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10 PLL Persp. 1 (1998-1999)

handle is hein.lbr/aaplper0010 and id is 1 raw text is: PLL PERSPECTIVES THE QUARTERLY OF THE PRIVATE LAW LFBRARIES SiS OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES Volume 10 Issue 1 A MESSAGE FROM AALL PRESIDENT JIM HELLER College of William and Mary Marshall-Wythe Law Library Williamsburg, VA I am honored- truly-to have this opportunity to communicate directly with the members of the PLL-SIS, by far the largest and more active of AALL's Special Interest Sections. I have had the good fortune to work closely with several PLL members these past few years-with recent chairs Hazel Johnson, Mary Smith-Forman, Mike Saint-Onge, and Anne Ellis-and know firsthand of your good work. Hazel currently serves as AALL's representative to the ABA Law Practice Management Section (ABA LPMS) and is on the 1999 Annual Meeting Advisory Task Force. When I chaired AALL's Education Committee in 1994-95, Mary coordinated PLL-sponsored educational programs for the Pittsburgh conference. And I appointed both Anne and Mike to AALL's Professional Development Committee this year. With leadership such as this, how could PLL-and AALL-go wrong? Jan Brown asked me to write about the vision thing. Certainly not an easy tiung to do, considering that my ultra-thin eyeglasses are still 3/8 thick (I just measured them). But I think it's safe to say that the theme of the 1999 Annual Meeting, At the Crossroads: Information Management, Technology, and Policy, reflects many of the issues law librarians face as we move to the next century, as we strive to deal successfully with the challenges brought about by technology and changing information policies. We do this through education and training, by working closely with our colleagues in the legal and information communities, by being informed of and having a voice in information policy issues, and by sharing ideas with each other. Some specifics? By the time you read this, Tim Coggins and the Annual Meeting Program Selection Committee (AMPSC) will have identified more than 70 programs to be offered in Washington. The tentative tracks the Program Selection Committee has identified-Management, Technology, Information Access and Policy, Foreign and International Law, Technical Services, and Non-Legal (business, medical, statistical) Information, and Substantive Law-reveal the wide array of programs that should appeal to all sectors of our diverse membership. Two of your colleagues, Victoria Kahn (Tucker, Flyer & Lewis) and Kathie Sullivan (McNamee, Lochner, Titus & Williams) sit on the 1999 Program Selection Committee. AALL's educational initiatives are not limited to our Annual Meeting. The Professional Developrment Committee (PDC), on which Anne and Mike are serving, is charged with developing other programming opportunities for our members. PDC will realize its ambitious agenda with people like Mike and Anne on board. We can advance our personal and professional needs and interests- and, indeed, those of our library patrons-by working closely with other associations and groups within the legal and information communities. The 1999 Annual Meeting Advisory Task Force, whose members include Hazel and Mike, has been designed for this purpose. The task force will collaborate with other associations such as the Association of American Law Schools, the Association of Legal Administrators, the ABA LPMS and Judicial Division, and the Digital Future Coalition, with library associations including ALA, MLA, and SLA, and the publishing industry. It will collaborate with governmental officials and agencies to develop active participation in Washington, and we hope, in future annual meetings, to build newer and stronger bridges between law librarians and others. Further evidence of our collaborative activities is the new AALL/National Center for State Courts Task Force, which will explore how we can work with the NCSC to benefit our members. Law librarians all recognize the importance of our para-professional staff to our libraries. I have asked Tim Coggins to plan a one-day para- professional forum to be offered in conjunction with the Washington Meeting. PLL member Carolyn Ahearn (Wiley Rein and Fielding) and Steve Margeton (Catholic University) have agreed to coordinate the continued on page 8 YI l LL 1998

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