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A New Librarian Goes to AALL
As someone new to Chicago and new to law librarianship, I was somewhat surprised to find myself, a mere two months into my new job as a reference librarian, jetting back to my home state of Pennsylvania to participate in the 2015 AALL conference. It would be my very first conference, and I had no…
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Using Succession Planning and Knowledge Transfer to Connect the Generations
As a freelance reporter for the CALL Bulletin, I wanted to track down the most interesting and informative programs at the 2015 AALL Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. There were many excellent programs to choose from, and it should come as no surprise to the membership that CALL was well represented in the annual meeting programming. One…
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CALL Grantee Report from Carolyn Hersch
As a recipient of CALL’s grant to the annual conference, I attended the 2015 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in Philadelphia. Although I am not a complete conference novice, having previously attended Special Libraries Association (SLA) conferences in 2012 and 2013, this was my first time at AALL.
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Keith Ann Stiverson, AALL President
The CALL Bulletin Committee would like to congratulate Keith Ann Stiverson on her role as AALL President. [For more details, see the August 17, 2015 AALL press release and the August 14, 2015 Chicago Daily Law Bulletin at 3] Keith Ann has chosen the theme of “Make It New: Create the Future” for the 2016 Annual Meeting…
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2015 CALL Committee Roundup
The Committee Roundup is a new CALL Bulletin featured column where all of our committees will provide a update for us each issue to let us know what they are working on. In this issue, the committees focused on their goals for the upcoming year. Archives Committee Goals: Co-Chairs: Therese Arado and Annie Mentkowski Members: Sharon Nelson…
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – June 2015
2014-2015 CALL EXECUTIVE BOARD MEETING Complete, up-to-date CALL Board meeting minutes are available on the CALL website. AALL Headquarters, 105 W. Adams St., Suite 3300 (enter on Clark St.) June 9, 2015 9:00 a.m.
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CALL Leadership Orientation 2015
CALL Leadership Begins Year with Orientation Board members and committee chairs met on August 13, 2015, for CALL’s Leadership Orientation. It was hosted at DLA Piper. President Julie Pabarja led the orientation for 23 members to help prepare committee chairs and Board members for their roles as leaders in their committee and the greater CALL…
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What’s Buzzin’?
What’s Buzzin?, a new brown bag series designed to foster more collaborative relationships between firm, government and academic librarians debuted on September 11, 2015, at DLA Piper. This was the first of what is sure to be many informal discussions and exchanges of ideas among CALL colleagues. Julie Pabarja, Lindsey Carpino and Annie Mentkowski led…
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CALL Membership Survey Results
The CALL Board would like to share the findings of the membership survey that went out this summer. If there are any questions or comments about it, please forward them to Julie Pabarja, CALL President 2015-2016.
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Law Firm Librarian Current Awareness Resources
My colleagues and I have been taking turns leading our weekly Reference meetings. For my colleague, Britnee Cole’s meeting, she discussed all of the professional current awareness resources we use as law firm librarians. As we all know, we are inundated with news alerts, feeds, tweets, blogs, listservs, emails, newsletters and more. But where do…
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