The February issue of AALL Spectrum is available online in PDF format. This month’s articles include:
- Capitalize on library accomplishments to boost PR
- Solutions for improving your workflow at an old job or organizing for a new one
- Inside a new Space and Telecommunications Law LLM degree program
- Are free online statutory codes good enough to meet users’ needs?
- Saving Connecticut’s Judicial Branch Law Libraries–The recent crisis and beyond
- Point/Counterpoint–AALL and legal publishers: Is there a conflict of interest?
- Also, readers respond to this month’s “Member to Member” question: Why did you become a law librarian?
Paper copies mailed out to members on January 25, so look for them in your mailboxes soon.
AALL Spectrum Blog 
I agree strongly with Michael Ginsborg that AALL, as a professional organization has an ethical obligation to take a strong stand on abusive practices by vendors. It is part of our claim to be professionals. We undermine our own impartiality and our appearance of objectivity to the world when we accept gifts, large or small from vendors. I refer readers to a blog post at Out of the Jungle that has links to 2 other excellent sources: Johnny B. and The Boston Globe. See http://outofthejungle.blogspot.com/2009/08/time-to-change-our-relation-to-vendors.html#links
or http://tinyurl.com/65tzoty
Betsy McKenzie