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AALL Awards Committee Announces 1997 Recipients
June 9, 1997. 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 and contributions to legal
literature and materials. The awards will be presented at the 91st Annual
Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, July 19-24, 1997.
Betty W. Taylor, Director, Legal Information Center, and Professor of Law,
College of Law, University of Florida) and Marie Wallace, a retired member,
have been chosen for the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service
Award, which recognizes extended and sustained service to law librarianship
for exemplary service to the Association or for contributions to
professional literature. It is the highest honor presented by the
Association.
Penny A. Hazelton, Peggy Roebuck Jarrett, Nancy McMurrer, Cheryl Rae
Nyburg, and Mary Whisner of the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, School
of Law, University of Washington have been awarded the Joseph L. Andrews
Bibliographical Award for their work, The Washington Legal Researcher's
Deskbook, 2d (Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, 1996). This award was
established in 1967 in honor of Joseph L. Andrews, Reference Librarian at
the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. The Andrews Award is
given for significant contribution to legal bibliographical literature,
measured primarily by its creative and evaluative elements and the extent
to which judgment was a factor in its formulation.
James S. Heller, Director of the Law Library and Professor of Law,
Marshall Wythe Law Library, College of William and Mary, is the recipient
of the Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award for his article, "The
Impact of Recent Litigation on Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery," 88
L. Libr. J. 158 (1996). Established in 1989, this award honors outstanding
achievement in research and writing as represented by published work in Law
Library Journal. Members of
the Law Library Journal and AALL Spectrum Advisory Committee recommend
finalists to the Awards Committee, which selects the recipient of the award.
BNA's Health and Law Business Series 1996 has been selected as 1997's Best
New Product Award, presented to a new information product which enhances or
improves existing law library services or procedures, or which improves
access to legal information or the legal research process.
The American Association of Law Libraries was founded in 1906 to promote
and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public communities,
to foster the profession of law librarianship, and to provide leadership in
the field of legal information.
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