NOCALL Officers & Committees

PUBLIC ACCESS

The Chair is appointed by the President for a term of one year.  The Chair may appoint additional committee members as needed.

1.   Charge. 

• Contact and serve as resource person to publicly-supported libraries and organization, including but not limited to: public libraries, academic libraries and cooperative organizations. 
• Prepare, gather and distribute pertinent materials for use by non-law librarians and their patrons.
• Investigate the public’s access to legal materials.

2.   Duties.

• Provide and/or oversee the provisions of training and education on basic legal materials for individuals working in organizations described above.
• Evaluate the legal collections of libraries describe above, to insure that a basic level of accuracy and currency is met.
• Publicize the committee’s services as described above to the appropriate organizations.