Category: AALL

NJLLA Grant Winner Recap of AALL

NJLLA’s Founders Grant Award winner for 2023 was Roberta L. Matalon, the law librarian at Connell Foley LLP. Roberta attended AALL in Boston and has provided a recap of her time there. Read her essay about the terrific experience she had, the panels she attended, and the people she met. Roberta took some great photos of the event, which you can see in her essay. Of course AI was a major topic at the conference, so read to the end to find ChatGPT’s summary of the AALL Conference as well!

AALL / Bloomberg Law Continuing Education Grant

Are you thinking about putting together a meeting or a local or regional conference? Do you need additional funding to bring in speakers or record the event? Then, on behalf of the AALL/Bloomberg Law Continuing Education Grant Jury, we encourage you to apply for an AALL/Bloomberg Law Continuing Education Grant to receive funding to support educational programming that could benefit the entire AALL community.

Funding is available to cover expenses directly affecting the program, such as room rental, speaker fees, travel fees, and recording/broadcasting of the program. Funding cannot be used for food, advertising, or vendor-specific programming. This grant is a reimbursement grant meaning that expenses are reimbursed after the program, and you have submitted paid receipts. For detailed information, see the grant program FAQs.

Recently awarded grants include:

·         Pay Equity for Law Librarians: “In Their Own Words” (BLL SIS)
·         Critical Law Librarianship (LLNE-SNELLA Spring Meeting) 
·         Get Refusal & Domestic Violence in the Jewish Community (on behalf of CARLIG)
·         2022 Diversity Summit (on behalf of PLLIP & BLL-SIS)
·         NOCALL Spring Institute

The next deadline for grant applications is Oct. 31, 2022.

Apply for NJLLA’s Founders Grant

AALL’s Annual Meeting & Conference is happening IN PERSON in 2022! NJLLA offers a grant to assist one of our members to attend the conference being held in Denver, CO, this summer. The grant covers the cost of registration, transportation, and hotel accommodations up to $1,500.

Click here for the instructions and application, available as a fillable PDF. Please be sure to adhere to all rules and deadlines. This is a wonderful opportunity for one of our members so we encourage all to apply.

NJLLA 2021-2022 Nominees for Office

NEW JERSEY LAW LIBRARIANS ASSOCIATION
2021-2022 NOMINEES FOR OFFICE

In accordance with Article IX, Section 1 (b) of the bylaws, the Nominating Committee is pleased to present its candidates for the following offices:

PRESIDENT
(Appointed automatically by succession.)
Kathleen Agno
Greenberg Traurig
Florham Park, NJ

VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT
Johanna Bizub
Library Consultant
Rockaway, NJ

PAST PRESIDENT
(Appointed automatically by succession.)
Brittany Persson
Seton Hall Law Library
Newark, NJ

TREASURER
(First year of 2nd 2 year term.)
Kathy Taggart
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
Roseland, NJ

SECRETARY
Latoya Rosario
Prudential Insurance
Newark, NJ

MEMBERS-AT –LARGE
Leigh DeProspo
Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP
Iselin, NJ

Judith Simms
Rutgers Law Library
Newark, NJ

ADDITIONAL NOMINATIONS:

The Nominating Committee solicits the membership for input during the selection process and it is deemed that the nominees presented are the candidates of the membership. However, any member in good standing in the Association may make additional nominations by petition. The member must contact the President at least 15* days prior to the annual meeting, submitting the petition in writing, endorsed with the signatures of at least 10 other members, as specified in Article IX, Section 1 (c) of the Association’s bylaws. (*normally 30 days)

ELECTIONS:

Election of officers will occur at the Association’s annual business meeting (virtual) on May 11, 2021.

Apply for NJLLA’s Founders Grant for AALL Conference

It’s time to think about the AALL Conference! Because the conference is virtual in 2021, this year NJLLA is able to offer up to three (3) Founders Grants to assist our members to attend the virtual conference. The grant covers the cost of the conference up to $125 per grant. You must be an NJLLA member to be eligible, and this year you can apply even if you’ve received the grant in the recent past. The deadline for applying is April 26, 2021.

Click here for the instructions and application, available as a fillable PDF. Please be sure to adhere to all rules and deadlines. This is a wonderful opportunity for our members so we encourage all to apply.

Nominations for the Innovations in Technology Award Due on March 1, 2021

This is a friendly reminder that the nominations for the Innovations in Technology Award are due on March 1, 2021!

This Award was established to honor technological projects/innovations that impact and benefit library users and/or the legal information community and that support the strategic goals and business objectives of the creators’ organization. A nominee’s use of technology must demonstrate how librarians or information professionals effectively and efficiently serve as the human connection between technology, the information, and the user experience.

Nomination applications and supporting documentation must describe 1) the application of technology, 2) how the application benefits library users and or the legal information community and 3) how the technology resource is an example of librarians and information professionals effectively and efficiently serving as the human connection between technology, information, and the user experience.

More information and a list of past winners is available here: https://www.aallnet.org/community/recognition/awards-program/innovations-in-technology-award/

Nomination Form is available here: https://www.aallnet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/aall-award-innovationstech.pdf

There are no restrictions on the number of entries an applicant may submit, but each entry must be submitted separately.

To submit a nomination, please email the nomination form and supporting documentation to Christopher Siwa, csiwa@aallnet.org.