The ALL-SIS Awards Committee ( Rhea Ballard-Thrower, Ed Edmonds, and John D. Edwards ) is now accepting nominations for the following three awards and one grant:
The application deadline for all awards is March 31, 2006.
We also anticipate several special grants will be created for attendance at the annual AALL meeting. Details will be available in the near future.
The Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship recognizes an individual or group which 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. Past recipients have included Penny Hazelton, Frank Houdek, Dick Danner, Bob Berring, Tim Coggins, and Barbara Bintliff.
A nominee can be an individual or a group, and should exhibit extended and sustained contributions in one or more of the following areas:
Individuals may nominate themselves or others. Preference will be given to members of the ALL-SIS.
Nominations must include:
Nomination materials may be sent electronically or in paper (5 copies) to the ALL-SIS Awards Committee Chair.
The award will be presented annually at the discretion of the Awards Committee.
Deadline: All nominations must be received by March 31, 2006.
The ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award honors section members for contributions to the enhancement of academic law librarianship through publishing. Articles published in any format in any publication other than Law Library Journal and AALL Spectrum (articles from those publications are eligible for AALL Article of the Year awards) during the year prior to the award qualify for consideration. Any aspect of academic law librarianship may be addressed. A plaque will be presented to the author or authors of the winning articles. The 2005 award recipient was Nancy M. Babb for Cataloging Spirits and the Spirit of Cataloging, 40 Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 89 (no. 2, 2005). The names of other previous award winners can be found at www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/articleaward.html.
Awards will not be presented in a given year if the Committee does not feel submissions meet the award criteria.
Deadline: All nominations/submissions must be received by March 31, 2006.
The ALL-SIS Outstanding Service Award honors an ALL-SIS member who has made outstanding contributions to the SIS in areas of section activity and in professional service.
The following criteria will be considered in reviewing nominations for this award. Nominees may excel in one or more of the following areas:
The above list is not intended to be an exhaustive list of criteria. Individuals whose contributions to the Section take other forms may also be nominated.
Individuals may nominate themselves or others. Nominees must be a member of the ALL-SIS, active or retired. Nominations may be submitted by any SIS member.
Nominations must include:
Current Executive Board members and Awards Committee members are ineligible for nomination.
Deadline: All nominations must be received by March 31, 2006.
The ALL-SIS CONELL Grant is in the middle year of a three-year pilot program. The grant will be given to a newer law librarian to attend CONELL, the AALL Conference of Newer Law Librarians. The grant will cover the cost of CONELL registration and a hotel room for one night. The purpose of the CONELL Grant is to promote participation by newer academic law librarians in AALL and the ALL-SIS.
To qualify for the grant, the winner must be an ALL-SIS member. The winner must:
CONELL is a well-attended event and its registration may close before the ALL-SIS Awards Committee announces the CONELL Grant winner. We recommend that applicants register and pay to attend CONELL before receiving notice of the ALL-SIS CONELL Grant winner in early May.
To apply for the CONELL grant, complete the application and submit it with:
The grant will be presented annually at the discretion of the ALL-SIS Awards Committee. There is no requirement that the grant be given every year. Previous CONELL Grant winners are ineligible.
Nominations/submissions for all three awards and the grant may be sent in print or electronically to the ALL-SIS Awards Committee Chair, Ed Edmonds, Director of the Schoenecker Law Library and Professor of Law, Mail #MSL 112, 1000 LaSalle Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55403-2015 or epedmonds@stthomas.edu. Ed Edmonds’ telephone number is 651-962-4899.