AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Awards

Description

The AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee promotes the scholarship of 黑料社members and of students through its annual “Call for Papers” competition. Papers, which may be submitted by active or retired 黑料社members, or by students in library, information management or law school, may address any subject relevant to law librarianship. Through the competition, the Committee seeks (1) to promote scholarship of interest to the profession of law librarianship; (2) to provide a creative outlet for law librarians and a forum for their scholarly activities; and (3) to recognize the scholarly efforts of established members, of new members, and of students who are considering a career as law librarians.

Process

Eligibility

Papers may be submitted in any of the following categories:

Open Division: Active and Retired 黑料社members who have been members for five or more years.
New Member Division: for recent graduates and 黑料社members who have been in the profession for fewer than five years.
Short Form Division: for 黑料社members; articles in this category will be shorter than a traditional scholarly article and may be appropriate for publication in 黑料社Spectrum.
Student Division: Those enrolled in library school, information management school or the equivalent, or in law school, during the Fall 2024 or Spring 2025 semester. Entrants in the Student Division need not be members of AALL.

If the Committee believes that a paper is more appropriately placed in a division other than the one originally selected by the entrant, it reserves the right, with the entrant’s permission, to place it in a different category.

Content & Format

No paper or portion of a paper that has been published or accepted for publication before March 1, 2025, will be eligible for consideration. Before submitting a paper, all authors are responsible for verifying that a substantially similar paper has not been published elsewhere. Papers submitted for courses are acceptable if they otherwise comply with the requirements of this contest.

A paper may address any subject relevant to law librarianship. It may be scholarly or practical in substance and tone, but the subject should be explored in depth with appropriate reference to sources and documentation of assertions.

Co-authored papers are acceptable, but each author who submits a co-authored entry for the Student Division must meet the student eligibility requirements of this category. Papers in the Open and New Members divisions may be co-authored with non-黑料社members so long as the 黑料社member is the primary author of the submitted piece; in this case the prize will be awarded to the 黑料社member only. When all co-authors are 黑料社members, the winners will share the $650 award and the Short Form Division winner will receive $300. Entrants may submit more than one paper, but, may win only one prize per year. To encourage as wide participation in the competition as possible, authors may win a prize only twice in the same division.

Papers must be numbered and double-spaced with 1 1/2 inch margins. Past winners in the Open, New Member,聽and Student Division have typically run between 30-40 pages. Citation and style must conform to the requirements outlined in the Law Library Journal Guidelines. Each submission must be accompanied by a short abstract and a completed Application Form.

Submissions for the Student Division must include a supporting letter from an instructor at the institution where the student is enrolled (preferably the supervising faculty member of the paper).

Submissions

Required Documentation

Download the AALL/LexisNexis Call For Papers Awards Application
Paper (as Microsoft Word or PDF attachments only)
Abstract (no more than 1 page)
For聽Student Division submissions only: an instructor’s letter.

All submissions must be Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF files and emailed as attachments to 黑料社Member Services.

Deadlines

Open, New Member, or Short Division

To be eligible for an award in the Open, New Member, or Short Division, papers and all required supporting documents must be received by March 1, 2025.

Student Division

To be eligible for an award in the Student Division, papers and all required supporting documents must be received by May 15, 2025.

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

The winners in the Open, New Member, and Student Divisions will receive $650, and the Short Form Division winner will receive $300, all generously donated by LexisNexis.聽Co-authors of winning papers share awards.

Recipients are recognized during award ceremonies at the 黑料社Annual Meeting and will be given the opportunity to present their papers in a program.

Law Library Journal 补苍诲听 黑料社Spectrum have right of first refusal聽for winning papers and the winning papers in the Open, New,聽and Student divisions will be forwarded to the editor of the Law Library Journal for publication consideration. Papers in the Short Form division will be forwarded to the editorial聽director of 黑料社Spectrum for publication consideration.

Please contact a member of the AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers Committee with any questions or for more information.

