CALL Bulletin

Category: Summer 2019

  • CALL Bulletin Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

    The CALL Bulletin has published 3 of the four 2018-2019 issues up to the writing of this report (Issues 249-251) with the Summer issue (252) to be published in September 2019.  The committee for the most of the year included Emily Barney (co-editor), Clanitra Stewart Nejdl (co-editor), Matt Timko (co-editor), Emily Byrne, Annie Danberg, Debbie…

  • President’s Letter

    President’s Letter

    Hello CALL members! It seems like we were just at the May Business Meeting, but we blinked and here we are in September already! For CALL and the legal community, September is always a period of new starts — new students, new attorneys, new committees, and me, the new President of CALL! As we start…

  • Julie Pabarja Receives Agnes and Harvey Reid Award

    Julie Pabarja Receives Agnes and Harvey Reid Award

    The Chicago Association of Law Libraries honors Julie Pabarja with the  2019 Agnes and Harvey Reid Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law Librarianship. This year, CALL gives our award for outstanding contribution to law librarianship to Julie Pabarja.  We are recognizing her dedication and the passion she exudes for the profession, as well as the…

  • CALL Bylaws Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

    The CALL Bylaws Committee had a successful year in 2018/2019, shepherding changes to the CALL bylaws to align them more closely with the bylaws of the parent AALL. The Committee was chaired by Eric Parker, and had Margaret Schilt, Therese Clark Arado, and Matt Timko as members.

  • CALL Community Service Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

    Co-Chairs: Patricia Scott & Jamie Sommer Members: Anne Danberg, Claire Toomey Durkin, Valerie Kropf, Nan Norton, Jamie Stewart Board Liaison: Scott Vanderlin Our Committee met virtually, via email, throughout the year to suggest, investigate, and choose Chicago-based organizations to highlight and collect donations for at our business meetings.  Different Committee members (noted below) took lead…

  • CALL Government Relations Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

    The 2018-2019 Government Relations Committee was Carolyn Hersch and Sarah Sherman (co-chairs) and Sally Holterhoff the Board Liaison was Joe Mitzenmacher.

  • CALL Meetings Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

    Committee members were Todd Hillmer (co-chair), Tami Carson (co-chair 2018), Carrie Port (co-chair 2019), Sheri Lewis and Keely Ward. Jessie LeMar was the board liaison. Business Meetings The Meetings committee planned four business meetings for the 2018-19 year. Dates, locations, number of registrants for each business meeting are shown in the table below.

  • CALL Continuing Education Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

    We would like to thank the committee members including Lisa Winkler, Bob Winger, Virginia Brown, Simone Srinivan, Emily Byrne, Susan Seibert, Debbie Ginsberg, for their commitment and hard work helping us put together good education programs this year. The Continuing Education Committee had a very successful year.  We sponsored or co-sponsored six successful presentations:

  • CALL Corporate Memory Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

    The committee members who assisted in the 2018-2019 review of minutes and policy log changes were: Judy Gaskell, Betty Roeske, Susan Siebers, and Robert Winger. Annie Mentkowski assisted tremendously through her work as CALL Secretary while compiling the minutes and communicating changes to the Board.

  • CALL Membership Committee 2018-2019 Annual Report

    During the 2018-2019 year the Membership Committee published updates to the CALL Membership Directory in September 2018, November 2018, and December 2018. Over this year the Membership Committee also assisted with updating the CALL Listserv email list and updated member information in Wild Apricot. As per the 2019 Bylaws Amendment, the Committee removed the Associate…