Vice President/President Elect: Benjamin Almoite: Ben currents holds the position of librarian at the Virginia Supreme Court. He previously worked at Keller & Heckman as a reference librarian; at the Catholic University of America as an acquisitions assistant; and at the San Diego County Public Law Library as a branch assistant. He received his BA […]
Vice President/President Elect: Benjamin Almoite, Virginia State Law Library Treasurer: Linday K. Tesar, William & Mary Law School, Wolf Law Library Director: Catherine Lemann, US Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit Library If there are further nominations to be considered, they may be sent to Anthony Brown Ikwueme, chair of the Nominating Committee, at acikueme@liberty.edu Additional nominations must […]
Happy 2013! I can hardly believe it’s January already (not to mention that it’s nearly February). I hope that everyone had a joyous holiday season. Despite the holidays, VALL members have been busy! Vice-President/President-Elect Amy Wharton has been making plans for the spring meeting, to be held at the Wolf Law Library at the College […]
Choice, v.50, no. 06, February 2013. To highlight the wide range of publications reviewed in Choice, each month Choice editors feature some noteworthy reviews from the current issue. Andrews, Julia F. The art of modern China, by Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen. California, 2012. 364p bibl index afp; ISBN 9780520238145, $80.00; ISBN 9780520271067 pbk, […]
Librarians are confronted everyday by copyright issues and now there is help! VALL members Jim Heller, Paul Hellyer and Ben Keele from William & Mary have recently published a book, The Librarian’s Copyright Companion, 2nd ed. It provides a practical analysis of copyright law from the librarian’s perspective. Jim, who is director of the law […]
Congratulations to Greg Stoner from McGuireWoods, LLP, who wrote “Sentencing Guideline Resources for Practitioners” for the Law Libraries column in the December issue of the Virginia Lawyer. Click here to read the article: http://www.vsb.org/docs/valawyermagazine/vl1212-libraries.pdf
South University collected over 67 gifts for 15 children under the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program in 2012. This is the third year that South University has participated in the program, and the second year that it has been a sponsor of the program, which means that it commits to adopting fifteen angels. South University’s participation […]
Congratulations to VALLer Gail Warren and former VALLer Femi Cadmus for their election to the AALL Board! Here are the results: Vice President/President-Elect: Holly M. Riccio(July 2013 – July 2014) Treasurer: Gail Warren (July 2013 – July 2016) Executive Board: Femi Cadmus and Kenneth J. Hirsh(July 2013 – July 2016)
VALL now has a Facebook page! Just search for the Virginia Association of Law Libraries and if you Like the page, you will get updates to the VALL page.
AALL Management Institute to be Held March 7-9, 2013 Please save the date for the 2013 AALL Management Institute. Held in Chicago at the Palomar Hotel, the Management Institute will provide new and aspiring managers from all types of law libraries the opportunity to learn management strategies, develop new skills, and learn from colleagues. More […]
