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43 GLL News 1 (2017)

handle is hein.lbr/alsclnws0043 and id is 1 raw text is: A Newsletter of the Government Law Libraries Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries View from the Chair Jennifer Dalglish, GILL Chair It is okay to change our minds. Progress is impossible unless we do. In my 2015 candidate statement, I made a commitment to this section to help seek and find innovative ways to thrive and grow. More specifically, I hoped to enhance our regular methods of membership communication and involvement and implement new opportunities for our members to collaborate and share our experiences and expertise in positive ways. In the last newsletter, I talked about the community groug that was recently created to continue the discussion on the topic of managing government law library in today's environment.: If you haven't joined, it's not too late. This is one of the ways we have enhanced and expanded our regular methods of membership communication and involvement. Another thing to watch for is an enhanced Featured section on our website. The Publicity and Public Relations and Technology Committees are working together to shine a spotlight every other month on one of our members. If you know a fellow member with an interesting story to tell about the work they are doing, please forward your recommendation to one of these committees. Recently, you may have noticed a survey link I sent to the listserv regarding our annual business meeting. The survey had two simple questions: 1) Will you be attendingthe 110th Annual AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Austin? Yes No Maybe 2) Which of the following AALLGLL-SIS Business Meeting options would you prefer? Breakfast Luncheon Either First, I'd like to thank the 53 members that responded to the survey! Suffice it say, more than a few feathers were ruffled by our putting this idea out there. As I mentioned earlier, we have to be willing to change our minds about the way we've always done things in order to progress. 60.38% of those responding indicated they would be in attendance, 11.32% indicated they would not be in attendance and 28.3% indicated they would maybe be in attendance. (2 members skipped the first question.) Interestingly enough, the second question resulted in a three-way tie with 33% indicating they would prefer breakfast, 33% indicating they would prefer a luncheon and 33% indicating they would prefer

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