Timothy L. Coggins, Director & Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law Library, is the 2004 recipient of the Frederick Charles Hicks Award for outstanding Contributions to Academic Law Librarianship.
The 2004 recipients of the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section Outstanding Article Award are Nancy Carol Carter, Director & Professor of Law at the University of San Diego School of Law for her article “The Special Case of Alaska: Native Law and Research”, 22 Leg. Ref. Servs. Q. 11 (2003), and Matthew Cordon, Reference Librarian at Baylor Law Library, for his article “Beyond Mere Competency: Advanced Legal Research in a Practice-Oriented Curriculum,” 55 Baylor L. Rev. 1 (2003).
Mary Rumsey, Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian, and April Schwartz, Business Law Librarian, both of the University of Minnesota Law Library, were recipients of the AALL/Lexis-Nexis Call for Papers Award for their article, “Paper v. Electronic Sources for Law Review Cite-Checking: Should Paper be the Gold Standard?”
The Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award was awarded to Georgia Briscoe, Associate Director and Head of Technical Services at the University of Colorado Law Library, Karen Selden, Catalog Librarian at the University of Colorado Law Library, and Cheryl Rae Nyberg, Reference Librarian at the University of Washington for their article, “The Catalog v. the Home Page? Best Practices in Connecting to Online Resources,” 95 Law Libr. J. 151 (2003).
Mark Engsberg, Librarian for Foreign and International Law and Lecturer in Legal Research at Yale Law School’s Lillian Goldman Law Library has been selected as the new editor of the International Journal of Legal Information, the official publication of the International Association of Law Libraries. His term begins in January 2005. He will be succeeding Malo Bernal of the Law Library of Congress.
Thomas Mills of the Cornell Law Library has accepted the post as Book Review Editor of the International Journal of Legal Information, the official publication of the International Association of Law Libraries. His term officially begins in January 2005. He is succeeding Katherine Topulos of the Duke Law Library.
Anne Cottongim has joined the staff of the Arthur Neef Law Library at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is a Reference and Research Support Librarian. Anne received her MLIS from Wayne State in August, 2003. She had previously received her J.D. from Thomas Cooley School of Law.
Lauren Collins also joined the staff of the Arthur Neef Law Library at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She is a Reference and Instruction Support Librarian. Lauren received her MIS from the University of Michigan in August, 2003. She had previously received her J.D. from the University of North Carolina.
Paula Tejeda started at Charleston School of Law in July as the Associate Director of the Law Library. She left St. Thomas University after 18 years where she was involved in the early years of the St. Thomas University Law Library to come and help us start the library at the Charleston School of Law. The school's first class (close to 200 students) will start in the middle of August.
On August 1, Vanessa King joined the MacMillan Law Library of Emory University School of Law as Assistant Law Librarian for Reference. She has her JD from the University of Tulsa College of Law and MLS from Clark Atlanta University. In her legal studies, she specialized in law and public policy and in women's studies.
Texas Tech is pleased to welcome two recent additions to their professional staff at Texas Tech University Law Library in Lubbock, Texas: Ms. Teresa Conaway joined us in April 2004 as Access Services Librarian. Ms. Conaway received her J.D. degree from Dickinson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University and her M.L.S degree from University of Tennessee. Her most current employment was at University of Nebraska College of Law as an Assistant Professor and Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian. At Texas Tech Law, Ms. Conaway will oversee circulation, reserves, interlibrary loan, document delivery and other related areas. She will also provide reference and instruction services, among other duties.
Mr. Andrew Escudé joined Texas Tech in March 2004 as Senior Catalog Librarian. Mr. Escudé earned both of his B.A. and M.L.S. degrees from Louisiana State University. He was last employed as Technical Services Coordinator at Dallas County Law Library before coming to Texas Tech University. At Texas Tech Law, Mr. Escudé is responsible for original and complex cataloging and classification in all formats. He also participates in systems management and maintains the bibliographic database, among other responsibilities.
The University of San Diego Legal Research Center is delighted to welcome new Reference Librarian Judith Lihosit. Judith is a graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law. She was Executive Editor of the San Diego Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. After majoring in anthropology at Yale and receiving a Master's in psychological anthropology at UCSD, Judith received a full scholarship to pursue her J.D. at USD. She worked in the Navy's Office of the General Counsel in Washington, D.C., before enrolling in UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and obtaining a Master's of Library and Information Science. During the past four years, she worked at the San Diego County Public Law Library, first as a Reference Librarian and then as Assistant Head of Public Services.
Georgia State University College of Law Library is pleased to announce that Trina Holloway has joined the library staff as the Acquisitions/Serials Librarian. Trina comes to us from Georgia Institute of Technology, where she was a library assistant in technical services for twelve years. She recently graduated from Clark Atlanta University’s School of Library and Information Studies in Atlanta, Georgia. Welcome, Trina!
Sara Kelley joined the Georgetown University Law Library staff as a reference librarian on July 1, 2004. Sara comes to us most recently from the University of Maryland in Baltimore, where she held the position of Research Librarian. There she taught "Introduction to Legal Research" and "Advanced Legal Research," maintained various library web pages, and chaired the collection development committee. She has several publications to her credit and is a member of the CALI Legal Research Community Authoring Advisory Panel. Before working at the University of Maryland, Sara was a Research Apprentice at the Microsoft Corporate Library, where she performed legal, business, arts, and humanities research. Sara received her B.A. from the College of William and Mary, her J.D. from the University of South Carolina, and her M.L.I.S. from the University of Washington.
David Hollander just started at the University of Miami Law Library as the Reference/Instructional Services Librarian. He just received his Master of Library Science from Pratt Institute, School of Information and Library Science. He graduated from Fordham University School of Law, cum laude, and he practiced at Jones Day, New York, New York for approximately three years.
American University's Washington College of Law Library is pleased to announce that Adeen Postar and Sima Mirkin have joined its faculty. Adeen is Deputy Director and holds the University rank of Associate Law Librarian. Formerly she was Washington Library Manager at Blank Rome, LLP and previously served as Coordinator of External Services for the Edward Bennett Williams Law Library, Georgetown University Law Center. Sima serves as Cataloging Librarian with the University rank of Assistant Law Librarian. She was previously a member of the cataloging team at Georgetown University Law Library.
Cornell Law Library hired Julie Jones as a Reference Librarian on July 1st. Julie received her B.A. from University of California at Santa Barbara, her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1999, and her M.L.I.S. from Dominican University this spring. She attended her first AALL conference this year in Boston, and is now serving on the newly created ALL-SIS Faculty Services Committee.
Laurel Wendt, Associate Director of the Southern Illinois University School of Law Library, has been promoted from associate to full professor, effective July 1, 2004. She is the author of Illinois Legal Research Manual, 2nd ed., forthcoming from William S. Hein & Co.
William Mitchell College of Law's Warren E. Burger Library has hired Lindsay Hutchins Matts as its circulation librarian. Lindsay, who has been a circulation assistant at the library, will graduate from the College of St. Catherine/Dominican University's library science program in August.
Cornell Law Library recently promoted Pat Court from Assistant Director for Administration and Public Services to Associate Law Librarian. Pat started at the law library in 1990 as a Reference Librarian. In her new role, she will provide essential services to the library and the Director, Claire Germain, as Prof. Germain begins her duties as Vice President/President-Elect of AALL.
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