Aletha L. Honsowitz, Head of Public Services, Thomas M. Cooley Law School Library (GR Campus), received the Thomas M. Cooley Alumni Distinguished Service Award, October 2008. Recipients of this award are graduates who have provided exemplary service in furtherance of the mission of the Alumni Association. She also received the Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Center for Ethics, Service and Professionalism Award for outstanding community service, December 2008. Each year Cooley’s Center for Ethics, Service, and Professionalism presents a Great Deeds Award to a faculty or staff member who has exhibited an outstanding dedication to community service throughout the year.
Ryan Saltz, Circulation Librarian at Florida Coastal School of Law was selected to attend the AALL Leadership Academy in October of 2008. He will be speaking about his experience and what he learned during the Take the Lead: Journey to Authentic Leadership Webinar sponsored by AALL on January 29, 2009.
Colleen Martinez Skinner, Reference Librarian at Florida Coastal School of Law was awarded the SEAALL Student Scholarship. The scholarship is awarded to the student whom has indicated a genuine interest in the profession of law librarianship and is likely to pursue a career in law librarianship. Colleen is currently pursuing her MLS online at Florida State University.
The Boston University Pappas Law Library welcomed two new librarians to the reference department. Karina Condra joined the staff in fall 2008 as the new Reference & International Law Librarian. Jennifer Duperon will join the staff in January 2009 as the new Reference & Electronic Services Librarian. Jennifer and Karina replace former reference librarians Stefanie Weigmann and Russell Sweet, who are now Head of Reference Services and Assistant Director for Library Systems & Collection Services, respectively.
Ken Hirsh has been appointed Director of the Law Library and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, effective February 1, 2009. Ken was Director of Computing Services at the Duke University School of Law from 1993 - 2008.
Peter J. Egler is serving as the interim director of the Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law Library until July. In July, Mark Bernstein will begin as the new director.
Two reference librarians have recently joined the staff at Harvard Law School Library. Lisa Junghahn is the Library’s new Business and Corporate Law Specialist. This is her first professional position; while in library school, she worked part time at both Drexel Law Library and the University of Pennsylvania’s Biddle Law Library. Meg Kribble is the Library’s new Reference Librarian/Outreach and Community Relations. Meg was formerly the Emerging Technologies Librarian at Nova Southeastern University Law Library.
Bill Ketchum joined the staff of University of La Verne College of Law in Ontario, California in March 2008 as a reference librarian. He came to academia from the Law Library for San Bernardino County (California).
As of 02/01/09 Dragomir Cosanici is the new Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Services and Law Library Director at the Louisiana State University Law Center.
The University of Miami Law Library welcomes Jootaek Lee, who became the Reference/Internal Instructional Services Librarian in December. He recently received his M.L.S. from Florida State University. Jootaek also received his J.D. from Florida State, and a B.A. and LL.M. from Korea University.
Carol A. Parker was recently awarded the honorary title of Keleher Professor of Law (2008 - 2010) in recognition of excellence in scholarship, teaching and service on behalf of the University of New Mexico School of Law.
Texas Tech University Law Library recently welcomed a new law librarian. Ms. Fang Wang has joined the library as the Digital Information Services Librarian, effective Monday, January 5. Most recently she was with the Florida State University (FSU) as a Teaching Assistant and a doctoral student in Information Studies. While at FSU, Ms. Wang also served as a Research Assistant and a Digitization Project Assistant. She has also interned for the National Library of China as a Librarian, for the China Culture Daily as an Editor, and for FSU in the Special Collections. As an undergraduate, Ms. Wang earned two bachelor degrees, Management in Library Science and the other in Journalism, both from Wuhan University (Wuhan, China). She received her Master of Science in Information Studies in 2006 from FSU.
Lisa A. Goodman was promoted to Senior Public Services Librarian at the Dee J. Kelly Law Library at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law. She previously held the position of Public Services Librarian.
The Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona, has two new library fellows: Charles (CJ) Pipins, a New York Law School graduate, and Alexandra Lee Delgado, a graduate of the Rogers College of Law, recently started their studies at The University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science. Katy Stein, one of last year’s fellows, has left for a position as a faculty services librarian at the Sarita Kenedy East Law Library, St. Mary’s University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas.
Carissa J. Vogel is the newest reference librarian at Columbia University’s Arthur W. Diamond Law Library. She received her MLIS from the University of Washington in August 2008 and previously worked as an intern at the Gallagher Law Library.
Julie Graves Krishnaswami, Associate Law Library Professor & Faculty Services Librarian at CUNY School of Law, recently published her first article: Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: A Selected Annotated Bibliography, 10 Cath. U. Law Rev. 1099 (2008).
Joel Fishman, Asst. Director for Lawyer Services, Duquesne U. Center for Legal Information/Allegheny County Law Library has published the following works:
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