Karen Wallace, professor of law librarianship, was recently cited by the Iowa Supreme Court. In a June 16 opinion, the court quoted her Drake Law Review article “Does the Past Predict the Future?: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Iowa Supreme Court Use of Legislative History as a Window into Statutory Construction in Iowa,” to support the premise “that members of this court frequently look beyond the text of the statute in the interpretation of statutes.” (p. 26)

Also, Karen was recently elected vice president/president elect of the Mid-America Association of Law Libraries (MAALL). MAALL is a chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries with almost 300 members in thirteen states.

Teri Koch, professor of librarianship and coordinator, serials, acquisitions, and electronic resources, and Andrew Welch, librarian for discovery services and technology, presented “Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative Survey” at the American Library Association Annual meeting in Chicago on June 23 as part of the Print Archive Network Forum.