School supplies drive for Sept. 20 CALL Business Meeting

At our first CALL meeting of the year on September 20th, the CALL Community Service Committee will once again be collecting school supplies for the Chicago Public Schools’ Students in Temporary Living Situations program, so be sure to get out there now and take advantage of those back-to-school sales! Suggested items that are always welcome include:

Backpacks
Toiletries
Feminine hygiene products
Pencils
Pocket folders
Notebooks
Crayons
Washable markers
Pencil top erasers
Supply boxes
Glue sticks
Scissors
Rulers
Watercolors
Sketch pads
Colored pencils
Spiral notebooks
Wide rule notebook paper
Dictionaries
Calculators
Assignment notebooks
Kleenex
Paper towels

If you prefer to donate online, Chicago Public Schools has partnered with Kits for Kidz to solicit online donations of school supply packs. Although separate from the CALL supplies drive, you might want to check out that effort.

In addition, we’ll be donating the cash from the canisters on the tables to the American Cancer Society in the name of the Wenger family and in support of our colleague Jean Wenger, who recently lost her brother to cancer, two days after the loss of her mother.

If you have any questions, please contact the Community Service Committee co-chairs, Robert Martin and Kevin McClure. And thanks, as always, for your generosity!

Robert Martin
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
rmartin@kentlaw.iit.edu

Kevin McClure
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
kmcclure@kentlaw.iit.edu

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Register now for the Sept. 20 CALL Business Meeting

Thursday, September 20, 2012

11:30 AM to 1:30 PM – Central Time
Petterino’s, 150 N. Dearborn, Chicago, IL 60601
Chicago Association of Law Libraries (CALL) Business Meeting
Registration: 11:30 AM
Lunch: 12:00 PM
Cost: $20.00
Please use the following link to register:  http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/K5GPB7H
Speaker:  Robert Warden, Executive Director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University’s Bluhm Law Clinic

Mr. Warden will be speaking about the Center’s recent court victories and the recently-launched National Registry of Exonerations.  The Community Service Committee will be holding a school supplies drive for Chicago Hopes.
 
Your registration must be received by Friday, September 14, 2012 at 5:00 P.M.
Reminder: Registration is NOT complete until you click on the Submit button

CALL No Show and No Walk in Policy:
http://new.chicagolawlib.org/register-now-for-the-sept-20-call-business-meeting/

For more information, please contact Betty Roeske at betty.roeske@kattenlaw.com

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CALL Bulletin #224, Summer 2012

The Summer 2012 issue of the CALL Bulletin is now available at CALL Bulletin #224 Summer 2012!

This is the last issue for the 2011-2012 year.  Congratulations to all of the contributors this year for making the Bulletin a truly great benefit for our membership.

This issue announces the retirement of Tom Keefe as co-editor of the Bulletin.  Kevin McClure from the IIT Chicago-Kent Law Library will take his place over the summer.

Also in this issue is a report of the activities and recommendations of the Call Bulletin Special Committee, as well as reports from Maribel Nash on the ABA Tech Show and Clare Gaynor Willis on CALL’s Half-Day Institute on Technology.  In addition, this issue has a short series focusing on the changes in technical services librarianship.  Betty Roeske gives us a retrospective on technical services through the decades, while JoAnn Hounshell describes why she does not miss those earlier days.  Sarah Lin shows us how the technical services department at her law firm has evolved and Lyonette Louis-Jacques describes how technical services law librarians are using new technologies.

Enjoy!

Tom Keefe and Margaret Schilt, Co-editors

P.S. I would like to add a note of gratitude to Tom for his creative and faithful service in making the Bulletin the excellent publication it is.  The Bulletin has reflected his expertise, initiative and hard work for the past three years.  Thanks, Tom! Margaret Schilt

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Irene Berkey Retirement News

  • By in CALL News

  • June 11, 2012

  • June 11, 2012

This message is to share the news of the retirement of Irene Berkey, Foreign and International Law Librarian, Pritzker Legal Research Center, Northwestern University School of Law, on August 15, 2012.

Irene joined the Law School in 1982 as the Foreign and International Law Librarian, following her experiences as a reference librarian at the University of Texas at Austin law library, from 1981-1982, and at the University of Michigan’s graduate library, where she worked from 1970 to 1977.   She brought with her expertise in foreign languages, particularly French, Italian, German, and several other languages, ancient and modern.

At the law library, in addition to serving as the Foreign and International Law Librarian, Irene has served as acting head of public services three times, including tenure as acting associate director/head of public services from December 1993 to August 1996.  She has served on committees within the law library, the law school, and the university library. She has received the university’s commendation for exceptional service.  Her professional activities have included committee service for CALL and the AALL special interest section on foreign, comparative, and international law, as well as presentations to regional, national, and international library associations.

Irene has been a leader and mentor to many within the library and law school, as well as a great friend, holding herself and others to the highest standards of excellence in service to the law school community, tempered by a great sense of humor.  Her departure, after 29 years of devoted service, will be a loss for us and will be greatly felt by many.  She will be missed.  She will be remaining in Chicago to enjoy her well-earned retirement.  She has plans to take Northwestern University courses, an example of Irene’s intellectual curiosity as a lifelong learner.

Please join me in thanking Irene for her long service, her leadership, high standards, and dedication, and in wishing her a wonderful retirement.

Eloise M. Vondruska
Interim Director of the Pritzker Legal Research Center Northwestern University School of Law

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