addition, the SIS has been relatively successful in getting program proposals accepted at the introductory and intermediate levels.

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