Category: Spring 2018
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May 2018 Business Meeting Roundup
The meeting was held at Wildfire (159 W. Erie Street) on Thursday May 10, 2018. CALL President Clare Willis opened the meeting by welcoming the membership. There were 76 attendees at the meeting. Clare also summarized everything that CALL accomplished this past year: CALL awarded $5000 in grants, posted 17 positions, advocated for preserving net…
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February 2018 Business Meeting Roundup
The meeting was held at the Italian Village (71 W. Monroe St.), on Thursday, February 15, 2018. CALL Vice President Joe Mitzenmacher welcomed the membership. There were 85 attendees at the meeting. Joe also welcomed several new members: Virginia Brown, Quarles & Brady; Sarah Erekson, Chicago Public Library; Mandy Lee, Chicago-Kent Law Library; Matthew Matkowski,…
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President’s Letter
Dear CALL members, Thank you very much for an amazing year as your President. It has been an honor and a joy. I mean that sincerely. For my final letter, I’d like to share with all of you the remarks that I gave at the last Business Meeting on May 10, 2018: Not many of…
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From the Editors
Hello, CALL. Rounding out this publication year’s issues, we have the spring Bulletin here for you. This go-around we feature reviews of the ABA Tech Show by Matt Timko and AALL’s Competitive Intelligence Foundations program by Sally Baker. We also meet new member Sarah Sherman and get a recap of CALL’s work with the Greater Chicago Food…
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – March 2018
Complete, up-to-date CALL Board meeting minutes are available on the CALL website. AALL Headquarters, 105 W. Adams St., Suite 3300 March 13, 2018 Board Members Present: Clare Willis, Todd Ito, Joe Mitzenmacher, Tom Gaylord, Scott Vanderlin, Lindsey Carpino, and Annie Mentkowski
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – April 2018
Complete, up-to-date CALL Board meeting minutes are available on the CALL website. AALL Headquarters, 105 W. Adams St., Suite 3300 April 10, 2018 Board Members Present: Clare Willis, Todd Ito, Joe Mitzenmacher, Scott Vanderlin, Tom Gaylord, and Annie Mentkowski
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – February 2018
Complete, up-to-date CALL Board meeting minutes are available on the CALL website. Via Conference Call February 13, 2018 Board Members Present: Todd Ito, Joe Mitzenmacher, Tom Gaylord, Lindsey Carpino, Scott Vanderlin, and Annie Mentkowski
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ABA Techshow Review
I recently attended the ABA Techshow in Chicago. Not only was this my first Techshow, it was my first non-library specific conference as a librarian, and it provided me with a view from the other side of the legal profession, i.e. practicing as opposed to academia. Fortunately, this was also the first year the show…
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AALL Competitive Intelligence Foundations
I attended the augural AALL Competitive Intelligence Foundations program in October 2017 which was made possible by a CALL grant. Zena Applebaum, Director of Professional Firm Customer Segments with Thomson Reuters in Canada, was the instructor for the program. The program was a day-long event held at Sidley Austin in Chicago. The CI Foundations program was…
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New Member Profile: Sarah Sherman
CALL Bulletin: Where did you grow up, and where else have you lived before coming to Chicago? Do you have a favorite among those places? Sarah Sherman: I grew up in Mechanicsburg, PA, and then moved to Grand Rapids, MI for college. Grand Rapids felt like the big city after growing up in central Pennsylvania!…