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

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.

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

ALL-SIS Election Results

DianeMurley | April 27, 2007 16:03

Filippa Anzalone has been elected Vice-Chair/Chair Elect and Marianne Alcorn will be Member-at-Large for 2007-2009. They join Suzanne Thorpe, Michelle Wu, and Linda Ryan on the ALL-SIS executive board.

ALL-SIS Announces Winners of Awards and Grants

DianeMurley | April 26, 2007 18:51

The ALL-SIS Awards Committee has announced the 2007 award and grant winners: Lee Peoples, ALL-SIS Outstanding Service Award; Bonnie Shucha, ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award; and Yu-Hui Chuang, CONELL Grant. Winners will be recognized at the ALL-SIS reception at Loyola on Sunday, July 15, during the AALL meeting. For complete information, visit the committee's web page.

Nominations for ALL-SIS Annual Awards

DianeMurley | November 29, 2006 17:16

The criteria and nomination/submission procedure for ALL-SIS awards and grant are available at http://www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/criteria.asp. The deadline for all awards is March 31, 2007.

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

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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