Chair, Technical Services Special Interest Section, 1983–84
Chair, Special Interest Section Council, 1984–85
AALL Executive Board, 1987–90
Co-Director, AALL Institute on Basic and Advanced Cataloging, July 1992
Chair, Nominations Committee, 1995
Representative to American Library Association ALCTS/Subject Analysis Committee, 1999–2002
Professional Honors and Awards
Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship, 1996
AALL Hall of Fame, Inductee, 2017
Albert O. Brecht Lifetime Achievement Award, Southern California Association of Law Libraries, 2019
AALL Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, 2020
Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award, 2021
Selected Publications by the Inductee
Cataloging Legal Literature: A Manual on AACR2 and Library of Congress Subject Headings for Legal Materials with Illustrations. AALL Publications Series No. 22. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1984 (with Peter Enyingi and Rhonda K. Lawrence).
SIS Handbook. Edited by Shelley Dowling. AALL Occasional Papers Series No. 1. Chicago: American Association of Law Libraries, 1986.
Legal L.C. Subject Headings Weekly Lists. AALL Publications Series No. 26. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1986–2015 (with Peter Enyingi).
Cataloging Legal Literature: A Manual on AACR2 and Library of Congress Subject Headings for Legal Materials. 2nd ed. AALL Publications Series No. 22. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1988 (with Peter Enyingi and Rhonda Lawrence Mittán).
Cataloging Legal Literature: A Manual on AACR2 and Library of Congress Subject Headings for Legal Materials. 3rd ed. AALL Publications Series No. 22. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1997 (with Peter Enyingi and Rhonda Lawrence Mittán).
Supplement to Subject Headings for the Literature of Law and International Law, and Index to LC K Schedules: A Thesaurus of Law Subject Terms. AALL Publications Series No. 55. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2003.
Supplement to Subject Headings for the Literature of Law and International Law, and Index to LC K Schedules: A Thesaurus of Law Subject Terms. AALL Publications Series No. 55. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2009.
Supplement to Subject Headings for the Literature of Law and International Law, and Index to LC K Schedules: A Thesaurus of Law Subject Terms. AALL Publications Series No. 55. Buffalo, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2014.
Cataloging Legal Literature. 4th ed. AALL Publications Series No. 22. Getzville, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2016 (with Melissa Beck).
Cataloging Legal Literature. 5th ed. AALL Publications Series No. 22. Getzville, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2020 (with Melissa Beck).
Selected Publications about the Inductee
Melody Lembke, “Melody Lembke,” in Frank G. Houdek, “Stories of ‘My First Annual Meeting,'” Law Library Journal 88 (1996): 54–55.
Melody Busse Lembke, “Melody and the Magyar,” in “Meet My Mentor: A Collection of Personal Reminiscences,” edited by Frank G. Houdek, Law Library Journal 91(1999): 232–34.
Michelle Cosby, “Introducing the 2017 Hall of Fame Inductees: Joyce Manna Janto, Catherine Lemann, Melody Lembke, and Maryruth Storer,” AALL Spectrum 21 (July/August 2017): 46–47.
Melody Busse Lembke Interview. In An Oral History of Law Librarianship, interviewed by Patrick Kehoe, April 18, 2018, video recording. Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf, HeinOnline.
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.
Professional Positions
Cataloger, Los Angeles County Law Library, 1974–85
Assistant Technical Services Librarian, Los Angeles County Law Library, 1985–90
Director, Collection Management Services, Los Angeles County Law Library, 1990–2009
Associate Director of the Law Library, Technical Services, University of California, Irvine, School of Law, 2009–20
Education
B.A., Purdue University, 1973
M.L.S., Indiana University, Bloomington, 1974
Selected Professional Activities & Achievements (outside AALL)
