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23 RIPS L. Libr. 1 (2000-2001)

handle is hein.lbr/aallrips0025 and id is 1 raw text is: Law RIPS Librarian Volume 23 • Number 1 • Fall 2000 RESEARCH INSTRUCTION AND PATRON SERVICES SIS A Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries Message From the Chair...Kelly Browne The Annual Meeting in Philadelphia was yet another successful meeting for RIPS. As usual, the RIPS-sponsored programs-Greeting Them at the Gateway: Exactly Who are our Lay Patrons, What do They Expect from Us, and How Can We Help Them?; A New Look to an Old Subject: Electronic Resources in English Legal Research; Sexual Harassment After Faragher and Burlington: Is Your Library Practicing Safe Policy?; Developing Legal Research Problems and Assignments that Work; A New Legal Citation Manual: What will it Mean for Law Librarians?; and Revealing the Gateway: Service Marketing and Library Services-garnered rave reviews. Our roundtables were well-attended and generated stimulating discussion. Enthusiastic volunteers attended the General Business meeting and every committee meeting. The Liberty Bell, art museums, and food at the Reading Market (not to mention the red, white and blue banners hung everywhere in anticipation of the Republican National Convention) inspired us all. But now we are home and it is time to start work- ing on all those wonderful plans we made in Philadelphia. I would like to focus on five things this year: 1) Research Instruction Core Competencies. Under the leadership of Darcy Kirk, our Research Instruction Committee is working on updating the Core Legal Research Competencies document passed on from the Research Instruction Caucus in 1997. Their goal is to publish the document so that it can be used as a standard of competence for new lawyers. The Committee welcomes any others who are interested in this project. The document can be downloaded from AALLNet at: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/ripssis/core.html. 2) Patron Services SPEC Kit. Last year Marc Silverman and the Patron Services Committee organized a Focus Group to identify some ways that RIPS can better meet the needs of our members involved in Circulation, Interlibrary Loan, and other essential, non-reference patron services. One idea that came from that group was that RIPS produce a SPEC kit (like the Systems and Procedures Exchange Center publications from ARL) of circulation policies on certain topics such as carrel assignments and fine appeal processes and publish it on the RIPS web site. Despite the Continued on next page. In This Issue: M essage from the Chair ........................................ 1 Can 81 Law Schools Be Wrong? Good Things About Adopting the ALWD as the Primary Citation M anual ............................................. 3 AALL Exec. Board to Review Vendor Sponsorship Policy in November ...................................... 4 Call for Papers Announcement ............................. 5 2000 Annual Meeting Items Business Meeting Minutes ............................ 6 Treasurer's Report .......................................... 8 Roundtables Report ....................................... 9 Mini-TRIALL Review ........................................ 9 Legal Research Teach-In ...................................... 10 History of the Briefs in Law Librarianship Series ... 11 RIPS-Sponsored Programs for the 2001 Annual M eeting ............................................ 12 M em ber News ..................................................... 14 RIPS Executive Board and Committee Chairs ......... 15

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