Each year, with the sponsorship of Lexis-Nexis, AALL conducts a “Call for Papers” competition to recognize librarians who author significant works of scholarship. The winners of the AALL Lexis-Nexis Call for Papers Award discuss their respective papers in a session at the AALL Annual Meeting. This year’s program - to which all conference attendees are invited to attend - will be held on Sunday, July 13, at 3:00 p.m.
In addition to presentations by the award winners, the program also includes a guest speaker. This year’s guest will be Michael Chiorazzi, Associate Dean for Information Services, Professor of Law and Information Resources & Library Science, at the Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona. Mr. Chiorazzi is the editor of Legal Reference Services Quarterly, and co-editor of Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide, which won AALL’s 2007 Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographic Award.
The winners also have their articles published in Law Library Journal. The current issue of Law Library Journal, Volume 100, No.1, features two winning articles from the 2007 Call for Papers. Those articles are:
These two articles shared the award for the Open Division competition.
The prior issue of Law Library Journal, Volume 99, No.4, featured the winner of the Student Division of the 2007 Call for Papers:
Congratulations to these outstanding librarian-authors. The Call for Papers Committee looks forward to seeing you in Portland at our program.