Category: Archives
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Archives Committee Annual Report 2023-24
Chair Joe Mitzenmacher Committee members: David Heusel Sally Wise Committee Projects The 2023-24 CALL Board charged the Archives Committee with exploring cloud storage options for the organization’s digital media assets, such as digital photos taken during CALL events and Zoom recordings of CALL events (as our Zoom account was approaching its maximum allowable storage level).…
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Coming Soon: CALL YouTube channel
The CALL Archives Committee has been working with the CALL Board on making our past video presentations (such as CALL Continuing Education events) available to CALL members without the use of a passcode. We are exploring the possibility of posting our videos on YouTube with a “private” listing and then posting them on a page…
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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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CALL Archives Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report
The 2021-2022 CALL Archives Committee was comprised of Committee co-chairs Brittany Adams and Lucy Robbins, as well as Committee members, Claire Toomey Durkin and Joe Mitzenmacher. We tried to find material for the 75th anniversary, but due to a lack of staffing at our libraries and other difficulties, it could not be completed. The COVID pandemic continued…
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CALL Archives Committee 2020-2021 Annual Report
Co-Chairs: Lucy Robbins, Brittany Adams Members: Patricia Scott, Joe Mitzenmacher, Matt Timko Due to the pandemic, the archives could not be accessed or updated for most of the year. There is no report this year.
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CALL Archives Committee 2019-2020 Annual Report
The 2019-2020 CALL Archives Committee was comprised of Committee co-chairs Brittany Adams and Lucy Robbins, as well as Committee members, Patricia Scott, Jill Meyer and Matt Timko. Joe Mitzenmacher served as board liaison. The CALL archives were moved back to the city from Northern Illinois University to Loyola University Chicago. The main effort this year was…
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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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A Gavel and Our Connections to History
Renovations can uncover many surprises – some unexpected, some forgettable, and then some with historical significance. A renovation at the Cook County Law Library (CCLL) uncovered all three of the above. However, one surprise led me on a quest into the history of CALL and AALL.
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Archives Come Back to Loyola
After 10 years at the Northern Illinois University (NIU) College of Law, the CALL archives have returned to the Chicago city limits. The archives—which include administrative records, publications, and photographs from CALL events over the years—will now return to the library at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Making the round trip, the archives…
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CALL Archives Committee 2017-2018 Annual Report
The 2017-2018 CALL Archives Committee was comprised of Committee co-chairs Patricia Sayre-McCoy and Clanitra Stewart Nejdl, as well as Committee members Brittany Adams and Matt Timko. This year, the Committee focused its efforts on determining the best path forward for the digitization of the CALL Archives. As part of this process, the Committee provided an…