President, Jessica Zairo, welcomed everyone and discussed upcoming meetings. CFALL and SIS will have a Christmas Mixer in Gulfport at the Habana Café.   FSCCLL meets in October.  Jessica proposed   providing a scholarship for someone from CFALL to attend next year. Bret from West offered to have a speaker present for an upcoming meeting.

The Treasurer reported a balance of $1,034.19

Norma Wise, Head Librarian of the HCLL provided everyone with Pro Se litigant material from HCLL, a brochure of the new library as well as Westlaw training and a brochure.

Norma then gave a brief tour of the new library which recently relocated to a new building.
 

Meeting adjourned at 1:00 pm

Vice President, Jessica Zairo, welcomed everyone and introduced Attorney, Michael Hayes of Hill Ward & Henderson.  Mr. Hayes presented a lecture on legal research and the

CFALL members voted on amendments to the CFALL bylaws that were proposed at the May 2008 executive board meeting. All changes were adopted and entered into the current bylaws.

Ballots for the CFALL 2008 – 2009 General Election were distributed. Members voted unanimously to elect Whitney Curtis as Vice President/President Elect. Helen Beaulieu remains in office as Secretary/Treasurer.

A new CFALL brochure prepared by Jessica Zairo, to distribute in libraries and to potential ne members was presented.

Meeting adjourned at 1:15 pm

Vice President, Jessica Zairo, welcomed everyone and introduced speakers Jennifer Bluth and Robin McManigal with LexisNexis. Jennifer presented LexisNexis’ Total Litigator; a “tool which enables attorneys to uncover vital information necessary to gain strategic advantages throughout the litigation lifecycle, all in one place.” Jennifer then discussed the LexisNexis Courtlink product which is an online docket access, research and tracking solution.

Treasurer, Helen Beaulieu, reported a balance on hand as of February 12, 2008 of $859.77 which includes dues collected at the October 20th 2007 meeting in the amount of $140.00.

Jessica Zairo said that she tried to contact the SLA regarding our assistance with the FLA conference in April, yet no one has responded. Cathy Rentschler tried, as well, and received no response.

The attendees were asked to approve a dollar amount for CFALL to spend on the Scholarship Silent Auction basket at the FLA conference in April. Jessica and Helen came up with initial ideas and some other ideas were added. In the end, Bill Cronin suggested spending between $100.00 and $200.00 and this amount was approved by all.

Jessica Zairo asked for volunteers to create a CFALL brochure and bookmarks to hand out at the SARC/FLA conference. Wanda Barrett, Helen Beaulieu & Jessica Zairo offered.

Jessica Zairo solicited ideas to acquire new members in CFALL. Suggestions included asking the members of SFALL to join our association. Another idea was to contact the Florida State Court County Law Libraries (FSCCLL) organization. Earlene Kuester recommended asking the law firm Librarians, who used to attend regularly, if there might be a better day to hold our meetings. Wanda Barrett is sending the CFALL email list to Helen Beaulieu so that emails can be sent to the law firms with a follow-up letter for emphasis.

Meeting adjourned at 12:45pm

President, Rebecca Trammell, welcomed all, introduced herself and asked the same of all in attendance. She discussed the upcoming SLA Southeastern Conference, Feb 27 to Feb 29 in St. Petersburg. Also in the Spring, the FLA conference will be on St. Pete Beach. Help with registration is especially needed and CFALL may volunteer to help.

Contact has been made with SIS and a joint meeting in December will be planned. The place and date are yet to be determined.

Unfortunately, the Secretary/Treasurer has left his position at PCLL and has resigned his office with CFALL. Rebecca Trammell called for volunteers. Nora Everlove said she would do it if no one else was interested. After the meeting, Helen Beaulieu said she could assume the duties. All parties present agreed to the change.

A complete and accurate membership roster needs to be compiled and Stetson needs to be billed as an institutional member. Dues remain at $15 per year for an individual and $30 per year for an institutional membership.

Our guest speaker was Dr. John Gathegi, Director of USF School of Library and Information Science. He discussed expanding copyright control and the factors affecting the expansion. In response to questions from our membership, Dr. Gathegi said he intended to create a “certificate program” for law librarians. The first step will include expanding law librarianship classes at USF. It was noted that Stetson in Tampa has graciously opened its doors to Special Library classes for local (as opposed to online) learners.

Wanda Barrett was thanked for making all of the lunch arrangements.

The meeting was adjourned.

The annual meeting of the Central Florida Association of Law Libraries was held at 11:45 on Tuesday, August 28, 2007, at the Stetson College of Law Tampa Campus, with twelve members in attendance.  The meeting was organized by Rebecca S. Trammell and Pamela Burdett, and the luncheon was graciously provided by Stetson College of Law. 

