Jill Meyer – Co-Chair
Philip Johnson – Co-Chair
Jesse Bowman – Committee member
Mike McMillan – Committee member
Jamie Stewart – Committee member
In-person events were on hold for another year until the June 2022 75th Anniversary Celebration. The Meetings Committee continued to help coordinate our business meetings and assisted with planning and set-up of a few other events listed below. Continue reading CALL Meetings Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report
Chair: Sarah Walangitan
Interim Chair (January – March 2022): Shari Berkowitz Duff
Members: Jesse Bowman, Lyo Louis-Jacques, Kristina DeGuzman
Board Liaison: Scott Vanderlin
Committee Charge: Public Relations Committee maintains the CALL Website and Discussion forum; evaluates and recommends changes for improvements; uses a variety of methods to inform the legal and library communities about CALL, and law librarianship including submitting membership and other CALL news to AALL, and other appropriate organizations, and taking photos at CALL events. Coordinates and plans, with the Vice President/President-Elect, the CALL activities table display in the exhibit hall at the AALL Annual Meeting. Continue reading CALL Public Relations Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report
The committee put into place some procedures that should prevent us from losing members during the renewal process. CALL now has a renewal grace period so that those who have not renewed will not be placed on inactive status. We also have renewal reminders on a set schedule in Neon. Need the membership due email schedule, membership overdue email schedule, and grace period memorialized in the Handbook. The Handbook or shared Neon documentation should also remind committee members that all dates on emails need to be updated and the sender changed from the current President to the incoming President/current Vice-President. Continue reading CALL Membership Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report
Chair: Sarah Reis
Members: Sally Holterhoff, Jeffrey Meyerowitz, Joe Mitzenmacher, Sarah Walangitan
Board Liaison: Mandy Lee
Committee Charge:
Government Relations Committee keeps apprised of government activity pertaining to libraries and information policy by staying informed of the work of the AALL Government Relations Committee and the Government Relations Office. Shares updates with the CALL community and promotes equitable access to justice and access to information. Advocates policy interests and views of CALL on issues affecting law libraries and legal information professionals in the Chicago area, Illinois, and neighboring states. Continue reading CALL Government Relations Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report
The 2021-2022 Mentorship and Leadership Development Committee (MLDC) was comprised of Brandy Ellis, Sally Holterhoff, Heidi Kuehl, Lyonette Louis-Jacques, and Stacia Stein (chair). Mandy Lee served as CALL Board Liaison. The Committee sought to connect with new members and promote leadership development through 4 main initiatives: Continue reading CALL Mentorship and Leadership Development Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report
CALL convened on November 18, 2021 at noon via Zoom for our November Business Meeting. There were 54 registrants for this meeting. President Jamie Sommer opened the meeting and thanked Lexis for sponsoring the door prizes before handing it over to Vice President Scott Vanderlin, who introduced our speaker, Dean Rhea Ballard-Thrower.
Dean Ballard-Thrower was recently named the University Librarian at the University of Illinois Chicago. She was previously the Executive Director of the Howard University Libraries and a tenured professor at the Howard University School of Law. She has also served as Director of the Howard University Law Library, Associate Director of the Georgia State University Law Library, and as a reference librarian for the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas-Austin. Continue reading November Business Meeting – Rhea Ballard-Throwe
Julie is the Faculty Scholarship and Educational Technology Librarian at Chicago-Kent.
I manage three full-time faculty support specialists, run the institutional repository, provide Blackboard assistance, and teach advanced Word skills and other technology-related topics.
Where did you grow up, and where else have you lived before coming to Chicago? Do you have a favorite among those places?
My favorite place among the places I have lived is Pittsburgh, where I lived most of my life. I went to college in Johnstown, Pa., and worked in New York City for a year. In addition, I spent a semester in London. Continue reading New Member Profile: Julie Tedjeske Crane
The notion and concepts of adaptive leadership inspired me last year during the darkest times of the pandemic. Shortly after beginning my new position with the Seventh Circuit, I attended a judiciary seminar on the topic.
It was informed by the framework of adaptive leadership developed by Harvard business scholars, Marty Linsky and Ronald Heifetz, in a pre-pandemic world to manage change and often unanticipated changes in the workplace.[1] Continue reading Adaptive Leadership During Volatile Times
The Greater Chicago Food Depository (GCFD) is Chicago’s food bank and partners with over 700 local agencies and food assistance programs, including pantries, soup kitchens and shelters for children, older adults and veterans to fight hunger.
They rely on volunteers to repackage bulk amounts of food into smaller, shareable quantities that can be distributed throughout the Chicagoland area and Cook County.
On December 4, 2021, five (5) CALL members volunteered at the GCFD to do just that. Continue reading CALL Volunteers Help GCFD to Wrap up 2021
The election for our 2022-2023 CALL Executive Board will open on February 15th, and voting will close on March 15.
Watch your email for voting instructions from AALL in the coming weeks.
