Faculty Receive Awards and Distinctions from Legal Library Community

A number of our faculty have received awards and recognition recently--for scholarship, association elections, photos, and websites.

Professor Barbara Bintliff is among the group of authors contributing to the two-volume work Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide, Including New York City and the District of Columbia, which is the 2007 recipient of the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL). Professor Bintliff wrote the Colorado chapter, Colorado Prestatehood Legal Resources: Sixteenth Century to 1876, and was mentioned prominently in the promotional materials for the title. This continues her longstanding contribution to publications covering Colorado bibliographic and legal history, which include Colorado Legal Resources: An Annotated Bibliography (with Richards), AALL LISP Public Libraries Toolkit: Colorado, and A Jurisdictional History of the Colorado Courts. 

Professor Bintliff and Georgia Briscoe received the 2007 Spectrum Article of the Year Award from the AALL for their work entitled, The Ethics of Electronic Record Sharing. The article asks the reader to ponder whether it is ethically acceptable for a librarian to find and utilize electronic entries from another library’s online catalog without first seeking permission. Bintliff and Briscoe propose that the profession create an electronic records sharing policy in order to resolve any ethical ambiguities that are currently being encountered.

Catalog Librarian Karen Selden was elected president of the Colorado Association of Law Libraries (CoALL) for the 2007-2008 term. Her agenda includes coordinating CoALL's 30th anniversary celebration, updating CoALL's by-laws, and creating partnerships with other local professional legal organizations to provide legal education programs. The first of these programs will be the "Legal Boot Camp for Non-Law Librarians" to be held on Monday, September 17, 2007 (Constitution Day), in partnership with CLE in Colorado.

Reference Librarian Alan Pannell was elected to a one-year term on CoALL’s Executive Board. He has been instrumental in the annual CoALL Bridge the Research and Analysis Gap (BRAG) Program, which helps prepare law students and new law graduates for their first professional positions.

Alan Pannell won three awards, including Best Overall Photo, in the "Day in the Life of the Law Library Community" 2007 photo contest sponsored by the AALL. The winning photos featured library technicians Mike Campo and Dan Draper, Karen Selden, and views of the new library. The Best Overall Photo was features on the cover of AALL’s award-winning magazine, Spectrum, and the other entries were included in the Spectrum article announcing the results of the contest.

Reference Librarian Alicia Brillon was one of three first place winners of William S. Hein & Co.’s Website Description Contest to create an informational web page that described the HeinOnline product. View Brillon's winning entry.