Category Archives: Summer 2015

Issue 236

Summer 2015, Lifetime Achievement Award, Grants & Chapter Awards

Lorna Tang Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

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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 Law Library) in 1977 as a law cataloger and has been an outstanding technical services librarian ever since. In 1980 she became the Cataloging Supervisor and in 1984 became the Associate Law Librarian for Technical Services. Continue reading Lorna Tang Receives Lifetime Achievement Award →

Summer 2015, Continuing Education

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 was twofold: to identify and learn about the skills needed to further one’s career.

CALL Institute Day 2015 with Steve Hughes

To accomplish this, the Continuing Education Committee brought in speaking and presenting expert, Steve Hughes, from Hit Your Stride, to discuss ways to become more effective communicators. Continue reading CALL Institute Day – May 21, 2015 →

Summer 2015

Legal Research on the Go: Mobile Apps

Legal 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
  • Productivity

Continue reading Legal Research on the Go: Mobile Apps →

Summer 2015

The Judith M. Wright Fellowship: Honoring a Legacy, Advancing the Profession

Judith Wright
Judith Wright

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 library director.

Ms. Wright’s legacy as a peer and mentor is known to many in our profession nationally and locally in the CALL community.  Judith cared deeply about her colleagues and about the future re-generation of law librarianship. As a befitting tribute to her career, the University of Chicago Law School established the Judith M. Wright Fellowship. Continue reading The Judith M. Wright Fellowship: Honoring a Legacy, Advancing the Profession →

Summer 2015

Library Research Guides: Best Practices

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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 library is going through this process, or you are simply planning on using the (relatively) calm summer months to update your research guides, here are ten best practice tips to keep in mind.

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Summer 2015, Grants & Chapter Awards

2015 Law Repositories Conference: Shaping the Future

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In the last week of March 2015, I had the opportunity to attend the first ever Law Repositories Conference, SONY DSCmade 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 it’s never been clearer that this is exactly what we’re doing. Sitting in a conference room in the middle of Colonial Williamsburg, in a hotel surrounded by tri-corner hats and Ben Franklin impersonators, “the future” came to feel like a revolutionary idea. Continue reading 2015 Law Repositories Conference: Shaping the Future →

Summer 2015

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 10, 2015
• Tuesday, March 10, 2015
• Tuesday, April 14, 2015
• Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Business Meetings

• Thursday, September 18, 2014
• Thursday, November 20, 2014
• Thursday, February 26, 2015
• Thursday, May 14, 2015

Details will be posted as they become available.  Dates subject to change.

CALL would like to thank all of the speakers and meeting sponsors at this year’s business meetings.

Summer 2015, Grants & Chapter Awards

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 services on the market.

Through the generosity of a CALL grant, 2015 was the first year I was able to attend the full ABA TECHSHOW conference. This presented a wonderful opportunity to go beyond vendor showcases to learn directly from the experiences of those who are working at the intersection of law and technology.

CALL members visiting the vendors at the ABA TechShow 2015
more CALL members visiting the vendors at the ABA TechShow 2015

Continue reading The ABA TECHSHOW: Where Lawyers and Technology Meet →

Summer 2015

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 in the upcoming year.

Diana Koppang
Megan Butman
Julie Pabarja
Maribel Nash
Debbie Ginsberg
Jesse Bowman
Joseph Mitzenmacher
Scott Vanderlin
Kara Young

American Association of Law Libraries

Executive Board –

  • Keith Ann Stiverson will be AALL President .

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Summer 2015, Member Profiles

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 who have sustained service to law librarianship, exemplary association support, and outstanding professional literature contributions. Continue reading AALL Honors CALL’s Sally Holterhoff with 2015 Gallagher Award →