Why is AALLs Distinguished Service Award named in honor of Marian G. Gallagher?
The first-ever AALL Distinguished Service Award was presented at the Closing Banquet of the 1984 Annual Meeting in San Diego: to Marian Gould Gallagher, past president of AALL (1954–55) and Professor of Law and Law Librarian Emeritus, University of Washington (1944–81). This was fitting. Gallagher was an accomplished law library leader and innovator—she initiated both the Current Index to Legal Periodicals and the AALL Newsletter (which eventually became AALL Spectrum). She was a legendary law library educator—the law librarianship program at the University of Washington which she directed for thirty-seven years had a remarkable impact on the profession, producing numerous law library and AALL leaders. She frequently represented law librarians to those outside the profession—she was an active member of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar and served on the President’s National Advisory Committee on Libraries in 1967–68, as well as other presidential committees an
