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A Fun and Enriching Experience, Deep in the Heart of Texas
By Jesse Bowman, Electronic Research, Technology, and Instructional Services Librarian, Pritzker Legal Research Center, Northwestern University School of Law jesse.bowman@law.northwestern.edu With the generous assistance of the CALL Grants Committee, I attended the AALL Annual Meeting & Conference in San Antonio, Texas from July 12-15. Amidst the educational programming, networking opportunities, Tex-Mex cuisine, and unparalleled margaritas,…
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Meet New CALL Member Clanitra Stewart
By Kara Dunn, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign kkdunn3@illinois.edu Clanitra Stewart recently joined the library faculty at the Northern Illinois University College of Law as a Reference and Instructional Services Librarian and Assistant Professor. Clanitra has previously worked for the South Carolina Appleseed Justice Center, where she provided…
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“Don’t We Have a Policy on That?” The Short History of the CALL Corporate Memory Committee
By Susan P. Siebers, Retired; Director of Library & Information Services, Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP, 1979-2011 susan.siebers@gmail.com For years, many CALL members were aware our Board didn’t have a method for easily accessing its policies once the Board membership changed. Those of us who were long-time members also realized some topics were discussed year after…
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CALL Leadership Training Day
By Clare Gaynor Willis, CALL Secretary, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law cwillis@kentlaw.iit.edu CALL Board members and committee chairs met at DLA Piper on August 7, 2014 for CALL’s annual leadership training session. CALL President Margaret Schilt started the meeting by reporting on her experiences at the AALL Chapter Leadership Summit, Chapter Leadership Training, and business…
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September 2014 Business Meeting Round-Up
CALL held its September business meeting on September 18, 2014 at Pazzo’s, 311 S. Wacker.
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UELMA Signed Into Law in Illinois!
By Kevin McClure, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law kmcclure@kentlaw.iit.edu Law librarians across Illinois had much to celebrate on August 26 when Gov. Quinn signed the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act into law, making Illinois the eleventh state to enact the measure (Pennsylvania subsequently became the twelfth). The long road to these victories began with a…
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Annual Reports: Archives Committee
Co-Chairs: Therese Clarke Arado Members: Carol Klink, Sharon Nelson, Eric Parker, Lucy Robbins, Lorna Tang, Jona Whipple Board Liaison: Pamela Cipkowski During the course of the year members have continued to send CALL related documents, committee activities and more to the archives for filing. Electronic copies of materials sent are being printed off for filing.…
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Annual Reports: Bulletin Committee
The Committee published four issues of the Bulletin in 2013-2014: Fall 2013, Winter 2014, Spring 2014, and Summer 2014. Kevin McClure, from the IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law Library, and Lyonette (Lyo) Louis-Jacques, from the D’Angelo Law Library at the University of Chicago Law School, served as co- editors. Bulletin Committee members were: Lindsey Carpino…
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Annual Reports: Bylaws Committee
In June, the Association voted to adopt changes to the CALL Bylaws. These amendments were primarily adopted so that the Nominations and the Elections committees could be merged. Other amendments were technical in nature, inlcuding changing the language of the antidiscrimination article to correspond more closely with that of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL).…
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Annual Reports: Community Service Committee
We had our annual meeting in late August to designate the charities that we would give our In-Kind and Monetary donations to. At this meeting we also designated members of the committee that would be in charge of each meeting so that no one member would be overworked. We have done this for the past…