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25 FCIL Newsl. 1 (2010-2011)

handle is hein.lbr/aafcnlt0025 and id is 1 raw text is: 3 j mpaaue and Jatmaeaw Specd dca't&tSectou Submitted by Heidi Frost- estad Kuehl, Secretary- Treasurer ll toO d rand 0C uI- The meeting was called to order by FCIL-SIS Chair (2009-2010), Marylin J. Raisch. The first item was approval of the Minutes of the 2009 FCIL Business Meeting, as published in the October 2009 FCIL Newslet- ter. It was moved, and se- conded, to approve the minutes, and the vote was unanimous. Heidi Frostestad Kuehl, Sec- retary-Treasurer, reported on the 2010-2011 Election Results. Sergio Stone was unanimously elected as Vice Chair / Chair-Elect in the FCIL-SIS online election in March. It was a successful online election with over 100 participants. Secretary-Treasurer's Re- port: Heidi Frostestad Kuehl next reported that the FCIL- SIS budget had a current balance of $24,559.20. This amount included $2,000 in donations from Thomson Reuters for the AALL FCIL- SIS Reception. The total con- tributions for the Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Li- brarians at the end of fiscal year 2009-20 10 were $2,670.00 (which was re- ported in the last quarterly statement from AALL as of June 2010). Heidi reported that the Schaffer Grant had received several generous donations during the Spring. More detailed reports ap- pear elsewhere in this newsletter, including re- ports from interest groups and committees that were listed in the agenda, but were not scheduled to meet until after this business meeting. African Law Interest Group: Dan Wade for Victor Essien. Our Schaffer Grant participant, Ufuoma Lami- kanra, expressed an interest in digitizing Nigerian legal materials. The group dis- cussed how this might be accomplished on Hei- nOnline. Jean Davis has a LexisNexis South Africa con- tact. If anyone is interested in the possible LexisNexis South Africa product, please let Jean know. Asian Law Interest Group: Sergio Stone. It was a very nice turnout of seventeen individuals at this interest group meet- ing. They discussed new journals, an Indian law da- tabase, the proliferation of book dealers, and the law library that is just opening in Jakarta. Trinie Thai- Parker also discussed Asian Law Collection De- velopment strategies. The Chinese Law Forum confer- ence that took place right before AALL was dis- cussed, and information was shared by those who attended. The gavel was passed to Roy Sturgeon. Continued on page 3 Volume 25, Issue 1 October 2010 * AALS Annual Meeting, January 5-8, 2011 in San Francisco, CA. * ALA Midwinter Meeting, January 7- 11, 2011 in San Diego, CA. ASIL Annual Meeting, Harmony and Dissonance in International Law, March 23-26, 2011 in Washington, DC. AALL Annual Meeting, Summit 2010: Mapping our Future, July 23-26, 2011 in Philadelphia, PA. From the Chair IFLA Meeting Indigenous Peoples Program Electronic Issues Interest Group A Baobab Grows in Brooklyn IALL Meeting New Member Profile 2 4 7 8 9 15 17

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