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A Newsletter of the Government Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries
View from the Chair
Kelly Browne, GILL Chair
Learning from Each Other
This is my second View from the Chair column, and as I am writing it the
most controversial thing going on is the vote to change the name American
Association of Law Libraries to Association for Legal Information. As chair
of the GLL-SIS, I was part of the group that came up with that name, along
with the chairs of the ALL-SIS and the PLLIP-SIS, the Special Interest Section
Council Chair, the Chapter Council Chair, the AALL Board, and of course,
Mission Minded, the company hired to assist in the Rebranding Initiative.
Everyone at the table seemed very pleased with the new name, and seemed
to support it. At least three California county law librarians did: John Adkins,
Director of the San Diego Law Library, me, and Maryruth Storer, GLL-SIS
Immediate Past Chair, who was quoted in the Spectrum:
I know change is difficult for everyone. I'm a traditionalist and I was a history
major, so there's a nice history to the current name. But it is American
Association of Law Libraries. That's an association of places, and the work
that all of us do now is not limited to four walls in a place that's called a
library. We are providing legal information throughout our communities and
[the name Association for Legal Information] helps to emphasize how broad
our mission is now.
During the process of coming up with the new name, I heard others express
views that I had never thought of before. When the vote on the new name
was announced, I saw comments on AALLNET that expressed views I had
never considered. When I was finally able to express my support during the
second Town Hall meeting (traffic was so busy I hadn't been able to get in at
the beginning), I received questioning emails about the process, which I tried
to answer as best I could. I did not consider those emails rude or to be
personal attacks against me, just emails from people trying to understand
the process.
1 support and voted for the
name change for a variety of
reasons. I thought it would
allow those government law
libraries that could afford to
do so send
paraprofessionals to AALL
educational events. I thought
it a vast improvement over
American Association of Law
Libraries. (An Association is
an organization of people, not
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