The Asian Law Working Group held its annual meeting at 5:00 pm on July 22,1996, at the Convention Center in Indianapolis. Bill McCloy (University of Washington Law Library) chaired the meeting. Other attendees were Kai-yun Chiu (Baltimore Bar Library), Joan Liu (New York University Law Library), Wei Luo (Southern Illinois University Law Library), Grace Ooi (Columbia University Law Library), Mila Rush (University of Minnesota Law Library), and Nongji Zhang (Harvard University Law Library). Most attendees came to the meeting with both institutional and personal interests in Asian Law.

During the two-hour long meeting, a variety of issues on Asian Law collection were discussed. Mr. McCloy reported news and activities of the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) and the Committee on Research Materials for Southeast Asia (CORMOSEA). Some participants introduced briefly new developments in the collection of Asian Law materials at their respective institutions. For instance, Columbia University has explored a new approach to a more effective acquisition of Chinese legal literature and material. A former Chinese visiting scholar from P.R.China, who is familiar with the policy and demands of collection development at Columbia, is appointed as a Columbia representative to help purchase Chinese legal material on a regular basis. Supported by a state grant, University of Washington has began retrospective conversion of the CJK collections to LC. During the process and working with LC, four new LC subclass numbers were created by LC under KNN. After completing a proposal to outsource its Chinese legal material in the collection, Duke Law Library has also started to enact a similar proposal on its Japanese collection by outsourcing. New York University Law Library is actively working on the CJK collections and planning to outsource cataloging in order to match the pace of the Law School's Global Law School Program.

The attendees at the meeting also discussed some new Asian Law resources in both electronic format and paper version. For instance, there is a new CD-ROM product on Japanese Law: Horitsu Hanrei Bunken Joho (Current Legal Information), which is a favorite to the faculty and students at University of Washington Law Library. Some fee-based Internet resources, such as World News Connection (http://wnc. fedworld.gov), has been accepted by many institutions for its fair price and good service. This database covers Asian media sources from East Asia, Near East & South Asia, and China, and includes major legal journals and documents from those regions and countries. Some other issues, such as the Law-on-line (the quality of this database and services) and the RLIN CJK new window's version, were brought into the discussion as well.

At the meeting, Mr. Wei Luo from Southern Illinois University School of Law Library was elected as the incoming Chair of the Asian Law Working Group.

State and Law in Eastern Asia. Edited by Leslie Palmier. Brookfield, VT: Dartmouth, 1996.

Greater China: Law, Society and Trade. Edited by Alice E-S. Tay and Conita S.C. Leung, foreword by Wang Gungwu. North Ryde, NSW: The Law Book Co., 1995.

The Coming White Minority: California's Eruptions and America's Future. By Dale Maharidge. New York: TimesBooks, 1996.

Cossette Sun, Chairwoman of the AALL Committee on Diversity (COD), wishes to encourage more Asian-American law librarians to participate in COD programs in the 1997 AALL Convention in Baltimore. The COD submitted eight proposals to the Education Committee, of which two have been accepted. The accepted programs are: 1. "Navigating Your Career for Optimal Success & Satisfaction: The Art of Smart Moves and Smart Choices;" 2. "Pulling Up the Drawbridge: the High Tech Law Library - Diversity Friend or Foe?" In addition, the COD will co-sponsor with the AALLC a program on "Asian American: The Reticent Minority and Their Paradoxes: An Update."

Another exciting program is a half-day Diversity Summit to be held on Sunday, July 19, 1997 between 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m., followed by a reception. Among the invited speakers, Dr. Ching-Chin Chen of Simmons College, a candidate for the 1996 ALA President, is expected to show. The Summit will be divided into three segments. The first is "The History of Diversity in the Profession of Law Librarianship in Relation to the History of the AALL Committee on Diversity." The second is "Workplace Diversity - Participation in Professional Organizations for Personal and Professional Growth." And the third is "Workplace Diversity - Management and Legal Perspectives." Dean Henry Ramssey, of Howard University Law School, will discuss the legal status of affirmation action.

If you need more information about the COD, please check out our home page at: Http:// www. law.vill.edu/~yjones/diversity/, or send e-mail to: Cossette Sun (csun@admin2.mail.co.alameda.ca.us) or Chaio P. Chao (liblwpcc@vaxc.hofstra.edu.)