Thursday, June 30, 2005
Sad News
We recently received word from James Duggan, Professor and Director of Information Technology, Southern Illinois University School of Law Library, the sad news of the passing of his colleague Kathy Garner. James tell us:
I am saddened to inform the law library community of the death of Kathy Garner, emerita Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University School of Law Library. She died Thursday, June 23, 2005 at her home in Carbondale after battling cancer for two months.
While at SIU, Kathy taught legal research and was a member of the lawyering skills faculty. She published articles in Law Library Journal and SIU Law Journal, and was assistant editor for publications on water law and legal research teaching. She was a past chair of Legal Information Services to the Public Special Interest Section (LISP-SIS) and was a member of the Illinois Bar, AALL, ABA, and the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries.
She retired from SIU in 1999 after fourteen years of service. Kathy received her law degree with honors from SIU in 1983, where she was Managing Editor of SIU Law Journal. She also held a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Oregon, and a Master of Librarianship from the University of Washington.
She is survived by two children and three grandchildren. Donations may be made to the Carbondale Women's Center, 408 West Freeman, Carbondale, IL 62901.
More information can be found here.
Your Account Has NOT Been Suspended
It's recently come to our attention that a spoofer/spammer is trying to mislead our members. If you receive an email that looks like the one below, please disregard it and do not click on the attachment because it contains a Trojan virus. Please forward any of these false emails to Reggie Swanigan, AALL Director of Information Technology.
Dear Aall Member,
We have temporarily suspended your email account membership@aall.org.
This might be due to either of the following reasons:
1. A recent change in your personal information (i.e. change of address).
2. Submiting invalid information during the initial sign up process.
3. An innability to accurately verify your selected option of subscription due to an internal error within our processors.
See the details to reactivate your Aall account.
Sincerely,
The Aall Support Team
Annual Meeting Update
The numbers continue to look strong for our Annual Meeting in San Antonio, a mere 16 days away. As of June 28, we have 1,714 registrations, including 47 international registrants, and an all time high in booth sales at 183 sold to 102 companies.
AALLamo Blog
Featuring short articles, announcements, room change notifications, pictures, reviews of programs and events, and comments - the blog will also serve as a source for articles that may be included in the conference daily paper AALLamo News. If you would like to blog throughout the meeting or simply post an occasional article or picture, you must:
- Be a member of AALL
- Request a login password by e-mail from one of the (3) AALLamo Blog managing editors:
- Agree to the blogger guidelines, which will be sent to you in an e-mail response with your username and password
Anyone will be allowed to comment on posts. The blog will be open for postings on July 1st. Bloggers of AALL, get your keyboards ready!
Sincerely,
Susan E. Fox, CAE
Executive Director