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Apply for the BLL-SIS Grant March 22, 2023
Applications are now open for the “BLL-SIS Grant for Early-Career Professionals, Paraprofessionals & Students to attend the AALL Annual Meeting and Conference“! The purpose of this grant is to provide financial assistance with the costs associated with attending the AALL Annual Meeting & Conference, including registration, travel, housing, and related expenses to library staff, a library student,Continue […]
BLL-SIS Member Spotlight – Le’Shawn Turner March 22, 2023
BLL-SIS is pleased to spotlight BLL-SIS member, Le’Shawn Turner. Le’Shawn is a Reference Librarian at Oklahoma City University School of Law (OCU Law)’s Chickasaw Nation Law Library. Most recently, she served as Secretary of the BLL-SIS Executive Board from 2020 – 2022. At OCU Law, Le’Shawn assists faculty with their scholarship research; guest lectures inContinue […]
Discovering the National Bar Journal February 10, 2022
As we celebrate Black history month, we begin a series of posts of interest to law librarians. We first turn to the National Bar Journal which we will feature several times this month. The National Bar Journal was a scholarly legal journal published in 10 volumes from 1941 – 1952 by the National Bar Association,Continue […]
Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929 – 1968 January 17, 2022
BLL-SIS is honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his vision for America. We can all look to Dr. King’s life and work to find hope and inspiration. We cannot forget the accomplishments that he made for the civil rights movement, people of color and the nation. Dr. King expounded nonviolence and civil disobedience. Dr.Continue […]
BLL-SIS Service Project for Cleveland July 22, 2021
The 2021 AALL Annual Meeting and Conference would have been in Cleveland had the world fully recovered from COVID-19. Even though the conference is virtual this year, BLL-SIS has coordinated a very worthy community service project called Shoes and Clothes for Kids (SC4K). The mission of SC4K is to improve K-8 school attendance by eliminatingContinue […]
Congrats to BLL-SIS Member Miriam Childs July 12, 2021
Congratulations to BLL-SIS member Miriam Childs on her selection as a 2021 Fastcase 50 award winner! Since 2011 Fastcase recognizes a “diverse group of lawyers, legal technologists, policymakers, judges, law librarians, bar association executives, and people from all walks of life. In many cases, honorees are well known, but in many others, the award recognizesContinue […]
AALL 2021 Virtual Conference Sessions of Possible Interest to BLL-SIS Members July 9, 2021
The AALL 2021 Virtual Conference is just around the corner, and this blog post highlights programs that might be of interest to BLL-SIS members. To begin with, BLL-SIS sponsored the two programs described in detail below, “Legal Research in the Era of Black Lives Matter” and “Dismantling Systemic Racism as a Law Librarian.” Legal ResearchContinue […]
Maya Angelou Among First Honorees in U.S. Mint’s American Women Quarters Program June 24, 2021
By Sabrina A. Davis, Digital Outreach Law Librarian, Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library The Circulating Collectible Coin Redesign Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-330) authorizes the “redesign and issuance of quarter dollars emblematic of prominent American women and commemorating the 19th Amendment” (codified in 31 U.S.C. §5112(x)). The American Women Quarters Program willContinue […]
Celebrating Juneteenth June 18, 2021
By Miriam D. Childs, Director, Law Library of Louisiana, Louisiana Supreme Court On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, which establishes June 19 as a legal public holiday: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/475. Juneteenth is the day to celebrate the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, GeneralContinue […]
US Supreme Court Revisits Racial Considerations in College Admissions in June June 2, 2021
By Sabrina A. Davis, Digital Outreach Law Librarian, Harris County Robert W. Hainsworth Law Library The United State Supreme Court is scheduled to consider “a challenge to Harvard’s use of racial criteria in its admissions process” on June 10, 2021, in Students for Fair Admissions v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, No. 20-1199. AccordingContinue […]