AALL PRESS RELEASE
HEADLINE: AALL Offers Toolkit to Promote Law Libraries’ Value
CONTACT:
Roger H. Parent, Executive Director
312/939-4764; aallhq@aol.com
The American Association of Law Libraries(AALL) is offering a Toolkit to help
legal information professionals everywhere manage their resources and promote
the value of their services within their firms and institutions.
This Toolkit, formally known as Law Librarians: Making Information Work, is
an information package containing such items as a briefing on the law
librarian’s changing role in the legal information workplace; a handbook for
gathering statistics that quantify library activity; private firm law
librarian standards; a guide to implementing effective user surveys; and
more.
The centerpiece of the Toolkit is the Management Briefing: Making a Law
Library Work. This 16-page booklet is designed to help law firm managers
maximize law library and information resources. It covers issues surrounding
current technology, resource management, and profitability, and contains many
useful tips on basic law library operations.
The Toolkit is the result of a year-long effort by AALL’s Task Force on the
Value of Law Libraries. The Task Force, appointed by AALL Past Presidents
Carol Billings (Director of the Law Library, Law Library of Louisiana, New
Orleans, Louisiana) and Pat Kehoe (Director of the Law Library and Professor
of Law, American University, Washington D.C.) in July 1995, has worked to
demonstrate the essential nature of law libraries and law librarians to the
cost-effective provision of quality information services in this age of
information technology.
The Toolkit, which includes the Management Briefing, is available for $25
($35 for non-members). Additional copies of the Management Briefing are also
available at a cost of $15 for 5 copies. The Toolkit can be ordered from the
AALL Executive Staff Office by calling 312/939-4764.
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