Coggins, Carter, & Cordon Receive ALL-SIS Awards

ALL-SIS recently presented three prestigious awards to academic law librarians from Virginia, California and Texas during the 2004 AALL Annual Meeting. Receiving the awards were Timothy L. Coggins, Nancy Carol Carter, and Matthew Cordon. The awards were presented during the ALL-SIS Reception, held at the Harvard Law Library.

Timothy L. Coggins, Director & Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law Library in Richmond, Virginia, is the 2004 recipient of The Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship, sponsored by the Academic Law Libraries SIS (ALL-SIS). 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. Tim was nominated by Sally Hill Wambold, who praised Tim’s service to the academic law librarianship profession, “[Tim] has shown what an academic law librarian can offer to the community.” Tim has been an active member of both AALL and the Southeastern Chapter of AALL (SEALL). He chaired the 1999 AALL Annual Meeting Program Committee, was twice chair of the AALL Professional Development Committee, and served as President of SEALL in 1991. He received the “Service to SEALL” award in 1995.

Nancy Carol Carter, Director & Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law & Research Center, and Matthew C. Cordon, Reference Librarian and Associate Professor of Law at Baylor University Law Library in Waco, Texas were the recipients of the 2004 Academic Law Libraries SIS (ALL-SIS) Outstanding Article Award. The awards recognize 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. Professor Carter’s winning article, “The Special Case of Alaska: Native Law and Research”, was published in 22 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 11 (2003). Professor Cordon won for “Beyond Mere Competency: Advanced Legal Research in a Practice-Oriented Curriculum”, published at 55 Baylor Law Review 1 (2003).

The 2004 ALL-SIS Awards committee consisted of Pamela Deemer ( Emory University), Sally Holterhoff ( Valparaiso University), and James E. Duggan, Chair (Southern Illinois University).