Frederick Charles Hicks Award
For Outstanding Contributions
To Academic Law Librarianship

This annual award recognizes an individual or group who has made outstanding contributions to academic law librarianship through continued efforts to improve law librarianship. The award, presented by the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries, is named in honor of Frederick Charles Hicks, the first great American law librarian/scholar who was also the first academic law librarian to serve as president of AALL.

Criteria:

A nominee can be an individual or a group, and should exhibit extended and sustained contributions in one or more of the following areas:

• History of contributions to the field of law librarianship through research, publications and other activities displaying an active participation in the advancement of academic law librarianship
• Achievement in a particular area of academic law librarianship
• Service to AALL
• Service to the ALL-SIS

Submission Procedure:

Individuals may nominate themselves or others. Preference will be given to members of the ALL-SIS.

Nominations must include:

• a letter of nomination, including the candidate's full name, title, and institution name and address. If the candidate is retired, include name, home address, and most recent former employer
• a narrative supporting the nomination, to include a discussion of the candidate's contributions to academic law librarianship
• a curriculum vitae of the candidate
• the name and phone number of the nominating party

The award will be presented annually at the discretion of the Awards Committee.

Nomination packets may be sent to the ALL-SIS Awards Committee Chair, Merle J. Slyhoff, University of Pennsylvania Law Library, 3460 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. Questions can be directed to the chair at 215-898-9013, or mslyhoff@law.upenn.edu.

Deadline:  February 1, 2001

Previous Recipients:  Penny Hazelton, 2000, University of Washington