Dr. U.V. Jones, former Head Law Librarian at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, and co-founder in 1968 of the (then) Texas Technological College School of Law, where he was Head Law Librarian, Professor of Legal Research and Writing, passed away on May 17, 2008, in Lubbock, Texas. Dr. Jones attended Oklahoma Military Academy, graduated from the School of Law at The University of Oklahoma, and pursued graduate studies at O.U. and The University of Washington; his post-graduate degrees included the J.D. and a Masters in Legal Law Library Sciences. His legal career included service as County Attorney for Kiowa County, Oklahoma, as a corporate attorney for Anderson Pritchard, as a private lawyer, and then Dr. Jones turned to an academic career for the last 30 years. In later years, Professor Emeritus of the Texas Tech University School of Law, with which he was connected from its beginning, and in whose successes he took great pride and satisfaction.
Adeen Postar, Deputy Director of the Pence Law Library, American University’s Washington College of Law was recently granted tenure as an Associate Law Librarian.
Nancy Babb, Associate Librarian for Cataloging and Webmaster of the University at Buffalo Law Library, has been granted tenure. Congratulations, Nancy!
George Washington University’s Jacob Burns Law Library’s newsletter, A Legal Miscellanea: A Newsletter for the Friends of the Jacob Burns Law Library, is the 2008 recipient of the AALL/West-Thomson Excellence in Marketing Award, Best Newsletter category.
Radu D. Popa, Assistant Dean and Director of the Law Library at NYU School of Law, was recently distinguished in Romania with the prestigious Gib. I. Mihaescu Prize for all his writings in prose. He has also been included for the first time in Who’s Who in America, 2008.
Fred Shapiro, Associate Librarian for Collections and Access and Lecturer in Legal Research at Yale Law School, has won the following awards for his book, The Yale Book of Quotations (Yale University Press):
Mary Gallant is the new Acquisitions & Serials Control Librarian at California Western School of Law. Mary comes to California Western from the University of Florida where she was the Operations Librarian in Latin American Special Collections.
DR Jones (currently the Deputy Director at Case Western Reserve School of Law Ben C. Green Library) will, as of August, be the Associate Dean for Information Resources and Director of the Law Library and Assistant Professor of Law at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis.
Amy Taylor moved from Georgetown University where she was a reference librarian, to Duke University in the same position.
Pam Williams will retire June 30 as Assistant Director of Public Services at the Levin College of Law, University of Florida. Her position is being reorganized: Elizabeth Outler will serve as Head of Public Services and Edward Hart, Head of Technical Services. Christopher Vallandingham has been recommended for tenure and promotion to Associate Librarian. Cataloger Jean Bostwick will retire on December 30, 2008. She will be replaced by Susy Potter, currently Documents Librarian. The Legal Information Center will begin a search for a reference librarian.
Elana Olson and Megan Kendall O’Brien will join the Marquette Law Library in June as Instructional Services/Reference Librarians. Elana is a graduate of William and Mary Law School and practiced law with Foley & Lardner in Milwaukee before earning her MLS degree. Megan is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and practiced law in Illinois before attending library school.
Carole Hinchcliff is the new Law Library Manager at Melbourne Law School Library at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Carole was formerly Associate Director of The Ohio State University Moritz Law Library.
Anna Blaine is a new reference librarian who started her first position at New York Law School in January 2008.
Carol Bredemeyer has been promoted to Professor of Library Services at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University, effective July 1, 2008.
Jim McMasters has been named the Director of the Pritzker Legal Research Center, Northwestern University School of Law, and Eloise Vondruska is now the Associate Director of the Pritzker Legal Research Center.
In February 2008, Karen Shephard accepted a new position at the University of Pittsburgh Barco Law Library. Previously, she had spent nearly 10 years in the Technical Services Department as a Library Specialist, handling continuations and supervising approximately seven student staff members a year. In February, she became the Information Services Librarian, a new position in the library, encompassing some previous responsibilities (reference and liaison activities), while also fielding research requests from the dean’s office and assisting with the promotion of faculty scholarship.
Valerie Bowen has accepted a Research Librarian position at the Schoenecker Law Library at the University of St. Thomas.
Michael Slinger will be moving from Cleveland-Marshall to assume the position of Associate Dean for Information Services, Law Library Director and Professor of Law at Widener University School of Law effective this July.
Tracie Hall, Chapman Law Library, wrote an article in the May 2008 AALL Spectrum (Vol. 12:7) for the CRIV Sheet entitled Library Maintenance Agreement, Period 2, available at www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0805/pub_sp0805_CRIV.pdf.
James M. Donovan, Faculty and Access Services Librarian, and Carol A. Watson, Associate Director for Information Technology, University of Georgia Law Library, have published White Paper: Behind a Law School’s Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository. It can be found in the University of Georgia School of Law’s institutional repository at http://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/law_lib_artchop/15/ or at http://works.bepress.com/ir_research/24/.
Nathan Preuss and Katherine Marsh, University of Tennessee, co-authored Answering ‘Now What?’ How to Find and Interview for Your First Law Library Job, 12 AALL Spectrum 18 (Apr. 2008), available at www.aallnet.org/products/pub_sp0804/pub_sp0804_What.pdf.