The AALL Research Committee is seeking applicants for the AALL/Aspen Law &
Business Grant Program, which will award one or more research grants,
totaling up to $13,000.
The grant program funds small or large research projects that create,
disseminate, or use legal and law-related information. Projects may range
from the historical (indexes, legislative histories, bibliographies,
biographies, directories) to the theoretical (trends in cataloging,
publishing or new service models in libraries) to the practical
(implementation models for collection, personnel or infrastructure
management). The revised AALL Research Agenda is one source for project
ideas. It is available at
http://www.aallnet.org/committee/research/agenda.asp.
The program is intended to not only promote research within the profession
but to also remove obstacles to project completion caused by tight operating
budgets. And so, the grants may be used for expenses such as research
assistants, photocopying, data entry and research-related travel.
The AALL/Aspen Law & Business Grant Program was made possible with the
generous $50,000 contribution from Aspen Law & Business, a New York-based
legal publisher, in 1996. About $25,000 of the original contribution funded
two major AALL research projects in 1996 and 1997. The remaining funds will
be used to sponsor research projects in 2001 and 2002. Aspen Law & Business
considers its contribution as an investment in research that will provide a
prospective look at the role of librarians, researchers and legal
information providers and will yield results to which publishers can
respond. Their goal is to sponsor research that will have a practical impact
on law librarianship and inspire products and changes in the marketplace.
The AALL Research Committee will accept applications for the AALL/Aspen Law
& Business Grant Program through Dec. 1. All applications will be
considered. Grants will be awarded and announced by Jan. 1, 2002. The grant
application and guidelines are available at
http://www.aallnet.org/about/aspen_grant_application.asp.
Please contact any member of the committee with questions or if you would
like to discuss a research idea or proposal. The committee members are:
Chair Kevin L. Butterfield, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Celeste Feather, University of Connecticut
Kevin P. Gray, Gonzaga University
Paul D. Healey, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Grace M. Mills, independent
H. Kumar Percy, University of Texas
Dorene S. Smith, Ater Wynne, LLP
Kevin Butterfield
Head of Technical Services &
Asst. Professor of Library Administration
Albert E. Jenner, Jr. Memorial Law Library
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
142C Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave
Champaign, IL 61820
PH: (217) 244-3047
FAX: (217) 244-8500
email: butterfi@law.uiuc.edu
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