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9 LISP Newsl. 1 (1996-1997)

handle is hein.lbr/lisp0009 and id is 1 raw text is: L IS P LEGAL INFORMATION SERVICE TO THE PUBLIC NEWSLETTER A SPECIAL INTEREST SECTION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES VOLUME 9, NUMBER 1 FALL 1996 NEWS FROM DAVID In Indianapolis, the LISP members attend- ing our annual business meeting decided on three new projects for the coming year. First, Rick Stroup our new newsletter editor, volunteered a member of the staff from King County Law Library to take LISP into the modem age by creating our own homepage. Initially our plan is to include: 1) general information about the SIS includ- ing the SIS brochure, list of officers, con- vention program news and other related matters 2) LISP Newsletter 3) How to Research a Legal Problem: A Guide for Non-Lawyers (our AALL/LISP pamphlet that Lee Warthen wrote for us) 4) LISP Clearinghouse Bibliography 5) the text of materials from the bibliogra- phy with permission of the authors 6) links to other websites of interest espe- cially to laypeople and non-law librarians. This homepage is envisioned as both an internal product informing our members of essen- tial information as well as a site that non-LISP members could visit to find out helpful information about legal information for the public. Marsha Thomas and Betsy Sandison have agreed to help us commit the fondest form offlattery on the Private Law Libraries SIS. We decided that ifthey could have a toolkit, we could too! They will be working on a Public Library toolkit which we could use as a promotional device about the SIS but more importantly one that could contain informa- tion that the public librarian can use in dealing with legal inquiries. Another project that we will have in 1996- 97 is yet another survey. Joan Allen-Hart will be surveying/contacting the AALL chapters and other organizations to see who is doing workshops, train- ing sessions, producing materials, etc. for public librarians and others. Many chapters do not have a Legal Information Service to the Public or a Public Access to Legal Information committee but through education committees, pro bono committees, ad hoc programs and in other ways, they carry out the goals of LISP on the local level. We wish to identify those groups so that we can make intelligent referrals. One practical result of this survey is that the new homepage could act as a referral service so that a local public librarian could be brought, for example, into contact with a local AALL chapter in their area that could do a workshop for them. *** .>

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