CALL Bulletin

Category: Winter 2015

  • CALL Member Heidi Kuehl Appointed NIU Law Library Director

    CALL Member Heidi Kuehl Appointed NIU Law Library Director

    CALL member Heidi Frostestad Kuehl recently joined the Northern Illinois University (NIU) College of Law as an associate professor and the director of the law library. Prior to joining NIU, Heidi was the associate director for research and reference services and the foreign, comparative, and international law librarian at Northwestern University’s law library.  Heidi has…

  • Giving Thanks for Kip Kolkmeier’s Efforts to Pass UELMA in Illinois

    Giving Thanks for Kip Kolkmeier’s Efforts to Pass UELMA in Illinois

    The CALL Executive Board approved a resolution of thanks that I was pleased to deliver to the Illinois Library Association (ILA) at its annual meeting in Springfield on October 15th. The well-attended Members’ Meeting was held at 11:30 a.m., and I was there in plenty of time to surprise Kip Kolkmeier, the ILA Legislative Consultant…

  • FOIA Reform Amendment in Illinois

    FOIA Reform Amendment in Illinois

    Illinois House Bill 3796, which amends the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (5 ILCS 140), was recently enacted into law as Public Act 98-1129. This bill has been quite controversial, with many opponents arguing that it weakens the current provisions of FOIA. One such opponent was Governor Quinn, who vetoed the bill in its entirety…

  • CALL-ing All Volunteers

    Do you like telling people about your career and how interesting law librarianship is? Do you have a project coming up this spring requiring a free extra helping hand? Many of the library and information science schools near Chicago have an alternative spring break week. During the semester’s scheduled spring break, students come to all…

  • MAALL 2014: Fast Forward in the Windy City

    This October, law librarians gathered in Chicago to “fast forward.” The Mid-America Association of Law Libraries (MAALL) kicked off its annual conference in Chicago on October 5th, and thanks to the CALL Grant and Chapter Awards Committee, I was able to attend. MAALL 2014 was only my second conference, so I was not really sure…

  • The Frightening Power of Social Media Investigations – a Special Halloween CALL Workshop

    On Wednesday, October 29, CALL hosted a special Halloween workshop. Diana Koppang of Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP lectured on the “Frightening Power of Social Media Investigations.” CALL members learned how to use social media websites to hunt down hard-to-find people.

  • AALL Management Institute 2015

    The AALL Management Institute will take place on March 26-28, 2015 at the Hotel Palomar located at 505 North State Street in Chicago. The registration fee is $575 and the deadline to register is February 2, 2015. You can reserve your room at the Hotel Palomar until March 4, 2015. The Management Institute will be facilitated…

  • From the Editors

    This Winter 2015 CALL Bulletin issue is the second issue in the new blog format. In this issue, we tell you about the 2015-16 candidates for CALL offices. The issue is also bursting with interesting feature articles, regular, and new columns.  We have contributions from all the members of the CALL Bulletin Committee as well as other CALL-eagues. First up,…

  • President’s Letter

    President’s Letter

    This is the President’s letter for the Winter 2015 issue of the CALL Bulletin, and this year that appellation is surprisingly and painfully appropriate.  Winter has indeed come early.  But then so have changes and opportunities brought to our membership by the hard work of CALL members and committees. The CALL Bulletin’s hard work on…