Richard Leiter wins CS-SIS Kenneth J. Hirsh Award

The CS-SIS is pleased to announce that Richard Leiter is this year’s winner of the CS-SIS Kenneth J. Hirsh Award.

This award honors a CS-SIS member who has made outstanding contributions to the SIS, to AALL, and who is well regarded for his or her service to the profession. The inaugural award recipient was Ken Hirsh, in whose honor the award is named.

Richard Leiter is currently Director of the Schmid Law Library and Professor of Law at the University of Nebraska. Rich has a long history with CS-SIS, serving as president when it was Automation and Scientific Development SIS and as the editor of the SIS’s Automatome Newsletter. He also is host of CALI’s “Law Librarian Conversations” podcast. Rich chaired the LLJ and AALL Spectrum Committee and is currently Vice President of the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries. In addition, he has been writing the “Database Report” for Legal Information Alert and won the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award for his book National Survey of State Laws. Rich is also the co-founder with Roy Mersky of the Spirit of Law Librarianship Award and co-author of both editions of the book, Spirit of Law Librarianship

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