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41 GLL News 1 (2015)

handle is hein.lbr/alsclnws0041 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 Maryruth Storer, SCCLL Chair Pondering The Future It is a traditional practice at the beginning of the calendar year to assess your status, to look ahead, and perhaps set some goals. Assessing a current status for our libraries is not always rosy, but even when there are negative aspects to a situation, often there is also something positive. This week I read an article in the Los Angeles Daily Journal discussing the shrinking physical space of many federal court libraries, but numerous judges were quoted making statements along the lines of what is really important is that we still have the librarian. In looking ahead, sometimes we must ponder questions to which there is no answer at present. Last week I followed a bread crumb trail through several blog posts to one by Lee Rosen, a North Carolina lawyer, in which he advocates experimenting as a necessary step for growth. You should endlessly change things in a controlled manner so you can determine what works in your practice. ... You either maintain the status quo, or you grow. Growth is about experiments. As he mentions, not all experiments are successful, but they will be learning experiences. Let's share our experiments and their outcomes. When times seem bleak, I've often been buoyed by my colleagues as we discuss issues, whether by phone, email or the occasional real-time meeting. Plan to make that effort to reach out and share your experiences in assessing and handling a mutual situation. I'll share the results of an experiment in my county. Our Superior Court has established five Self Help Centers in the regional courthouses, all but one of which are some distance from the County Law Library. Many of the Self Help Center customers had difficulty traveling to our Law Library location, so we came up with the idea of providing some library materials at each Center: a basic Westlaw Patron Access subscription and a set of 25 Nolo Press titles. Over a year later, we found that the Westlaw subscriptions were almost never used, even with our promotion efforts and providing training to the Self Let's share our experiments and their outcomes. When times seem bleak, I've often been buoyed by my colleagues as we discuss issues, whether by phone, email or the occasional real-time meeting.

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