CALL/ACBD

📖 Are you employed as a legal information professional?

🤝 If so, help us compile salary and benefits information that will be invaluable to the law library community. Members, check your email to respond to the 2025 CALL/ACBD – TALL–VALL Salary Survey by 9 July 2025.

🍭 You may even win $25!

CanLII is proud to announce that the Canadian Open Access Legal Citation (COAL) Guide was awarded the 2025 Hugh Lawford Award for Excellence in Legal Publishing at this year's @callacbd.bsky.social conference in Calgary! zurl.co/R4IkC

We hope you enjoyed connecting with the legal information community, indulging in some great food (special thanks to our incredible dine around team!), and maybe even learning a thing or two along the way 😉

Until next time! 📚

It's hard to believe it's already been a week since #CALLACBD2025 wrapped up! 🎉

A huge THANK YOU to our amazing attendees, presenters, and sponsors—you helped make this conference a success! 👏🏻

And that’s a wrap, folks! #CALLACBD2025 is in the books 📚

In true Calgary fashion, we celebrated this year’s conference with a Closing Reception at Palomino Smokehouse. Thank you to vLex for sponsoring last night’s event!

A big thank you to Alan Kilpatrick, Ana San Miguel, Angela Ashton, Charmaine Tierney, Lorissa Kinna, and Roman Lanzarotta for your insightful presentation, "Beyond the Legal Profession: Access to Justice and Legal Information Initiatives for Public Users."

We appreciate the attire too 🏒 🏀 ✨

#CALLACBD2025 attendees — we hope you're enjoying the breakout sessions! From artificial intelligence to comparative law to citation analysis, our speakers have been sharing their expertise to our collective benefit.

👏 Congratulations again to these outstanding individuals—and to those who couldn’t join us in person! We're proud to celebrate your achievements and contributions to the legal information community.

Thank you to Thomson Reuters for their generous sponsorship.

Thomas Gagnon-van Leeuwen – Diana M. Priestly Memorial Scholarship
Karen Norman – James D. Lang Memorial Scholarship
Doris Wagner – Nancy McCormack Emerging Leader Award
Amy Kaufman – Canadian Law Library Review Featured Article Award

🎖️ We are pleased to announce the winners of CALL/ACBD's awards and scholarships!

Ann Marie Melvie (@ammelvie.bsky.social) received the Denis Marshall Memorial Award for Excellence in Law Librarianship👏 Congratulations!

The following members were also recognized in-person at #CALLACBD2025:

Many thanks to Thomson Reuters for generously sponsoring the Awards Lunch, as well as the James D. Lang Memorial Scholarship, the Michael Silverstein Prize, and the Nancy McCormack Award.

👏🏻 Please join us in congratulating all of the award recipients and thanking them for their valuable contributions to CALL/ACBD and the legal library profession.

✨ Congratulations to Doris Wagner, recipient of the Nancy McCormack Emerging Leader Award! Doris was honored during today’s Awards Lunch, which celebrated several exceptional members of our community.

Former and future CALL/ACBD Presidents, Kim Nayyer (2021 - 2022) and Jason Wong, enjoying this evening’s Opening Reception! Welcome to Calgary for #CALLACBD2025—we have an excellent lineup of events ahead.

Thank you to LexisNexis for sponsoring the Opening Reception.

✈️ Tomorrow, the conference officially begins. Safe travels to all the attendees arriving in Calgary—and we'll see you soon!

🗓️ Today is the day!

We're very excited to be hosting the Law Librarians Institute (LII) this morning (9-12) and the Pre-Conference Workshop on Indigenous Truth and Institutional Trust this afternoon (1-4). What a way to start #CALLACBD2025!

🎶 We’re creating a laid-back, festive vibe where everyone can kick back and enjoy some good company. Expect great food, lively music, and plenty of opportunities to swap stories from the week and make a few more memories before we ride off into the sunset.

Ce sera le moment idéal de porter votre plus beau jeans assorti d’une chemise à boutons-pression nacrés et d’un chapeau de cow-boy ! Tout est permis, plus il y a de franges et d’originalité, mieux c’est ! Mais n’oubliez pas de prendre une veste en cas de chinook.

Now is the time to bring out your best jeans, pearl snap shirts and cowboy hats! Anything goes, the more fringe and flair the better – but remember, when those Chinook winds blow, you’ll want a jacket!

Nous vous invitons à la réception de clôture commanditée par vLex !

Date : le 27 mai 2025

Heure : à partir de 18 h

Lieu : Palomino Smokehouse, 109 7 Ave SW, Calgary, AB

🤠 👖 Nous avons hâte de vous accueillir au Palomino Smokehouse pour vous faire vivre l’hospitalité des gens de l’Ouest.

Announcing the #CALLACBD2025 closing reception, sponsored by vLex!

Date: May 27th, 2025

Time: Beginning at 6:00PM

Location: Palomino Smokehouse, 109 7 Ave SW, Calgary, AB

🤠 👖 We can’t wait to welcome you to the Palomino Smokehouse for some western hospitality.

Starting this Saturday, we'll be welcoming legal information professionals to Calgary from across Canada! 🏙️

Are you going to #CALLACBD2025?

Nous avons hâte d’accueillir ces personnes et d’en apprendre sur des sujets juridiques qui sont importants pour toute la population canadienne !

~ Un aperçu du droit canadien de l’immigration par Kamaal Zaidi (9 h 45 à 11 h)
~ L’érosion de la primauté du droit aux États-Unis et ses répercussions sur le Canada par Maureen Duffy (11 h 15 à 12 h 30)

🗓️ Dans le cadre du dimanche 25 mai, nous sommes ravis d’annoncer deux séances de fond. Celles-ci seront animées par deux professeurs de l’Université de Calgary qui aborderont des sujets de droit substantiel qui sont à la fois pertinents et d’actualité dans le contexte actuel au Canada.

We look forward to welcoming these speakers and learning together about legal topics of importance to all Canadians!

~ An Overview of Canadian Immigration Law by Kamaal Zaidi, 9:45am to 11:00am
~ Erosion of the Rule of Law in the U.S. and Its Implications for Canada by Maureen Duffy, 11:15am to 12:30pm

🗓️ On Sunday, May 25th during #CALLACBD2025, we are pleased to announce that two professors from the University of Calgary will be presenting on substantive law topics that are timely and relevant to current events in Canada today.

📚 M. Nenshi nous parlera de ses expériences relatives aux bibliothèques au fil de sa vie et de sa carrière tout en nous faisant découvrir Calgary à travers son regard.

📚 Mr. Nenshi will speak about his experiences with libraries throughout his life and career. We look forward to learning more about Calgary through his lens!