Technical Services Special Interest Section
Awards Committee Annual Report
2001/2002

This year, the Technical Services SIS Awards Committee has been quite busy. In addition to selecting a recipient for the Renee D. Chapman Award, we have also awarded three educational grants to three very deserving technical services law librarians. However, the Committee members all enjoy working on the committee because it is fun to give away monies for a very good cause.

Members of this year's TS-SIS Awards Committee are Linda Kawaguchi McLane (University of California Berkeley School of Law Library), Chris Long (Indiana University School of Law Library At Indianapolis), Ellen McGrath (The University At Buffalo, State University of New York, Charles B. Sears Law Library), Eugenia Minor (University of Mississippi Law Library) and myself as the Chair.

As soon as the Annual Meeting was over last year, we began to solicit applications for the acquisitions workshop held in Washington D.C. from November 2nd to 3rd 2001. We had five applicants but the Committee decided to award one grant for each workshop. This way our modest grant of $1,500 this year can be used to support more librarians to attend technical services workshops and this will also help publicize the availability of this educational grant. Wendy Medvetz from the Capital University Law Library was chosen as the first recipient of the Educational Grant. Her report of the acquisitions workshop has been published in the Technical Services Law Librarian.

At last year's conference, we all thought it was too late to solicit applications for the Basic Law Cataloging Workshop scheduled to take place in September 2001. Unfortunately, the tragedy of September 11 happened and the Workshop was postponed to March 2002. This gave the Committee the opportunity to solicit and award the 2nd educational grant. We had four applicants and the grant was awarded to Cindy Buhi at the Washington State Attorney General's Law Library. We were very pleased that we could help a law librarian working in a non-academic setting to attend the Basic Law Cataloging workshop held in Chicago.

In May we awarded our third and final education grant to Christy Ryan from the University of Tulsa School of Law Library for her attendance at the pre-conference workshop, Advanced Law Cataloging, to be held in Orlando, Florida, on July 20, 2002. Unfortunately, Christy became seriously ill before the conference and was not able to attend the workshop.

As for the Renee D. Chapman Award, it was a difficult decision for the Committee to make. We had three excellent nominees and each of them deserved this award. The committee looked at the timing and the progress of each nominee's career path and decided to give this year's Award to Janis Johnston, Director of the Law Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Janis is moving on in her career, but we know that technical services will always be close at her heart.

The committee has had a busy year, but we all cherished the opportunity to help and to recognize the wonderful work done by our colleagues.

Submitted by
Lorna Tang, Chair

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