Lorna Tang receives lifetime achievement award

Lorna Tang retired from the D’Angelo Law Library on June 30, 2015, after 38 years as a law librarian. She began her law library career at the D’Angelo Law Library (then called the University of Chicago Law Library) in 1977 as a law cataloger and has been an outstanding technical services librarian ever since. In 1980 she became the Cataloging Supervisor and in 1984 became the Associate Law Librarian for Technical Services.

In this position, she guided the department through two major renovations of the library building, each time reorganizing work spaces and revising workflows, and three Integrated Library Systems use and migration. Two of these ILSs were development partnerships between the vendors and the University of Chicago Library, and therefore Lorna participated in the design of the system as well.

She was an outstanding representative of the D’Angelo Law Library with colleagues in the university library system and has ensured that the unique requirements of legal materials are accommodated in their ILS platforms.

Lorna has been a member of CALL since 1977 and quickly began her service to CALL and to Chicago area librarians by becoming a member of the CALL Foreign Law Holdings Committee from 1978-1980. Over the years, Lorna has had a long history of service to CALL including membership on other CALL committees, such as the Membership/Directory Committee which she has served on twice, and chaired from 1982-1983; the Placement & Recruitment Committee (twice); and the CALL Meetings Committee (also twice).

(Republished from the CALL Bulletin)

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