Seeking Nominations for the 2012 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing

The Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) is accepting nominations for this year’s Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing.

It honours a publisher (whether for-profit or not-for profit, corporate or non-corporate) that has demonstrated excellence by publishing a work, series, website or e-product that makes a significant contribution to legal research and scholarship.

Slaw.ca won the award in 2009 (yay team!).

Members as well as non-members of CALL can make nominations. Criteria are explained on the Award website (see link in first sentence).

Members of the Award Selection Committee set up to choose the lucky winner are:

  • Justice Eric (Rick) Libman, Ontario Court of Justice
  • John Davis, Professor Emeritus, Osgoode Hall Law School
  • Michael Decore, Manager of Information Resources and Access, Alberta Law Libraries,
  • George Tsiakos, Library Manager, Bull, Houser, Tupper, Vancouver.

The Committee is chaired by CALL Past President, Rosalie Fox, who runs the library and information management branch at the Supreme Court of Canada.

The award, established by CALL in 1999, was renamed to honour Hugh Lawford (1933-2009), Professor of Law at Queens’ University and the founder of Quicklaw.

The deadline for nominations is March 23, 2012. To make a nomination, please contact: Rosalie Fox, Director, Library and Information Management, Supreme Court of Canada at Rosalie.fox [at] scc-csc.gc.ca

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