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1997 Press Releases

Releases are listed beginning with the most recent:

  • The Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) made its second visit in a series of vendor site visits to West Group corporate headquarters in Eagan, Minnesota on November 19-21, 1997. The visit was another positive step toward fulfilling the CRIV's charge to "facilitate communications between information vendors" with AALL and to "foster a cooperative working relationship between librarians and information vendors..." (more) 12/31/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries will hold its 91st Annual Meeting at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, July 11-16, 1998... (more) 12/17/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) took the lead amongst library associations in filing an amicus brief on the case of Hyperlaw, Inc. v. West Publishing Company. The brief, prepared for AALL by Attorney Arnold P. Lutzker of Fish & Richardson, P.C., was submitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on November 26, 1997.. (more) 12/05/97

  • Applications for the American Association of Law Libraries Scholarships, providing financial support for graduate study in law and law librarianship, are now available. This year, with the addition of the newly named James F. Connolly Congressional Information Scholarship (CIS), a total of seven scholarship categories are offered. The James F. Connolly CIS Scholarship will be awarded to a law librarian who is interested in pursuing a law degree, with preference given to those demonstrating interest in government publications... (more) 12/03/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has been awarded a Certificate of Achievement for its World Wide Web site, AALLNET (www.aallnet.org) from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). The award comes from ASAE's Communications Section and its Gold Circle Awards, which annually presents honors in 22 areas for excellence in association communications and services... (more) 11/21/97

  • The new AALL Directory and Handbook 1997-1998 was mailed at the beginning of this month, and most members will have received their copies by now. The Directory is mailed Book Rate, so the Post Office may still be handling a few; if you don't have your copy by the beginning of next week (i.e., November 24) please call AALL HQ and request that a replacement copy be sent... (more) 11/20/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Professional Development Committee Sub-committee on Credentialing has developed a questionnaire that examines the issue of credentialing for the profession of law librarianship. Credentialing has been an ongoing topic of debate within AALL and the results of this survey will include an analysis of whether a credentialing program is appropriate for the profession... (more) 10/31/97

  • The Canadian Summit on the Future of Electronic Legal Information will take place on November 20-22, 1997. The 'Summit' is designed to bring together representatives of various constituencies which have a stake in the future of legal information in electronic form. CALL/ACBD believes the time has come to address specifically the issues of authenticity, preservation and citation of legal information in digital form and to begin a collaborative process to address the problems arising from the introduction and application of new technologies... (more) 10/28/97

  • Informal Notes from the Executive Director 10/22/97
    • Informal Notes from the Executive DirectorPublisher Relations Update:
    • WEST GROUP
    • CRIV
    • CCH
    • LEXIS NEXIS

  • AALL's Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV) began a planned series of vendor site visits with a visit to Riverwoods, Illinois-based CCH Incorporated on September 23-24, 1997. The vendor site visits are part of an effort to further two goals of AALL President Judy Meadows, as stated in the President's Briefing that appears in the October 1997 issue of the AALL Spectrum... (more) 10/14/97

  • Informal Notes from the Executive Director 09/26/97
    • Exhibit Hall Survey Mailed to AALL Baltimore Registrants
    • Professional Development Committee Sub-committee on Certification
    • 1998 Annual Meeting Program Selection Committee
    • West Group Meeting at AALL on Tuesday, September 16th

  • MEMBER ALERT: 1998 Candidates for AALL Leadership Announced. The Nominations Committee is charged with the responsibility of presenting a slate of candidates that, if elected, would maintain a balance on the Executive Board of members by library type, geography, gender and minority representation to the extent possible... (more) 09/23/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) will fund the first phase of a study to examine the impact law libraries have on legal decision-making. This study is made possible by the AALL/Aspen Publishersgrant program, a grant established by Aspen Publishersfor the continued support of the AALL Research Advisory Committee's research agenda... (more) 09/15/97

  • AALL Member Sarah K. Wiant (Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University) has been chosen to receive SLA's most prestigious honor, the John Cotton Dana Award, in recognition of her outstanding service to SLA... (more) 08/11/97

  • A scholarship for law librarians who are pursuing a law degree has been established by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and Congressional Information Service, Inc. (CIS) in memory of James F. Connolly, who was executive vice president of CIS and a long-time supporter of law librarianship... (more) 07/16/97

  • American Association of Law Libraries President Frank Houdek will present seven Presidential Certificates of Merit to individuals who have made noteworthy contributions to AALL during the past year. The certificates will be presented at the first business meeting on Monday, July 21, which is part of the AALL's 90th Annual Meeting in Baltimore... (more) 07/16/97

  • AALL, with the generous support of a $50,000 grant from LEXIS-NEXIS, will produce a series of eight resource guides over the next two years. The guides will build on the success of the recently-published marketing toolkit, Law Librarians: Making Information Work... (more) 07/15/97

  • Informal Notes from the Executive Director 06/27/97
    • Congressional Information Service Will Fund A New Annual Scholarship In Memory Of James F. Connolly
    • Salary Survey Mailed To All 1384 Library Directors And Heads Of Libraries In AALL's Membership
    • Registrations For Chapter Roundtables In Baltimore Significantly Exceed Expectations
    • Marketing AALL Membership to Law Firm Libraries

  • ACTION ALERT: Questionnaires for Biennial Salary Survey 1997 are being mailed to AALL members. AALL will publish the 1997 Biennial Salary Survey once again in collaboration with Gordon S. Black Corporation, an independent market research firm in Rochester, New York and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in Washington D.C... (more) 06/26/97

