Category: Summer 2019
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UELMA Update: An Interview with Jacob Jost, Illinois Supreme Court Reporter of Decisions
Five years ago, the Uniform Electronic Legal Material Act (UELMA) was signed into Illinois law. Our state was the 11th one to enact this uniform law; at this point it has been enacted in 21 states (Texas, most recently) plus the District of Columbia. Starting in 2016, the official online versions of Illinois Supreme and…
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Keith Ann Stiverson Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The Chicago Association of Law Libraries honors Keith Ann Stiversion with the 2019 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Law Librarianship Award. When Keith Ann retired in 2018, it marked the end of a decades-long career that spanned roles, geography, and countless revolutions in the way information is distributed. Through it all, Keith has remained, as…
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CALL Archives Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report
The 2018-2019 CALL Archives Committee was comprised of Committee co-chairs Matt Timko and Brittany Adams, as well as Committee members Anne Danberg, Pat Sayre-McCoy, and Clanitra Stewart Nejdl. Board Member Annie Mentkowski served as liaison. The main effort and accomplishment of the Committee for this year was relocating the Archives from Northern Illinois University, which…
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Letter from Editors
In this final issue of the 2018-2019 CALL session, we take the time to consider our accomplishments as a community and what we hope to achieve in the 2019-2020 session. Each of our 14 committees submitted their reports. This year our committees introduced seasonal happy hours, sponsored or co-sponsored six educational presentations, relocated our archives,…
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – May 2019
AALL Headquarters, 105 W. Adams St., Suite 3300 (enter on Clark St.) May 7, 2019 9:00 a.m. Board Members Present: Joe Mitzenmacher, Jessie LeMar, Clare Willis, Julie Swanson, and Annie Mentkowski Board Members Absent: Scott Vanderlin and Jesse Bowman Significant Actions: The Board approved the strategic plan submitted by Strategic Planning Chair Jean Wenger. Guests:…
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Chapman & Cutler wins In-House Publication Award
The winner of this year’s award for outstanding in-house publication is the Chapman & Cutler Research Services team. They used a graphic of a book flipping open into a computer that was created by the firm’s marketing department and adapted it to make promotional logos for their events and newsletters. They made attractive, professional-looking…
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – June 2019
AALL Headquarters 105 W. Adams St., Suite 3300 (enter on Clark St.) June 11, 2019 9:00 a.m. Board Members Present: Jessie LeMar, Lindsey Carpino, Joe Mitzenmacher, Julie Swanson, Jessie Bowman, Megan Butman, and Philip Johnson. Board Members Absent: None Significant Actions: The board voted to adopt NeonCRM as the platform to manage the website, directory,…
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Another Successful AALL Lobby Day and Rewarding CALL Participation – July 12, 2019
“…[A] government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” – Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address Whenever I think I’m quite impossibly too busy to add another conference or professional development item to my “to do” task list, I am pleasantly reminded of how rewarding it is to…
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May 2019 Business Meeting with Marlon Lutifiyya
On May 9, 2019, CALL hosted our Business Meeting at Petterino’s with Marlon Lutifiyya, Director of Talent and Diversity at Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, who spoke about diversity and inclusion in the legal community. Sponsors Alan Fanger of Empower Legal and John Wiora of ktMINE, both sponsored this meeting and shared information about the unique…
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Margaret Schilt Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The Chicago Association of Law Libraries honors Margaret Schilt with the 2019 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Law Librarianship Award. Margaret Schilt is retiring this June after 19 years as a librarian at the D’ Angelo Law Library at the University of Chicago. The Lifetime Achievement Award is a fitting tribute to her career of active…
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