AALL wrap-up awards: Let’s Get The Band Back Together award
July 18 2008, 9:15am
The Let’s Get The Band Back Together award for the best group, committee, team, or person to work with at the conference or leading up to the conference. I enjoyed working with all the different committees, caucuses, and groups, but the choice was obvious. Winner: The Local Arrangements/Advisory Committee I can never remember if it’s local arrangements or local advisory committee, but it was a great experience. Local arrangements for this meeting had its own particular challenges as I’m sure they all do. Having many hotels and activities across the river from the convention center, and local law librarian politics seemed to make this a particularly difficult planning situation. My own responsibilities (the website and blog) were not quite as challenging as some of the other committees like Hospitality and Registration, but we had our issues to deal with as well. And one person told me it was the best website and blog for an AALL conference. Maybe they were just being nice… well it was nice of them to say it. Chair Tami Gierloff was fantastic. Her staff at Lewis and Clark including Rob Truman, Kathy Faust, and Alana Carson were great also. Special mention also to Maryruth Storer, Laurie Daley, and too many other people to mention. Everyone worked hard on this and I think it all worked out in the end. I’m almost a little sad that it’s over. Honorable mention: The TSLL editorial board This was the first TSLL board meeting I was able to attend and it made me wish I had been there for the other meetings. It seems like the publication is going in a good direction and has solid leadership going forward as Brian Striman transitions out of the editor role.
