Seeking Nominations for the 2007 Spirit of Law Librarianship Award
Each year the Spirit of Law Librarianship Award Committee honors one law
librarian for his or her service to the community. Please help us recognize
law librarians by nominating a worthy individual who has made a meaningful
contribution to a social or charitable cause or concern.
The committee believes that law librarians who contribute to society through
volunteer work or by somehow serving their communities not only benefit the
recipients of their hard work, but also the profession as a whole through
their examples of service.
Past recipients of the award have been:
* Wes Daniels, for establishing a resource center for legal work on behalf
of the homeless
* Jesse L. Matthews, for developing the Patient Learning Resource Center at
the Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia
* deanna harragarra waters, for her work with the Native American Rights
Fund libraries
* Frank Liu, for his work with U.S.-Chinese academic exchange programs and
in the Chinese American community
* Mickie Voges, for her work with the ExTEND program at IIT Chicago-Kent
College of Law
* David Gunn, for his work with Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic,
Austin, Texas, Unit
* Marvin Anderson, for his work with the ³Everybody Wins² reading program at
the Benjamin E. Mays Magnet School in St. Paul, Minnesota
* SCALL Inner City Youth Program Committee, for its work offering inner-city
youth the chance to learn new skills and meet new challenges by training,
mentoring, and hiring them to intern in law libraries and law firms
* Catherine Lemann, for her work with AIDSLaw of Louisiana
* Frosty Owen, for his work with public school libraries
* Joan Howland, for her work with Native American law students and for her
work with ALA and AALL in support of creating opportunities for minorities
in libraries
* Kimberli Morris for her work with law schools in Iraq as they strive to
rebuild their legal education system
* Kristin A. Cheney for her work in Seattle establishing and operating
Seniors With Pets Assistance
* CALL Community Service Committee for outstanding accomplishments in
keeping its membership active in a wide variety of local and national
charities.
The award, established by Roy Mersky, Tarlton Law Library at the University
of Texas at Austin School of Law, and Richard Leiter, Schmid Law Library at
the University of Nebraska, was created in order to give special recognition
to individual law librarians who might not otherwise be recognized by their
peers for their important work. The award was established in lieu of
accepting royalties from their book, published in 1991 by the Fred B.
Rothman Company (now a division of the Wm. S. Hein and Co. Inc.), The Spirit
of Law Librarianship. The second edition was published in the spring of 2004
by Alert Publications Inc. The award is presented to the recipient at a
reception during the AALL Annual Meeting.
An award will be given only when an outstanding individual is nominated. In
its 15-year history, there has only been one year when an award has not been
given because a worthy nominee was not brought to the committee¹s attention.
The committee encourages nominations from anyone with information regarding
individuals who might fit the profile of an award recipient. Please help us
to recognize the people who represent a special dimension of the Spirit of
Law Librarianship.
The deadline for nominations is June 1. To make a nomination, please
contact: Professor Roy Mersky, Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas, 727
E. Dean Keeton Street, Austin, TX 78705; 512/471-7735; fax: 512/471-8398;
rmersky@mail.law.utexas.edu; or Professor Richard Leiter, Schmid Law
Library, University of Nebraska College of Law, Lincoln, NE 68583-0902;
402/472-5737; fax: 402/472-8260.
--Richard Leiter Director and Professor Schmid Law Library University of Nebraska College of Law
402.472.3547 402.472.8260 (f) rleiter@unl.edu http://thelifeofbooks.blogspot.com
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