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The TS-SIS Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the recipient of the Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship for 2009 is Curt E. Conklin.

Curt is the Associate Director for Technical Services at the Brigham Young University Howard W. Hunter Law Library in Provo, Utah. He has worked there for 37 years in a variety of positions all within technical services. He has also been a member of AALL for 35 years. Some of his many contributions in the field of technical services include:

· One of the founding members of TS-SIS

Many thanks to Kathy Carlson*, Wyoming State Library, for sending the following about the recent Montana court order on universal citation:

“I need to watch for the publication of Wyoming Rule changes in the Pacific advance sheets, today I noticed a rule change in Montana regarding the universal citation was issued on January 22nd. I went to the Montana Supreme Court website and found a copy of the order under the tab Orders if anyone is interested. The new order simplifies the pinpoint citation process [no longer a need to repeat the paragraph numbers in parallel cites”

http://fnweb1.isd.doa.state.mt.us/idmws/docContent.dll?Library=CISDOCSVR01^doaisd510&ID=003807381

March-April 2009 Issue:

The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is the largest of New York State’s nine reference and research systems, multi-type library organizations often known as “3R Cooperatives” METRO serves a region that includes the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County.

METRO has a broad and expanding array of member libraries, including law libraries, METRO provides services to its members and assists them to work together and meet the reaearch and informational needs of the people in the region; it is committed to resource sharing, library professional development, and has one of the largest and most effective library advocacy programs in the region.

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In a recent e-mail, someone from Canada asked asked how she could obtain an “official copy” of a Congressional Research Service report, “one from Congress,” not one from the website of an organization such as the Federation of American Scientists. The responses which follow are very interesting; they address a variety of related issues including the following: Are Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports that contain added designations such as watermarks, trademarks, or copyright notices official and are they in the public domain? Does the U.S. Government have any special rights to use copyrighted materials? and can CRS reports always be freely disseminated as government documents?

RESPONSES:

The Legal Division Quarterly is the Newsletter of the Legal Division of the Special Libraries Association:

The 2009 Winter/Spring issue of the Legal Division Quarterly is now online at:

http://units.sla.org/division/dleg/Newsletter/LDQ%20Winter%20Spring%20v16n1&2.pdf

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