• Congratulations to 2021 CALL Award Winners!

    In May, the Grants and Chapter Awards Committee announced the recipients of the 2020-2021 CALL Chapter Awards. Please join us in congratulating the honorees!

  • CALL Membership Committee 2020-2021 Annual Report

    Clare Gaynor Willis, Chair Shari Berkowitz Duff Carrie Port Julie Pabarja

  • New Member Profile: Natasha Crespo

    New Member Profile: Natasha Crespo

    Natasha Crespo is a 2021 graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law and just started her two year public interest fellowship for Indiana Disability Rights. She worked as a reference librarian at Purdue University before deciding to attend law school. She became a member of CALL in May 2021.

  • Pritzker Legal Research Center

    Pritzker Legal Research Center

    At the Pritzker Legal Research Center (PLRC), we currently maintain a frontline onsite presence of two circulation staff per weekday. Bibliographic staff observe a similar rotating onsite schedule, and librarians provide instruction and reference support remotely. This evolved from a limited onsite circulation schedule that began in mid-June and ran through July, during which one…

  • Member News

    Member News

    Here are some of the wonderful accomplishments, contributions, and activities that our fellow CALL members have been up to: Heidi Kuehl, Director of the Northern Illinois University David C. Shapiro Law Library, received the Daniel L. Wade Outstanding Service Award from the AALL Foreign, Comparative, and International Law (FCIL) SIS. Julienne Grant, Reference Librarian/Foreign and…

  • 2021-2022 Executive Board Candidates

    2021-2022 Executive Board Candidates

    The CALL Nominations and Elections Committee is pleased to announce the slate of candidates for the election of the Board of Directors for the 2021-2022 CALL year: Vice President/President-Elect                                       Shari Berkowitz Duff           …

  • CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – August 2020

    Tuesday, August 11, 2020 8:30 a.m. Board Members Present: Lindsey Carpino, Jamie Sommer, Tom Keefe, Megan Butman, Mandy Lee, Jessie LeMar, and Philip Johnson Board Members Absent: None Significant Actions: None Guests: None Treasurer’s Report (Section IV) The financial report is pending an in-person meeting at the bank to transfer account information to Tom. Membership…

  • Letter from the Editors

    Letter from the Editors

    Happy Spring (issue – in reality it is summer outside!) CALL members. We hope you’ll find time to enjoy all of the great content in this Spring issue of the CALL Bulletin! In this issue, we take a look at the AALL Management Institute and the Special Library Association’s Competitive Intelligence Certificate course; we also congratulate…

  • May Business Meeting: Diane Rodriguez (AALL Vice-President)

    May Business Meeting: Diane Rodriguez (AALL Vice-President)

    Our final business meeting of the year was held over Zoom. In addition to our CALL award winners, recognized below, President Lindsey Carpino also acknowledged CALL members that won AALL awards this year: Stacia Stein won the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award Matt Timko won the AALL/Lexis Nexis Call for Papers Award in the…

  • Retiring Member Profile: Gretchen Van Dam

    Retiring Member Profile: Gretchen Van Dam

    In December 2020, Gretchen Van Dam retired from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Court Library after 20 years. The CALL Bulletin interviewed Gretchen upon her retirement to ask her about her experiences and find out what CALL has meant (and continues to mean) to her.