Recipients

2020 - 2024
2024
NEW MEMBER DIVISION
Laura B. Wilcoxon
Reference and Student Services Librarian
University of Missouri School of Law
Columbia, MO
“Next Generation Legal Researchers: Implementing Critical Information Literacy through the ACRL Framework to Ensure Student Success on the NextGen Bar Exam”
OPEN DIVISION
Ashley Krenelka Chase
Assistant Professor of Law
Stetson University College of Law
Gulfport, FL
AND
Sam Harden
Program Manager
Pro Bono Net
Tampa, FL
“Through the AI Looking Glass and What Consumers Find There”
SHORT FORM DIVISION
Tarica Camarena LaBossiere
Technical Services & Reference Librarian / Adjunct Professor of Law
Panza Maurer Law Library
Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law
Fort Lauderdale, FL
AND
Alison Rosenberg
Technical Services & Reference Librarian
Panza Maurer Law Library
Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad College of Law
Fort Lauderdale, FL
“From Law Student to Law Librarian: Promoting Pathways to the Profession Through Law Library Internships in Law Schools”
2023
NEW MEMBER DIVISION
Sue Silverman
Reference Librarian & Adjunct Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, NY
, Unpublished Paper.
OPEN DIVISION
Nicole Downing
Clinical Associate Professor of Law & Assistant Director for Public Services
Kathrine R. Everett Law Library
University of North Carolina School of Law
Chapel Hill, NC
, Unpublished Paper.
SHORT FORM DIVISION
Jennifer Bedier
Research and Instructional Services Librarian
University of Arizona
James E. Rogers College of Law
Tucson, AZ
, Unpublished Paper.
STUDENT DIVISION
Jasmin Hernandez Du Bois
University of Minnesota Law School
Minneapolis, MN
““, Unpublished Paper.
2022
NEW MEMBER DIVISION
Olivia R. Smith Schlinck
Instructional & Legal Technologies Librarian, Lecturer in Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Yeshiva University
New York, NY
““, Unpublished Paper.
OPEN DIVISION
Kathleen Darvil
Associate Librarian for Public Services
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, NY
““, Unpublished Paper.
STUDENT DIVISION
Julie Marie Wooldridge
Research Services Librarian
J. Michael Goodson Law Library, Duke University School of Law
Durham, NC
““, Unpublished Paper.
2021
NEW MEMBER DIVISION
Matthew L. Timko
Academic Technologies and Outreach Services Librarian, Assistant Professor
Northern Illinois University College of Law
David C. Shapiro Memorial Law Library
DeKalb, IL
“,” Unpublished Paper.
OPEN DIVISION
Amanda Bolles Watson
Assistant Professor, Director of the O鈥橯uinn Law Library
University of Houston Law Center
O鈥橯uinn Law Library
Houston, TX
“,” Unpublished Paper.
SHORT FORM DIVISION
Ingrid Mattson
Associate Dean for Library Services, Professor of Legal Research, & Director of the Law Library Dr. Lillian & Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library
Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
New York, NY
“,” Unpublished Paper.
STUDENT DIVISION
John L. Moreland, J.D., M.A.
M.L.S. Candidate (’22)
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana
“,” Unpublished Paper.

