I am one in favor of combining the two conferences. Every year I must make the decision of which one to attend since I can only go to one or the other. Combining them would certainly simplify things not only for attendees, but for vendors also.
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Kathie Sweeney, Library Director
Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, P.C.
Baltimore, MD
** Opinions are my own and not necessarily shared by my employer. **
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu]On
Behalf Of Laura Orr
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 5:27 PM
To: Law-Lib (E-mail)
Subject: The Annual Satanic Versus: SLA or AALL
The April 15th Library Journal (not LLJ) has an interesting and
to-the-point article titled, "Is Association [ALA] Membership Worth it."
I just got my AALL renewal form and am faced with my own annual dilemma,
AALL or SLA. I am tempted to try out SLA (AALL has always won out in the
past, although the vote gets closer each year). I do have SLA friends (and
a sibling) who are members, and participate in some of their online
discussions, so don't feel totally out of the SLA loop though not a member.
And I do still tilt slightly AALL-ward, but ....
If you have faced a similar dilemma, what argument(s) took you over the
edge, so to speak, to one organization or the other?
I'll post a summary and preserve everyone's identity (even when I list names
they are not done in the same order as the responses included).
Thanks!
Laura
P.S. A few years ago (mid-90's maybe - yikes) I posted a question to law-lib
asking why can't AALL and SLA coordinate their annual meetings so their
exhibits (and the ever shrinking number of exhibiters) would overlap
(essentially the 2 organizations would bracket or sandwich (is sandwich a
verb?) a shared exhibit hall). More than half the responses (all in favor
of considering this and other ideas) said, "please don't mention my name."
I suspect this is still a sensitive subject.
P.P.S. And at the risk of putting myself in an even smaller doghouse, 2008
might be a good year to think about this. Portland is the designated AALL
annual meeting site that year and as much as I love (adore & cherish) my
home city, it is totally unsuitable for a conference this size: no
convention center hotel (and none in the pipeline), no large hotels at all
for that matter, public transit would be needed to get from hotel to most
meetings and events, and very few non-stop flights from East Coast and many
other cities.) We would love to host AALL here in our beautiful city, but
....
P.P.P.S. Maybe by burying this Subversive Idea in a postscript, I won't get
too much flack :-)
Laura Orr
Law Librarian
Washington County Law Library
111 NE Lincoln Street
Hillsboro, OR 97124
Phone: 503-846-8870
Fax: 503-846-3515
Email: laura_orr@co.washington.or.us
"To verb is human, to adverb divine"
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