SEAALL Scholarship

The SEAALL Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce that we are now
accepting applications for the association's Library School
Scholarship. These scholarships are designed to encourage current
library school students to pursue a career in law librarianship. You
can find a copy of the application at
http://aallnet.org/chapter/seaall/scholarship/.

Applicants do not have to be members of SEAALL, but must reside within
the geographic area covered by SEAALL (Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South
Carolina, Tennessee, the US Virgin Islands, Virginia, the District of
Columbia, and West Virginia).

Applications must be received by October 15, 2007. We welcome emailed
applications. If you have any questions,  If you have any questions, please contact me.

Jennifer Sekula, Chair
SEAALL Scholarship Committee
College of William & Mary School of Law
Williamsburg, VA
jeseku@wm.edu 

And Still I Rise: Resurrecting the Legal System in New Orleans, Tales from the Trenches
 

At the 2007 annual meeting, the Black Caucus presented a dynamic program focusing on the efforts of the legal system in New Orleans to recover from the disastrous floods that inundated the city after Hurricane Katrina. The three speakers, Judge Edwin A. Lombard, Laurie White, Esq., and Dean Brian Bromberger of Loyola Law School, presented stories and perspectives from the three sectors of the legal community: the judiciary, the practicing bar and legal education.

Below are links to a video and an excellent bibliography that were part of the program materials:

To order an audio CD of the program go to http://aallnet.org  and choose "Annual Meeting" from the menu then choose "Handout Materials and Audio Tapes". 

For more details about the program and biographies of the participants, see the description in the Annual Meeting section.

Celebrating Diversity (Flyer)

It is my distinct pleasure to announce the publication of Celebrating Diversity: A Legacy of Minority Leadership in AALL, jointly edited by Ruth Hill, Vicente Garces and myself, Carol Nicholson. The book is no. 71 in the AALL Publication Series, published by Hein, and features profiles of 32 minority law librarians.

Please note - all royalties for this publication will be contributed to the AALL & Thomson West George A. Strait Minority Scholarship Endowment Fund.
 

Black Caucus Program Accepted for 2007 Annual Meeting

For more details, see the description in the Annual Meeting section.

Sexual Orientation and the Law: A Research Bibliography

Friends and Colleagues,

I am delighted to share with BLLC members the news that the SR-SIS's Standing Committee on Lesbian and Gay Issues bibliography volume entitled Sexual Orientation and the Law: A Research Bibliography (published by Hein as AALL Publication Series #74) has now been released. This historic 426 page volume represents the culmination of a collaborative effort by myself and many SR-SIS members, and I think we can all be proud of the result.

This bibliography includes a previously published, unannotated bibliography covering the years 1969-1993, the new annotated bibliography covering the years 1994-2005, a wonderful introduction discussing social changes and the corresponding development of the sexual orientation legal literature by Brad Sears, the Executive Director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy at UCLA School of Law, a preface by Editor-in-Chief James Donovan of the University of Georgia Law Library, a case name index and an author index.

If your library does not receive these titles on standing order, we hope you'll consider purchasing a copy for your collection. Not only do we feel the bibliography would be a useful tool for anyone interested in the central legal issues touching the lives of LGBT persons, but a portion of the receipts goes to the Standing Committee on Lesbian and Gay Issues to help fund its grants and other activities.  Plus, my name appears prominently in the center of the title page as I am one of the associate editors.


Ron Wheeler
Associate Director for Public Services
Georgia State University College of Law Library
P.O. Box 4008
Atlanta, GA 30302-4008
(404) 651-4142 phone
(404) 651-1112 fax

Congratuations Ruth!

Please join me in congratulating Ruth Hill, Head of Reference at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles and co-editor of the recently published, "Celebrating Diversity: A Legacy of Minority Leadership in AALL". Ruth is to succeed Alvin Roche' Jr. as Director of the Law Library at Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Congratulations, Ruth! We are very proud of you.

Allen Moye, Director
Rinn Law Library
DePaul College of Law