From the Desk of Susan E. Fox

The Kudos Keep Coming In

This is the time of year our colleagues continue to receive their just due:

Jenkins Law Library and American Lawyer Media, P.A ., Palawlibrary.com.

CHAPTER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AWARD

Law Librarians Society of Washington, D.C., 2003 Legal Research Institute

Print Division: George Washington University Law School , Jacob Burns Law Library, The French Collection

Non-print Division: University of Denver School of Law , Westminster Law Library, Case Finding Using Reports and Digests

PUBLIC ACCESS TO GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AWARD

United States Government Printing Office, www.regulations.gov

AALL LEXIS CALL FOR PAPERS AWARD

Open Division: Mary Rumsey and April Schwartz (co-authors), University of Minnesota Law Library , Paper vs. Electronic Sources for Law Review Cite-Checking: Should Paper be the Gold Standard?

New Member Division: Roy Balleste, St. Thomas University School of Law Library, Law Libraries 2.0: AI-Based Agents, Predictions, Decisions and Designs

Student Division (tie): 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”

Paul Hellyer , “Assessing the Influence of Computer-Assisted Legal Research: A Study of California Supreme Court Decisions”

MINORITY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AWARD

June S. Kim, UCLA Law Library

Also recognized for his excellence is Paul Douglas Callister , who has been selected by the Library Instruction Roundtable of the American Library Association for the”LIRT's Top 20” list of 2003. The Round Table annually chooses from more than 100 articles what it considers to be the top 20 articles of the year about information literacy and library instruction. Paul receives this recognition for an article which appeared in the Winter 2003 issue of Law Library Journal, Beyond Training: Law Librarianship's Quest for the Pedagogy of Legal Research Education.

And another of our colleagues, Pamela Bluh , of the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, has been selected to receive the Bowker/Ulrich's Serial Librarianship Award. The award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to serials librarianship, and this is the first time ever that a law librarian has received it. The award is donated by R.R. Bowker and awarded by the American Library Association's Association for Library Collection and Technical Services Division.

Congratulations to one and all!

AALL Guide To Fair Business Practices For Legal Publishers Survey

The Task Force on the Guide to Fair Business Practices would like your response to a brief survey on the Guide's effectiveness and coverage, and your use of it in communications with publishers: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=13535512064

The U.S. Associations of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) calls for individuals from the U.S. interested in being nominated for IFLA President-Elect or IFLA Governing Board.

The U.S. Associations of IFLA will be coordinating their endorsement of nominees from the U.S. interested in running for IFLA President-Elect 2005-2007 or At Large Member of the IFLA Governing Board 2005-2007.

Anyone interested in seeking a nomination needs to send a letter of request, along with a CV or resume to one of the association Executive Directors by August 1, 2004. Anyone asking for nomination by the associations after August 1 will not be considered. The U.S. associations will create a committee to review the requests. Individuals will be interviewed by the committee at IFLA in Buenos Aires . The Committee will make recommendations to the U.S. Associations as to which individual(s) to nominate.