Congratulations to Kristin A. Cheney, Executive Law Librarian at Seattle University Law Library, who is this year's recipient of the Spirit of Law Librarianship Award for outstanding contributions in serving the elderly and their pets in Pierce County, Washington. In 1998, Ms. Cheney established the Seniors With Pets Assistance (SWP) Program (www.seniorswithpets.org), which provides vital support to low income seniors with pets.
Barbara Swatt Engstrom, a Seattle University Law Library reference librarian, is the recently elected Treasurer of the Law Librarians of Puget Sound.
Toni Aiello is pleased to announce that as of August 1, 2005, she has joined the staff of the Deane Law Library, Hofstra University, as a full-time Reference Librarian.
James G. Durham is the new “Head of Public Services” at the Touro Law Center Library in Huntington, New York. He will supervise Reference Services, oversee the Head of Circulation and Circulation Services, coordinate faculty services, and teach legal research courses. He also will occasionally serve as Program Administrator for “The New India,” a summer study abroad program for law students, conducted in Shimla and Dharamsala, India. He formerly served as “Publications and Reference Librarian” at The Fred Parks Law Library, South Texas College of Law, Houston.
Edward Hart has joined the University of Florida as Acquisitions Librarian for the Chiles Legal Information Center.
Druet Cameron Klugh has bid a fond farewell to her colleagues at the University of Colorado Law Library and returned to her home state of Iowa. In late June she began her position as Senior Reference Librarian and Bibliographer at the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City. She is delighted to be back at her alma mater.
Gail Partin is the recently named Interim Director of the Law Library at Penn State Dickinson School of Law.
Amy Wright joined the staff at Santa Clara University School of Law's Heafey Law Library as Electronic Services Reference Librarian. She received her bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College, her JD from UC Hastings College of the Law, and her MLIS from San Jose State University. In addition to maintaining the law library's website, she will be teaching Advanced Legal Research with my colleagues.
Seattle University Law Library reference librarian Kerry Fitz-Gerald recently participated in the National Conference of State Legislatures Annual Meeting as part of a panel presentation entitled “Research and Legal Resources on the Internet.” Kerry addressed legal research on the web in general, evaluating web-based legal resources, and administrative law research.
Lee Peoples, Oklahoma City University Law Library’s Associate Director for Faculty, Research & Instructional Services, presentation “Strategies and Sources for International Legal Research” was heard at the Global Issues in Law and Finance Conference, London, England, on June 30, 2005. His paper from the conference will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Conference on Consumer Finance Law’s Quarterly Report and is available for download at: http://ssrn.com/author=432259.
Kristin Cheney, Executive Law Librarian at Seattle University Law Library, recently published an article entitled “Is an Annual Report in Your Library’s Future?” in the summer 2005 issue of Law Library Journal.
Joel Fishman, Asst. Director for Lawyer Services, Duquesne University Center for Legal Information/Allegheny County Law Library, has two books and an article being published:
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