ALL-SIS "What's New"

• ALL-SIS Election Results
• Proposed Bylaws Change
• Voting in the ALL-SIS election
• Academic Law Library SIS Election
• Awards Nomination Deadline is March 31st
• Student Services in Academic Law Libraries Survey
• ALL-SIS Awards, Call for Nominations
• Slate for Election of ALL-SIS Officers
• AALL Awards Committee Seeks Nominations for Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award
• ALL-SIS Announces Changes for 2008 Annual Meeting

ALL-SIS Election Results

DianeMurley | April 29, 2008 11:48

ALL-SIS Secretary Linda Ryan has announced the results of the ALL-SIS election:

• Chair-Elect: Beth Adelman, U. of Buffalo
• Secretary/Treasurer: Sara Sampson, Georgetown

Proposed Bylaws Change

DianeMurley | April 29, 2008 11:21

A proposed change to the ALL-SIS bylaws, which will be voted on at the annual meeting, has been posted to the ALL-SIS website at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/bylaws/proposedbylaws2008.pdf.

Voting in the ALL-SIS election

DianeMurley | April 01, 2008 11:04

To vote in the ALL-SIS election, you need the special password that was emailed to you early this morning. It is not the same as your AALL password. The email was from AALL Form Mailer [formmailer@aall.org], and the subject was "ALL-SIS election now open."

Academic Law Library SIS Election

DianeMurley | March 26, 2008 14:59

Dear ALL-SIS Member:

The ALL-SIS Election begins on April 1 and runs through April 25, 2008.

Candidates for office are:

For Vice/Chair-Chair/Elect

• Beth Adelman, Associate Director and Head of Collection Management, University of Buffalo Law Library
• Kristina L. Niedringhaus, Associate Dean of Information Resources & Technology; Associate Professor of Law, Phoenix School of Law Library

For Secretary/Treasurer

• JoAnn Hounshell, Director of Bibliographic Services, Chicago-Kent College of Law Library
• Sara Sampson, Head of Reference, Georgetown University Law

Because there is no Member at Large vacancy this year, the election of a Member at Large will be postponed until next year.

Full candidate bios and statements are available on the election website, which is located at https://vote.aallnet.org/sis-all/. You will soon be receiving an email containing election website login information and your election password. If you do not receive that email, or if need any other assistance in voting, please contact me.

Thank you for participating in the ALL-SIS election.

Linda Ryan
ALL-SIS Secretary/Treasurer

Awards Nomination Deadline is March 31st

DianeMurley | March 20, 2008 13:15

Colleagues,

I am contacting you as Chair of this year's ALL-SIS Awards Committee. It is not too late to nominate someone to receive one of the SIS Awards. The criteria for all the awards may be examined at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/criteria.asp.

A Summary of the Awards

The Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship recognizes an individual or group that has made outstanding contributions to academic law librarianship through continued efforts to improve law librarianship. The award, presented by the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries, is named in honor of Frederick Charles Hicks, the first great American law librarian/scholar who was also the first academic law librarian to serve as president of AALL. See http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/hicks.asp.

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award honors section members for contributions to the enhancement of academic law librarianship through publishing. Articles published in any format in any publication other than Law Library Journal and AALL Spectrum (articles from those publications are eligible for AALL Article of the Year awards) during the year prior to the award qualify for consideration. Any aspect of academic law librarianship may be addressed. A plaque will be presented to the author or authors of the winning articles. See http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/articleaward.asp.

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Service Award honors an ALL-SIS member who has made outstanding contributions to the SIS in areas of section activity and in professional service. See http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/serviceaward.asp.

On behalf of the Awards Committee, I encourage you to take the time to nominate someone for these awards. THE NOMINATION DEADLINE IS MARCH 31, 2008. Thank you.

Patricia Harris O'Connor
Director of the Law Library
Western State University College of Law
1111 N. State College Blvd.
Fullerton, CA 92831-3014

Phone: (714) 459-1175
Fax: (714) 871-4806
poconnor@wsulaw.edu

Student Services in Academic Law Libraries Survey

DianeMurley | February 20, 2008 15:22

The ALL-SIS Student Services Committee has created a survey to find out more about what types of student services are provided in law schools. If you're an academic librarian, we would appreciate it if you would take the time to answer the questions in the survey. It should take about 5-10 minutes to complete. All answers to this survey will remain anonymous. The data and comments will be summarized in an article, which will appear in the spring issue of The ALL-SIS Newsletter. We will keep the survey open for two weeks (March 5, 2008).

The survey can be found at this link.

ALL-SIS Awards, Call for Nominations

DianeMurley | February 02, 2008 19:11

The Academic Law Libraries SIS Awards Committee (Patricia Harris O'Connor, Chair) is soliciting nominations for three ALL-SIS awards:

The Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship: This award recognizes the individual or group who has made outstanding contributions to academic law librarianship through continued efforts to improve law librarianship. The award is named in honor of Frederick Charles Hicks, the first great American law librarian/scholar who was also the first academic law librarian to serve as president of AALL.

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award which honors section members for contributions to the enhancement of academic law librarianship through publishing. Articles published in any format in any publication other than Law Library Journal and AALL Spectrum during 2007 are eligible.

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Service Award honors an ALL-SIS member who has made outstanding contributions to the SIS in areas of section activity and in professional service.

The deadline for nominations for each award is March 31, 2008.

For the specifics on the criteria for each of these awards, see http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/criteria.asp.

