In light of the responses to last year’s membership preferences survey, the Annual Meeting has been scheduled for a full Friday, as opposed to a half-day on both Friday and Saturday. The date and venue for the Spring Meeting will be announced in the near future. Programming for the meetings is currently under development. Please […]
Here is a link to Thomas H. Benton’s very readable review of Marilyn Johnson’s This Book Is Overdue! How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (HarperCollins, 2010) in the Chronicle of Higher Education. http://chronicle.com/article/Marian-the-Cybrarian/65570/
Faced with the present harsh economic situation, the tasks ahead for a new President of an association like VALL are many. Despite the many challenges, particularly the dwindling budgetary allocations for professional development by member institutions and law firms which in turn affect most VALL functions, I offer my commitment to take the mandate you […]
Congratulations to VALL’s own Sally Wambold! Sally Wambold receiving the Service to SEAALL award from Terry Long The Service to SEAALL award is given to “a member who has made special, significant and sustained contributions” to the chapter. “I was privileged to honor Sally this year with the Service to SEAALL award. She is certainly […]
Saying farewell to Fred and welcoming Tony … What could it be? It’s a traditional VALL gift to the outgoing president … a book clock … to say thank you for the service and that we appreciate the time you gave us. Fred conducting his last VALL business meeting VALL members going over by-laws and […]
The library added a new event to its list of activities this year — a Brown Bag Book event which was a community book read that was open to people from the judicial branch. State Law Librarian Gail Warren picked a book that would be fun and appeal to a wide range of employees and […]
The South University library kicked off its National Library Week celebrations with free bookmarks with the NLW 2010 theme Communities Thrive @ your library to all students who stopped by the library. Eager students wait the drawings On the second day of activities students picked up quiz cards in the library for the Ring-Around-the -Databases […]
Library week at Hunton & Williams offered a variety of ways for attorneys and staff to learn more about their librarians and the services they provide. The week kicked off with the Library’s Newsletter which included an overview of National Library Week events. Each day the library emailed a quiz on library products and services. […]
The University of Richmond School of Law Library celebrated National Library Week by inviting all students, faculty and staff to the Robert R. Merhige, Jr. Special Collections and Rare Books Room for cake on Tuesday, April 13. Heather Hamilton, Reference and Research Services Librarian (left), and Suzanne Corriell, Head of Reference and Research Services (right), […]
It’s hard to believe that it’s been almost a year since I first took office as President of the Virginia Association of Law Libraries. These past months have been trying ones for VALL’s membership, as the economy’s effects were felt across the legal world. Through it all, however, I have been proud to observe how […]
