It is certainly a step in the right direction that on Nov. 5, 2011, the AALL Executive Board unanimously approved the Consumer Advocacy Caucus petition for official recognition because no way was this a “sure thing.” See the Consumer Advocacy…
Posts Tagged ‘Advocacy’
Over 175 AALL Members Support the Consumer Advocacy Caucus Petition
03
Nov
According to the recently filed amended petition reported on the Library Consumer Advocacy Caucus blog [download petition with attachments]: 57 AALL members signed the petition, of which of 19 are law firm librarians; 30 are academic law librarians; 6 are…
Librarians, Vendors and AALL: Is anyone really asking (or expecting) AALL to do their jobs for them when conducting business with vendors?
31
Oct
In calling upon AALL to doing something in terms of consumer advocacy for its institutional buyer members in the commercial marketplace, some, well at least one, professional law librarian, apparently thinks law librarians are not performing their jobs: Asking AALL…
SCOTUS Justices on the Language of Law: Advocacy and Legal Writing (and by Implication Legal Research, Too)
30
Jun
On Legal Writing Prof Blog, Judith D. Fischer (Louisville) writes: The latest issue of the Scribes Journal of Legal Writing (Volume 13) is a gold mine of Supreme Court justices’ observations about brief writing and oral argument. Several years ago,…
