摘要：The word advocacy is not one that I use regularly. The first time I encountered it in my professional life was in the American Bar Association’s Preamble of the Model Rules of Professional Conduct while I was in law school. Those rules state that, among other roles, “As advocate, a lawyer zealously asserts the client’s position under the rules of the adversary system.” Perhaps it is because of the wording of that sentence, specifically the invocation of “zeal,” that I have always linked advocacy with religion and proselytizing. This year, at the AALL Annual Meeting in Seattle, I learned that the Association’s 2010-2013 Strategic Plan and the new 2013-2016 Strategic Plan, approved by the Executive Board in December 2012, include an Advocacy category, specifically the goal that “AALL and its members will influence legal and government information policies in the public and private sectors.”
