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

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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/

Winter 2013 CALL Bulletin

Hello, CALL members,

The Winter 2013 issue of the CALL Bulletin has been posted and is available here.  

This issue is filled with interesting accounts of CALL members’ travels in pursuit of professional and personal enlightenment.  Five CALL librarians attended IALL’s Annual Course on International Law Librarianship and 3 of them have described their experiences for us.  Then, Lyonette Louis-Jacques tells us about her experiences at the 2012 Law Via the Internet international conference.  Sally Holterhoff went even further – to Helsinki, Finland for the IFLA annual conference.  And Lorna Tang travelled to China on a personal journey of reminiscence and exploration.

Konya Lafferty adds her experiences at AALL in Boston; Jo Ann Hounshell reports on the ORALL annual meeting at Valparaiso and Keith Ann Stiverson reports on the ILA’s Public Policy Committee and Executive Board meeting in Normal, Illinois.

Enjoy! And here’s to a happy, healthy and peaceful New Year….

Margaret Schilt and Kevin McClure, Co-Editors

Permanent link to this article: https://chicagolawlib.org/blog/2012/12/26/winter-2013-call-bulletin/

Finding Illinois Law

The CALL Government Relations Committee is proud to publish Finding Illinois Law: A Librarian’s Guide for Non-Lawyers. Recognizing that legal research is a specialized skill practiced by attorneys and law librarians, but that the general public often has a need to locate and understand legal information, the Committee presents this guide as a tool to aid non-lawyers. The guide is available for download (pdf) in its entirety and by chapter.

Permanent link to this article: https://chicagolawlib.org/blog/2012/12/17/finding-illinois-law/