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Special ALL-SIS Grant Is Available to Support Attendance at Berring Symposium

DianeMurley | August 17, 2006 21:36

As was announced yesterday on the ALL-SIS list by Dick Danner, a symposium will be held in honor of Bob Berring on October 21, 2006 at Boalt Hall (http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/conferences/berring06/). The ALL-SIS Executive Board has approved a special grant to support an ALL-SIS member in attending this symposium. The grant will reimburse one ALL-SIS member for travel costs and housing for one night (up to $750) for attendance at the Berring Symposium. The grant recipient will be required to submit receipts to the ALL-SIS Secretary/Treasurer for reimbursement.

Eligible candidates:

Any ALL-SIS member* who will commit to writing an essay for the January 17th issue of the ALL-SIS Newsletter on the impact of Bob Berring's work on academic law libraries.
* Excluding Berring symposium presenters/organizers, ALL-SIS Executive Board members, ALL-SIS Awards Committee members.

Preference will be given to ALL-SIS members who have been active contributors to ALL-SIS programs and products.

Applicants who are able to attend regardless of receiving this ALL-SIS grant are encouraged to register for the symposium as soon as possible. For applicants who are unable to attend the symposium without this grant, it is not necessary to register for the symposium at this time (a place will be held for the grant recipient).

Application Procedure:

Each applicant should submit at least one paragraph explaining how attendance at the symposium will benefit his/her work as an academic law librarian.

Each applicant should provide a record of his/her ALL-SIS participation, including ALL-SIS offices held, ALL-SIS committee/task force service, contributions to the ALL-SIS Newsletter, contributions as moderator/presenter for ALL-SIS programs held at the AALL Annual Meetings.

Submit the information above as an email attachment to John Edwards, Chair, ALL-SIS Awards Committee
john.edwards@drake.edu

Deadline for Applications:

September 15, 2006

Announcement of Grant Award:

September 25, 2006


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Symposium in Honor of Bob Berring

DianeMurley | August 17, 2006 21:35

[email from Dick Danner to ALL-SIS discussion forum on Wednesday, August 18, 2006]

ALL-SIS Members:

We are writing to invite you to a unique event to be held on the weekend of October 20-21 at the University of California, Berkeley.

On those dates, a distinguished group of scholars will gather at Boalt Hall for a symposium honoring Bob Berring for his contributions to the professional knowledge of law librarianship and legal information studies. Few will argue with the proposition that throughout his career Bob has been the foremost thinker about the influences of legal information on the development of the law and legal thought in the United States. His ideas have inspired the thinking of numerous other writers and provided a lens through which to view the dramatic changes that have taken place in the legal information environment over the past twenty-five years.

The symposium will provide an opportunity for participants to explore the continued vitality of Bob's writings on the historical role of legal information and the impacts of digital technologies in the legal information environment, and to think together about contemporary issues in legal information.

The invited speakers are all well-known for their own contributions to the scholarship of legal information. They include: Steve Barkan (University of Wisconsin), Barbara Bintliff (University of Colorado), Paul Callister (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Morris Cohen (Yale University), Dan Dabney (Thompson West), Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic (University of Pittsburgh), Paul Duguid (University of California, Berkeley), Ethan Katsh (University of Massachusetts), Peter Martin (Cornell University), Roy Mersky (University of Texas), Sam Trosow (University of Western Ontario), and Virginia Wise (Harvard University). Papers from the symposium will be published in 2007 in Law Library Journal. Frank Houdek, the editor of LLJ, will participate in the symposium and contribute a bibliography of Berring's writings to the Journal issue.

The symposium will be held at Boalt Hall on the University of California, Berkeley campus on October 21, 2006. Generous support is being provided by Thomson West, the UC Berkeley School of Law, and the Robbins Collection. Seating will be available for about 50 attendees. A small fee will be charged to cover the costs of meals and refreshments.

Detailed information about the event and online registration are now available at: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/library/conferences/berring06/

Under "lodgings" we list a number of hotel options, but please note that these are just suggestions—we don't have rooms blocked out. However, we hope to be able to offer a few rooms in nearby hotels within the next week or so. Because there is the Cal v U of Washington football game on Saturday Oct 21, hotels might be a little more difficult to find at the last minute.

Note that the Symposium itself will be held on Saturday, October 21. There will an informal dinner on Friday evening, October 20, and a more formal reception and dinner on Saturday evening, to which you are all invited.

We will hope to see many of you in Berkeley in October.

Dick Danner
Duke Law School
zad@law.duke.edu

Kathleen Vanden Heuvel
UC Berkeley School of Law
kvandenh@law.berkeley.edu


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What's New on All-SIS

DianeMurley | August 04, 2006 08:05

The Legal Research Committee has added its summary of the 2006 Legal Research Roundtable to its web page.

The Centennial Committee has added several "firsts" to its "Firsts in Academic Law Libraries" page.


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