The Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL-SIS) Awards Committee (Pamela Deemer, Sally Holterhoff, and James Duggan, Chair) is pleased to announce the following recipients of the 2004 ALL-SIS Awards:
Timothy L. Coggins has been selected as the 2004 recipient of The Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship. Tim is currently Director & Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law Library in Richmond, Virginia. The award recognizes distinguished, sustained service to academic law librarianship, and is named in honor of Hicks, the first great American law librarian/scholar and first academic law librarian to serve as President of AALL.
Two recipients have been selected for the ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award, which honors section members for contributions to the enhancement of academic law librarianship through publishing. The winning articles were judged on the quality of writing, effectiveness of communication technique, and relevance to law librarianship.
Director & Professor of Law
University of San Diego
School of Law & Legal Research Center, San Diego, California
The Special Case of Alaska: Native Law and Research, 22 Leg. Ref. Servs. Q. 11
(no. 4, 2003)
Reference Librarian & Associate Professor of Law
Baylor University Law Library
Waco, Texas
Beyond Mere Competency: Advanced Legal Research in a Practice-Oriented Curriculum,
55 Baylor L. Rev. 1 (2003)
Please join the Committee in congratulating the recipients. The awards will be presented at the ALL-SIS reception (as part of the AALL Annual Meeting) on Tuesday, July 13, 6:30pm - 9:00pm, to be held at the Harvard Law Library. The award ceremony starts at 7:30pm.