If you have any questions, please contact Patricia Harris O'Connor at poconnor@wsulaw.edu.

Slate for Election of ALL-SIS Officers

DianeMurley | January 18, 2008 09:37

The ALL-SIS Nominations Committee is pleased to announce the slate for the annual election of officers. We received many good nominations and thank the following people who have agreed to run:

For Vice/Chair-Chair/Elect

• Beth Adelman (University of Buffalo)
• Kris Niedringhaus (Phoenix School of Law)

For Secretary

• Joann Hounshell (Chicago-Kent)
• Sara Sampson (Georgetown)

For At-Large Board Member

• Margaret Schilt (University of Chicago)
• Hugh Treacy (Whittier)

More information on the candidates will be in an upcoming issue of the newsletter. Information on voting in the election will come to you via email.

Thanks to the members of the committee: Laura Cadra, Michele Finerty, Richard Humphrey, Alison Shea, and Colleen Williams and our Board Liaison, Filippa Anzalone.

CAROL BREDEMEYER, Chair ALL-SIS Nominations Committee

AALL Awards Committee Seeks Nominations for Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award

DianeMurley | January 17, 2008 10:02

The Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award is presented to an individual nearing or following completion of an active professional career characterized by extended and sustained distinguished service to law librarianship and AALL. Honorees may be recognized for achievement in a particular area of law librarianship, for service to the Association, or for outstanding contributions to the professional literature. The individual must be or have been a member of AALL. The award may be given posthumously. The deadline for nominations is February 1 of each year. Nomination applications should include either additional supporting letters or the names of the other persons to contact for further information concerning the nominee. Each candidate shall be considered individually and confidentially and will be judged according to the criteria listed above.

Petitions and letter writing campaigns (beyond those letters included with the application) are discouraged and will not be considered in the evaluation process nor will they influence the Committee. The Awards Committee shall forward its recommendations for this award to the AALL Executive Board by March 1, for discussion at the Spring Executive Board meeting. The Executive Board will select the recipient after considering the recommendations of the Awards Committee. No more than one award will be made in any given year except at the discretion of the AALL Executive Board. Unless a qualified candidate is put forward, the award will not be given.

To submit a nomination, complete the application form available on the Awards Committee web site and send nomination packet including supporting documents to: Marian Gould Gallagher Awards Subcommittee Chair, Ruth J. Hill, Director of Library Services & Associate Professor of Law, Oliver B. Spellman Law Library, Southern University Law Center, P.O. Box 9294, Baton Rouge, LA 70813; (225)771-2139; Fax: (225)771-6254; Rhill@sulc.edu

Submission Deadline: February 1, 2008

ALL-SIS Announces Changes for 2008 Annual Meeting

DianeMurley | January 09, 2008 13:21

Based upon responses to a recent ALL-SIS survey on sponsorship for ALL-SIS events, ALL-SIS will implement some changes to its regular programming for the upcoming annual meeting in Portland.

First, ALL-SIS will forgo all vendor sponsorship for the 2008 annual meeting. This action aims to help ALL-SIS become more self-sufficient and to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest.

Second, times and/or dates of events have been changed to accommodate the tighter schedules of the now condensed annual meeting and to make sponsorship less critical. The changes are as follows:

1. The Middle Mangers' event, traditionally held as a breakfast, will now be scheduled as a late afternoon substantive forum on Saturday.
2. The Business meeting will be combined with the Reception and Awards Ceremony on Sunday evening. The first 30 minutes (approximately) will be spent on business and awards, after which the usual reception will follow. ALL-SIS will provide food in the form of appetizers and desserts, and there will be a cash bar. This Business Meeting, Reception and Awards event will be held at the headquarters hotel instead of at a local library.

These changes are not necessarily permanent. The ALL-SIS Board will assess each event during the annual meeting and will solicit comments after the annual meeting is concluded. The Board also will continue to monitor member opinion and reaction to the changes over the next year to see if there are additional improvements or changes that need to be made. The Board encourages members to share their thoughts or concerns about these changes.

Map for Portland Annual Meeting

DianeMurley | December 09, 2007 15:41

I've started a Google collaborative map for the AALL annual meeting in Portland. Connect to the map from ALL-SIS 2008 Annual Meeting Information and Events. If you would like to contribute to the map, let me know.

ALL-SIS 2008 Annual Meeting Information and Events

DianeMurley | December 07, 2007 14:55

ALL-SIS program descriptions and preliminary meeting and event schedules are now available on the ALL-SIS 2008 Annual Meeting Information and Events page.

New ALL-SIS Brochure

DianeMurley | December 07, 2007 11:40

The new ALL-SIS brochure is now available on the ALL-SIS website.

ALL-SIS 2007 Awards Cermony

DianeMurley | October 10, 2007 12:27

Listen to the proceedings of the 2007 ALL-SIS awards ceremony held July 15 at Loyola New Orleans College of Law. See also Lee Peoples Receives 2007 Outstanding Service Award and Bonnie Shucha Wins 2007 Outstanding Article Award.

ALL-SIS 2007 VIPs

DianeMurley | October 10, 2007 12:03

Listen to the remarks by ALL-SIS VIP guests, Allen Easley, President and Dean of William Mitchell College of Law and Chair of the ABA Questionnaire Committee, and Dan Freehling, Deputy Consultant of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar. Mr. Easley's remarks were also published in the ALL-SIS Newsletter at Update on the ABA Questionnaire.

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