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Jessica LeMar
- CALL Position: Placement & Recruitment Committee, Co-Chair, 2015-2016
- Senior Reference Librarian at Jones Day
Membership Committee Annual Report 2023-2024
The Committee Charge:
The committee’s main charge is updating and management of the online directory, which replaced the print directory. This included eliminating duplicate accounts, standardizing firm and company names, and coordinating with the CALL Listserv admins to update the member emails.
CALL members must now contact Membership Committee members directly to make changes to their account in Neon after the initial creation of their account. This helps to maintain the accuracy and standardization of data.
The Committee Activity:
- Update membership directory with member-submitted edits.
- Provide list of current members for CALL Board meetings and to AALL for annual election.
- Provide invoicing, as needed, for memberships and renewals.
- Coordinate with Listserv admin to keep email list current.
- Send membership renewal emails in May.
- Annual review of current members and outreach to lapsed members.
Projects and Initiatives:
The following projects were begun in 2023, but need to be continued in the new year.
- Review the Committee charge and submit edits to the Board.
- Update the Committee “cookbook” of processes and procedures in Neon.
- Obtain administrative access to the Listserv so that Membership Committee Chair can make requested edits to contact information.
Chair:
Jessie LeMar
Committee:
- Janice Collins
- Julie Pabarja
- Amy Tomaszewski
Membership Committee Annual Report 2022-2023
Chair: Jessie LeMar
Committee:
- Todd Ito
- Julie Pabarja
- Juanita Harrell
Continue reading Membership Committee Annual Report 2022-2023
CALL Nominations and Elections Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report
The Nominations and Elections Committee met virtually in August to brainstorm ideas and potential candidates for nomination for the 2022-2023 CALL Executive Board: Director, Treasurer, and Vice-President/President-Elect. Recommendations were solicited over the CALL listserv and during the announcements portion of the September virtual business meeting and then discussed among the committee members during virtual meetings and email exchanges. The slate was announced on the CALL listserv in November. The slate was as follows: Continue reading CALL Nominations and Elections Committee 2021-2022 Annual Report
2022-2023 Executive Board Nominations
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.
Slate of Candidates for 2022-2023 Executive Board Election
CALL Grants and Chapter Awards Committee 2020-2021 Annual Report
Committee members: Jessie LeMar (chair), Jesse Bowman, Shari Duff, Lyonette Louis-Jacques, and Jamie Stewart.
This year’s Grants and Chapter Awards Committee was charged with selecting grant recipients based on established criteria for CALL members to attend professional meetings and selecting recipients for the chapter awards based on nominations from CALL colleagues. Continue reading CALL Grants and Chapter Awards Committee 2020-2021 Annual Report
President’s Letter
Dear CALL members,
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to serve as your President. It has been an honor to work with our devoted Board, committee chairs, and members this past year. While it takes a lot of hard work to steer this ship, and while we’re certainly in uncharted waters, this ride hasn’t been all work – there have been plenty of laughs along the way. The 2019-2020 CALL year has certainly been one for the memory books!
I think we can all agree it’s been quite a year, and the last couple months have been unlike anything our profession or city has experienced. I appreciate the patience and flexibility you’ve shown as we’ve faced changes and uncertainty. First, we transitioned to new membership software that caused some hiccups and had a small learning curve (this was mostly for me!). You rolled with the punches at our first speaker-free meeting in February. When we couldn’t host a May meeting, our members found ways to connect, share ideas, and commiserate through our first CALL Zoom Happy Hours. I have witnessed the many ways that the struggles of our new virtual world have highlighted the strong spirit of collaboration at CALL.
While we weren’t able to gather to celebrate the end of our term in May, I would like to recognize our CALL Award winners. The lack of in-person speeches does not in any way take away from their important contributions to our profession and association. A virtual drum roll…. The Agnes and Harvey Reid Award for Outstanding Contribution to Law Librarianship was awarded to Clare Gaynor Willis and Diana Koppang. The LIfetime Achievement in Law Librarianship was given to Kathleen Powers Goodridge. Finally, the Award for Outstanding In-House Publication goes to Jesse Bowman. Congratulations to our winners and, fear not, your plaques are coming. Even if trophy shops aren’t considered essential, we think our award winners definitely are!
I would also like to thank our Committee Chairs for all their hard work. In addition to the many hours it takes to plan the logistics of our Business Meetings, the Meetings Committee was able to find new ways to bring our members together for happy hours and networking events. Our Continuing Education Committee hosted a number of well-attended virtual and in-person education events, and coordinated with Mentorship and Leadership to reach out to new and prospective members with our programming. Community Service collected funds and in-kind items for the Lawyers’ Assistance Program, Greater Chicago Food Depository, and the Alliance for the Great Lakes. Placement and Recruitment examined issues in developing the new generation of law librarians. They attended career days and planned initiatives to identify and reach out to new members. The Government Relations Committee attended the Illinois LIbrary Association Legislative Meet-Up in March. Finally, all of our committees worked to find new ways to align their work with our Strategic Plan, which was introduced last Spring. Our PR Committee was tweeting out our accomplishments, news, and, more importantly, pics of the delicious desserts at our meetings! This is just a small snippet of the work of our committees this past year. I can not understate how lucky we are to have a membership that takes such an active and engaging role in our profession!
Last, I want to personally thank our Board for their hard word and friendship. The times they are a-changing in the legal world, now more than ever, but I am happy to pass the leadership torch to our new President, Lindsey Carpino, and new VP/President-Elect, Jamie Sommer. I know the CALL gavel is in good hands — whenever it is we can actually get together in person to hand it off. See you all in September (hopefully)!
Thank you,
Jessie LeMar
President’s Letter
Greetings, CALL members! We’re about halfway through our CALL year, and I wanted to share some of the work of our committees and upcoming events. Our February Business Meeting was at Maggiano’s on Feb. 6. While our attendance numbers for this meeting are up, the attendance at our September and November meetings this year were lower than average. And while I’d love to say it’s just because we’ve all just holding out for the pasta, meeting attendance and membership numbers has been a creeping downward trend in our association, and profession-wide. Continue reading President’s Letter
President’s Letter
Dear Colleagues,
It seems like just last week we were kicking off the new year with our first meeting at Wildfire, and here we are, already lacing up our boots and digging out our mittens to head out to Ditka’s for the November Business Meeting.
Winter is officially upon us. While many of us wish for the return of sunshine and warmth, winter can be a great time to dig into those projects we tend to put aside in the frantic summer and fall months’ influx of new students and new associates.
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 what I hope will be another great year at CALL, I want to take time to thank all the members who stepped up to the siren song of committee work. We have a great roster of Committee Chairs and new committee members. As always, we are an organization of volunteers, and I greatly appreciate the many hours our members dedicate to create the educational programming, social events, networking, and service that define our organization. To our new(er) members who want to be involved and don’t know where to start, there’s still time to join a committee or reach out for a mentor. Drop me a line, I’m happy to chat! Continue reading President’s Letter