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Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition

Posted on March 15, 2011 | Leave a comment

— DEADLINE EXTENDED!
 
The Legal History and Rare Books Section (LH&RB) of the American Association of Law Libraries, in cooperation with Cengage Learning, announces the third annual Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition.
 
The competition is named in honor of Morris L. Cohen, late Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School. Professor Cohen was a leading scholar in the fields of legal research, rare books, and historical bibliography.
 
The purpose of the competition is to encourage scholarship in the areas of legal history, rare law books, and legal archives, and to acquaint students with the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and law librarianship.
 
Eligibility
 
Students currently enrolled in accredited graduate programs in library science, law, history, or related fields are eligible to enter the competition. Both full- and part-time students are eligible. Membership in AALL is not required.
 
Requirements
 
Essays may be on any topic related to legal history, rare law books, or legal archives. The entry form and instructions are available at the LH&RB website: http://www.aallnet.org/sis/lhrb/
Entries must be submitted by 11:59 p.m., April 15, 2011.
 
Awards
 
The winner will receive a $500.00 prize from Cengage Learning and up to $1,000 for expenses associated with attendance at the AALL Annual Meeting.
 
The runner-up will have the opportunity to publish the second-place essay in LH&RB’s online scholarly journal Unbound: An Annual Review of Legal History and Rare Books.
 
Please direct questions to Robert Mead at libram@nmcourts.gov or Sarah Yates at yates006@tc.umn.edu. 

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Learning Communities with English and other disciplines

Posted on March 14, 2011 | Leave a comment

While Learning Communities have been a staple of many colleges and universities for years,  this interdisciplinary approach has substantially expanded in the last decade. One successful model of learning communities is grounded in a pairing with an English composition or literature class with another discipline. We are developing a collection of essays about these types of learning communities and invite your submission of a proposal.  Essay proposals should fall into one of three categories: the basics of putting together a learning community (including but not limited to models of successful learning communities, sample interdisciplinary assignments, challenges, etc.), “other voices”; that is, the voices of those involved in learning community success from outside of the daily classroom (librarians, administrators, registrars, campus community service professionals, etc.), or larger institutional implications (student engagement, student retention, faculty development, etc.).

 

Please submit your 250 word proposal in a Word Document to Dr. Terry Novak, tnovak@jwu.edu, by April 1, 2011.

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