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23 FCIL Newsl. 1 (2008-2009)

handle is hein.lbr/aafcnlt0023 and id is 1 raw text is: jeonpaue and JaticUnaeauLSpeciae Jte'ttSeetom Dennis Sears Every year, the FCIL-SIS, along with other entities associated with AALL, experience a flurry of activity for a few weeks, prior to the August 15th dead- line for educational program and workshop proposals. After- wards, we await word about six weeks later from the Annual Meeting Program Committee (AMPC), notifying us what pro- grams and workshops have been accepted. Two factors militate against the type and quality of programming that we, as members of the FCIL- SIS, are interested in. One, is the short time frame within which proposals must be written and submitted. The second, is the role that the AMPC plays in selecting pro- Marylin Raisch The meeting opened at 5:50 p.m. and was called to order by FCIL-SIS Chair Jonathan Franklin. The first item was approval of the minutes of the 2007 FCIL-SIS Business Meet- ing, as published in the Octo- ber 2007 FCIL Newsletter. It grams. With regards to the second factor, although the AMPC requires that each SIS rank in order its program sub- missions, the AMPC only guar- antees one program to the SIS-its first ranked program. After that, no matter in what order programs have been ranked by the SIS, the AMPC chooses those programs that it thinks will be of greatest bene- fit to AALL as a whole. As a result, over the years of work- ing with the FCIL-SIS Education Committee, I have witnessed a number of first-rate programs fail to be selected by the AMPC with no opportunity of ever being presented, no mat- ter how good the programs were. However, AALL has developed was moved and seconded to approve the minutes, and the vote to approve was unani- mous. Treasurer's Report: Marylin Raisch reported a current bal- ance for the FCIL budget as $19,815.14 based on the latest report as of March 31, 2008. A separate tally of contributions to the FCIL-Schaffer Grant for Dennis Sears Brigham Young Law Library a continuing professional pro- gram that now can provide the SIS the opportunity to produce online, on-demand audio and Continued on page 2 Marylin Raisch Georgetown Law Library Continued on page 3 Volume 23, Issue 1 October 2008 * IALL Annual Course on International Law Librarianship. November 30- December 3, 2008 in Puerto Rico. * European Legal e-Access Conference, December 10-12 in Paris, France. AALS Mid-Year Meeting January 7-12 in Long Beach, CA. ALA Midwinter Meeting, January 23- 28 in Denver, CO. ASIL Annual Meeting, March 25-28 in Washington, DC. Foreign Law Selectors 2 Latin America Interest Group 4 Membership Committee 4 Internships & Exchanges Commit- 6 Schaffer Grant Recipient Speaks 6 Asian Law Interest Group 7 IFLA Annual Conference Report 8 New Member Profile 9

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