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9 Automatome 1 (1989-1990)

handle is hein.lbr/aallautoma0009 and id is 1 raw text is: scientifi c1 %%0 Automatome , OCiatiof o , Chairperson: Richard Leiter Littler Mendelson Fastiff & Tichy 650 California St. 20th Fl. San Francisco, CA 94108 (415) 399-8421 FAX: (415) 399-8490 Vice-Chairpersonl Chairperson-Elect: Carol Ebbinghouse Case Western Reserve University Law School Library Cleveland, OH 44106 (216) 368-6356 FAX: (216) 36-6144 SecretarylTreasurer: Jo Ann Humphreyp University of Missoari Columbia Law Library Columbia, MO 65211 (314) 882-2935 FAX: (314) 882-9676 Automatome Editor: Gary Gott University of North Dakota Thormodsgard Law Library Grand Forks, ND 58202 (701) 777-2204 FAX: (701) 777-2217 Contents: From the Chair Page 1 Law Library of Congress Reorganization Page 3 Current Index to Legal Periodicals: Available through BITNET Page 5 Minutes of the 1989 Business Meeting Page 6 SIS/ASD Bylaows Page 7 Editor's Tome Page 9 Draft Survey on Electronic Dissemination of Judicial Opinions by Carol Ebbinghoua e Page 10 ASDiSIS 1988-89 Financial Statement Page 11 FROM THE CHAIR by Richard Leiter Welcome to the first issue of Automatome for 1989-90. I feel honored to be the Chairperson at this particular time because it means that my administration has the privilege of leading SIS/ASD into the 1990's. I feel that this is a special responsibility because of what I see as the mission of ASD to provide guidance to the membership of AALL at large about and criticism of the technological developments that face our profession. Since this responsibility is very tightly bound up with the future, as we look ahead to a new decade, we can only speculate about what the 1990's have in store for us. But we must do our best in the service of the legal community to be prepared to meet it. I want to take a few paragraphs here to offer my thoughts about what the technology of the 1990's may mean to law librarians and explain what I think that we should be doing about it. I think that we, as librarians, are very fortunate to be professionally active in these decades. High technology is still in its infancy, and while we know that it is impacting our practices, no one yet knows exactly what the full ramifications will be. Advances in information technology have been occurring with awe-inspiring frequency over the last twenty years. Looking back further, the first technological advance to occur since the invention of the printing press was the advent of looseleaf publishing in the 1930's and 1940's. Microfiche came on the law library scene in the late 1960's/early 1970's and by the mid-1970's we saw Lexis and then Westlaw. The 1970's also saw the rise of on-line bibliographic utilities and by the early 1980's we began to see personal computers in various library applications. By this time, growth in high technological applications in law libraries began to be exponential. We saw word processing, local database management, and integrated library automation systems that were entirely PC-based. The developing issues that we have begun to face in the 1980's are CD-ROM, telefax, networks and system compatibility, not to mention such things as multi-tasking, UNIX, and OS-2. As we face the 1990's, what new developments will we see and what impact will they have on our professional lives? I do not think that there is any question that in the 1990's the prevailing themes will be confusion and obsolescence. But this is not to Fall 1989 Vol 9 no. I

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