Awards & Grants

Following is the 16th recipient of the Marla Schwartz Grant. The grant will assist with attendance at the 2023 AALL Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.

• Julia Mersch, Core Systems Librarian at University of Connecticut Law Library

The following members received grants to attend the 2023 AALL Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.

• Experienced Member Grant: Alan Keely, Retired
• New Member General Grant: Angela Reaux, Collection Services Librarian at the Law Library of Louisiana
• Active Member General Grant: Susanna French, Metadata and E-Resources Management Librarian at University of Connecticut Law Library

Following is the 15th recipient of the Marla Schwartz Grant to attend the 2022 AALL CONELL Conference in Denver, CO and a New Member General Grant to attend the 2022 AALL Conference in Denver, CO.

• Cindy Tian, Metadata Services Librarian, University of Notre Dame Law Library

The following members received grants to attend the 2021 AALL Management Institute.

• Rachel Decker, Collection Management Librarian, Hugh & Hazel Darling Law Library, Dale E. Fowler School of Law at Chapman University
• Aaron Retteen, Digital Services & Repository Librarian, Texas A&M University School of Law

Following is the 14th recipient of the Marla Schwartz Grant. The grant will assist with attendance at the 2020 AALL Virtual Conference.

• Heather Kiger, Cataloger, Library of Congress, U.S. Programs, Law and Literature Division – Law Section

The following member received a grant to attend the 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting.

• New Member General Grant: Rachel Evans, Metadata Services & Special Collections Librarian, University of Georgia Law Library

Following is the 13th recipient of the Marla Schwartz Grant. The grant will assist with attendance at the 2019 AALL Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

• Alicia Pearson, Library Technical Assistant, Albany Law School, Schaffer Law Library

The following members received grants to attend the 2019 AALL Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

• Experienced Member Grant: Joy Humphrey, Associate Director, Pepperdine University, Harnish Law Library
• New Member General Grant: Sidney Lanier, Cataloging & Archives Librarian, Syracuse University, College of Law Library
• New Member General Grant: Rachel Parks, Head of Technical Services, Barry University, Euliano Law Library

Following is the recipient of a grant to attend the 2019 AALL Management Institute.

• Lewis Giles, Assistant Director of Library Services, UNT Dallas College of Law Library

Following is the 12th recipient of the Marla Schwartz Grant. The grant will assist with attendance at the 2018 Baltimore, Maryland Annual Meeting.

• Aaron Retteen, Digital Services & Repository Librarian, Texas A&M Dee J. Kelly Law Library

Following is the 11th recipient of the Marla Schwartz Grant. The grant will assist with attendance at the 2017 Austin, Texas Annual Meeting.

• Anne Mellott, Cataloging and Metadata Assistant, Chapman University Law Library.

The following received grants to attend the 2017 Austin, Texas Annual Meeting.

• New Member General Grant: Erica Nutzman, Head of Technical Services, Minnesota State Law Library.
• Experienced Member Grant: Heather A. Buckwalter,Serials/ Acquisition Librarian, Creighton University Law Library.
• Active Member Grant: Elizabeth Outler, Head of Technical Services, Barry University School of Law Library.

Following is the recipient of a grant to attend the AALL Management Institute.

• Jesse Lambertson, Head of Cataloging, Georgetown University Law Library

• Gretchen A. Croll, Research and Information Operations Specialist at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Wheeling, West Virginia (TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant, tenth recipient.)
• Grants to Attend the Annual Meeting (Educational)
  • Emily Nimsakont, Head of Cataloging & Resource Management, Schmid Law Library, University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law (New Member General Grant).
  • Christina Tarr, Head of Cataloging, University of California School of Law Library, Berkeley (Experienced Member Grant).
  • Ashley Moye, Metadata & Digital Initiatives, Charlotte School of Law (Active Member Grant).

• Anna Lawless-Collins, Collection Development Librarian, Boston University School of Law Fineman & Pappas Law Libraries

• Samantha Cabo, MLIS student, University of Pittsburgh School of Information Sciences; Reference Assistant, University of Pittsburgh Barco Law Library; Technical Services volunteer, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary Library. (TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant, ninth recipient.)
• Grants to Attend the Annual Meeting (Educational)
  • Kevin Carey, Technical Services Librarian, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Library. (New Member General Grant.)
  • Ajaye Bloomstone, Acquisitions Librarian, Louisiana State University Herbert Law Center Library. (Experienced Member Grant.)
  • Sarah Lin, Library Systems Librarian, Reed Smith LLP, Chicago, Illinois. (Active Member Grant.)

• Michelle Modic, Technical Services Intern, Duke University, Goodson Law Library, Durham, North Carolina. (TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant, eighth recipient.)
• Grants to Attend the Annual Meeting (Educational)
  • Sabrina Davis, Reference Librarian, Oklahoma City University Law Library, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
  • Ning Han, Technical Services Librarian and Assistant Professor, Concordia University, George R. White Law Library, Boise, Idaho.

• Antionette Vanterpool, Florida State University (law librarianship student and law library assistant at University of Florida). (TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant, seventh recipient.)
• Grants to Attend the Annual Meeting (AALL Registration Grant)
  • Diana Menashi, Joseph D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Gould Law Library, Touro Law College.
  • Joseph A. Reimers, Kresge Law Library, Notre Dame University (and Drexel University ISchool student).

• Michael Umberger, University of Washington (law library intern and law librarianship student). (TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant, sixth recipient.)
• No Educational Grants were awarded in 2012.

