At the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting, Northeastern Law Library Director Sarah Hooke Lee received the Law Library Journal Article of the Year award for her article Preserving Our Heritage: Protecting Law Library Core Missions through Updated Library Quality Assessment Standards, 100 Law Library Journal 9 (2008).
Carl Yirka of Vermont Law School received the AALL Spectrum Article of the Year Award at the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting for his article, The Yirka Question and Yirka’s Answer: What Should Law Libraries Stop Doing in Order to Address Higher Priority Initiatives?, published in the July 2008 issue of the AALL Spectrum.
Northeastern Law Library Associate Director Sue Drisko Zago became President of the Law Librarians of New England chapter at the AALL national meeting.
Anthony Miller is the new Reference/Electronic Services Librarian at Florida A&M Law School. Prior to joining FAMU College of Law, Anthony worked as a webmaster for the state of Florida’s Geological Survey in Tallahassee, where he maintained and built various sites for the Department of Environmental Protection. He has been a member of STARS (Students & Technology in Academia, Research & Service) Alliance since its inception. He received a B.S. in information Technology from the Florida State University and an M.L.I.S in Library and Information Studies. His areas of research include computer science, information technology, and legal research.
Karen Gingold has been hired as a Reference Librarian at Florida A&M Law School. Before joining FAMU College of Law, Karen Gingold served as the Account Manager for a national financial consulting company for eight years. As such, she assisted employers in the implementation of qualified retirement plans and educated employees regarding retirement benefits. Karen received a J.D. from Barry University, a M.L.S. from the University of South Florida, and a B.A. in Legal Studies from the University of Central Florida. Her areas of interest include immigration law, labor law, and health law.
Mary Kate Hunter will be joining the staff of The George Washington University Law Library in September 2009 as a reference librarian.
Lee Peoples has been appointed Director of the Oklahoma City University Law Library effective July 2010.
Barbara G. Traub is now serving as Interim Director of the Rittenberg Law Library at St. John’s University School of Law, as well as continuing her duties as Head of Reference and Instructional Services.
Stacy Fowler was promoted to the position of Technical Services Librarian at St Mary’s School of Law, effective August 1, 2009. In her new role, Stacy will be responsible for conducting, coordinating, and supervising technical services in the Law Library, including serials control, acquisitions, interlibrary loan, filing, shelving, processing, government documents, binding, and mail service. Stacy was the Acquisitions-Serials Supervisor at St. Mary’s Law Library since 2006.
Charles F. Finger has been hired as the Associate Director at St. Mary’s Law Library, starting September 1. He had been Collection Development Librarian and Research Attorney at Cornell University Law Library since 2001. As Associate Director, he will assist the Director manage the library operations and personnel, among other duties.
Yolonda P. Harrison is the new Electronic Resources/Reference Librarian at Seton Hall University School of Law’s Peter W. Rodino Jr. Law Library. She recently received a Master of Library Science and Juris Doctor summa cum laude from North Carolina Central University’s Dual-Degree Program. As an undergraduate, Ms. Harrison earned two bachelor degrees, one in Communication Studies and the other in Afro-American Studies, both from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In June 2009, Laura Fargo joined the Dee J. Kelly Law Library of Texas Wesleyan School of Law as the Library’s new Public Services Librarian. Laura received a B.S. in Telecommunication from University of Florida and graduated in May from a joint J.D./M.L.S. program at Florida State University. She was an intern at the FSU College of Law Research Center from August 2008 - May 2009.
Michelle Rigual has been appointed Director of the Law Library and Associate Professor of Law at Texas Wesleyan School of Law, effective July 31, 2009. Michelle was previously the Associate Director and Associate Professor of Law Librarianship at the University of New Mexico School of Law Library.
This summer, after 5 years at Cornell Law Library, Julie M. Jones moved to Connecticut to begin her new job as Associate Director of Library Services at the UConn Law School Library.
Washington University Law Library is pleased to announce that after serving for seven years as Access Services/Government Documents Librarian and Lecturer in Law, Tove Kloving is assuming new duties, as she becomes our Foreign, Comparative and International Law Librarian and Lecturer in Law.
Washington University Law Library welcomes Judy Stark, as the new Access Services/Government Documents Librarian and Lecturer in Law. Judy previously worked for several years as electronic services and research librarian, solo librarian, and office administrator at Jenkens & Gilchrist and at Mintz Levin in Chicago, Dallas, and Washington, D.C.
Oklahoma City University’s Lee Peoples has written an article, The Citation of Wikipedia in Judicial Opinions, to be published in vol. 12 of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology (2009).
Kathryn C. Fitzhugh, Reference/Special Collections Librarian at the University of Arkansas - Little Rock Law Library published her first encyclopedia article, Moses Aaron Clark, 1834?-1924, in the online version of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas History and Culture, www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net.