Category: Fall 2014
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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…
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Annual Reports: Corporate Memory Committee
The 2013-2014 CALL Corporate Memory Committee was: Betty Roeske, Chairperson; Frank Drake, Judy Gaskell, Sheri Lewis, Susan Siebers and Clare Willis. We updated the Policy Log four times this year: May 2013 Board Minutes, September 2013 Board Minutes, January 2014 Board Minutes and April 2014 Board Minutes. The Committee is also reviewing the Policy Log against…
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Annual Reports: Government Relations Committee
Submitted July 8, 2014 MEMBERSHIP Joe Mitzenmacher, committee co-chair (jmitze1@luc.edu) Konya Lafferty, committee co-chair (klafferty@illinoiscourt.gov) Pam Zadenetz (pzadenetz@gmail.com) Todd Ito (tito@uchicago.edu) Tom Gaylord (tgaylord@kentlaw.iit.edu) Jamie Sommer, Board Liason (jamie.sommer@law.northwestern.edu) Emily Janoski-Haehlen (Emily.janoskihaehlen@valpo.edu) Michael Verderame (mcverderame@gmail.com) Walter Baumann (WBAUMANN@depaul.edu) OBJECTIVES Promoting UELMA in Illinois was the main project for the year. Education on UELMA for committee…
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Annual Reports: Grants & Chapter Awards Committee
Members: Stephanie Crawford Denise Glynn Naomi Goodman Sally Holterhoff Betty Roeske Susan Seibers Liaison: JoAnn Hounshell This year CALL offered two grants of up to $750 for the AALL Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX. The Committee awarded the two AALL grants in 2013-14 to Jesse Bowman, Valparaiso University Law School Library and to…
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Annual Reports: Meetings Committee
This past year the CALL Meetings Committee was responsible for organizing four business meetings and creating four post meeting member satisfaction surveys. Committee members include Andrea Szabo, Julie Swanson, Lorna Tang, Eugene Guidice, and Karl Pettitt with Beth Schubert and Jesse Bowman serving as co-chairs. The four business meetings were held in September, November, February,…
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Annual Reports: Membership Committee
Submitted by Therese Clarke Arado (co-chair) Committee Members: Christine Klobucar (co-chair), Megan Butman, Emily Janoski-Haehlen, Valerie Kropf, Mary Ann Lenzen, Jeff Meyerowitz, Lucy Robbins, and Lorna Tang. As of April 30, 2013, CALL had 285 members. This is an increase of about 12 over the number of members at the end of 2012-2013. The CALL…