Submitted by Terry Long, VALL liaison to VLA Highlights of the VLA Council Meeting: VLA annual meeting will be held at the Homestead, October 26-28th. o More program proposals are needed. o Lisa Varga, Executive Director, explored some conference ideas with the group. VLA Professional Associated Forum will be held May 2nd at the Doubletree […]
The Spring Meeting and changeover of officers will be on April 8, 2016, at Washington & Lee Law School in Lexington, Virginia. Click here for a preliminary program: Spring Meeting Progam More details to follow!
The proposal to change the name of American Association of Law Libraries to the Association for Legal Information has failed by a vote of 1998 (80.11 percent) opposed, to 496 (19.89 percent) in favor. A record number of members voted on this proposal, with 59.51 percent casting a ballot.
Submitted by Terry Long, VALL Liaison · The VLA annual conference was a success. · The cost to post on Jobline has increased from $75 to $100. This increase will help keep the dues at the current level. · VLA is in a strong financial position as have a healthy reserve fund. · Lisa Varga, […]
Yes, that’s right — VALL’s own Ben Almoite will be a contestant on Jeopardy! this Thursday, January 14, so don’t forget to tune in and cheer Ben on! How does one get to be on Jeopardy!? Other than the obvious … be really, really good in trivia. Ben took the Jeopardy! Adult Online Test in […]
Hello, VALL members and Happy New Year! As 2015 has now come and gone I would like to take a moment to thank all VALL members for a great year for our organization and look forward to many more milestones and achievements. After a very enjoyable lunch at AALL in Philadelphia, VALL members gathered again […]
It is that time again to bid farewell to a long-time VALL member who is retiring; welcome a new member into our midst; and send good wishes to those who have moved into new positions. Please see below on updates from VALL institutions. From Gail Warren at the Virginia State Law Library: On behalf of […]
Congratulations and welcome back to Victoria Levy who starts today as a reference librarian with McGuireWoods. Victoria was working at the Henrico Public Library before coming back to law librarianship.
The joint VLA/VALL conference was held at the Richmond Marriott from Oct. 21 -23, 2015, with VALL members presenting three programs and one Library Speed Networking session. VALL also had a table in the exhibition hall which attracted a lot of traffic. VLA President Suzy Szasz Palmer getting ready to cut the ribbon to the […]
Fred will be speaking at the Louisiana Supreme Court on Thursday, November 12. The topic is the Corpus Juris Civilis. For more information about this free CLE: Corpus Juris Civilis.