2020
NEW MEMBER DIVISION
Nicholas Mignanelli
Librarian Assistant Professor
Reference &聽Instructional Services Librarian, and Lecturer in Law
University of Miami School of Law
Coral Gables, FL
“Legal Research and Its Discontents: A Bibliographic Essay on Critical Approaches to Legal Research,” Law Library Journal 113 (2021): 101鈥�128.
SHORT FORM DIVISION聽
Danyahel (Danny) Norris
Faculty Research Librarian
Houston, TX
“,” Unpublished Paper.
OPEN DIVISION聽
Janet Sinder
Director of the Library & Professor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, NY
“Correcting the Record: Law Journals and Scholarly Integrity in the Digital Age,” Law Library Journal 112 (2020): 365鈥�392.
STUDENT DIVISION聽
Rebecca Elaine Tavares Chapman
Master鈥檚 of Library and Information Science Graduate, June 2020
University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Buffalo, New York
“Protecting Our Spaces of Memory: Rediscovering the Seneca Nation Settlement Act through Archives,” Law Library Journal 113 (2021): 173鈥�206.
2010 - 2019
2019
NEW MEMBER DIVISION
Nicholas Mignanelli
Corals Gables, FL
“Critical Legal Research: Who Needs It?,” Law Library Journal 112 (2020): 327鈥�344.
SHORT FORM DIVISION聽
Mari Cheney
Portland, OR
“,” 黑料社Spectrum, Vol. 25, No. 3 (January/February 2021).
OPEN DIVISION聽
Andrew J. Martineau
Minneapolis, MN
“Reinforcing the ‘Crumbling Infrastructure of Legal Research’ through Court-Provided Metadata,” Law Library Journal 112 (2020): 5鈥�46.
Student Division
Kwanghyuk Yoo
Iowa City, Iowa
“Behavioral and Structural Remedies for Cognitive Bias on Legal Information: The Evolving Role of Law Libraries and Enhanced Integrated Library Systems Design,” Law Library Journal 113 (2021): 129鈥�154.
2018
Open Division
Jennifer L. Behrens
“Beyond ‘The Annals of Murder’: The Life and Works of Thomas M. McDade,” Law Library Journal 111 (2019): 281鈥�306.
SHORT FORM DIVISION
David McClure
Beau Steenken
“,” Unpublished Paper.
Student Division
Meredith Kostek
“The Case for County Law Library Consortia,” Law Library Journal 111 (2019): 307-324.
2017
Open Division
Liz McCurry Johnson
“,” 41 Amer. J. of Trial Advoc. 45 (2017).
New Member Division
Annalee Hickman Moser
Felicity Murphy
“The Reference Assistant,” Law Library Journal 110 (2018): 59鈥�92.
Short Form Division
Ingrid Mattson
Susan Azyndar
“,” The Second Draft, Vol. 30, No. 2 (2017).
Student Division
Sarah Slinger
“Sticking to the Union: A Study on the Unionization of Academic Law Libraries,” Law Library Journal 111 (2019): 105鈥�120.
2016
Open Division
James M. Donovan
“Diversity: So How is 黑料社Doing?,” Law Library Journal 109 (2017): 7-50.
New Member Division
Avery Le
Taryn Marks
“Increasing Article Findability Online: The Four C’s of Search Engine Optimization,” Law Library Journal 109 (2017): 83-100.
Short Form Division
Susan Azyndar
Ingrid Mattson
“,” Unpublished Paper.
Student Division
Sarah Reis
“Are You a Member of the Law School Community?: Access Policies at Academic Law Libraries and Access to Justice,” Law Library Journal 109 (2017): 269-296.
2015
Open Division
Mr. Ryan Harrington
“Understanding the “Other” International Agreements,” Law Library Journal 108 (2016): 343-360.
Kasia Solon Cristobal
“From Law in Blackletter to Blackletter Law,” Law Library Journal 108 (2016): 181-216.
New Member Division
Nicole P. Dyszlewski
Kristen R. Moore
Genevieve B. Tung
“Managing Disruptive Patron Behavior in Law Libraries: A Grey Paper,” Law Library Journal聽107 (2015): 491-542.
Short Form Division
No Award
Student Division
Aaron S. Kirschenfeld
“Yellow Flag Fever: Describing Negative Legal Precedent in Citators,” Law Library Journal 108 (2016): 77-99.
2014
Open Division
Elizabeth Caulfield
“Is This a Profession? Establishing Educational Criteria for Law Librarians,” Law Library Journal聽106 (2014): 287-328.
New Member Division
Susan deMaine
“From Disability to Usability in Online Instruction,” Law Library Journal 106 (2014): 531-562.
Joseph D. Lawson
“What About the Majority?聽Considering the Legal Research Practices of Solo and Small Firm Practitioners,” Law Library Journal聽106 (2014): 377-406.
Short Form Division
James M. Donovan
“,” Mississippi College Law Review 33 (2015).
Student Division
Nicole Downing
“,” Unpublished Paper.
Virginia Adele Neisler
“,” Unpublished Paper.
2013
Open Division
Joseph Gerken
“,” Unpublished Paper.
New Member Division
Catherine A. Lemmer
“A View from the Flip Side: Using the “Inverted Classroom” to Enhance the Legal Research Information Literacy of the International LL.M. Student,” Law Library Journal聽105 (2013): 461-492.
Short Form Division
Mari Cheney
“,” Unpublished Paper.
Student Division
Kristen M. Hallows
“It’s All Enumerative: Reconsidering Library of Congress Classification in United States Law Libraries,” Law Library Journal 106 (2014): 85-99.
2012
Open Division
Linda K. Tesar
“Forensic Bibliography: Reconstructing the Library of George Wythe,” Law Library Journal, Vol. 105 Iss. 1 (2013): 57-78.
New Member Division
Yasmin Sokkar Harker
“Information is Cheap, Meaning is Expensive: Building Analytical Skill into Legal Research Instruction,” Law Library Journal聽105 (2013): 79-98.
Short Form Division
Carli Spina
Anna Russell
“Law Libraries Linking Data to Mobile Devices: Save Patrons鈥� Time and Stay Hip,” 黑料社Spectrum, Vol. 17, No. 3 (December 2012).
Student Division
Neel Kant Agrawal
“Training in FCIL Librarianship for Tomorrow’s World,” Law Library Journal聽105 (2013): 199-230.

