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40 SCCLL News 1 (2014)

handle is hein.lbr/alsclnws0040 and id is 1 raw text is: A Newsletter of the State, Court and County SpecialI nterest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries I View from the Chair Larry Meyer, SCCLL Chair As I write this message, Southern California is enjoying a comfortable and unseasonably warm and dry winter. Many of you in other parts of the country are not as fortunate and are experiencing weather that is colder, wetter and snowier than normal. For each of you, my wish is that you and yours may stay warm and comfortable until Spring arrives. Sooner than you think, your winter weather will seem a distant memory as many of you will travel to San Antonio to enjoy their warm temperatures and the hospitality of the region. As you begin your preparations for San Antonio, please remember to put on your schedule both the SCCLL Sunday morning breakfast and the SCCLL reception to be held Monday late afternoon/early evening. Both events are a great time to catch up with friends and meet new colleagues. These two events will also be an opportunity for us to continue celebrating 40 years of SCCLL. More information on both events will be forthcoming on the SCCLL listserv and in the next issue of the newsletter. While the visit to San Antonio will in many ways be a respite from our day to day endeavors, it will also be a time for many of us to have serious conversations with each other and with vendors as to the future. Our membership, as a whole, is deeply concerned about the twin pressures of decreasing budgets and increasing costs. Many of us have spent much time and energy looking at how to balance these two opposing forces in order to continue to provide the best possible service to our respective user communities. Recent conversations with members of SCCLL and vendors have reinforced, in my mind, that this is a crucial time for many of us and our respective institutions. Dan Cordova's recent article in The CRIVSheet (Unbundling Online Legal Materials, February 2014) is but one example of ideas that each of us should be mulling over in our minds. Ideas, including those outside the box,

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