Vice President / President Elect Rebecca S. Trammell welcomed the group to Stetson, and discussed upcoming changes to the Tampa campus library.  The Library is expanding to the second floor of the Law Center, and will include additional reading rooms and  meeting space.

Cathy Rentschler, chair of the nominating committee, presented the slate of officers for 2007-2008 as follows:

President – Rebecca S. Trammell, Stetson College of Law

Vice President/President Elect – Jessica Zairo, Everlove & Associates

Secretary/Treasurer – Jeffrey Shibley, Pinellas County Law Library

It was moved and seconded that the slate be elected as presented and all present voted in favor.  Congratulations to the new officers, and thank you for graciously agreeing to serve the organizing in the coming year.

Rebecca S. Trammell led a discussion of future group meetings.  Pamela Burdett and Jessica Zairo will work on the October meeting, with a focus on inviting the new director of the University of South Florida School of Library and Information Science, John N. Gathegi, PhD, JD.  Pam and Jess will contact Dr. Gathegi to discuss arrangements for the October meeting.  Wanda Barrett will contact the Suncoast Information Specialists to discuss the possibility of holding a joint social event in December. 

Cathy Rentschler discussed several upcoming meetings in the Tampa Bay Area.  The Special Library Association Chapters of the South Atlantic states, (Florida & Caribbean, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia) are hosting the South Atlantic Regional Conference IV in the Carillon area of St. Petersburg, February 27-29, 2008.  In addition, the annual meeting of the Florida Library Association will be held in St. Pete Beach, April 23-25, 2008.  The group discussed several ways to provide assistance to the local arrangements committees for these two conferences, by providing lists of local restaurants or volunteering to stuff bags or man registration tables.  Cathy Rentschler will contact the FLA committee, and Nora Everlove will contact the SARC IV committee. 

Jessica Zairo addressed the group regarding the future of the Hillsborough County Law Library.  The Hillsborough County Commission is considering moving the law library into the public library, greatly reducing the print collection and the accessibility of legal information to the public.  Jessica Zairo, Rebecca S. Trammell and Wanda Barrett will draft a letter to be approved by the group via email, to send to the county commission in support of maintaining the independence of the library. 

Our treasury is in the hands of out-going president Keri White, who underwent spinal surgery this summer, and was unable to attend the meeting.  The current account balance is $937.15.  Jeffrey Shibley will work with Keri to transfer the account and deposit the dues collected at the meeting. 

Dues were collected from most members present at the meeting.  Membership forms were available at the meeting, and are available on CFALL’s website at http://www.tblc.org/cfall/membership_form.pdf. 

Rebecca S. Trammell introduced the speaker, Darlene L. Kelly, Executive Director of the Hillsborough Bar Foundation.  Ms. Kelly explained that the Foundation is the charitable arm of the Hillsborough County Bar Association.  The Foundation collects donations to support programs that provide legal assistance to the poor, including Bay Area Legal Services, the Spring of Tampa Bay and the Guardian Ad Litem program.  An annual dinner has raised over $100,000 over the past three years in support of these programs.  A new program was added this year, Connected By 25, which aims to bridge the gap of children who age out of social services.  Speakers at these dinners have included Tim Russert, Fred Thompson, and James Carvell.  The Chester H. Ferguson Law Center is under construction next door to the Tampa campus of Stetson College of Law.  The Center will house the Foundation and the Bar Association, and offers space for meetings and mediation.  Between the two buildings, entire conferences can be conducted at this location.

At the end of the meeting, a drawing was held for prizes donated by Lexis and Westlaw.  No one went away empty handed.

• The last annual meeting was held in November 2005.
• Checking account was updated to correct signers. A check card was obtained to make purchases easier.
• A $500.00 donation was made to the Library Science program at the University of South Florida in the name of Madison Mosley.
  

• Keri White asked that we try to set up CFALL meeting dates as soon as possible.
• Cathy Rentschler told us about the 6th Annual Advanced Management Conference of Law Librarian in Dallas, TX in 4/2007. No cost for conference but you must apply and be selected.
• Should CFALL Continue? Was the main question asked. Keri asked for feed back via email about suggestions, ideas, etc.
• Bill Cronin asked if the CFALL group email list is working and it is.
• Participants were asked to consider joining some of the committees. The committees consist of Program, Bylaws, Newsletter, Membership and Nominating for 2007.
• Future program ideas were discussed including programs sponsored by vendors.
• Jay Fakterowitz offered a Westlaw presentation.
• Rebecca Trammell offered to host a meeting at the Stetson Tampa campus in downtown Tampa.
• BYLAWS COMMITTEE: Bill Cronin, Cathy Rentschler, Helen Beaulieu, Wanda Barrett - to submit bylaws changes to the group by March
• FUTURE MEETINGS:
  BOARD MEETING January
  BYLAWS COMMITTEE MEETING February
  GENERAL MEETING April