About
Since 1997 TS-SIS has joined with LSRD-SIS to provide funding for grants for law librarians to perform research on topics that will enhance technical services law librarianship. The FROG Committee is comprised of six members: the chair, a representative-at-large, two representatives from TS-SIS, and two representatives from LSRD-SIS. Each representative serves for two years. The committee name was changed in 2015 from LSRD-SIS/TS-SIS Joint Research Grant Committee to FROG (Funding Research Opportunities Grant) Committee.
See the TS-SIS Handbook for more information about the committee.
See the LSRD-SIS website for more information about the Grant.
Resources
- Annual Reports
- Kathryn Downing and Devan Orr 2025 Project Status Report
- Alex Zhang 2022 Project Status Report
- Jesse Lambertson 2020 Project Status Report
Chair
Jessie Tam (2023-2025)
Thurgood Marshall State Law Library
TS-SIS Representatives
Heather Buckwalter (2023-2025)
Creighton University School of Law
Kathryn Downing (2024-2026)
College of William & Mary
LSRD-SIS Representatives
Brandi Ledferd (2025-2027)
K&L Gates
Jennifer Noga (2024-2026)
Wake Forest University
Representative-at-Large
Kim Martin (2024-2026)
K&L Gates
Orr & Downing Receive FROG Grant
Devan Orr, Foreign and International Reference Librarian, and Kathryn Downing, Digital Collections & Archives Librarian at William & Mary Law School have been awarded an $860 FROG for their project, Abstracting with AI. This project will test the ability of artificial intelligence to create abstracts for law review articles and faculty scholarship in institutional repositories, in an effort to address the challenge of improving discoverability of publications that lack abstracts. Devan and Kathryn will share their findings from this project through publications such as Technical Services Law Librarian (TSLL) and blog entries. They also plan to submit a proposal to discuss their results at the 2025 成人视频conference session.