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AALL Grants for 2008 Workshops/Annual Meeting

By David Badertscher, PLL

Newer librarians or library school students planning to attend the 2008 AALL Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon will be interested in the following:

FREE MONEY!! For those of you who are planning ahead to the AALL Annual Meeting:

AALL is offering grants to newer librarians or library students to attend either the AALL Annual Meeting in July or to cover the cost of registration at one of the workshops offered before the conference. Please note that the grants application deadline is April 1, 2008.  http://www.aallnet.org/committee/grants/grant_application.asp

The following workshops are being offered this year at the AALL Annual Meeting in

W1: Swim, Don?t Sink: Immerse Yourself in Law Cataloging, Friday, July 11^th  & Saturday, July 12^th

W2: What?s in This Box: Managing Archival Collections, Saturday, July 12^th

W3: Conducting Empirical Legal Research, Saturday, July 12^th

W4: ?So Now Your Conflicts?/?So Now You?re Docket?? The Evolving Law Firm Library Manager, Saturday, July 12^th

W5: Amazing Technical Services: The Director?s Cut

For workshop descriptions, see p. 14 of the preliminary program http://www.aallnet.org/events/08_Program_announcement.pdf.

AALL Annual Meeting/Workshop Grant Application

Deadline: April 1
Contact: Grants Committee Chair

AALL Annual Meeting/Workshop Grant Application Form

Purpose:

The AALL Grants Program provides financial assistance to newer law librarians or graduate students who hold promise of future involvement in AALL and the law library profession. Funds are provided by vendors, AALL, and AALL individual members. Grants cover registration costs at either the Annual Meeting or workshops. Preference is given to newer members of AALL or its chapters who are active participants in the association or one of its chapter organizations.

Qualifications:

An applicant must meet all of the following criteria to be considered for the award:

·         be a member or student member of AALL or an AALL chapter;

• not have received and used an AALL grant in the past*; and

• submit a timely and complete application.

*If circumstances prevent a recipient from using the grant, it reverts to the Committee; however, the recipient remains eligible to apply another year.

Instructions:

Submit one application package with the following items:

·  a complete, legible application form;

·  two letters of recommendation that comment on your potential to contribute to AALL and the field of law librarianship and address your need for the grant; and  ·  a current resume is strongly suggested.

Deadline:

The complete application package must be received by April 1 at the address below:

Grants Committee Chair
American Association of Law Libraries

Patty Wellinger

Member, AALL Grants Committee

Reference Services Coordinator

Law Library

University of

of Law

pwelling@law.du.edu

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on February 22, 2008 (boomark / email).