Radu D. Popa was promoted from Acting Director to Director of the Law Library and Assistant Dean for Library Services at New York University School of Law in February 2005. In the past Radu was Associate Director for Research and Online Services.
Neil Pereira joined the Southern Illinois University School of Law Library professional staff on March 17, 2005, as Acquisitions/Catalog Librarian and Assistant Professor. Neil holds an M.S.L.I.S. degree from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. Additionally, he earned a Masters of Music in Orchestral Conducting from Illinois State University and an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Bombay, India. Neil comes to SIU from Murray State University, where he served as a cataloger.
Robert Mead, Head of Public & Faculty Services of the University of Kansas Wheat Law Library, has been granted tenure and promoted to Librarian II.
Martha Dragich Pearson, Associate Dean for Library & Information Resources at the University of Missouri-Columbia, will take up full-time teaching responsibilities in the law school beginning in the fall semester. Randy Diamond has been named Interim Director for 2005 - 2006.
Heidi Kuehl (Frostestad) has joined the Pritzker Legal Research Center at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago as a Research and Instructional Services Librarian. Heidi received her bachelor's degree from Luther College, her master's degree in library and information science from the University of Iowa, and her J.D. from Valparaiso University School of Law. Prior to joining the Pritzker Legal Research Center, Heidi worked as a reference librarian at Marquette University Law School.
Michael Hannon will be joining the University of Minnesota Law Library as the new Associate Director for Library and Educational Technology in June. Mike graduated magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota Law School, and received his Masters in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Illinois. For the past five years, Mike has been a member of the library staff at the Duke Law School.
Mitch Counts, the founding director of the law library at the Ave Maria School of Law, will take a similar position at the Elon University School of Law in Greensboro, North Carolina. Mitch’s position will be Associate Dean of Library and Information Services where he will be responsible for both library and information technology operations at the newly-created law school. Elon University’s new law school will be one that will produce leaders engaged in community and public service, and will meet an unmet demand to educate more lawyers in the State of North Carolina. It plans to open in the fall of 2006 with 100 students. This summer Mitch will hire two student research assistants to help him with the National Lawyer Association’s Judicial Evaluation Project. The selected students will research the “judicial persona” of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees as contained in those individuals’ court decisions, published writings, and public commentary. This project was suggested to the National Lawyer Association four years ago by Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah who indicated that the White House and members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee were interested in having a source of review of judicial candidates other than the American Bar Association. The Ave Maria School of Law was the first institution contacted by the NLA to participate in this initiative, and it readily accepted. This will be the second year for both the project and Ave Maria’s participation in it.
Harold O’Grady was hired as Reference Librarian and Adjunct Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School Library in December 2003 after nearly thirty years practicing law. In his role as adjunct professor of law he teaches Advanced Legal Research. Harold completed his MLIS at Rutgers School of Communication and Information Sciences in New Brunswick, N.J., in May 2003.
Marian Parker, Associate Dean for Information Services, Director of the Professional Center Library, and Professor of Law at Wake Forest University, has been appointed for a 3-year term to the Depository Library Council for GPO, starting in October 2005.
Boston University's Pappas Law Library is pleased to welcome two additions to its staff. Stephen M. Donweber is the new Reference and Electronic Services Librarian. He recently earned an MLIS at Rutgers University's School of Communication, Information, and Library Science and previously held a JD from Villanova University. Steve was the reference librarian intern at University of Pennsylvania's Van Pelt Library from January 2004 until March 2005. Teresa Gallego O'Rourke is the new Reference and International Law Librarian. Terri earned her M.L.S. from Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and her J.D. from Villanova University. She was a temporary reference librarian at the Harvard Law Library from August 2004 until April 2005.
Stefanie Pearlman joined the University of Nebraska Schmid Law Library Faculty in September 2003 as an Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian. She received a B.A. in Social Sciences from Hofstra University in New York, a J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, and her M.A. in Information Resources and Library Science from the University of Arizona. Stefanie was admitted to the practice of law in Missouri and practiced criminal law for over six years before leaving to attend library school. Her main areas of interest are animal law and criminal law.
