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Grants and Chapter Awards Committee Annual Report – 2024-25
Chair: Mandy Lee Members: Therese Clarke-Arado Sheri Lewis Lyonette Louis-Jacques Julie Pabarja Jamie Sommer This year the Committee worked with 2 grantee recipients and honored 6 CALL members with our 4 annual awards. We proposed and received Board approval to establish a new award, Rising Star Award, to be presented annually to recognize and celebrate…
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Meetings Committee Annual Report – 2024-25
Liaison: Jill Meyer Co-Chairs: Susan Berg Keith Klein Members: Jesse Bowman Carrie Port Amy Tomaszewski Frank Young Committee Accomplishments The committee coordinated four business meetings: two virtual and two in-person. The meetings were well-attended and showed an upward trend in registrations from last year. Anecdotal feedback on the meetings was uniformly positive. 2024-2025 Meetings September…
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Membership Committee Annual Report – 2024-25
Chair: Jessie LeMar Committee: Sara Baseggio Julie Pabarja Meagan Butman Committee Charge: The committee’s main charge is updating and management of the online directory, which replaced the print directory. This included eliminating duplicate accounts, standardizing firm and company names, and coordinating with the CALL Listserv admins to update the member emails. CALL members must now contact…
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Mentorship and Career Development Committee Annual Report – 2024-25
Co-Chairs: Carrie Port and Stacia Stein Members: Jim Fortsas Sally Holterhoff Lyo Louis-Jacques Ross Prolic Matt Timko. Lucy Robbins served as CALL Board Liaison. Committee Tasks and Accomplishments: This is the first year of this committee creating by combining Mentorship & Leadership Development and the Placement & Recruitment Committees. The unified committee focused on its…
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Public Relations Committee Annual Report – 2024-25
Members: Joanne Kiley Kristen Naik Matt Timko, chair The PR Committee was very active in 2024-25. We had three goals at the start of the semester: (1) evaluate and use existing CALL Social Media platforms, (2) conduct an audit of website links and pages, and (3) post on the CALL homepage with a more systematic…
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – April 2025
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 9:00 a.m. Central Zoom Board members present: Philip Johnson, Jill Meyer, Clare Willis, Mandy Lee, Mike McMillan Board members absent: Emily Byrne Guests: Todd Hillmer, incoming CALL Vice President/President-Elect 2025-2026, and Joanne Kiley, incoming CALL Secretary 2025-2026 Treasurer’s report (Section IV): 1. Checking account balance as of April 8, 2025: $9,811.61…
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CALL Business Meeting Summary – May 2025
The Chicago Association of Law Libraries held its May 2025 Business Meeting on May 20, 2025, at Wildfire, 159 W. Erie, Chicago. President Philip Johnson opened the meeting and welcomed six new members. The sponsor for the meeting was Thomson Reuters. Blythe McCoy addressed the members on behalf of Thomson Reuters, thanking CALL for the…
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CALL goes to Cradles to Crayons
Three CALL members volunteered at Cradles to Crayons on March 15, helping to sort and organize clothing donations.
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Web Accessibility and Community
When planning this CALL Bulletin issue, the committee discussed “community” as a potential theme, one that resonates with many aspects of our work in law libraries as well as our participation together as CALL. If you spend time on web accessibility, “community” might seem like a synonym for “audience,” and to a certain extent, it…
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Cook County Law Library- A resource for Cook County and the CALL Community
Earlier this month, I met up with Executive Law Librarian Joanne Kiley to learn more about Cook County Law Library (edited for clarity).