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The ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award

The ALL-SIS Outstanding Article Award honors section members for contributions to the enhancement of academic law librarianship through publishing. Articles published in any format in any publication other than Law Library Journal and AALL Spectrum the year prior to the award qualify for consideration. Any aspect of academic law librarianship may be addressed. A plaque will be presented to the author or authors of the winning articles.

Recipients of the Outstanding Article Award

2008	Carol Parker, Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal Scholarship, 37 N.M. L. Rev. 431–77 (2007).
2007	Bonnie Shucha, The State of the Law Library Blogosphere, LLRX.com, Nov. 3, 2006, http://www.llrx.com/features/blogosphere.htm.
2006	Not awarded.
2005	Nancy M. Babb, Cataloging Spirits and the Spirit of Cataloging, 40 Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 89 (no. 2, 2005)
2004	Nancy Carol Carter, The Special Case of Alaska: Native Law and Research, 22 Leg. Ref. Servs. Q. 11 (no. 4, 2003) Matthew Cordon, Beyond Mere Competency: Advanced Legal Research in a Practice-Oriented Curriculum, 55 Baylor L. Rev. 1 (2003)
2003	Not awarded.
2002	Melissa M. Serfass and Jessie L. Cranford, Federal and State Court Rules Governing Publication and Citation of Opinions, 3 J. App. Prac. & Process 251 (Spring 2001)

The award will be presented annually at the discretion of the Awards Committee. However, there is no requirement that the award be given every year. The award criteria is at http://aallnet.org/sis/allsis/awards/criteria.asp.