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12 Reader Serv. L. Libr. 1 (1989-1990)

handle is hein.lbr/aallrips0014 and id is 1 raw text is: ra rr ' gperbtles tbrarian * Volume 12, Number 1 CONTENTS From the Chair ... ....... 1 Legal Research Basics. . . .2 Committee Report ... ...... 5 Minutes of Section Meeting. 7 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR Trish Cervenka Even though the annual me.ting was several months ago, I do want to acknowledge the fine job Pat Court did in organizing the time and the committees. Pat made a special effort to find a time that would not conflict with other SIS meetings with similar membership and I think the turnout is testimony to her success. The discussion groups after the meeting were especially informative. Betsy McKenzie was responsible for a good idea on that score. We learned and shared some valuable information about the way other schools set up the use and training of Lexis and October, 1989 * Westlaw. The committee for gathering informa tion about materials available to visually impaired attorneys is finally getting started. The president of the American Blind Lawyers Association, Stephen Speicher, lives here in Lincoln and so that makes it less complicated for us to communicate and plan. Mr. Speicher's goal is to have the ABLA be considered as an available resource of making law library materials accessible to visually impaired attorneys. He has enlisted our help as a network to gather information about what is available. The project is starting with a set of resource cards that were compiled about legal materials in Braille and on tape available about 10 years ago. He is working on updating those files while we will be searching for groups and projects that are already in progress doing this work. If you wish to be on the committee to help gather the information, or if you have information that you think the

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