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Outgoing Chair: James MilIs
St. Lois Univ. Law Library, St. Louis, MO
millesjg@slu.edu
Incoming Chair: Judith Kaul
Case Western Reserve University Law
School Library, Cleveland, OH
jak4@po.cwru.edu
Incoming Vice-Chair: Ken Hirsh
Duke University School of Law Library,
Durham, NC
ken@faculty.law.duke.edu
Outgoing Sec./Treas: Cindy Chick
Graham & James, Los Angeles, CA
cchick@netcom.com
Incoming Sec./Treasurer: Liz Glankler
University of Memphis School of Law
Library, Memphis, TN
glankler@msuvxl.memphis.edu
Newsletter Editor: Tami Gierloff
Lewis & Clark College, Boley Law Library,
Portland, OR
gierloff@lclark.edu
Automatome is published semi-regularly by the
Computing Services SIS. Note: Vol. 14 had only
three issues.
In this izue:
Message from the Chair 1
CS SIS Survey 2
CS SIS Bylaws 4
Bylaws Amendments Comments 6
Annual Meeting Events 8
The Future of Automatome 9
[Aaptive Technology for Lib. Comp. 10
Message from the Outgoing Chair:
Jim Milles
There's nothing like the AALL Annual Meeting-and looking
back on my plans from last year-to make me realize how fast
a year goes by.
In my Message from the Incoming Chair in the Summer
1996 issue ofAutomatome, I wrote of the need to redefine the
purpose of the then-Automation and Scientific Development
SIS. With the increasing integration of technology into all
areas of all law libraries, not just the cutting-edge elite, no
single Section could claim to be the leaders in library
computing. Where this SIS could make a unique contribution
was in listening and responding to the needs of computer
services librarians by reposition[ing] ourselves as a 'type of
job classification' SIS on a par with the traditional library
organizational categories. As I wrote then, if we fail to
offer members a reason to join the [CS] SIS, we will be unable
to continue to attract the most talented, technologically expert
law librarians, or to draw on that talent and expertise to
achieve the goals the SIS sets for itself
The first part of that process meant renaming the SIS from
Automation and Scientific Development to Computing
Services. We chose the term Computing Services rather
than Computer Services, to indicate that what we are about
is not simply things--computers--but rather people, and the
activities they carry on in law libraries, with the assistance of
computers and other forms of technology.
Beyond that, much of the SIS's activity over the past year has
focused on carrying out the redefinition and reorganization
started last year. Some of those activities-the revision of the
bylaws, and the CS SIS Membership Survey-are described
elsewhere in this newsletter. (Continued next page.)
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