Hi Sara,
Back in the old days before Matthew Bender was acquired by LexisNexis, MB
used to sponsor several AALL travel and education grants each year. On the
Monday evening of the annual meeting, MB would host an awards dinner at some
nice location, typically a museum or a good restaurant, for that year's
award winners. Past winners were also invited to the dinner, so it has long
been an annual event that MB-funded grant winners, or "Bender Babies,"
looked forward to. Since LexisNexis acquired Matthew Bender they have
continued the tradition, although the LexisNexis reps persist in getting the
name wrong and calling the old-timers "Baby Benders." I suppose eventually
it will come to be known simply as the LexisNexis dinner, but librarians
have long memories.
Jim
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:41 PM, REPINSKI, SARA <repinski@law.sc.edu> wrote:
> Jim,
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> Since this is only my 2nd conference can you fill me in on what the Bender
> Babies are, I am very curious.
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> Thanks.
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> Sara S. Repinski MLIS
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> *From:* owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Jim Milles
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> *Subject:* [LAW-LIB:56042] Re: Bender Babies?
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> Thanks to everyone who responded. I got the address to RSVP.
>
> Jim
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> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 9:51 AM, Jim Milles <jgmilles@buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
> Have the LexisNexis Bender Babies dinner invitations gone out this year? I
> haven't received one, so I'm wondering once again: is this the year
> LexisNexis stops the tradition?
>
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> --
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> Professor of Law
> University at Buffalo Law School
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