Amy J. Wright, Electronic Services Reference Librarian & Lecturer in Law at Santa Clara University School of Law, has just been appointed to AALL’s Recruitment to Law Librarianship Committee for a two-year term beginning July 2006.
Aimee Managan, Faculty Services Librarian, will be leaving the University of Michigan Law Library on August 9, 2006, to pursue a Masters Degree in Canon Law.
Seattle University Law Library is being renovated this summer. This renovation project has two primary purposes. First, it will improve library circulation, reference and document delivery services as well as enhance access to library staff on the second floor of the library, the core operations area for Seattle University Law Library patrons. Second, it will add additional office space for the relocation and expansion of the Law School Career Services operations to better serve our students’ needs. Law Library personnel have been involved in renovation preparations (www.law.seattleu.edu/information/newsletter/April2006/?mode=standard#Top) since January. The renovation will begin on May 15 and is scheduled to end the week of August 7, 2006. The Law Library has set up a website at: www.law.seattleu.edu/library/renovation?mode=standard to keep patrons informed of services during the renovation.
Duncan Alford has been appointed Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Associate Professor of Law at the Charlotte School of Law in Charlotte NC.
Linda Barrette is the new Acquisitions Librarian at the FAMU Law Library. Linda received her J.D. from the University of New Mexico and her MLS from the University of South Florida.
Ann Chase began working as a Reference Librarian in the University of Michigan Law Library in January 2006; Ann graduated from the SUNY Buffalo Law School and School of Informatics in 2005. She will be handling foreign and comparative law collection development.
Marilyn Estes joined the Pence Law Library at American University, in Washington, D.C., as Head of Acquisitions and Serials Control. Marilyn was previously the Acquisitions Librarian at Gallaudet University in Washington.
Diana Gleason started at UNLV in January as Senior Reference Librarian and is new to ALL-SIS. She was previously at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Oregon, where she was the Government Documents librarian for 4 years.
Chenglin Liu, Foreign and International Law Librarian at the University of Houston Law Center O’Quinn Law Library, gave a presentation on the new changes to the International Health Regulations at the American Library Association (ALA) midwinter conference in San Antonio, January 21, 2006.
Seattle University law librarians presented programs at the Annual LLOPS Spring Development Workshop which was held on May 3, 2006, in Seattle. Stephanie Wilson and Kerry Fitz-Gerald, reference librarians at Seattle University Law Library, presented an entertaining and engaging look at how libraries can use electronic exhibits as effective marketing tools. Based on their experience creating electronic exhibits in conjunction with the CLEs, “From Brown to Grutter: Racial Integration and the Law in the Northwest” and “The New Family Law: Legal Implications of Same Sex Marriage,” Stephanie and Kerry discussed the components of successful exhibits as well as the pitfalls to avoid. To see the exhibits click on the following links: www.law.seattleu.edu/information/brown/ (for Brown) and www.law.seattleu.edu/library/samesexmarriage/ (for Same Sex Marriage). Kelly Kunsch, reference librarian at Seattle University Law Library, kicked off the afternoon session as moderator of a panel discussion entitled “Licensing Electronic Resources.” Panelists were Katherine Foster, of the Microsoft LCA Research & Information Center, Jonathan Franklin, associate law librarian at the University of Washington Law Library, Barbara Holt, library director at Perkins Coie and Brenna Louzin, law library manager at Heller Ehrman. Kelly deftly guided the panelists through many of the emerging issues of electronic licensing. The panelists discussed the corporate, law firm, and academic law library positions on a range of topics including negotiating licenses with vendors, displaying electronic records in catalogs and evaluation techniques for making database subscription decisions.
Susan Nevelow Mart, UC Hastings, published a new article: Let the People Know the Facts: Can Government Information Removed From the Internet Be Reclaimed? 98 Law Library Journal 1 (2006).