PURPOSE: The Committee serves to promote the scholarship of the American Association of Law Libraries' membership by administering the Call for Papers competition. CHARGE: The Committee shall promote the writing of scholarly papers and coordinate a program at the Association's annual meeting offering an opportunity for the winners of the prize to present their work highlighting various aspects of their writing process. To this end, the Committee shall establish categories or divisions of eligibility of the appropriate criteria for selection of winning works; review and set the number of creative works which will be selected as winners; administer any financial award which may be available for distribution to winners; and review papers or creative works and select winners. The Committee shall recommend to the editor of the Law Library Journal those papers which are suitable for publication.
Open Division
Forensic Bibliography: Reconstructing the Library of George Wythe, Law Library Journal (2013)
The Wolf Law Library at the College of William and Mary initiated a project to...
The Practitioners’ Council: Connecting Legal Research Instruction and Current Legal Research Practice (with David L. Armond and Shawn G. Nevers), Law Library Journal (2011)
In order to better prepare law students to perform legal research outside of academia, legal...
The Need for Faculty Status and Uniform Tenure Requirements for Law Librarians, Law Library Journal (2011)
Various statuses, tenure tracks, and performance review standards exist in law librarian tenure or continuous...
The Truthiness of Thinkable Thoughts Versus the Facts of Empirical Research, Law Library Journal (2010)
Mr. Custer considers the use of “literary warrant” as it affects the usefulness of the...
A Defense of the Public Domain: A Scholarly Essay, Law Library Journal (2009)
Copyright law is of tremendous importance to librarians, faculty members, scholars, researchers and attorneys. Scholars...
New Members Division
"Information is Cheap, but Meaning is Expensive": Building Analytical Skill into Legal Research Instruction, Law Library Journal (2013)
Law students and new attorneys must have well-developed analytical skills in order to find information...
Resource-Based Learning and Course Design: A Brief Theoretical Overview and Practical Suggestions, Law Library Journal (2012)
Ms. Butler argues that librarians teaching legal research should follow resource-based learning pedagogical strategies. Her...
A Jester's Promenade: Citations to Wikipedia in Law Reviews, 2002-2008, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society (2012)
Due to its perceived omniscience and ease-of-use, reliance on the online encyclopedia Wikipedia as a...
Indexing and Full-Text Coverage of Law Review Articles in Nonlegal Databases: An Initial Study, Law Library Journal (2010)
Mr. Koulikov examines the level of coverage that articles originally published in law reviews receive...
Not Just Key Numbers and Keywords Anymore: How User Interface Design Affects Legal Research, Law Library Journal (2009)
Legal research is one of the foundational skills for the practice of law. However, law...
Student Division
Restoring the Public Library Ethos: Copyright, E-Licensing, and the Future of Librarianship, Law Library Journal (2012)
Mr. Cross describes the privileged nature of libraries in copyright law and the way that...
Moving Past Web 2.0h! An Exploratory Study of Academic Law Libraries (2010)
Web 2.0 continues to be a popular topic within the library community. This article reports...
What if Law Journal Citations Included Digital Object Identifiers?: A Snapshot of Major Law Journals (2010)
Prevailing citation practice in law journals is to use uniform resource locators (URLs) when citing...
The Law Librarian of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: A Figuration in Flux, Law Library Journal (2009)
Through inspection of scholarly writings of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Ms. Belniak articulates the...