• CONELL (Conference of Newer Law Librarians)
  • Jen Richter, Sacramento County Public Law Library. (TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant, fifth recipient.)
• Grants to Attend the Annual Meeting (AALL Registration Grant)
  • Rebecca Bearden, University of Connecticut School of Law Library.
  • Erin Harper, Edwards, Angell, Palmer & Dodge LLP, Boston.
  • Ashley Moye, Charlotte School of Law.
  • Amy O’Connor, University of Richmond Law Library.
  • Keiko Okuhara, William S. Richardson School of Law Library, University of Hawaii.
  • Sarah Pearson, Florida State University College of Law.
  • Lisa Wernke, University of Cincinnati, Robert S. Marx Law Library.

• CONELL (Conference of Newer Law Librarians)
  • Amanda Quist, San Diego County Public Law Library. Amanda also recieved a TS-SIS Grant to attend the conference. (TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant, fourth recipient.)
• Grants to Attend the Annual Meeting (AALL Registration Grant)
  • Ajaye Bloomstone, Louisiana State University Law Center Library.
  • Courtney Selby, University of Tulsa, Mabee legal Information Center.
  • Caroline Young, Rutgers University (Newark) Law Library.

• CONELL (Conference of Newer Law Librarians)
  • Iris Garcia, Bibliographic Control Librarian, St. Thomas University Law Library.
  • Lindsay Beth Given, library science student at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science. Lindsay also received a TS-SIS Grant to attend the conference.
  • Victoria Sukhol, Assistant Director of Technical Services for Cataloging, New York Law School. Victoria also received a TS-SIS Grant to attend the conference.
  • Leslie Wakeford, Technical Services Librarian, Wake Forest University Professional Center Library. (TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant, third recipient.)
• Grants to Attend the Annual Meeting (AALL Registration Grant)
  • Emily Phillips, Acquisitions Librarian, Wilmer/Hale, LLP in Washington, D.C.
  • Richard Todd, Technical Services Librarian, University of Tulsa, Mabee Legal Information Center.
  • Jared Wellman, Assistant Librarian of Acquisitions and Technology, Vermont Law School. Jared also received a Workshop Grant to attend “Managing from the Middle.”
• Grants to Attend Annual Meeting Workshops
  • Ajaye Bloomstone, Acquisitions Librarian, Louisiana State University Law Center Library in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This grant was to attend “Managing from the Middle.”

• CONELL (Conference of Newer Law Librarians)
  • Jennifer Tsai, Head of Technical Services, Golden Gate University Law Library. Jennifer also recieved a TS-SIS Grant to attend the conference. (TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant, second recipient.)
• Grants to Attend the Annual Meeting
  • Hollie White, PhD candidate in Information Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
  • Chris Pickford, Catalog Librarian, San Diego County Public Law Library.

• The Future Is Digital: Metadata Standards and Applications (workshop)
  • Sean Chen, Cataloging Assistant, Duke Law School Library; MLS program student, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (TS-SIS Marla Schwartz Grant, first recipient).
• Delivering the Goods: Effective and Efficient Acquisitions Processes (workshop)
  • Edward Hart, Acquisitions and Serials Librarian, University of Florida.
• Grants to Attend the Annual Meeting
  • Tina Miller, Technical Services Librarian, John F. Kennedy University Law Library.
  • Karen Wahl, Catalog Librarian, Fordham University Law Library.

• SCCTP (Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program) Electronic Serials Cataloging Workshop
  • Yan Yu, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP
• CONELL (Conference of Newer Law Librarians)
  • Annie Chen, Robert Crown Law Library, Stanford University
  • Jill Ryder, New York State Office of the Attorney General

• Effective Subject Cataloging With LCSH:
  • Shan Jiang, Northwestern University School of Law
  • Cathy Rentschler, Stetson University College of Law
• Electronic Resources from Acquisitions to Access:
  • Marlene Bubrick, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
  • Linda Sobey, Florida A & M University College of Law

• Serials Cataloging Cooperative Training Program:
  • Judy Chalmers, Washoe County Law Library
  • Kevin McClure, Chicago-Kent College of Law Library
  • Mary Rose, Bryan Cave
  • Calmer Chattoo, University of Miami School of Law Library
  • Miriam Childs, Law Library of Louisiana
  • Rosemarie Romano, Syracuse University College of Law
  • Jill Milhorat
• Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands:
  • Pat Turpening, University of Cincinnati Law Library

Advanced Cataloging:

• Christy Ryan, University of Tulsa, Mabee Legal Information Center
• Elaine Bradshaw, University of Oklahoma Law Library
• Julie Kremer, Robert Crown Law Library
• Akram Sadeghi Pari, Cincinnati Law Library Association

• Christy Ryan, Public Services/Serials Law Librarian from the Taliaferro Savage Library at the University of Tulsa School of Law, received a TS-SIS Education Grant to attend the Intermediate Cataloging for Law Librariesworkshop to be held July 19-20, 2002 in Orlando, Florida. In March 2002, Christy attended the Basic Law Cataloging workshop held in Chicago. Her colleagues consider Christy to be a promising law librarian, and believe that “she will attend eagerly, absorb new knowledge readily, and share it and use it upon her return.”
• Cindy Buhi, who works in the Washington State Attorney General’s Law Library, received a TS-SIS Education Grant to attend the Basic Law Cataloging Workshop held in Chicago, Illinois, March 1-3, 2002.
• Wendy Medvetz, Acquisitions/Serials Librarian at Capital University Law Library, is the first recipient of the TS-SIS Education Grant. Read her report on the New Perspectives in Law Library Acquisitions and Collection Development Workshop she attended at American University School of Law in Washington, D.C., November 2-3, 2001.