Category: Summer 2015
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Lorna Tang Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The Chicago Association of Law Libraries honors Lorna Tang with the 2015 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Law Librarianship Award. Lorna Tang retired from the D’Angelo Law Library on June 30, 2015, after 38 years as a law librarian. She began her law library career at the D’Angelo Law Library (then called the University of Chicago…
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CALL Institute Day – May 21, 2015
The CALL Continuing Education Committee hosted a successful Institute Day program on May 21, 2015 and would like to thank Thomson Reuters for agreeing to act as a sponsor. The theme of this year’s program was “Charting a Path to Management: Skills to Take Your Career to the Next Level.” The purpose of Institute Day…
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Legal Research on the Go: Mobile Apps
Legal research apps seem to be gaining momentum. A majority of vendors are now offering their own mobile app for busy researchers on the go. Research apps can be Apple- or Android-focused, free with your subscription, or vary in price. Legal research apps tend to fall under the following categories: Research Current Awareness/News Litigation Transactional…
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The Judith M. Wright Fellowship: Honoring a Legacy, Advancing the Profession
At its May 2013 Business Meeting, the Chicago Association of Law Libraries awarded its Lifetime Achievement Award to Judith M. Wright. This professional recognition was but the first of several bestowed on Ms. Wright upon her retirement after forty years of service as a librarian at the University of Chicago, including thirty-three years as law…
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Library Research Guides: Best Practices
Many librarians have a set of research guides that they are responsible for keeping up to date, but finding time to devote to this important task can be extremely difficult. As libraries migrate to LibGuides 2.0, many are using this opportunity to study their users’ preferences, implement new policies, and completely refresh their research guide collection. If your…
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2015 Law Repositories Conference: Shaping the Future
In the last week of March 2015, I had the opportunity to attend the first ever Law Repositories Conference, made possible by a grant from AALL/Bloomberg Continuing Education Grants Program, and by the sponsorship of LIPA (Legal Information Preservation Alliance) and Bepress. The official title of the conference was “Law Repositories: Shaping the Future,” and…
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2014-2015 Meeting Schedule
2014-2015 CALL MEETING SCHEDULE Executive Board Meetings For 2014-2015 the Board will meet the second Tuesday of every month. Specific dates are: • Tuesday, August 19, 2014 • Tuesday, September 9, 2014 • Tuesday, October 14, 2014 • Tuesday, November 11, 2014 • Tuesday, December 9, 2014 • Tuesday, January 13, 2015 • Tuesday, February…
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The ABA TECHSHOW: Where Lawyers and Technology Meet
Since living in Chicago, I have been fortunate to attend the ABA TECHSHOW Expo every year. As a technology librarian, the Expo portion of the TECHSHOW is always a thrill for me; I enjoy getting to try out new devices and equipment, speak to vendors, and learn about the latest and greatest technology products and…
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CALL Member Leaders in AALL and SLA
As CALL’s new Executive Board begins their term on June 1, I would like to recognize CALL members who will be taking on leadership roles within AALL and SLA in 2015-2016. Their commitment to these associations and our profession is a great reflection on them as individuals and on CALL. CALL wishes them great success…
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AALL Honors CALL’s Sally Holterhoff with 2015 Gallagher Award
Congratulations, Sally! I am proud to announce that The American Association of Law Libraries will be awarding Sarah (Sally) G. Holterhoff the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award — AALL’s highest honor. Sally is associate professor of law librarianship and government information/reference librarian at the Valparaiso University Law School Library. The Gallagher Award acknowledges those individuals…
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