  • AALL will publish the 1997 Biennial Salary Survey once again in collaboration with Gordon S. Black Corporation, an independent market research firm in Rochester, New York and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in Washington D.C... (more) 06/10/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has selected BNA's Health Law & Business Series, a series of monographs produced by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (BNA), for the 1997 New Product Award, an annual honor presented to a new information product which enhances or improves existing law library services or procedures... (more) 06/10/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries' (AALL) Award Committee has selected Betty W. Taylor and Marie Wallace as the 1997 recipients of the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes extended and sustained service to law librarianship... (more) 06/10/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries' (AALL) Awards Committee has selected the recipients for 4 different awards that comprise the AALL Awards Program, which publicly recognizes the achievements of law librarians based on service to the profession... (more) 06/09/97

  • Informal Notes from the Executive Director 05/9/97
    • Chapters Leadership Development
    • LEXIS NEXIS Pledges $50,000 to Sponsor AALL Law Firm Library
    • 1997 - 1998 Directory Publication Schedule Accelerated

  • A comprehensive survey on the economics and management of legal information will be funded by the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL)/Aspen PublishersResearch Grant... (more) 06/06/97

  • Hazel Johnson (Librarian, Lightfoot Franklin & White, Birmingham, AL and Law Library Services Consultant, Northport, AL) has been appointed American Association of Law Libraries' (AALL) official representative to the American Bar Association's Law Practice Management Section (ABA-LPM)... (more) 04/28/97

  • Mary Alice Baish, American Association of Law Libraries' (AALL) Assistant Washington Affairs Representative, has been named by Public Printer Michael F. DiMario to a three-year term as one of five new members of the Depository Library Council (DLC)... (more) 04/22/97

  • Marcia Koslov, State Law Librarian of Wisconsin, will deliver a presentation entitled "Public Access Through Information: Integrating Courts and Libraries" at the Sunday morning session of an interdisciplinary conference... (more) 04/21/97

  • ACTION ALERT: Last year, the FY 1997 Legislative Branch Appropriations Act cut all funding for the publication of the bound Congressional Record, and limited distribution of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set to regional depository libraries and one library in every state that does not have a regional... (more) 04/10/97

  • Heller, Folmsbee, and Simmons Elected to AALL Board... (more) 04/07/97

  • American Association of Law Libraries President Frank Houdek has issued an open statement to AALL members and the legal information community recognizing AALL's active role in addressing law librarians' concerns about the recent consolidation of the legal publishing industry... (more) 03/21/97

  • Informal Notes from the Executive Director 03/15/97
    • Election Ballots Mailed on Friday March 7th
    • CALL Chapter Celebration held on March 13th
    • AALLNET Usage Continues to be Phenomenal
    • AALL / West Group Professional Education Series Update
    • Satellite Teleconference Update
    • FUNDRAISING 1997
    • Third Staff Retreat Planned for April 4th
    • IFLA Boston 2001 Organizing Committee Meeting Held in Chicago on March 5th

  • AALL, LEXIS-NEXIS and the West Group are now offering free legal research and promotional materials to help AALL members celebrate the 1997 AALL Legal Research Teach-In, an annual event for legal information providers which coincides with National Library Week... (more) 03/10/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries is now accepting application for its Call for Papers competition. This annual awards program, which recognizes scholarly essays works on subjects relating to law librarianship, is sponsored by Matthew Bender & Company, a New York based legal publisher... (more) 02/28/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) has received second-year funding from Aspen Publishersfor continued support of the Association's Research Grant Agenda. One or more grants will be awarded by the AALL Research Advisory Committee in 1997. One or more grants totaling $20,000--25,000 will be provided to support the study of legal research... (more) 02/25/97

  • AALL will co-sponsor an interdisciplinary conference, Understanding the Voices in Our Courts, in Tucson, Arizona, at the Omni Tucson National Golf Resort and Spa... (more) 02/24/97

  • The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is proud to announce the release of LIBClient, an Internet search utility that helps legal researchers retrieve relevant documents from the World Wide Web through an intelligent interface that excludes irrelevant data and provides quick access to the most useful Internet sites... (more) 02/21/97

  • Stephen Carter, author of the widely acclaimed 1993 book, The Culture of Disbelief, will deliver the keynote address at the American Association of Law Libraries' (AALL) 90th Annual Meeting Luncheon... (more) 02/18/97

  • Informal Notes from the Executive Director 01/23/97
    • AALL Executive Board March 1997 Agenda and Mailings
    • 1997 Ballots Schedule
    • 1997 Wickersham Dinner AALL Representatives
    • AALLNET Usage is Phenomenal and Further Exciting Enhancements are Underway
    • Experimental Membership Database is now available on AALLNET…
    • Publication Sales are Brisk
    • Illinois Senate Bill Allowing Counties to Set Their Own Obscenity Standards Defeated
    • Planning Committee Report Issued

  • The American Association of Law Libraries’ Price Index for Legal Publications 1996, an annual reference guide which illustrates the changes in pricing of legal information from year to year, is now available... (more) 01/13/97

  • The AALL Special Committee on the Renaissance of Law Librarianship in the Information Age has produced a comprehensive look at the future of the profession in Toward A Renaissance in Law Librarianship: The Report, Recommendations and Materials of the American Association of Law Libraries Special Committee on the Renaissance of Law Librarianship in the Information Age. This groundbreaking report... (more) 01/09/97
 
 
 
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