Patricia A. Cervenka is the Chair-Elect for the Law and Sports Section for the American Association of Law Schools (AALS).
Barry University School of Law Library is very pleased to announce that Ray Lytle joined their staff on August 28. Ray is the new Reference Librarian. After over twenty years of working in New Orleans, Ray comes to Orlando with excellent experience and knowledge. They feel very fortunate to add someone with Ray’s skills to their library. Unfortunately, just as they were hiring Ray, another Reference Librarian resigned. They are sorry to announce that Warren McEwen is leaving Barry at the end of August. Warren began working for the library when it was the University of Orlando, before it became a part of Barry University. They will certainly miss his presence and his institutional knowledge. They wish Warren well, and welcome Ray.
Stacey Bowers is the new Access Services Librarian at the Westminster Law Library, University of Denver Sturm College of Law. Stacey is a recent MLIS graduate of the University of Denver and also received her JD there in 1992. In addition to her job duties, Stacey is starting a PhD program in Curriculum & Instruction at the College of Education.
Christopher C. Dykes has joined the University of Houston Law Center’s O’Quinn Law Library as a reference/research librarian. Chris is a Tennessee native, and has his undergraduate degree and library science degree from the University of Tennessee. He also has a law degree from the University of Baltimore, and a Master of Law in Tax Law from Villanova University.
Christine Hepler has assumed new duties at the Garbrecht Law Library, University of Maine School of Law. She now serves as the Associate Director of the Library.
Kreig Kitts has joined the Georgia State University College of Law Library as Reference Librarian. Kreig was formerly Research Librarian at Troutman Sanders LLP in the firm’s Atlanta office.
Michele Kristakis has changed positions and is now the Research and Educational Services Librarian at the Barco Law Library at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition, they have hired Valerie Weis to serve in the position of Faculty Services Librarian.
Lolly Gasaway, former Director of the Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has moved to the Law School at UNC to serve as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Lolly served over 21 years as Director at the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at UNC. Anne Klinefelter, Associate Director of the UNC Law Library, is now also Acting Director, and a search is underway for the permanent Director. Steve Melamut, Information Technology Services Librarian at the University of North Carolina Law Library is wearing two hats, adding the role of Acting Assistant Dean for Information Technology for the UNC School of Law to his library responsibilities.
Paula Seeger joined the law library staff as Circulation Librarian at the University of Minnesota on August 14.
Two new lawyer-librarians, together with a new Tarlton Fellow, will be joining the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas this September. Melissa Bernstein obtained her law degree from Harvard, and a master’s degree from Pratt. Melissa is a member of the New York Bar and practiced corporate law in New York and New Jersey (at, among other firms, Chadbourne and Parke). Melissa also interned at the law library at New York University. Casey Duncan’s law degree (cum laude, Dean’s List) from the University of Minnesota (where he was executive editor of the Minnesota Journal of Global Trade), and his master’s from the University of Missouri-Columbia. Casey researched constitutional law issues as a research assistant to Professor Michael Paulson at the University of Minnesota. He is a member of the Nebraska Bar. Leslie Ashbrook is the Library’s newest Tarlton Fellow. Leslie’s undergraduate degree is from the College of William & Mary and her law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She begins her studies at the University of Texas School of Information this fall, and will be interning in the Library’s public services department.
The Law Library, Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona, has three new library fellows starting this year: Jane Larrington, a University of Michigan Law School graduate, and Michael Bird, a graduate from the Rogers College of Law, start their studies this fall at The University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science (SIRLS). Sean Crane, an alumni of the University of Colorado’s School of Law, practiced in the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribal courts while employed with DNA-People’s Legal Services, Inc., before starting his studies at SIRLS last year. Last year’s fellows, Brandon Baker and Phillip Gragg, have left for law library positions at California Western School of Law and LSU’s Paul M. Herbert Law Center. In addition, Lisa Wagenheim, the library’s Electronic Services Librarian, has left the law library world to take a position in the general counsel’s office of First Magnus Financial Corporation, Tucson, Arizona.
Ron Wheeler has accepted the position of Associate Director for Public Services at the Georgia State University College of Law Library. He began working at GSU on August 2nd. Ron was formerly the associate director for faculty, research, & instructional services at the University of New Mexico School of Law Library in Albuquerque. Ron was recently featured on the Law Librarian Blog’s Spotlight on Law Librarians. See that article at http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_librarian_blog/2006/08/spotlight_on_la.html.
There have been several staff changes at the University of Wisconsin Law Library:
For more information please visit their blog (www.law.wisc.edu/blogs/wisblawg/2006/05/staff_changes_at_the_uw_law_li.html).
Sergio Stone presented a paper at the Asian Law Institute Annual Conference in Shanghai, China on May 25, 2006. The paper was called “Pixel Pluralism: Online Images of Law & Justice in East Asia.” Sergio is the Foreign, Comparative & International Law Librarian at the Westminster Law Library, University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
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