Candidates for 2000 Election Announced

For Immediate Release
September 13, 1999

CONTACT:
Ruth Johnson Hill
Chair, Nominations Committee
213-736-1174
ruth.hill@lls.edu

Chicago, September, 9, 2000 - The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is pleased to announce the 2000 slate of candidates for Executive Board. Ballots will be mailed to all members on March 3, 2000, and successful candidates will be announced on April 3, 2000. Nominees are as follows:

For the Office of Vice President/President-Elect: Barbara Bintliff (Library Director and Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law Library, Boulder, Colorado) and Susan Siebers (Director of Library and Information Services Katten Muchin and Zavis, Chicago, Illinois).

For the Office of Executive Board Member (for 2 openings): Pauline Aranas (Assistant Dean for Library and Information Technology and Associate Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law Library, Nashville, Tennessee), Elmo Dattalo (Information Resource Manager, Morrison and Foerster, LLP, Washington, D.C.), Sally Holterhoff (Government Documents Librarian, Valparaiso University School of Law Library, Valparaiso, Indiana), and Bobbie Studwell (Associate Dean of Library and Information Services, Thomas Cooley Law School Library, Lansing, Michigan).

The AALL Nominations Committee is charged with presenting a slate of candidates to the membership that, if elected, would maintain a balance on the Executive Board of members by library type, geographic location, gender, and minority representation to the extent possible.

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 librarianship, and to provide leadership in the field of legal information. For more information, visit AALLNET, the official AALL web site, at www.aallnet.org.