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HEADLINES:
-Richard L. Beer, Bardie C Wolfe, Jr. Named Recipients of the 1998 Gallagher
Award
- Kendall F. Svengalis Named Recipient of 1998 Joseph L. Andrews
Bibliographical Award
-AALL Announces Excellence in Marketing Award Winners
- AALL Announces Law Library Publications Award and Law Library Journal
Article of the Year Award Recipients
-Congressional Information Services Inc. Named Recipient of 1998 New Product
Award
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June 25, 1998
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Richard L. Beer, Bardie C Wolfe, Jr. Named Recipients of the 1998 Gallagher
Award
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Awards Committee has
selected Richard L. Beer and Bardie C. Wolfe, Jr., as the 1998 recipients of
the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes
extended and sustained service to law librarianship, or exemplary service to
the Association, or contributions to professional literature.
Richard L. Beer is the retired Library Board Administrator for the
Adams-Pratt Oakland County Law Library in Pontiac, Michigan. A dedicated
member of AALL since 1960, Beer served the Association in many capacities,
including Treasurer in 1983-86. He was instrumental in founding the AALL
State, Court, and Counties Special Interest Section, and was honored for his
distinguished service by that group.
Bardie C. Wolfe, Jr., is Law Librarian and Professor of Law Emeritus at the
St. Thomas University Law School, Miami, Florida. Professor Wolfe is
considered a pioneer in the use of automation, one of the first to build a
law library collection using innovative technological applications. He is an
expert in digital research as well as statistical computation and analysis.
Established in 1984 as the Distinguished Service Award, this honor was
renamed the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award in 1990.
Nominees are those who are or at one time have been a member of AALL and who
are near or at the end of their careers. The award may be given
posthumously. It is the highest honor presented by the Association.
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Kendall F. Svengalis Named Recipient of 1998 Joseph L. Andrews
Bibliographical Award
The American Association of Law Libraries' (AALL) Award Committee has
selected Kendall F. Svengalis as the 1998 recipient of the Joseph L. Andrews
Bibliographical Award for his publication, Legal Information Buyer's Guide
and Reference Manual, 1997-98, published by the Rhode Island Law Press,
Barrington, Rhode Island.
Kendall Svengalis is the State Law Librarian at Rhode Island State Law
Library, a position he has held since 1982. His bibliography was cited for
its important contribution to law librarianship and its usefulness as a
reference tool in virtually all areas of the law library operation. In
announcing the award, the Committee stated "it was judged a uniquely
valuable bibliographical guide to legal materials especially legal treatises
in various topical categories and state-specific materials. The depth of
coverage in many categories, accurate descriptions, sound evaluations of
materials and helpful organization are among its many strengths."
The Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical 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.
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AALL Announces Excellence in Marketing Award Winners
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) announces the winners of
the 1998 Excellence in Marketing (EIM) Awards. These awards, being given
for the first time, recognize outstanding achievement in public relations
activities in five categories by a person or group affiliated with AALL.
The EIM awards will be presented at the 91st AALL Annual Meeting in Anaheim,
California, July 11-16, 1998.
BEST BROCHURE: Law Library of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Arthur S.
Zanan, Director, for the brochure "Legal Information for the Public-A Guide
to Services."
BEST NEWSLETTER: U.S. Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit Library System,
Michael R. Smith, Deputy Circuit Librarian, for the newsletter,
"Biblionotes."
BEST CAMPAIGN: Chicago Association of Law Libraries, an AALL chapter, for
their 50th Anniversary public relations campaign.
BEST PUBLIC RELATIONS TOOLKIT: Boston College Law Library staff for the
toolkit, "Law Library Services and Computing Information for Law School
Faculty."
BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY: AALL members Elizabeth D. Kenney (Librarian,
Dechert Price & Rhoads, Boston, MA) and Kenneth J. Withers (Automation
Department, Social Law Library, Boston, MA) for the website (www.abll.org)
which they created for the Association of Boston Law Librarians.
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AALL Announces Law Library Publications Award and Law Library Journal
Article of the Year Award Recipients
The American Association of Law Libraries' (AALL) Awards Committee has
selected the recipients for the Law Library Publications Awards and the Law
Library Journal Article of the Year Award. The Awards will be presented at
the 91st Annual Meeting at the Anaheim Convention in Anaheim, California,
July 11 - 16, 1998.
Established in 1997, the Law Library Publication Award honors achievement in
creating in-house print or non-print library materials that are outstanding
in quality and significance. The winner of the Print Division is Cadwalader,
Wickersham & Taft, New York New York, for their publication, 1997 Associate
Library Materials. In the Non-Print Division, the winner is the Cornell Law
Library Web site, http://www.law.cornell.edu/library. This year, Honorable
Mention is being given to the Boston College Law Library for its
publication, Law Library Services and Computing Information for Law School
Faculty.
Established in 1989, The Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award
honors outstanding achievement in research and writing as represented by
published work in Law Library Journal. The 1998 recipient is Janis L.
Johnston (Associate Director, Notre Dame Law School Kresge Library) for her
article,"Managing the Boss." This article appeared in 89 Law Library
Journal 21 (Winter 1997).
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Congressional Information Services Inc. Named Recipient of 1998 New Product
Award
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Award Committee has
selected Congressional Information Service, Inc. (CIS) as the recipient of
the 1998 New Product Award for their electronic service, CIS Congressional
Universe. The award will be presented to CIS on Monday, July 13 at the 91st
AALL Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California.
CIS Congressional Universe contains federal legislation, legislative
histories and the well-known CIS Index. It allows for electronic full text
searching of Committee reports, Congressional testimony, Committee prints,
legislative news sources, and House and Senate documents.
In announcing the award, the AALL Awards Committee stated,"The service
provides a wealth of legislative information in an easily accessible format.
The mixture of materials that are available-primary, secondary, and
non-legal-makes this product very valuable."
> "We're delighted that such demanding and skilled users have distinguished
CIS Congressional Universe with > this prestigious award," said Mark
Capaldini, CIS president and chief > executive officer. "CIS is committed to
delivering quality electronic, > microform, and print information, and to
making it readily available with > sophisticated access tools. We're
gratified that law librarians agree that > the solutions we provide give
students and faculty a competitive edge."
The New Product Award recognizes a new legal information product which
enhances or improves existing law library services or procedures. The
award honors the development of innovative products which improve access to
legal information, the legal research process, or procedures for technical
processing of library materials. A product is 'new' if it has been in the
library-related marketplace for less than two years.
Congressional Information Services, Inc. is a leading international
publisher of reference, research and current awareness information products
based on information produced by the U.S. government and related
information.
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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. Today, with over 4,800 members, the Association
represents law librarians and related professionals who are affiliated with
a wide range of institutions: law firms; law schools; corporate legal
departments; courts; and local, state and federal government agencies.
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