Membership News
Swee L. Berkey has joined us as a member of Caucus. Swee is the Information Technology/Reference Librarian at the William S. Richardson School of Law Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Hua Li will join us again on August 1st, 2002 as a cataloging librarian at Villanova University Law Library in Philadelphia. Welcome back Hua.
Chenglin Liu has joined us a member of Caucus. Chenglin has a LLM degree and is going to graduate from the U. of Illinois soon.
Mon Yin Lung graduated from the University of Kansas Law School in May. After 19 years of serving the University of Kansas, Mon Yin is leaving to become the Assistant Director and the Head of Public Services of the Florida International University (FIU) College of Law (Miami) in August. FIU College of Law is a new law school established by the Florida Legislature to serve the people of Southern Florida. It will have its first ever class this fall. Congratulations, Mon Yin!
Heija Ryoo, Director of Library Systems/Technical Services at the Southern Illinois University Law Library, will be on a sabbatical leave from July 1 - December 31, 2002. She will work on several research projects relating to Korean legal resources, and she will also update her Korean Legal Research Resources on the Internet wet site. In addition, she will visit several law libraries and plans to give guest lectures in Korea.
Mila Rush will convene the first-ever gathering of Law Library Aleph users (ExLibris) and moderate the discussion during the 95th Annual AALL Conference. It is anticipated that the meeting will begin with a round-robin report of system use levels and/or implementation status. The group may then break into smaller functional discussions. Please contact either Mila ( m-rush@mnu.edu ) or Caitlin Robinson (caitlin-robinson@uiowa.edu ) to identify any specific topics that you would like added to the agenda.
Aleph Law Library Users -- Discussion
Wednesday, July 24
12:30-2:00 PM
Orlando Convention Center, Room 330 (A)
Xia Chen has joined us as a member of Caucus. Xia is a reference Librarian at the University of California Los Angeles Law Library. Xia has been the Government documents Librarian at Arcadia Public Library.
International Association of Law Libraries Professional Development Scholarships
The International Association of Law Libraries is pleased to announce the availability of financial assistance to enable law librarians who are normally unable to benefit from Association activities to attend the 21st Annual Course in International Law Librarianship to be held at Yale Law School (including the optional day at Harvard Law School) from 20th to 24th October 2002. (The 2002 Conference web site is at:http://library.law.yale.edu/library/iall2002/ )
Benefits
IALL offers two scholarships to attend its Conference comprising the following benefits:
- The conference registration fee is waived
- grant of up to $US1,000 to assist with accommodation and travel costs
- memebership fo IALL for one year (including journal) without charge
Applications
Application should normally be by letter with full contact details to the Chair of the Scholarships Committee of the Association (see below).
Please type your application or write it clearly and send it to:
Jules Winterton, IALL Scholarships Committee, Institute of Advanced Legal
Studies London WC1B 5DR, UK
Please give the following information:
A full resume/curriculum vitae including:
- Name and qualifications
- Full contact details including email if available
- Details of present job
- Present and past employers
- Membership of professional association
- Attendance at conference
Your reasons for wanting to attend this conference, the expected benefits and how you intend to disseminate those benefits.
A reference from your employer including permission to attend the conference.
Deadline
Applications must be received by 31 July 2002.
Report
Recipients will undertake to write a report for publication by IALL by the end of the year of the conference.
Selection Guidelines
1)Applicants do not need to be members of the Association.
2)Applicants should be in current employment in librarianship with significant legal context to their work. The scholarships are not designed for students or those not currently in employment.
3)Preference will be given to:
a)applicants who demonstrate promise and are likely to make a significant contribution to the profession of law librarianship
b)applicants who cannot otherwise afford to attend;
c)applicants who have not received an IALL bursary or scholarship before;
d)applicants who have not attended a conference outside their own country/region or studied or worked outside their own country before
4)IALL scholarships are not open to officers or members of the Board of the Association.
Award
The President in consultation with the Board of Directors of the Association will decide on awards. The Association may make no awards, vary the amount of the awards or make additional awards within the above limit. The Association's decisions on the award of scholarships are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Enquiries
Enquiries can be made in writing to:
Jules Winterton
IALL Scholarships Committee
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
London WC1B 5DR
jules.winterton@sas.ac.uk