by Timothy Coggins & Kathleen Klepfer Gail Zwirner, head of access services in the University of Richmond Law Library, will retire on April 3, 2015. Gail has provided exemplary reference and research assistance to the law school’s faculty, students, and other users since 1998, when she joined the law library as a reference and research services...Read More

Patty Petroccione Vice President/President Elect:  Patricia Peroccione (Walter T. McCarthy Law Library).  Patty received her J.D. from George Washington University, her MSLIS from Catholic University and her B.A. in sociology and German from the State University of New York at Albany.  In the early 1980s, she was the director of the law library at Sidley...Read More

To date, the last bound volume published was 286 Virginia (distributed in June 2014) and the last advance sheet published was vol. 288 No. 1 (distributed in October 2014). This means there has been a delay in producing bound volume 287 of the Virginia Reports and the advance sheets for the September 2014 and November...Read More

A joint meeting with VLA and VALL will be held October 21-23, 2015 at the Richmond Marriott.   Program submissions are now open!  Please consider submitting a program idea for the joint meeting.  It is a wonderful opportunity to learn from our VLA colleagues and also share our experience in law libraries.  Proposals will be...Read More

On behalf of the VALL Strategic Planning Committee, please find attached the draft Strategic Plan for VALL that has been proposed by the committee to the Executive Board.  This plan was prepared after a process that included a VALL member survey; the development of a mission statement for VALL; an environmental scan; a strengths-weaknesses-opportunities-threats (SWOT)...Read More

Congratulations to Suzanne Corriell who will start a new position as associate circuit librarian for the 4th Circuit in Richmond on Feb. 9! Suzanne who is associate director for reference, research and instructional services for the University of Richmond Law Library, will leave her position on Feb. 6th. However, she will continue to teach 1L...Read More

From Suzanne Corriell (standing in for Terry Long)   The dates listed in the agenda MAY change, but notice about that will be given in the next 2 weeks.  The 2014 End-of-Year finances are on the vla.org site, under the Calendar link.  The fall conference brought in 136k – “tremendous.”  Membership is a little bit...Read More

by Evelyn Campbell   It is with deep regret that we note the passing of longtime VALL member, Teresa Parker-Bellamy, on January 7, 2015.  Teresa was head of bibliographic services at Regent University Law Library from 1996 - 2013. Before that she worked at Old Dominion University Library. It was at ODU that I first...Read More

Hello, VALL members! As we near the end of 2014 I just want to take a moment to thank you all for helping make this year - our 30th Anniversary year – such a success. We followed up AALL with another great turnout, this time at our Fall Meeting, which was held at Hunton &...Read More

By Paul Hellyer   Fair Use Guidelines After the Georgia State Case In this last installment of VALL’s Copyright Column, we’ll take a look at the recent ruling from the 11th Circuit in the Georgia State University copyright infringement case.[1]As other commentators have already pointed out, this ruling is mostly favorable to users and libraries....Read More