2020-2023 ALL-SIS Award & Grant Winners
2023 Award & Grant Winners
ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award: Long Form
Jennifer Elisa Chapman, Research & Faculty Services Librarian, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, Thurgood Marshall Law Library. Slave Cases and Ingrained Racism in Legal Information Infrastructures, in Antiracist Library and Information Science: Racial Justice and Community (Kimberly Black & Bharat Mehra eds., 2023).
ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award: Short Form
Daniel Bowman, Judicial Law Clerk for Chief Justice Brutinel, Arizona Supreme Court, and Teresa M. Miguel-Stearns, Associate Dean, Legal Information Innovation; Director, Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library & Professor of Law, The University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law. Arizona’s Diploma Privilege, Part 1, 59 Ariz. Att’y, Sept 2022, at 22.
ALL-SIS Book Award
Mike Chiorazzi, Editor, James and Beverly Rogers Professor Emeritus of Law, University of Arizona College of Law. The Role of Citation in the Law: A Yale Law School Symposium (2022).
ALL-SIS Digital Publication Award
Sarah Ryan, Director of the Law Librarianship Program & Associate Professor of Information Science, University of North Texas. Empirical Legal Research Services (2022).
Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship
Caroline L. Osborne, Professor of Law and Director, West Virginia University College of Law
Outstanding Service Award
No recipient
Grants
ALL-SIS RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP GRANTS
- Lee Little, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law: Etiam Indiana inrisperiti Latine loquuntur: An Analysis of Latin in Indiana Supreme Court Opinions
- Jennifer Wondracek, Capital University, 360 Research Tools
ALL-SIS REGULAR MEMBER STIMULUS GRANT
- Jennifer Bedier, Research and Instructional Services Librarian, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, anD
- Travis Eastham, Reference Librarian, Capital University Law School
ALL-SIS ACTIVE MEMBER STIMULUS GRANT
- Joyce Manna Janto, Director of Public & Instructional Services, University of Richmond School of Law
CONELL GRANT
- No recipient.
2022 AWARD & GRANT WINNERS
ALL-SIS OUTSTANDING ARTICLE AWARD: Long Form
Bonnie Shucha, Associate Dean & Law Library Director, University of Wisconsin Law School. Representing Law Faculty Scholarly Impact: Strategies for Improving Citation Metrics Accuracy and Promoting Scholarly Visibility, 40 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 81 (October 2021).
ALL-SIS OUTSTANDING ARTICLE AWARD: Short Form
Nicole Dyszlewski, Head of Reference, Instruction, and Engagement, Roger Williams University School of Law. Integrating Diversity into the 1L Curriculum, One Librarian at a Time, 25 UC Davis Social Justice Law Review 64 (Summer 2021).
ALL-SIS Book AWARD
Editors Zanada Joyner, Senior Reference Librarian, North Carolina Central University School of Law Library & Cas Laskowski, Head of Research, Data & Instruction, University of Arizona College of Law. Introduction to Law Librarianship, Pressbooks (August 2021).
ALL-SIS Digital Publication AWARD
Olivia Smith Schlinck, Instructional & Legal Technologies Librarian, Cardozo School of Law. Academic Law Librarians Are Paid 47% Less Than Their Faculty Counterparts, RIPS Law Librarian Blog (February 2022).
FREDERICK CHARLES HICKS AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO ACADEMIC LAW LIBRARIANSHIP
Joyce Manna Janto, Director of Public and Instructional Services, University of Richmond School of Law.
Outstanding Service award
No recipient.
GRANTS
LEADERSHIP ACADEMY GRANTS
- Chelsey McKimmy, Student Services Librarian and Assistant Professor of Law, Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law.
- Geraldine Kalim, Student Services Librarian, University of Georgia School of Law.
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP GRANT
- Paul D. Callister, Law Library Director and Professor of Law, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law & Dana Neacsu, Director of the Duquesne Center for Legal Information and Associate Professor of Legal Skills, Duquesne University School of Law, for Law’s Box
- Nicholas Mignanelli, Research & Instructional Services Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research, Yale University Law School, for “Legal Information Scholarship @ AALS Revitalization Project.”
REGULAR MEMBER STIMULUS MEETING GRANT
- Michael Bird, Head of Public Services and Reference Librarian, Capital University Law School.
ACTIVE MEMBER STIMULUS MEETING GRANT
- Karen Selden, Temporary Metadata Librarian, University of Colorado School of Law.
CONELL GRANTS
- Adam Harness, Digital Collections & Initiatives Instructional Librarian, Charleston School of Law.
- Laura Wilcoxon, Reference and Student Services Librarian, University of Missouri School of Law.
2021 AWARD & GRANT WINNERS
Outstanding Article Award
Caroline Osborne, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library and Stephanie Miller, Head of Outreach, Attorney Services, and Digital Initiatives for their article The Scholarly Impact Matrix: An Empirical Study of How Multiple Metrics Create an Informed Story of a Scholar’s Work 39 Legal Reference Services Quarterly 238 (2020). Both Caroline and Stephanie are at the University of West Virginia, George R. Farmer, Jr. Law Library
Publication Award
Ryan Greenwood, Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections & Patrick Graybill, Digital Technology Specialist for their website Law and the Struggle for Racial Justice: Selected Materials from the Riesenfeld Rare Books Center. Both Ryan and Patrick are at the University of Minnesota Law Library
GRANTS
AALL MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE GRANT
- Madeline Cohen, Assistant Director and Associate Professor in University Libraries, University of Denver School of Law, Westminster Law Library,
- Nicholas Stump, Head of Reference and Access Services, University of West Virginia, George F. Farmer Law Library,
- Lewis Zimmerman, Head of Access Services; Assistant Professor in University Libraries, University of Denver School of Law, Westminster Law Library
2020 AWARD & GRANT WINNERS
Frederick Charles Hicks Award for Outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship
Richard Leiter, Director of the Schmid Law Library & Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law
Outstanding Article Award
Jennifer L. Behrens, Associate Director for Administration & Scholarship and Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke University School of Law, for Unknown Symbols: Online Legal Research in the Age of Emoji, 38 Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 155 (2019).
Publication Award
Linda Tashbook, FCIL Librarian, University of Pittsburgh Barco Law Library, for Family Guide to Mental Illness and the Law: A Practical Handbook (Oxford University Press).
GRANTS
LEADERSHIP ACADEMY GRANT
- Brittany G. Persson, Seton Hall University Law Library
RESEARCH & SCHOLARSHIP GRANT
- No Recipient
VIRTUAL MEETING GRANT
- Susan Azyndar, Reference Librarian, Moritz Law Library, Ohio State University
- Nathan Delmar, Reference and Scholarly Services Librarian, Maloney Law Library, Fordham Law School
- Stephanie Ziegler, Reference Librarian, Moritz Law Library, Ohio State University