Category: 2023 Issues
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September Business Meeting with Steven Schwinn
CALL held its September 2023 Business meeting at Maggiano’s on Wednesday, September 20, 2023. President Mandy Lee welcomed three new members to the meeting: Andrew Ellison, Kathleen Mance, and Rachel Tomei. Meeting Speaker Vice-President/President Elect Philip Johnson introduced our speaker, Steven D. Schwinn, professor of law at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law,…
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It Was All About AI…..Or Was it? – AALL 2023 Grantee Report
I wish to start this article by thanking the 2022–2023 Grants and Awards Committee for providing me with resources to attend this year’s conference. I would encourage all CALL members to avail themselves of the opportunity that the Grants and Awards Committee offers each year to help subsidize attendance at the annual AALL conference. This…
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President’s Letter
Dear Chicago Association of Law Libraries Members, At the Chapter Presidents’ Training during the American Association of Law Libraries Annual Meeting and Conference in Boston this past July, our chapter stood out among chapters for our strategic plan. Not only was our plan well-thought and clearly articulated, the mere fact that we had a strategic…
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Claire Toomey Durkin & Bill Schwesig – 2023 Lifetime Achievement in Law Librarianship Honorees
The Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Law Librarianship Award is presented annually to a librarian for an outstanding lifetime achievement in law librarianship. The 2023 Honorees were Claire Toomey Durkin and William “Bill” Schwesig.
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Emily Byrne – 2023 Outstanding In-House Publication Honoree
The Outstanding In-House Publication Award is given to an individual or group who created in-house library materials (print or online) that are user and staff oriented, are relevant for law libraries, and are outstanding in quality. Emily Byrne, Chapman and Cutler LLP Each year, the library at Chapman and Cutler celebrates National Library Week with daily…
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Shari Berkowitz Duff and Jessie LeMar – 2023 Agnes and Harvey Reid Honorees
The Agnes and Harvey Reid Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law Librarianship is presented annually to librarians who have provided outstanding service to the chapter during the previous year or for contribution to law librarianship. This year the honorees are Shari Berkowitz Duff and Jesse LeMar:
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Archives Committee Annual Report 2022-2023
Chair: Thomas Keefe Committee members: Kristen Naik Joe Mitzenmacher Connie Fleischer Debbie Rusin Committee Projects Coming out of the pandemic, the Committee attempted to continue the ongoing task of trying to digitize the print archives and to account for and catalog photographs and other digital objects.
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Bylaws Committee Annual Report 2022-2023
Chair: Heidi Kuehl Members: Eric Parker Brandy Ellis Committee Meetings The Bylaws committee met quarterly last year to discuss CALL business and did not receive any suggestions from the membership for Bylaws changes or recommendations for Bylaws changes from the Board.
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Community Service Committee Annual Report 2022-2023
In 2022-2023, the Community Service Committee was chaired by Lisa Winkler. The members of the committee were James Fortsas, Mike McMillan, Nan Norton, Beth Schubert and Leah Whitesel. Volunteer Opportunities We successfully coordinated the following four volunteering opportunities from October 2022 to May 2023: