The "CALL FOR PAPERS" HAS BEGUN!
Have you been thinking of writing an article of interest to law librarians? The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee has just the incentive to get started. The Committee is soliciting articles in three categories:
Open Division: for active and retired AALL members and law librarians with five or more years of professional experience;
New Member Division: for recent graduates and AALL members who have been in the profession for less than five years;
Short Form Division: for AALL members; articles in this category will be shorter than a traditional scholarly article and may be appropriate for publication in AALL Spectrum.
Student Division: for students in library, information management, or law school. Participants in this division need not be members of AALL. To submit in this category, you must have been enrolled in law school or in a library school, information management, or equivalent program in the fall 2013 or spring 2014 semester.
Submissions in the Open, New Member and Short Divisions must be submitted by March 3, 2014. Articles in the Student Division must be received by May 15, 2014.
The winner in the Open, New Member, and Student Divisions will receive $650, and the Short Form Division winner will receive $300, all generously donated by LexisNexis, plus the opportunity to present their winning papers at a program during the 2014 AALL Annual Meeting in San Antonio. Winning papers in the Open, New Member, and Student Divisions are also considered for publication in Law Library Journal. Papers in the Short Form division will be forwarded to the Editorial Director of AALL Spectrum for publication consideration.
For more information, a list of previous winners, an application and instructions on how to submit your article, please review the information below. Winning papers from earlier competitions can also be found at http://works.bepress.com/aallcallforpapers.
If you have any questions, please contact a member of the AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee.
Description:
The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee promotes the scholarship of AALL members and of students through its annual "Call for Papers" competition. Papers, which may be submitted by active or retired AALL members, or by students in library, information management or law school, may address any subject relevant to law librarianship. Through the competition, the Committee seeks (1) to promote scholarship of interest to the profession of law librarianship; (2) to provide a creative outlet for law librarians and a forum for their scholarly activities; and (3) to recognize the scholarly efforts of established members, of new members, and of students who are considering a career as law librarians.
The recipients will be recognized during award ceremonies at the AALL Annual Meeting. Co-authors of winning papers will share the award. Winners also will be given the opportunity to present their papers in a program at the Annual Meeting of the Association. Papers in the Open, New and Student divisions will be forwarded to the Editor of the Law Library Journal for publication consideration. Papers in the Short Form division will be forwarded to the Editorial Director of AALL Spectrum for publication consideration.
Previous Winners:
2013
- Open Member Division: Joseph Gerken
The Invention of Legal Research
- New Member Division: Catherine A. Lemmer
A View from the Flip Side: Using the "Inverted Classroom" to Enhance the Legal Research Information Literacy of the International LL.M. Student
- Short Form Division: Mari Cheney
Legal Research Boot Camp: Bridging the 1L Knowledge Gap
- Student Division: Kristen M. Hallows
It's All Enumerative: Reconsidering Library of Congress Classification in United States Law Libraries
2012
- Open Member Division: Linda K. Tesar
Forensic Bibliography: Reconstructing the Library of George Wythe
- New Member Division: Yasmin Sokkar Harker
Information is Cheap, Meaning is Expensive: Building Analytical Skill into Legal Research Instruction
- Short Division: Carli Spina and Anna Russell
LAW LIBRARIES LINKING DATA TO MOBILE DEVICES: Save Patrons’ Time and Stay Hip
- Student Member Division: Neel Kant Agrawal
Training in FCIL Librarianship for Tomorrow's World
2011
- Open Member Division: David L. Armond and Shawn G. Nevers
The Practitioners' Council: Connecting Legal Research Instruction and Current Legal Research Practice
- New Member Division: Margaret (Meg) Butler
Resource Based Learning and Course Design:A Brief Theoretical Overview and Practical Suggestions
- Student Division: William M. Cross
Restoring the Public Library Ethos: Copyright, E-licensing, and the Future of Librarianship
2010
- Open Member Division: Carol Parker
The Need for More Uniform and Consistently Rigorous Standards for Assessing Law Librarian Performance in Tenure and Continuous Appointment Policies
- New Members Division: Daniel Baker
Citations to Wikipedia in Law Reviews
- Student Division: Benjamin Keele
What if Law Journal Citations Included Digital Object Identifiers?: A Snapshot of Major Law Journals
- Student Division: Debbie Shrager
Moving Past Web 2.0h! An Exploratory Study of Academic Law Libraries
2009
- Open Member Division: Joseph A. Custer
The Truthiness of Thinkable Thoughts versus the Facts of Empirical Research
- Open Member Division: Laura N. Gasaway
A Defense of the Public Domain: A Scholarly Essay
- New Members Division: Mikhail Koulikov
Indexing and Full-Text Coverage of Law Review Articles in Non-Legal Databases: An Initial Study
- Student Division: Theodora Belniak
The Law Librarian of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: A Figuration in Flux
- Student Division: Jason Tubinis
A Law Librarian's Guide to the Economic Crisis
2008
- Open Member Division: Judith Lihosit
Research in the Wild: CALR and the Role of Informal Apprenticeship in Attorney Training
- New Members Division: Julie M. Jones
Not Just Key Numbers and Keywords Anymore: How User Interface Affects Legal Research
- New Members Division: I-Wei Wang
Schoolhouse Rock is No Longer Enough: The Presidential Signing Statements Controversy and its Implications for Library Professionals
2007
- Open Member Division: Margaret A. Leary
Discovering William Cook: Ten Resources for Reconstructing the Life of a Lawyer
- Open Member Division: Connie Lenz and Helen Wohl
Does Form Follow function?: Academic Law Libraries' Organizational Structures for Collection Development
- New Members Division: Shawn D. Nevers
Candy, Points and Highlighters: Why Librarians, Not Vendors, Should Teach CALR to First year Law Students in 2007
2006
- Open Member Division: Paul D. Healey
Go and Tell the World: Charles R. McCarthy and the Evolution of the Legislative Reference Library Movement, 1901-1917
- Open Member Division: Charles R. Dyer
The Queen of Chula Vista: Stories of Self-Represented Litigants and a Call for Using the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor to Work With Them
- Student Division: Theresa (Tracy) Leming
Should Academic Law Libraries Continue to participate in the Federal Depository Library Program?
2005
- Open Member Division: Karen S. Beck
A Working Lawyer's Life: The Letter Book of John Henry Senter
- Open Member Division: Virginia J. Kelsh
Build It Right And They Will Come: The Librarian's Role in Library Construction
- New Member Division: David Hollander
Jewish Law for the Law Librarian
2004
- New Member Division: Roy Balleste
Law Libraris 2.0: Al based Agents, Predictions, Decisions, and Design
- Open Member Division: Mary Rumsey & April Schwartz
Paper vs. Electronic Sources for Law Review Cite-Checking: Should Paper be the Gold Standard?
- Student Division: Katherine Coolidge
Baseless Hysteria: The Controversy between the U.S. Department of Justice and the American Library Association Regarding the USA PATRIOT Act - September 2003
- Student Division: Paul Hellyer
Assessing the Influence of Computer-Assisted Legal Research: A Study of California Supreme Court Opinions
2003
- Samuel Trosow
The Database and the Fields of Law: Are There New Divisions of Labor?
2002
- New Member Division: Bonnie Shucha
The Circle of Life: Managing a Library Web Site Redesign Project
- Open Member Division: Yolanda Jones
UCITA and the Information Professional - Or, Having a Barbeque on the Information Commons
- Student Division: Renee Y. Rastorfer
Thomas S. Dabagh and the Institutional Beginnings of the UCLA Law Library: A Cautionary Tale
2001
- New Member Division: Kristin B. Gerdy
Teacher, Coach, Cheerleader and Judge: Promoting Learning through Learner-Centered Assessment
- New Member Division: Robert Mead
Unpublished Opinions as the Bulk of the Iceberg: Publication Patterns in the Eighth and Tenth Circuit United States Courts of Appeals
- Open Division: Nancy Carol Carter
American Indians and Law Libraries: Acknowledging the New Sovereign
2000
- New Member Division: Deanna Barmakian
Better Search Engines for Law, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Student Division: Beatrice A. Tice
Too Many Jobs, Too Few Job Seekers? A Study of Law Librarianship Job Data Samples 1989-1999, University of Washington
1999
- Robert C. Vreeland (Open)
Law Libraries in Hyerspace: A Citation Analysis of World Wide Web Sites
- Steven J. Melamut (student)
Pursing Law Libraries, Fair Use and Electronic Reserves
1998
- Karen S. Beck (Open)
One Step At a Time: The Research Value of Law Student Notebooks.
- Richard A. Danner (Open)
Redefining a Profession.
- Wendy R. Brown (Student)
Federal Initiatives to Promote Access to Electronic Government Information: The Impact on the Federal Depository Library Program.
1997
- L. Tobe Liebert (New)
Researching California Ballot Measures.
- Janet Sinder (Open)
Irish Legal History: An Overview and Guide to the Sources.
- Michael J. Lynch (Open)
An Impossible Task but Everybody Has to Do It -- Teaching Legal Research in Law Schools.
1996
- Wei Luo (New)
How to Find Laws of the People's Republic of China:
A Research Guide with Selected Annotated Bibliographies
1995
- Joel Fishman (Open) The Reports of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Kory D. Staheli (New)
Motivating Law Students to Develop Competent Legal Research Skills:
Combating the Negative Findings of the Howland and Lewis Study
- Paul D. Healey (Student)
Chicken Little at the Reference Desk:
Is Reference Liability a Myth?
1994
- Marcia J. Koslov (Open)
Wisconsin County Law Libraries
- Nazareth A.M. Pantaloni, III (New)
Legal Databases, Legal Epistemology, and the Legal Order
- Jonathan Adlai Franklin (Student)
One Piece of the Collection Development Puzzle:
Issues in Drafting Format Selection Guidelines
1993
- Sheilla Desert
Westlaw is Natural v. Boolean Searching: A Performance Study
- Jill A. Farmer
Free to Be You and Me: Librarians and Freedom of Expression
- Cheryl D. McLean
Death and Rebirth of a National Information Policy: What We Had and What We Need
1992
- Jean Stefancic
The Law Review Symposium Issue:
Community of Meaning or Re-inscription of Hierarchy?
- Jill A. Farmer
A Poststructuralist Analysis of the Legal Research Process
- Laura K. Justiss
A Bibliographic Study of Texas Law Reviews
1991 No Awards
1990
- James Duggan
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Law Librarian?
A Look at AALL Scholarship Recipients, 1967-1988
- Janet Zagorin
Bibliography of Books and Articles on International Commercial Arbitration
- Michael Slinger
Opening a Window of Opportunity:
The Library Staff as a Meaningful and Integrated Part of the Law School Community
1989 No Awards
1988
- Bruce M. Kennedy
Confidentiality of Library Records:
A survey of Problems, Policies and Laws
- Jeanne Drewes
Computers: Planning for Disaster
- Ellen Callinan
Research Protocols in Reference Service:
Informal Instruction in Law Firm Libraries
1987
- Michael Chiorazzi
Francis-Xavier Martin: Printer, Lawyer, Jurist
- Fred Shapiro
Linguistic Application of Full-Text Legal Databases
- Michael Slinger
A Comprehensive Study of the Career Path and Education of Current Academic Law Library Directors
1986
- Eleanor DeLashmitt
Annual and Surveys: An Appraisal
- Arturo Flores
Volume Count: A Survey of Practice and Opinion from Academic Law Libraries
- Steven E. Mitchel
Classified Information and Legal Research
1985
- Dan Dabney
The Curse of Thamus: An Analysis of Full-Text Legal Document Retrieval
- Fred Shapiro
The Most-Cited Law Review Articles
- Arturo L. Torres
The Social Responsibility Movement Among Law Librarians: The Debate Revisited