The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) recently announced winners for the 2009 AALL Awards Program. The AALL Awards Program was established as a way to publicly recognize the achievements of law librarians based on service to the profession and contributions to legal literature and materials. Awards are presented each year at the Annual Meeting.
Tarlton is proud to be this year's recipient of the Law Library Publications Award, print division, for the recent publication Roy M. Mersky: An Oral History Interview. Roy M. Mersky was the director of the law library and a faculty member at the University of Texas School of Law for over 40 years (1966-2008), where he held the Harry M. Reasoner Regents Chair in Law. In this oral history, Professor Mersky discusses his service in WWII; his education at the University of Wisconsin; his library experiences at Yale, the Washington State Law Library, and the University of Colorado; his involvement in the struggles for civil rights; and his many years and activities at the University of Texas, including visiting positions and consultancies around the world, developing law-trained librarians, and his passions for history and collecting.
Read more about the AALL Awards Program and award winners on the AALL website.
Browse a complete catalog and purchase Tarlton Law Library publications in the Tarlton Law Library section of the U.T. Online Shopping Center. Alternate contacts: tarltonbooks@law.utexas.edu or Publications Coordinator, Tarlton Law Library, Jamail Center for Legal Research, The University of Texas at Austin, 727 E. Dean Keeton St., Austin, TX 78705, (phone) 512-471-7241, fax (512) 471-0243.