The Academic Law Libraries SIS presented the 2006 Frederick Charles Hicks Award to Roger F. Jacobs at the annual section reception on Tuesday, July 11, 2006, at the Washington University School of Law.The Academic Law Libraries SIS presented the 2006 Frederick Charles Hicks Award to Roger F. Jacobs at the annual section reception on Tuesday, July 11, 2006, at the Washington University School of Law.
Dean Jacobs retired on July 1, 2006, after more than 20 years of service as Associate Dean and Director of the Kresge Law Library at the Notre Dame Law School. From 1978 - 1985, Professor Jacobs served as Librarian of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was also the founding law librarian at the University of Windsor and the Southern Illinois University.
Dean Jacobs is past-president of both the American Association of Law Libraries (1981 - 1982) and the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (1971 - 1973) as well as the founding president of the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries (1974 - 1976). Roger was a member of over 25 American Bar Association site evaluation teams, and he served as a consultant to more than 10 law schools. Roger was an extremely active member of AALL for more than 40 years, and he has been a frequent speaker on a wide range of law library issues.
The award was presented to Roger by Ed Edmonds, the new Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology at Notre Dame and the chair of this year’s awards committee. Michael Slinger, the ALL-SIS chair for 2005 - 2006 and a former Notre Dame colleague, also participated in the awards presentation. The ceremony was held in Washington University’s stunning moot court room. A podcast of the award ceremony is available at http://all-sis.classcaster.org/blog/resource/podcasts/download/2006allsis-awards.mp3; the portion dealing with the Hicks Award begins approximately 23 minutes into the podcast.
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 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 include Penny Hazelton, Frank Houdek, Dick Danner, Bob Berring, Tim Coggins, and Barbara Bintliff.
