This award recognizes a Government Law Libraries Special Interest Section member’s contribution to the field of government law librarianship through a professional publication that promotes government law libraries, law librarianship, legal research, or public access to legal information. This professional publication primarily targets non-librarian audiences (e.g. library newsletter, research and resource guides for judges, court personnel, attorneys, or self-represented litigants, annual reports). The publication must be authored by a Government Law Libraries Special Interest Section member and have been published in print or electronically within the calendar year prior to the nomination year (i.e., published in 2025 to be submitted by the March 1, 2026 deadline). If the publication has more than one author, at least one author, contributor, or editor must be a Government Law Libraries Special Interest Section member.
Joel Fishman, Ph.D., M.L.S., has been a law librarian for half a century. Dr. Fishman is the author of over 400 publications of books, articles, chapters, newspapers, book reviews, web projects, bios, and indexes. He specializes in Pennsylvania Legal History and Bibliography.
RECIPIENTS
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2021 - 2025 2025
- Emily Donnellan, Reference Librarian, State of Oregon Law Library, Salem, Oregon
2024
- Stefanie S. Pearlman, Professor of Law Library, Schmid Law Library, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE, and Melissa Serfass, Professor of Law Librarianship, University of Arkansas Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law / Pulaski County Law Library, Little Rock AR, co-authors, Animal Welfare Laws: A Legal Research Guide.
2023
- Greater Philadelphia Law Library Association Social Responsibilities Committee, for
Pennsylvania Legal Research 101: About the Law and How to Find It.
2022
- Alexander B. Burnett, co-author, “,” Chapter 19,聽.
Senior Law Librarian, Maine State Law & Legislative Reference Library, Augusta, ME - Jessica Lundgren, co-author, 听“,” Chapter 19,聽.
Senior Law Librarian, Maine State Law & Legislative Reference Library, Augusta, ME - Ryan Metheny, author, “,” Chapter 18,聽.
Managing Librarian, Legal Education, LA Law Library, Los Angeles, CA
2021
- Not awarded
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2015 - 2020 2020
- Amy Small, Assistant Director, Texas State Law Library, Austin, Texas “From the Western Frontier to the Digital Frontier: a History of the State Law Library, Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, Summer 2019, pp 40 鈥�52.
2019
- Harris County Law Library Staff, Harris County Law Library, Houston, Texas, Pro Se Litigants Handbook and Manual para Litigantes Pro Se
2018
- Ryan Metheny, Managing Librarian, Legal Education, LA Law Library, Los Angeles, California, 鈥淚mproving Lives by Building Social Capital: A New Way to Frame the Work of Law Libraries,鈥� Law Library Journal, Fall 2017
2017
- Jennifer Dalglish, Director/Law Librarian, Alden E. Miller Law Library of Clackamas County, Oregon City,聽OR;聽Dan Cordova, Colorado Supreme Court Librarian, Colorado Supreme Court, Denver, CO; and Mark E. Estes, Law Library Director, Alameda County Law Library, Oakland, CA, “Managing Government Law Libraries Today: Challenges and Opportunities,” 糖心视频 Spectrum, November/December 2016
- Dan Cordova, Colorado Supreme Court Librarian, Colorado Supreme Court, Denver, CO (with William Hood),”The Colorado Equal Access Center: Connecting Unrepresented Litigants to Legal Resources through Technology,” The Colorado Lawyer, September 2016
2016
- James Durham & Steven Anderson for 鈥淎 Safe Haven鈥�, 糖心视频 Spectrum, March 2015
- Bonnie Shucha for “Engaging the Third Sovereign: The Nature, Reach, and Sources of Tribal Law,” Wisconsin Lawyer May 2015