Here’s the press release
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES ELECTS
NEW VICE PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT-ELECT
Ithaca, New York-Based Vice President/President-Elect Will Take Office in July 2017
CHICAGO, November 11, 2016—The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) membership has elected Femi Cadmus, Edward Cornell law librarian, associate dean for library services, and professor of practice at CornellUniversity Law Library in Ithaca, New York, as vice president/president-elect. Cadmus will serve from July 2017 to July 2018.
Cadmus previously served as an AALL Executive Board member from 2013 t0 2016 during which time she sat on theExecutive Board Administration and Executive Board Strategic Directions Committees and acted as board liaison tothe Recruitment to Law Librarianship Committee, New Product Award Jury, Diversity Committee, and the Index toForeign Legal Periodicals Editorial Advisory Board.
Cadmus has also served as the chair of the Economic Status of Law Librarians Committee and as a member of theRecruitment Committee. She is a member of AALL’s Academic Law Libraries and Research Instruction & PatronServices Special Interest Sections as well as the Association of Law Libraries of Upstate New York.
“I am elated and thankful for the opportunity to lead the only national association dedicated to law librarians and other legal information professionals—the American Association of Law Libraries,” Cadmus says. “The economicpressures and technological innovations we face today provide unparalleled opportunities to reimagine law libraries and the role of the law librarian. I look forward to working with the board and members in charting new paths, as we leverage our tremendous expertise and press forward strategically with old and new partnerships.”
Cadmus received her MLIS from the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma; her master of laws (LLM) degree from the University of Warwick in Coventry, England; and graduated with honors with a bachelor of laws (LLB) degree from the University of Jos in Nigeria.
She is a member of the New York Bar, American Bar Association, and American Association of Law Schools andcurrently serves on the board of directors of two national library consortia, LLMC Digital and the NELLCO Law
Library Consortium.
AALL members also elected Luis Acosta, chief, Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Division II, Global LegalResearch Center, Law Library of Congress in Washington, DC, as the organization’s new secretary. Beth Adelman,director, Charles B. Sears Law Library, vice dean for legal information services, University at Buffalo School of Law, and associate university librarian for legal information services, University at Buffalo Libraries in Buffalo, New York, and Jean P. O’Grady, senior director of information, research, and knowledge services at DLA Piper in Washington, DC, were elected as board members. All three will serve terms from July 2017 to July 2020.
For more information on AALL leadership, please visit bit.ly/AALLExecutiveBoard.
About AALL
The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) is the only national association dedicated to the legal information profession and
its professionals. Founded in 1906 on the belief that people—lawyers, judges, students, and the public—need timely access to
relevant legal information to make sound legal arguments and wise legal decisions, its nearly 4,500 members are problem solvers of
the highest order. AALL fosters the profession by offering its members knowledge, leadership, and community that make the whole
legal system stronger. For more information, visit www.aallnet.org.
