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6 LISP Newsl. 1 (1993-1994)

handle is hein.lbr/lisp0006 and id is 1 raw text is: LISP NEWSLETTER Ameilan Assoclntio of Law 1Jhartm / , i \ LEGAL INFORMATION SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC SPECIAL INTEREST SECTION VOLUME 6 NO. 1 LETTER FROM THE CHAIR LISP and I are the same age. LISP celebrates its sixth anniversary as a full- fledged Special Interest Section this year. This is my sixth year as a full-fledged member of AALL. I got involved with LISP by volunteering for a committee a few years ago and look what happened. Whether or not you aspire to a leadership role, LISP depends on help from its members to get its work done. I will be calling for a number of volunteers in the coming year. It really doesn't take very much time. Think about it! My most important goal this year is to resolve the scheduling conflict with Contemporary Social Problems. For some time now, the business meetings for LISP and CSP have been scheduled against each other on Sunday afternoons. This is frustrating for people who belong to both and have to choose one or the other. To fix this problem we will have to give up the LISP Luncheon. While I have enjoyed attending the Luncheons, they are expensive and attendance has declined. As travel budgets are stretched to their limits I just don't feel comfortable scheduling a costly meal function as part of the meeting. More and more SIS's are scheduling substantive programs to supplement their business meetings. Since the actual conference does not begin until the FALL 1993 Opening Reception on Sunday evening, SIS's can do whatever they want without needing the approval of the Education Committee. A logical development of this concept is for LISP and CSP to jointly sponsor a substantive program. We could squeeze in non-conflicting business meetings at either end. I am working on this with CSP Chair Karen Edwards, and hope to have something more definite to report in next issue. Another new development is that SIS Newsletters are now free to solicit advertising. As you will see in the minutes, Frank Herch and Nancy Diel will be looking into this for us. NOLO Press is an obvious candidate. The newsletter is our single biggest expense; if it were to become self-funded that would leave us more money to use for other things. I am calling for volunteers to help write a new LISP Brochure. This is not to be confused with Lee Warthen's impressive efforts. Lee is to be congratulated for an outstanding job on his brochure Research in Law for Non-Lawyers. He has put an incredible amount of information onto 8- 1/2 by 11 inches of paper, yet still made it readable. The brochure I am proposing would explain what LISP is to those who are new to AALL. Besides having the acronym that is the most fun to say, who are we and what do we do? This brochure would be included in the welcome packets that headquarters sends to new members, and could be distributed at

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