From Virginia Kelsh, Law Librarian & Professor, University of San Francisco
I will retire on June 30th with emeritus status after 22 years as Law Librarian & Professor at the University of San Francisco and 37 years as a librarian. It has been a wonderful career and I don't think if it as “retiring” but “re-treading.” I will move to Palm Desert where I own a condo on the golf course at Chaparral Country Club. I hope to widen my horizons taking courses at the College of the Desert or in a life long learning program; engaging in volunteer, consulting, or part-time work; and getting in shape with pool aerobics! I have already joined the Retired Directors listserv so hope to stay in touch with my former colleagues and academic law library news. I plan to keep my current e-address [kelsh@usfca.edu], at least for a while, so if anyone makes it out to a meeting or for vacation in the Palm Springs/Palm Desert area in southern California, let me know! Thank you for your wonderful sharing of expertise all these years so that each of us did not have to re-invent the wheel every time a challenge arose. You are a caring, talented, service-oriented group of professionals and I am grateful to have experienced my law library career in your company! Watch for postings about the Law Librarian position at USF - the next director will inherit a new, spacious law library facility, an excellent staff, and a dynamic law faculty and student body.
Martha Dragich Pearson, Citation of Unpublished Opinions as Precedent, 55 Hastings L. J. 1235 (2004).
Chenglin Liu, Regulating SARS In China; Law as an Antidote?, 4 Wash. U. Global Stud. L. Rev. 81 (2005), available at http://law.wustl.edu/Publications/WUGSLR/Issues/Volume4_1/toc.html.
Chenglin Liu, Research Guide on the Trading Systems in the Asian-Pacific Region: APEC, ASEAN and their Members, Globalex, April 2005, at www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/APEC_ASEAN.htm.
Susan Nevelow Mart, Protecting the Lady From Toledo: Post-USA PATRIOT Act Electronic Surveillance at the Library, 96 Law Libr. J. 449 (2004), available at www.aallnet.org/products/2004-27.pdf. Law Library Journal Article of the Year Award Winner.
Radu D. Popa, International Law and International Organizations, in Roaming the Virtual Law Library: A Guide to Online Sources for Legal Researchers 161 (Joan Liu & Liying Yu eds., 2004).
Radu D. Popa, Online Sources for Foreign Law, in Roaming the Virtual Law Library: A Guide to Online Sources for Legal Researchers 145 (Joan Liu & Liying Yu eds., 2004).
Leah Sandwell-Weiss, A Look at the USA PATRIOT Act Today: Recent Proposed Legislation to Affect Anti-Terrorism and Individual Rights, 8 AALL Spectrum 10 (July 2004), available at www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0407/pub_sp0407_PATRIOT.pdf. Spectrum Article of the Year Award Winner.
Jeanne M. Woods & James M. Donovan, “Anticipatory Self-Defense” and Other Stories, 14 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 487 (2005).
The American Bar Association China Law Committee recently published two China Law bibliographies prepared by Kara Phillips, Collection Development/Associate Executive Librarian, Seattle University Law Library:
Tent City: During the month of February 2005, Seattle University hosted Tent City 3, the temporary encampment that provides shelter, support and safety to approximately 100 homeless women and men (www.seattleu.edu/tentcity/). Reference Librarian Kelly Kunsch teamed with Ahoua Kone of the Seattle University School of Law Access to Justice Institute (www.law.seattleu.edu/accesstojustice) to help residents of Tent City locate unclaimed property. Several tent city residents filled out request forms and ultimately, more than five state databases were searched, an Indian tribe was contacted, and information on requesting property from the military and the Internal Revenue Service was made available to residents.
On March 16th, Executive Law Librarian Kristin Cheney and Reference Librarian Kerry Fitz-Gerald spoke at a half-day continuing education seminar sponsored by the Institute for Paralegal Education. In keeping with the seminar theme of “Premier Legal Research and Technology Strategies,” Kristin Cheney guided the attendees through the process of distilling an attorney request into a focused research question, highlighting methods of crafting successful and efficient strategies for conducting legal research. Kerry Fitz-Gerald covered essential techniques for Lexis and Westlaw, and then introduced a variety of free Web sources for legal research. The presentations were very well received, with several attendees expressing their eagerness to put these new techniques into practice. Kerry Fit-Gerald also recently presented at an NBI CLE on the topic of Advanced Internet Strategies for the Washington Legal Professional.
Librarians Kerry Fitz-Gerald, Stephanie Wilson, and Barbara Swatt shared our experience in creating exhibits and displays at the Online Northwest Conference in Corvallis (January 2005) and at the ACRL National Conference in Minneapolis (April 2005). The presentations on “Using Technology to Bring Exhibits to Life” discussed the process of assembling complementary online and physical exhibits for various library constituents and covered design, copyright, implementation, and display issues encountered in creating the exhibits. The presentation focused on the exhibits that the library created to complement the continuing legal education programs “From Brown to Grutter: Racial Integration and the Law in the Northwest” and “The New Family Law: Legal Implications of Same-Sex Marriage” held at the law school. For an example, view the Library’s Marriage for Same-Sex Couples online exhibit by visiting our research portal at: www.law.seattleu.edu/library/research.
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