Member, Executive Board, Technical Services Special Interest Section, 1987–88, 2003–05
Co-Chair, Joint Ad Hoc Committee on Annual Meeting Programming, 2005
Member, Technical Services Special Interest Section Education Committee, 2012
Professional Honors and Awards
Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship, 1999
Marta Lange/Congressional Quarterly Award, American Library Association, 1999
Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award, 2002
AALL Distinguished Lectureship Award, 2011
AALL Hall of Fame, Inductee, 2019
AALL Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, 2020
Selected Publications by the Inductee
Library of Congress Classification. K. Law in General, Comparative and Uniform Law, Jurisprudence. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1977–
“Classification of German Law at the Library of Congress: A Study in Comparative Law,” International Journal of Law Libraries 9 (1981): 145–61.
Classification. Class KK-KKC. Law of Germany. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1982.
Classification. Class KJV-KJW. Law of France. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1985 (with Jan Wawrzkow).
“Library of Congress Law Classification: The Regional Schedules,” Law Library Journal 79 (1987): 67–91.
Classification. Class KJ-KKZ. Law of Europe. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1989.
Classification. Class KL-KWX. Law of Asia and Eurasia, Africa, Pacific area, and Antarctica. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1993.
Library of Congress Classification. KZ. Law of Nations. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1997.
Library of Congress Classes JZ and KZ: Historical Notes and Introduction to Application. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1997.
Library of Congress Classification. KBR, KBU. History of Canon law. Law of the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy See. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2001.
“Religious Law in a Secular Setting: New Classification Approaches for Jewish, Canon and Islamic Law,” International Journal of Legal Information 29 (2001): 465–87.
Development of a Universal Law Classification: A Retrospective on Library of Congress Class K. New York: Haworth Information Press, 2003.
Library of Congress classification. KB. Religious Law. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2004.
Library of Congress Law Library: An Illustrated Guide. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2005 (with Natalie Gawdiak).
Library of Congress Classification. KZ. Law of Nations. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2007 (with Paul Weiss).
Library of Congress Classes JZ and KZ: Historical Notes and Introduction to Application. Rev. ed. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2011.
“Ars Memoria in Early Law: Looking Beneath the Picture.” In Law’s Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection, Michael Widener and Mark S. Weiner, 16–25. Clark, N.J.: Talbot Publishing, 2017.
Catherine Lemann, “Gallagher Award Celebrates Outstanding Achievement: Dr. Yvonne J. Chandler, Jolande E. Goldberg, Melody Lembke & Michelle M. Wu Recognized for Service to the Profession,” AALL Spectrum 44 (July/August 2020): 38–41.
Selected Publications about the Inductee
John J. Hasko, “Dupont and Goldberg Named Recipients of Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award,” AALL Spectrum 6 (June 2002): 8.
“Legal Classification: The Odyssey of Dr. Jolande Goldberg,” A Legal Miscellanea 5 (Spring 2008): 6–8.
George A. Prager, “Time Well Spent: Working with Jolande at the Library of Congress,” Technical Services Law Librarian 37 (June 2012): 10–11.
Catherine Lemann, “Introducing the 2019 Hall of Fame Inductees: Paul George, Jolande E. Goldberg, and Robert Oaks,” AALL Spectrum 23 (July/August 2019): 44–45.
Professional Positions
Junior Barrister, Department of Justice, Baden-Wiirttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany, 1957–61
Assessor (Barrister), Department of Justice, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart, Germany, 1961
Senior Research-Member/Legal Editor, Deutsches-Rechtswoerterbuch (Encyclopedia of Historic German Terminology), Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Heidelberg, Germany, 1961–67
Research Associate, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1964–67
Cataloger, Law Subject Specialist, Library of Congress, 1967–72
Professional Assistant in Law Classification, Library of Congress, 1972–80
Law Classification Specialist, Library of Congress, 1980–92
Senior Cataloging Policy Specialist (Law Classification), Library of Congress, 1992–present