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Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award
Description:
The Distinguished Service Award was established in 1984 to recognize extended and sustained service to law librarianship, for the exemplary service to the Association, or for contributions to the professional literature. The award was renamed the Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award in 1990.
Criteria:
The Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award is presented to an individual who has completed or is nearing completion of an active professional career. The Award is given in recognition of outstanding, extended and sustained service to law librarianship and to AALL. Honorees may be recognized for achievement in a particular area of law librarianship, for service to the Association, or for outstanding contributions to the professional literature. The individual must be or at one time have been a member of the American Association of Law Libraries. Nominees are those who are or at one time have been a member of AALL and who are near to or at the end of their careers. The award may be given posthumously.
Application Information:
Download the application
The deadline for nominations is February 1 of each year. Nominations should include either additional supporting letters or the names of the other persons to contact for further information concerning the nominee. Each candidate shall be considered individually and confidentially and will be judged according to the criteria listed above.
Petitions and letter writing campaigns (beyond those letters included with the application) are discouraged and will not be considered in the evaluation process nor will they influence the Committee.
Send nominations and accompanying documentation to Ruth J. Hill, Chair, Gallagher Distinguished Service Award Subcommittee, Oliver B. Spellman Law Library, Southern University Law Center, P.O. Box 9294, Baton Rouge, LA 70818.
The Award shall be a plaque issued by the American Association of Law Libraries.
Previous Winners:
- 2007
Carol D. Billings, Director, Law Library of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA
Roger F. Jacobs, Retired (2006), Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Kresge Law Library, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Cossette T. Sun, Law Library Director, Bernard E. Witkin Alameda County Law Library, Oakland, CA
- 2006
No award
- 2005
Charles R. Dyer, Director of Libraries, San Diego County Public Law Library, San Diego, CA
Michael S. Miller, Retired Director, Maryland State Law Library, Annapolis, MD
Roy M. Mersky, Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law and Director of Research, The Jamail Center for Legal Research, Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin School of Law, Austin, TX
- 2004
Shirley Hart David, Director, Sacramento County Public Law Library, Sacramento, CA
Thomas H. Reynolds, Associate Law Librarian Emeritus University of California School of Law Library, Boalt Hall, Berkeley, CA
- 2003
Marvin R. Anderson, Retired State Law Librarian,
Minnesota State Law Library, St. Paul, MN.
Leah F. Chanin, Retired Professor of Law and
Director, Furman Smith Law Library, Mercer University,
Macon, GA.
Francis Robert “Bob” Doyle, Director,
Loyola University Chicago School of Law Library,
Chicago, IL.
- 2002
Jacqueline S. Wright, ,Retired Librarian, Arkansas
Supreme Court Library, Little Rock, Arkansas
- 2001
Marian Boner (deceased), Retired Director, Texas
State Law Library, Austin, Texas
Francis Gates, Retired Circuit Librarian, U.S.
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, San Francisco,
California
- 2000
Balfour Halevy, Retired Law Librarian, York
University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Adolf Sprudzs, Retired Foreign and International
Librarian, University of Chicago Law Library,
Chicago, Illinois
- 1999
Edgar J. Bellefontaine, Boston, Massachusetts
Eileen H. Searls, St.. Louis University Law
Library
- 1998
Richard L. Beer, Lake Orion, Michigan
Bardie C. Wolfe, Jr., St. Thomas University
Law Library
- 1997
Marie Wallace
Betty Taylor, University of Florida, College
of Law Legal Information Center
- 1996
No award
- 1995
Al Coco
Dan Henke
Mortimer Schwartz
- 1994
Jack S. Ellenberger
Elizabeth Finley
Diana Vincent-Daviss
- 1993
Jane L. Hammond
Blanka Kudej
- 1992
Elizabeth Benyon
Mary W. Oliver
- 1991
Connie E. Bolden
Morris L. Cohen
Anthony P. Grech
- 1990
Viola Bird
Hibernia Turbeville
- 1989
Harry Bitner
Leon M. Liddell
George Strait
- 1988
Earl Borgeson
Forrest Drummond
Frank Lukes
Bethany Ochal
- 1987
Arthur Charpentier
J. Myron Jacobstein
William Murphy
- 1986
Julius J. Marke
- 1985
No award
- 1984
Marian Gould Gallagher
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