2011
Open Division
David L. Armond
Shawn G. Nevers
“The Practitioners’ Council: Connecting Legal Research Instruction and Current Legal Research Practice,” Law Library Journal 103 (2011): 575-604.
New Member Division
Margaret (Meg) Butler
“Resource Based Learning and Course Design: A Brief Theoretical Overview and Practical Suggestions,” Law Library Journal聽104 (2012): 219-244.
Student Division
William M. Cross
“Restoring the Public Library Ethos: Copyright, E-licensing, and the Future of Librarianship,” Law Library Journal聽104 (2012): 195-218.
2010
Open Division
Carol Parker
“The Need for More Uniform and Consistently Rigorous Standards for Assessing Law Librarian Performance in Tenure and Continuous Appointment Policies,” Law Library Journal聽103 (2011): 199-218.
New Member Division
Daniel Baker
“,” 聽I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, Vol. 7, Iss. 2 (2012).
Student Division
Benjamin Keele
“,” Unpublished Paper.
Debbie Shrager
“,” Unpublished Paper.
2000 - 2009
2009
Open Division
Joseph A. Custer
The Truthiness of Thinkable Thoughts versus the Facts of Empirical Research
Laura N. Gasaway
A Defense of the Public Domain: A Scholarly Essay
New Member Division
Mikhail Koulikov
Indexing and Full-Text Coverage of Law Review Articles in Non-Legal Databases: An Initial Study
Student Division
Theodora Belniak
The Law Librarian of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: A Figuration in Flux
Jason Tubinis
A Law Librarian’s Guide to the Economic Crisis
2008
Open Division
Judith Lihosit
Research in the Wild: CALR and the Role of Informal Apprenticeship in Attorney Training
New Member Division
Julie M. Jones
Not Just Key Numbers and Keywords Anymore: How User Interface Affects Legal Research
聽I-Wei Wang
Schoolhouse Rock is No Longer Enough: The Presidential Signing Statements Controversy and its Implications for Library Professionals
2007
Open Division
Margaret A. Leary
Discovering William Cook: Ten Resources for Reconstructing the Life of a Lawyer
Connie Lenz
Helen Wohl
Does Form Follow function?: Academic Law Libraries’ Organizational Structures for Collection Development
New Member Division
Shawn D. Nevers
Candy, Points and Highlighters: Why Librarians, Not Vendors, Should Teach CALR to First year Law Students in 2007
2006
Open Division
Paul D. Healey
Go and Tell the World: Charles R. McCarthy and the Evolution of the Legislative Reference Library Movement, 1901-1917
Charles R. Dyer
The Queen of Chula Vista: Stories of Self-Represented Litigants and a Call for Using the Cognitive Theory of Metaphor to Work With Them
Student Division
Theresa (Tracy) Leming
Should Academic Law Libraries Continue to participate in the Federal Depository Library Program?
2005
Open Division
Karen S. Beck
A Working Lawyer’s Life: The Letter Book of John Henry Senter
Virginia J. Kelsh
Build It Right And They Will Come: The Librarian’s Role in Library Construction
New Member Division
David Hollander
Jewish Law for the Law Librarian
2004
Open Division
Mary Rumsey
April Schwartz
Paper vs. Electronic Sources for Law Review Cite-Checking: Should Paper be the Gold Standard?
New Member Division
Roy Balleste
Law Libraris 2.0: Al based Agents, Predictions, Decisions, and Design
Student Division
Katherine Coolidge
Baseless Hysteria: The Controversy between the U.S. Department of Justice and the American Library Association Regarding the USA PATRIOT Act – September 2003
Paul Hellyer
Assessing the Influence of Computer-Assisted Legal Research: A Study of California Supreme Court Opinions
2003
Samuel Trosow
The Database and the Fields of Law: Are There New Divisions of Labor?
2002
Open Division
Yolanda Jones
UCITA and the Information Professional鈥擮r, Having a Barbeque on the Information Commons
New Member Division
Bonnie Shucha
The Circle of Life: Managing a Library Web Site Redesign Project
Student Division
Renee Y. Rastorfer
Thomas S. Dabagh and the Institutional Beginnings of the UCLA Law Library: A Cautionary Tale
2001
Open Division
Nancy Carol Carter
American Indians and Law Libraries: Acknowledging the New Sovereign
