CALL Half-Day Institute: Careers

Please join the Continuing Education and Placement and Recruitment Committees on Friday, April 19th from 8:00-noon at Chicago-Kent College of Law for the Half Day Institute on Careers.  Learn more about careers and get insightful job searching advice from successful professionals.  Get individual advice on your resume or cover letter.  This program will aid anyone who wants to advance their career, whether or not they are currently actively seeking a job.

Registration Link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WTPS8JN

When: Friday, April 19, 2013, 8:00am-noon
Where: Chicago-Kent College of Law, 565 West Adams, Room 580
Cost: $10

Agenda

8:00-8:30am — Registration
Enjoy a cup of coffee and a pastry while networking with your colleagues.

8:30-9:30 — Job Search Boot Camp

Part One: the process from application to interview
Our panel will take you beyond the basics of resumes and cover letters and give you tips on how to make yourself stand out. This panel will include a presentation on technology tools for more impressive job talks.

Rachel Jennings, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Career Services Office, Career Development Advisor
Scott Vanderlin, Chicago-Kent College of Law Library, Research Librarian

Part Two: contrasting different job search environments
This panel will contrast academic, law firm, and government libraries to give participants a more clear understanding of the differences.

Stephanie Crawford, Schiff Hardin LLP, Senior Research Librarian
Gretchen Van Dam, 7th Circuit, Circuit Librarian

9:30-10:00 — Resume and Cover Letter Review Workshop
Bring your resume and/or cover letter for an informal and confidential review.

10:00-11:00 — Up and Over: Moving up through management through different paths

Our diverse panel will share how they moved up through management positions across different departments within libraries and their parent organizations.

Ramsey Donnell, John Marshall Law School Library, Associate Director for Access and Organization
June Liebert, John Marshall Law School Library, Director and Assistant Professor
Deborah Ginsberg, Chicago-Kent College of Law Library, Educational Technology Librarian

11:00-11:10 — break

11:10-Noon — There’s an Alternative: Alternative Careers and Settings for Librarians
Our panel of librarians will discuss their careers in different settings, how they arrived in the alternative career and how their library degree is a benefit.

Danielle Hontz, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Associate Records and Information Management Analyst
Valerie Krasnoff, Mayer Brown LLC, CLE Coordinator
Zachary Yontz, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Senior Records and Information Management Analyst
Maria Ziemer, ProQuest, Manager, Graduate Education Program

Please note that CALL’s no-show policy will apply for this event.
CALL No Show and No Walk in Policies for Business Meetings

Registration ends on April 17, 2013.

Permanent link to this article: https://chicagolawlib.org/blog/2013/04/10/call-half-day-institute-careers/

CALL Election Runs Through Midnight on March 13th

Be sure to vote before midnight on Wednesday, March 13th!

Candidate biographies are on the official http://new.chicagolawlib.org/election-reminder-voting-ends-march-14/ and also on the CALL website, in the Elections section, under “2013-2014 Slate of Candidates”.

All Active, Retired, and Student members are eligible to vote.  The cut-off date for eligible membership for this election is February 21, 2013.

Let me know if you need your Election Website access information.

jogden@mcguirewoods.com – Chair, CALL Elections Committee

Permanent link to this article: https://chicagolawlib.org/blog/2013/02/27/call-election-runs-through-midnight-on-march-13th/

Community Service Collection for Feb. 20 CALL Business Meeting

At the February 20th CALL business meeting, the Community Service Committee will be hosting a food drive to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository. The Food Depository distributes donated and purchased food through a network of 650 pantries, soup kitchens and shelters to 678,000 adults and children in Cook County every year.

 

Please bring any nonperishable canned and packaged foods (no glass) that have yet to expire to the business meeting.  Some of the most-needed items are:  Beans, Canned Fruit, Canned Vegetables, Cereal, Chili, Jelly, Macaroni and Cheese, Pasta, Pasta Sauce, Peanut Butter, Rice, Shelf-Stable Milk, Soup, Stew, Tuna.

 

The Community Service Committee will also be collecting monetary donations to benefit Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly (H.O.M.E.). H.O.M.E. helps Chicago’s low-income seniors maintain their independence by providing services unlike any organization in the City of Chicago.  Their services include free home upkeep and repairs to ensure seniors enjoy healthy and safe living conditions. Their free shopping bus assists seniors who have limited mobility or live in food deserts to have access to groceries, pharmacies and medical services that are essential to their well-being. They also own and manage three affordable buildings where seniors can choose between two styles of living—individual apartments or, for residents who need some assistance, shared living.

Please contact Lucy Robbins at lrobbi2@luc.edu for further information.

 

Thank you for your support!

~ The Community Service Committee

Permanent link to this article: https://chicagolawlib.org/blog/2013/02/08/community-service-collection-for-feb-20-call-business-meeting/

CALL Business Meeting, February 20, 2013 Lawry’s

 
CALL Business Meeting – February 20, 2013. Meeting Registration

Please use the following link to register:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PXBTWJV

Lawry’s The Prime Rib
100 East Ontario
Chicago, IL 60611

Registration:
11:30 am to noon;
Lunch: noon

The Community Service Committee will be taking cash donations for Housing Opportunities and Maintenance for the Elderly (HOME) and in-kind canned food donations for The Greater Chicago Food Depository

1. Please choose 1 of the following entrees:
Beef: Lawry’s Famous Roast Prime Rib Luncheon Cut
Fish: Fresh Salmon, Chinese Mustard Glaze
Vegetarian: Vegetable Lasagna
Poultry: Poached Breast of Chicken with Chive Gnocchi
Speaker:
Professor Travis McDade, Curator of Rare Books at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mr. McDade is an expert on crimes against rare books and has authored several books himself. He will be discussing his new book, Thieves of Book Row.

In the early afternoon of January 9th, 1931, an itinerant man from Pinetown, North Carolina, shivering in the New York winter, walked up the long steps of the Fifth Avenue entrance to the New York Public Library. It was a trip he’d made a dozen times in as many days and his plan was the same: get warm, then request from the library’s rare book collection a few of its treasures. But unlike his earlier visits, these books wouldn’t be returning to the stacks.

Travis McDade’s second work of nonfiction, published by Oxford University Press in May 2013, is the story of a gang of a book thieves looting Depression-era east coast libraries and selling these wares in Manhattan. One particular theft, and its subsequent investigation, brought the gang down.

Sponsor: Cardinal IP

Door Prizes: Two door prizes will be awarded, courtesy of LexisNexis.

Cost: $25.00 – exact amount required if paying at the door.

CALL No Show and No Walk in Policies for Business Meetings

Make checks payable to Chicago Association of Law Libraries. Please do not combine payment for this meeting with any other CALL function. Reservations must be received by Friday, February 15, 2013. For more information, please contact Betty Roeske at 312-577-8022 or betty.roeske@kattenlaw.com

Permanent link to this article: https://chicagolawlib.org/blog/2013/01/22/call-business-meeting-february-20-2013-lawrys/