The University of New Mexico School of Law Library had two retirements on June 30, 2007: Lorraine Lester, Associate Professor of Law Librarianship, retired after 38 years of service, and Barbara Lah, Assistant Professor of Law Librarianship, retired after 5 years of service.
Maxine Grosshans, Research Librarian, University of Maryland School of Law, was recognized by the Maryland legal community and by the Daily Record, Maryland’s legal and business newspaper, as one of Maryland’s 2007 Unsung Legal Heroes. The newspaper created the Unsung Legal Heroes awards program as a way to recognize those professionals who work behind the scenes in the legal community. More than 200 people attended the annual awards presentation, which included a reception and luncheon at the Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel.
Ave Maria has a new librarian in their library. Her name is Katie Greer and her title is that of Reference Librarian. She is a recent graduate of Drexel University’s college of information science.
Cleveland-Marshall Law Library, Cleveland State University had several additions to their staff. Amy Burchfield is the new Access and Faculty Services Librarian. Amy comes from the Georgetown University Law Center Library where she has served as International & Foreign Law Reference Librarian since 2004. Prior to Georgetown she was a Reference Librarian at the Ohio State University Law Library from 2002 - 2004. Amy holds an MLS from Kent State University, a JD from Ohio State, an MA in German from Kent State, and a BA from Juniata College (PA). She is fluent in several foreign languages. Sue Altmeyer is now the Electronic Services/Reference Librarian. Sue was Reference & Research Librarian at the Cleveland Law Library Association where she has worked since 2001. She also served as a Law Clerk for the Ohio 8th District Court of Appeals from 1993 - 2001, and as a Law Clerk in the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas. Sue holds her MLS from Kent State University, her JD Summa Cum Laude from C-M, where she also was a member of the Law Review, and her BS Summa Cum Laude from Ohio State. Kevin Garewal is the new Collection Development/Acquisitions Librarian. He was an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for the Cuyahoga County Department of Children & Family Services. He formerly served as an Adult Services Librarian at the Cleveland Heights Public Library from 1998 - 2002, as well as a Librarian at the Cuyahoga Co. Public Library from 1998 - 1999. Kevin holds his JD from Cleveland-Marshall, his MLS from Kent State, and a BA from Baldwin-Wallace.
Fordham University is proud to announce the arrival of its new Reference Librarian, Alison Shea. Alison is a graduate of Boston University and received her law and library degrees from Catholic University of America. Alison’s particular interest is in foreign, international and comparative law with a particular focus on European competition law.
Georgia State University College of Law Library welcomes their new reference librarian, Michael Davis.
On August 8, 2007, Steven R. Miller joined the Ruth Lilly Law Library of the Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis, as Reference Librarian. Steve is an experienced librarian, having previously been at Northwestern University’s Pritzker Legal Research Center in Chicago and at Ohio Northern University’s Taggart Law Library.
Joshua Phillips has joined the Loyola Los Angeles Law Library as a Reference Librarian. Joshua has a J.D. from Loyola Los Angeles and a MLIS from San Jose State University.
Kurt A. Meyer is a new Research Librarian at Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland School of Law. Kurt received his J.D. and his M.S. in Library and Information Science from University of Illinois, Champaign.
The University of New Mexico School of Law Library welcomes two new members to their faculty. Marcia Baker joined them as an Assistant Professor of Law Librarianship on August 1, 2007. In addition to reference, collection development, teaching and faculty research support, Marcia will supervise the student research pool. Before coming to UNM, Marcia worked as a reference librarian at the Wake Forest University School of Law where she also covered government documents and interlibrary loan. She has many years of experience in law firm, county and academic law libraries, and is currently working on a legal research lesson on agency decisions for CALI. Ernesto Longa joins the library faculty as an Assistant Professor of Law Librarianship on September 1, 2007. Ernesto is a recent graduate of the University of Washington’s Law MLIS Program; he will provide reference, collection development, teaching and faculty research support. In addition, Carol A. Parker, Law Library Director, was recently promoted to Associate Professor of Law.
The Law Library, Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona, has recently hired Sean Crane as a new Reference Librarian. Sean, who just completed his M.L.I.S from The University of Arizona, is an alumnus of the University of Colorado’s School of Law, and practiced in the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribal courts while employed with DNA-People’s Legal Services Inc. before starting his library education. In addition, the Law Library has four new library fellows starting this year: Lori Fossum, a University of North Dakota School of Law graduate, Katy Stein, a recent graduate of SMU Dedman School of Law, Andrew Cannon, who recently graduated from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at BYU, and Ryan Harrington, a Georgetown Law graduate started their studies this summer at The University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science. Jane Larrington, one of last year’s fellows, is leaving for a position as a reference librarian at the Law Library, Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego.
Scott Childs is now the Deputy Director of the Law Library at the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Scott came to UNC-CH in 2001 as Assistant Director for Public Services and has previous law library experience at LSU and Cornell. Carol Nicholson has a new title as Associate Director for Technical Services at UNC-CH. Carol was previously the Assistant Director for Technical Services and has been at the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library since 1982.
Karen Kalnins recently joined the Oklahoma City University Law Library as a Reference Librarian. Karen came to OCU from the Ward E. Barnes Library at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Karen received her J.D. from Saint Louis University and is currently completing her library degree.
Herb Cihak is the new Library Director at the Pepperdine University Law Library. Also new this summer are two new reference librarians - Gina McCoy and Jennifer Allison.
Suzanne Corriell is the new Reference and Research Services Librarian at the University of Richmond School of Law. In addition to handling reference and research requests, she will be teaching first-year legal research in the lawyering skills program. Suzanne holds her J.D. and M.L.I.S. degrees from the University of Iowa and her AB from Mount Holyoke College. Prior to joining the University of Richmond, she was the Circulation/Reference Librarian at the University of Iowa College of Law Library.
Gail Winson, Roger Williams University School of Law Library, was promoted as of July 1 to full professor. Her full title is now Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Professor of Law. Lucinda Harrison-Cox was also promoted as of July 1 to Associate Law Librarian.
The University of San Diego Legal Research Center welcomes two new reference librarians this fall. Brent Bernau is joining the reference team as the documents specialist. His previous stint with USD was as the associate director from 1988 - 1992. Before that, he worked at Golden Gate University in San Francisco as the documents librarian and then the public services librarian, and he returned to Golden Gate as director from 1992 - 1997. He has also worked at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego and the San Diego County Public Law Library. They are also pleased to welcome brand new law librarian Melissa Fung, a 2007 graduate of the University of Washington law librarianship program. Melissa’s specialty will be foreign and international law. She is a graduate of the University of California at San Diego, where she majored in biology, and she received her law degree from Lewis and Clark Law School, where she worked as a Westlaw student representative and at the library circulation desk. Before starting at USD, Melissa completed a summer internship at Boalt Hall.
Texas Tech University Law Library has had a couple of new additions to their librarian staff this summer. Sue Kelleher joined them on August 1 as the Assistant Director for Collection Services. She has previously been at Barry University Law Library in Orlando and at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. Maxine Asmah will be joining the library on September 4 as the new Head of Public Services. She has previously been at Texas Southern in Houston as well as having practiced for many years.