Tag: Member Profile

  • Summer 2025 Membership Minute

    Summer 2025 Membership Minute

    On behalf of the Membership Committee, we would like to thank everyone who renewed their membership for the 2025-2026 year. Email reminders for renewal or membership expiration will also go out over the summer, so it’s not too late to renew if it passed you by in the end-of-the-semester / start of the Summer Associates…

  • Cook County Law Library- A resource for Cook County and the CALL Community

    Cook County Law Library- A resource for Cook County and the CALL Community

    Earlier this month, I met up with Executive Law Librarian Joanne Kiley to learn more about Cook County Law Library (edited for clarity).

  • New Member Profile – Rachel Ford

    New Member Profile – Rachel Ford

    Biographical Info: Resources Management Librarian at Northern Illinois University Law Library I am responsible for the library’s electronic resources and interlibrary loan, as well as maintaining the websites for the library and the College of Law. I also work on acquisitions, statistics, ILS administration, and the institutional repository, and provide basic reference and circulation services…

  • 2022 Agnes and Harvey Reid Honoree: Joe Mitzenmacher

    2022 Agnes and Harvey Reid Honoree: Joe Mitzenmacher

    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. The 2022 Winner is Joseph Mitzenmacher.  Please learn more about Joe and help us wish her a well deserved congratulations!

  • Remembering John Klaus

    Remembering John Klaus

    Our friend and colleague John Klaus died unexpectedly this March. John was a kind, caring, thoroughly professional, and wonderful person who loved his family and his work. He came to the Library of the U.S. Courts of the Seventh Circuit in 1989 after beginning his law librarian career at the Chicago office of Jenner and…

  • Retiring Member Profile: Gretchen Van Dam

    Retiring Member Profile: Gretchen Van Dam

    In December 2020, Gretchen Van Dam retired from U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Court Library after 20 years. The CALL Bulletin interviewed Gretchen upon her retirement to ask her about her experiences and find out what CALL has meant (and continues to mean) to her.

  • New Member Profile: Ariel Scotese

    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

  • 2020 The Agnes and Harvey Reid Honoree: Clare Willis

    2020 The Agnes and Harvey Reid Honoree: Clare Willis

    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. The 2020 Winner is Clare Gaynor Willis.  Please learn more about Clare and help us wish her a well deserved…

  • 2020 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Honoree: Kathleen Powers Goodridge

    2020 Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Honoree: Kathleen Powers Goodridge

    The Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Law Librarianship Award is presented annually to a librarian for an outstanding lifetime achievement in law librarianship. The 2020 Winner is Kathleen Powers Goodridge recently retired from the Library of the United States Courts of the Seventh Circuit.  Find out more about Kathleen and help us wish her a well deserved…

  • 2020 Agnes and Harvey Reid Honoree: Diana Koppang

    2020 Agnes and Harvey Reid Honoree: Diana Koppang

    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. The 2020 Winner is Diana Koppang.  Please learn more about Diana and help us wish her a well deserved congratulations!