The 2008 ALL-SIS Awards were presented following the ALL-SIS Business Meeting on Sunday, July 13, 2008.
Leah Sandwell-Weiss, Reference Librarian & Adj. Asst. Prof. of Legal Research, Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona, and Diane Murley, Web Services Coordinator & Reference Librarian, Ross-Blakley Law Library, Arizona State University, shared the ALL-SIS Outstanding Service Award for their efforts as the ALL-SIS Newsletter editor and Web Administrator respectively. In this photo, Leah and Diane are shown with Ann T. Fessendon, 2007 - 2008 AALL President:
The 2008 winner of the ALL-SIS Article of the Year award was Carol Parker, Law Library Director and Associate Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law, for her article, Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal Scholarship, 37 N.M. L. Rev. 431 (2007). The award presentation to Carol can be heard at http://all-sis.classcaster.org/blog/aall2008/2008/07/28/2008article.
The presentation of the Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship was bittersweet this year, as both recipients passed away in the past year. The award was shared by Robert L. Oakley, Director of the Law, Library and Professor of Law, Georgetown, University Law Center, and Roy M. Mersky, Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law and director of the Tarlton Law Library and Jamail Center for Legal Research at The University of Texas School of Law. Tory Trotta, Associate Dean for Information Technology and the Ross-Blakley Law Library, provided a moving tribute to Bob Oakley, which can be heard at http://all-sis.classcaster.org/blog/aall2008/2008/07/28/2008hicks-oakley. Interim Director, Tarlton Law Library and Jamail Center for Legal Research at The University of Texas School of Law Terry Martin’s memories of Roy Mersky can be heard at http://all-sis.classcaster.org/blog/aall2008/2008/07/28/2008hicks-mersky.
Criteria for all these awards can be found at www.aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/criteria.asp. Thanks to Patricia Harris O’Connor, Chair, and the other members of the 2007 - 2008 Academic SIS Award Committee (Frances Brilliantine, Marlene Alderman, Terrance Manion, Sandy Sadow, and Victoria Williamson) for their excellent work.
