Category: Fall 2020
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – September 2020
Tuesday, September 8, 2020; 8:30 a.m. Board Members Present: Lindsey Carpino, Jamie Sommer, Tom Keefe, Megan Butman, Mandy Lee, Jessie LeMar, and Philip Johnson Board Members Absent: None Significant Actions: None Guests: Eugene Giudice and Carrie Port (Meetings Committee) Treasurer’s Report (Section IV) Tom is a signer on the account now and was able to…
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CALL Executive Board Meeting Minutes – June 2020
Tuesday, June 9, 2020 9:00 a.m. Board Members Present: Lindsey Carpino, Jamie Sommer, Tom Keefe, Megan Butman, Mandy Lee, Jessie LeMar, and Philip Johnson Board Members Absent: None Significant Actions: None Guests: None Treasurer’s Report (Section IV) The financial report is pending Tom getting final information from previous treasurer Julie Swanson. Membership numbers to date…
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New Member Profile: Ariel Scotese
Ariel Scotese is the Associate Director for User Services at the D’Angelo Law Library at the University of Chicago. She became a member of CALL in September. Ariel graciously answered the following questions from the CALL Bulletin. Tell us a little about your position at the D’Angelo Law Library
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Letter from the Editors
Welcome to the Fall issue of the CALL Bulletin with a special feature exploring how many of the CALL Institutional libraries have handled the pandemic. You will hear from academic, law firm, and government libraries on the different pitfalls they have faced and how they have adapted to continue providing services to their patrons. As…
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UIC Louis L. Biro Law Library Response to COVID-19
After moving to remote operations in March, one of our immediate concerns was providing a simulacrum of access to our most popular print collections, Academic Success, which consists of our study aids. We had been exploring providing access to the Lexis Nexis Digital Library and the Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library (WKOSAL), so we…
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Kane County Law Library
Pandemic. A word which immediately brings to mind, at least for me, pandemonium. Yet out of this pandemonium, we as law librarians have been given a golden opportunity to help bring order to chaos and continue to prove how invaluable we are to our institutions and our communities.
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom Law Library
The Research & Knowledge staff of Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom have been working from home since the beginning of the pandemic in March. We are a global firm with locations around the world. Because of this, the transition has not been as stressful as it could have been. We are well positioned from a…
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Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP Law Library
As we welcomed 2020, my chief concern as the Library Manager at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP was to determine the ultimate fate of a good chunk of our print collection. Our firm had recently renewed the lease on our office space and with that came an initiative for tenant improvements. Plans had been finalized…
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NIU David C. Shapiro Memorial Law Library
The response of the NIU College of Law Library to the COVID-19 pandemic has changed over time, as we have learned more about the virus and as the needs of our patrons has changed. While we have had to make significant adjustments to our modes of service, we are providing access to information to our…
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The Illinois Supreme Court Library (Chicago Branch)
There was no precise reopening date for the Illinois Supreme Court Library because we never fully shut down. Our Springfield branch maintained daily operations, including serving the public by appointment, from the start of the pandemic. Here in Chicago, where we serve three Supreme Court justices and the judges of the First District Appellate Court,…