Category Archives: Summer 2019

CALL Grants and Awards Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

Committee members:  Clare Willis (chair), Sarah Andeen, Shari Duff, Debbie Ginsberg, Philip Johnson, Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Patricia Scott, and Beth Schubert.

The Committee had a very successful year.  We met once in person at the beginning of the year to discuss how we would monitor opportunities for continuing education opportunities and how we would publicize them to members.  This grew out of last year’s effort to let CALL members know about more continuing education opportunities beyond AALL. Continue reading CALL Grants and Awards Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

CALL Mentorship & Leadership Development Committee (MLDC) 2018-2019 Report

This year the Mentorship & Leadership Development Committee focused on cultivating mentorship through informal brown-bag gatherings, providing support for our members by reviewing program and article submissions (thank you Heidi and Debbie), and welcoming new members at CALL Business Meetings (thank you Mandy and Sally).

We encouraged new members to apply for grants and attend AALL’s CONELL, with two new members attending with grants.  We encourage everyone to visit the MLDC calendar to find upcoming conferences and publishing opportunities, which is designed give members grant ideas (thank you Lyo and Sarah for all of your hard work on this).

Learn more about this year’s informal brown-bag gatherings below!

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CALL Nominations and Elections Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

Chair: Todd Ito

Members: Scott Burgh, Stephanie Crawford, Konya Moss, Jamie Sommer, and Jamie Stewart

CALL Election

The Committee started seeking nominations for candidates to run for Director, Secretary, and Vice President/President Elect in August 2018 via the CALL listserv and recommendations from the Board and Committee members.

The Committee identified members who would be suitable for these Executive Board positions and asked them to be put on the slate. Continue reading CALL Nominations and Elections Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

CALL Placement and Recruitment Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

Committee members: Susan Berg (co-chair), Lucy Robbins (co-chair), Megan Butman, Sarah Reis

2018-2019 Activities

The CALL Placement and Recruitment Committee posted 28 job postings in 2019.

  • The Placement & Recruitment Committee continued the policy of receiving and posting jobs advertisements as they came through the CALL website Job Posting Form.
  • Job postings were added to the Jobs & Careers Job Postings section of the CALL website
  • Job postings were also sent to the CALL listserv.

Continue reading CALL Placement and Recruitment Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

CALL Public Relations Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

Committee:

Liaison:
Jesse Bowman, jesse.bowman@law.northwestern.edu

Co-chairs:

  • Sharon Nelson, slnelson@niu.edu
  • Donna Tuke, dmtuke@gmail.com

Members:

  • Lyonette Louis-Jacques
  • Shari Berkowitz Duff
  • Matt Timko
  • Debbie Ginsberg

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