September/October Issue of Spectrum Online

The September/October  issue of AALL Spectrum is available online in PDF format. This month’s articles include:

• Photos and program reviews from the Annual Meeting
• Excellence in Marketing Award winners
• An optimistic take on furloughs
• Vendor relations for the 21st century

Also, readers respond to this month’s “Member to Member” question: How do you apply what you learn at conferences and put ideas into action?

Paper copies mailed out to members on Monday, September 21, so look for them in your mailboxes soon.

Make Your Legislators Listen – Free Online Advocacy Training

Help improve access to legal information and strengthen AALL’s voice in government decisions – join our advocacy team. If you’re interested in learning the tools you need to make your legislators listen when you have something to say, we invite you to sign up for AALL’s free online advocacy training session, Join AALL’s Advocacy Team: How to Deliver Our Message, on October 14, from 1-2 p.m. EDT.

Speakers are AALL Government Relations Office staff members, Mary Alice Baish and Emily Feldman, and “advocacy guru” Stephanie Vance, guest speaker at AALL’s 2009 Day on the Hill. Vance will explain how to develop and deliver a message to your representatives about the importance of free online access to Congressional Research Service reports and the digital authentication of online legal resources. Register today!

AALL Thinks Strategically

Next year the AALL 2005-2010 Strategic Directions come to an end. AALL members, with the Executive Board Strategic Directions Committee, will craft a new Strategic Directions plan. The Strategic Directions Committee has created a new blog, Thinking Strategically, to get the ideas and conversations started. Visit the blog and share your thoughts on the first three questions:

1. How do we seize the moment and make it our own?

2. Where do we, law librarians, want to be in the next 3 years?

3. What is required of us to create the world that we envision?