| Mark your calendars: AALL’s electronic polls will open on November 1 for the 2005 election of candidates to serve as Vice President/President Elect and as members of the Executive Board. Polls will remain open until December 1. We will announce the results soon thereafter. You can view candidate biographies here. |
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| Our partners at CCH Inc. have recently notified us that the 2005-2006 AALL Directory and Handbook was mailed out to AALL members on October 14. You can expect to receive your copy by October 27. Many thanks go to CCH Inc. for graciously subsidizing production costs of the directory since 1940. |
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At its meeting on October 15th,
the Executive Board elected the following new members to the
Nominations Committee, to serve a term from January 1, 2006 to December 31, 2007: Anne Matthewman, Toronto Lawyers Association, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Judith Meadows, State Law Library of Montana, Helena, Montana; Alvin Podboy, Baker & Hostetler, LLP, Cleveland, Ohio; and Valerie Railey, U.S. Courts Library, San Diego, California. Continuing members serving a term from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2006 are: Roger Jacobs, Notre Dame Law Library, Notre Dame, Indiana, Chair; Elizabeth Schneider, Plattner, Schneidman & Schneider, Phoenix, Arizona; and Mon Yin Lung, University of Houston Law Library, Houston, Texas.
The Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) invites America’s libraries, archives, library agencies, associations, and consortia, to apply for the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian (formerly called Librarians for the 21st Century) grant program. IMLS will award more than $21 million under this program to help recruit and educate librarians and strengthen graduate schools of library and information science in FY 2006. The application deadline is December 15, 2005.
The program continues its emphasis on recruiting and educating students at the master’s and doctoral levels, while also supporting efforts to recruit future librarians from the ranks of promising junior high, high school, and college students. It will help update the skills of current librarians and library staff through continuing education programs.
Applications, guidelines, and examples of successful proposals can be found on the IMLS Web site. Contact Senior Program Officer Stephanie Clark or Program Officer Elaina Norlin with questions or for more information. Awards will be announced in mid-June 2006.
At its meeting this past weekend the Executive Board approved the annual meeting site selection for 2009 and 2011. We will meet in Washington, D.C. in 2009 and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 2011. All future meetings and locations through 2015 are located here.
Sincerely,
Susan E. Fox, CAE
Executive Director
American Association of Law Libraries
53 West Jackson Blvd., Suite 940
Chicago, IL 60604
312-939-4764, ext. 11
Fax 312-431-1097
sfox@aall.org
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