Chair

This individual is elected to the Board for three years, serving as Vice Chair/Chair-elect, then Chair, and finally Past Chair. The three-year term allows the individual to prepare to take over as chair and then to assure continuity in the succeeding year's board.

 

The Chair:

• Serves as the contact with AALL headquarters, with the chair of the SIS Council, and with the AALL Board's liaison to CS-SIS.
• Serves as the spokesperson for information requested about CS-SIS from both within and outside AALL.
• Represents CS-SIS at the SIS Council meeting.
• Submits an annual report on CS-SIS activities to the AALL Executive Board, which is later published in Law Library Journal.
• Appoints CS-SIS committee chairs for his/her term.  Sends letter of appointment to chairs.
• Coordinates or assigns special projects of the SIS (e.g., strategic planning).
• Communicates during the course of the year with executive board and committee chairs on the business of the SIS.
• Prepares the time schedule for all CS-SIS-sponsored activities at the AALL annual meeting, including section-sponsored substantive programs, business and board meetings, standing and ad hoc committee meetings, and roundtables.
• Prepares the agenda and presides over the outgoing Executive Board meeting.
• Prepares the agenda and presides over the CS-SIS annual business meeting.