New Member Division
Kristin B. Gerdy
Teacher, Coach, Cheerleader and Judge: Promoting聽Learning through Learner-Centered Assessment
Robert Mead
Unpublished Opinions as the Bulk of the Iceberg: Publication Patterns in the Eighth and Tenth Circuit United States Courts of Appeals
2000
New Member Division
Deanna Barmakian
Better Search Engines for Law, Harvard Law School Library, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Student Division
Beatrice A. Tice
Too Many Jobs, Too Few Job Seekers? A Study of Law Librarianship Job Data Samples 1989-1999, University of Washington
1990 - 1999
1999
Open Division
Robert C. Vreeland
Law Libraries in Hyerspace: A Citation Analysis of World Wide Web Sites
Student Division
Steven J. Melamut
Pursing Law Libraries, Fair Use and Electronic Reserves
1998
Open Division
Karen S. Beck
One Step At a Time: The Research Value of Law Student Notebooks
Richard A. Danner
Redefining a Profession
Student Division
Wendy R. Brown
Federal Initiatives to Promote Access to Electronic Government Information: The Impact on the Federal Depository Library Program
1997
Open Division
Janet Sinder
Irish Legal History: An Overview and Guide to the Sources
Michael J. Lynch
An Impossible Task but Everybody Has to Do It鈥擳eaching Legal Research in Law Schools
New Member Division
L. Tobe Liebert
Researching California Ballot Measures
1996
New Member Division
Wei Luo
How to Find Laws of the People’s Republic of China: A Research Guide with Selected Annotated Bibliographies
1995
Open Division
Joel Fishman
The Reports of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
New Member Division
Kory D. Staheli
Motivating Law Students to Develop Competent Legal Research Skills: Combating the Negative Findings of the Howland and Lewis Study
Student Division
Paul D. Healey
Chicken Little at the Reference Desk: Is Reference Liability a Myth?
1994
Open Division
Marcia J. Koslov
Wisconsin County Law Libraries
New Member Division
Nazareth A.M. Pantaloni, III
Legal Databases, Legal Epistemology, and the Legal Order
Student Division
Jonathan Adlai Franklin
One Piece of the Collection Development Puzzle: Issues in Drafting Format Selection Guidelines
1993
Sheilla Desert
Westlaw is Natural v. Boolean Searching: A Performance Study
Jill A. Farmer
Free to Be You and Me: Librarians and Freedom of Expression
Cheryl D. McLean
Death and Rebirth of a National Information Policy: What We Had and What We Need
1992
Jean Stefancic
The Law Review Symposium Issue: Community of Meaning or Re-inscription of Hierarchy?
Jill A. Farmer
A Poststructuralist Analysis of the Legal Research Process
Laura K. Justiss
A Bibliographic Study of Texas Law Reviews
1991
No Awards
1990
James Duggan
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Law Librarian? A Look at 黑料社Scholarship Recipients, 1967-1988
Janet Zagorin
Bibliography of Books and Articles on International Commercial Arbitration
Michael Slinger
Opening a Window of Opportunity: The Library Staff as a Meaningful and Integrated Part of the Law School Community
1985 - 1989
1989
No Awards
1988
Bruce M. Kennedy
Confidentiality of Library Records: A survey of Problems, Policies and Laws
Jeanne Drewes
Computers: Planning for Disaster
Ellen Callinan
Research Protocols in Reference Service: Informal Instruction in Law Firm Libraries
1987
Michael Chiorazzi
Francis-Xavier Martin: Printer, Lawyer, Jurist
Fred Shapiro
Linguistic Application of Full-Text Legal Databases
Michael Slinger
A Comprehensive Study of the Career Path and Education of Current Academic Law Library Directors
1986
Eleanor DeLashmitt
Annual and Surveys: An Appraisal
Arturo Flores
Volume Count: A Survey of Practice and Opinion from Academic Law Libraries
Steven E. Mitchel
Classified Information and Legal Research
1985
Dan Dabney
The Curse of Thamus: An Analysis of Full-Text Legal Document Retrieval
Fred Shapiro
The Most-Cited Law Review Articles
Arturo L. Torres
The Social Responsibility Movement Among Law Librarians: The Debate Revisited

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