As someone who works in private law libraries (I'm at Biddle only on
Saturdays), I couldn't agree with you and Jenny Wu more. Promoting
ourselves and making the business case for what we do is difficult at best;
when our own professional association abandons any form of support for
those of us fighting the daily battles for respect and recognition, it's
just another obstacle for us to overcome with our personal resources
already strained to the limit. I personally feel that this latest action
(or lack of same) is almost as appalling as considering cutting off or
cutting back on LLJ.
Ann Davidson
Biddle Law Library
University of Pennsylvania
adavidso@oyez.law.upenn.edu
Opinions expressed are mine, not those of my institution.
>
>
> I agree that it's really deplorable for AALL to offer nothing of specific
> substance relating to NLW celebrations. As a private law firm librarian,
I
> often think that my AALL dues are largely wasted, since there's very
little
> that I get back from the organization as a whole that relates to my
> professional needs and concerns, other than the benefit of belonging to
the
> PLL SIS. AALL spends an awful lot of money on various tasks forces and
> legislative monitoring and networking...but when it comes down to it,
it's
> just too big and cumbersome an organization to provide much practical,
> everyday benefit to the professional law librarian. [Hey, it's Friday,
I'm
> bored, and I feel like inciting a ruckus. Let's get some spirited
> discussion going, and stop glutting the lines with all those "reference
> help" e-mails!!!]
> Lee Nemchek
> Morrison & Foerster
> lnemchek@mofo.com
>
>
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