Sara Lowe, Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian at the Drake University Law Library, received a Community Betterment Grant from Prairie Meadows for the storage and exhibition of the recently established Drake Law School Archives.
The staff and administration of MacMillan Law Library are pleased to announce the launch of its new website. If you go to http://library.law.emory.edu/, you will see the new site. The new website is a much more attractive, dynamic, and functionally streamlined experience for visitors to the Emory Law Library’s site.
Susan Nevelow Mart, UC Hastings College of Law, received an AALL Wolters Kluwer Law & Business Grant to continue her research On the Effects of Automation on Digest and Citator Results in Westlaw and Lexis. This will allow her to hire law students to help with the research so she can increase the number of cases compared from ten to one hundred.
California Western School of Law is pleased to announce that Ian Kipnes is joining the reference staff. Ian will also have significant acquisitions responsibilities in his new position. Ian has a JD from California Western School of Law and recently received his MLIS from Drexel.
Deborah McGovern is the new Emerging Technology Librarian at Charleston School of Law. She started work in mid-November. Prior to accepting the job at Charleston, she was the Emerging Technology Librarian at Nova Southeastern University’s Shepard Broad Law Center. Deborah has a JD from University of Florida and an MLIS from Florida State University.
Melissa Strickland is the new Reference and Instructional Services Librarian at Charleston School of Law, her first Librarian position. She began working in December after receiving her MLS from the University of North Texas this past August. Her JD is from the University of Houston and she practiced law in Texas for several years.
Jessica de Perio Wittman has joined the staff of the Louis L. Biro Law Library at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago as Distance Education Librarian. Wittman came from the University of Florida where she taught an Advanced Legal Research distance learning class. Wittman will work with John Marshall faculty as they begin to offer an eClass Distance Education Program. This semester, John Marshall has employee benefits, intellectual property, and information technology and privacy law on-line classes.
Linda M. Ryan, former Director of the Rittenberg Law Library of St. John’s University, New York, became Associate Dean for Administration and Associate Professor of Health Informatics for the School of Health Related Professions, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in September 2009.
Susan Goldner, University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Library, is now the Executive Director of the Mid-America Law Library Consortium (MALLCO). She also serves as the library Information Systems Librarian. The library has a new position, Catalog/Reference Librarian, which Michele Thomas, a recent law school and library school graduate, has filled.
Jocelyn Kennedy was the Faculty Services Librarian in the Reference Department but received a promotion to be the Head of Circulation in the University of Michigan Law Library, effective November 1, 2009. Jocelyn will be continuing to work as a reference librarian. This promotion reflects Jocelyn’s superlative work and professionalism.
In November 2009, Ann Hemmens joined the University of New Mexico Law Library as Assistant Director for Public Services and Associate Professor of Law Librarianship. Previously, Ann was a Reference Librarian and the Assistant Librarian for Reference Services at the University of Washington Gallagher Law Library.
The Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona, has three new library fellows: Cynthia Condit, a graduate of the Rogers College of Law; Steven Ellis, a graduate from the University of San Diego School of Law; and Thomas J. Striepe, a graduate from Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, recently started their studies at The University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science. Lee Van Duzer, one of last year’s fellows, has left for a position as the Branch Librarian at the U.S. Federal Court in San Jose, California.
Karen Skinner has joined the University of Southern California (USC) Gould School of Law Library as Law Librarian – Research Services. Last May, Karen received her Master of Library Science from Indiana University. Her other degrees include a B.A. in Criminology and International Studies from The Ohio State University, a J.D. from Capital University, and a Master of Science in Sports Management from University of Massachusetts. While working on her M.L.S., Karen worked in the public services department at the Indiana University Law Library. From 2001-2005, Karen worked as a litigation associate for Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP in Columbus, OH.
The book, Life in the Law: Service & Integrity (BYU Press, 2009), was recently co-edited by Galen L. Fletcher, Faculty Services Librarian at the Howard W. Hunter Law Library at Brigham Young University. The book is a collection of talks and essays on being an ethical legal professional.
Sara Lowe, Assistant Professor and Reference Librarian at the Drake University Law Library, recently had an article accepted for publication by College & Undergraduate Libraries. The article, co-authored with Sean Stone, Pharmacy/Science Librarian at Drake University Cowles Library, is entitled “Testing Lesniaski’s Revised Brief Test” and will be published Spring 2010.
Joel Fishman, Assistant Director for Lawyer Services, Duquesne University Center for Legal Information/Allegheny County Law Library, published the following books and articles:
Mark Podvia, from The Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, co-authored The Citizen’s Guide to a Modern Constitutional Convention, published by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention Commission. Dr. Kerry Moyer of the Civic Research Alliance was his co-author.
Robert H. Hu, St. Mary’s University School of Law, recently published Protecting Intellectual Property in China: A Selective Bibliography and Resource for Research, 101 Law Library Journal 485 (2009).
Fred Shapiro’s book, The Yale Book of Quotations, was the subject of an interview on National Public Radio “All Things Considered,” among other media coverage. He also published an article on movie quotations in The Yale Book of Quotations in the New York Times Magazine, Jan. 17, 2010.
Ann Puckett, Alexander Campbell King Law Library University of Georgia, will be retiring after more than 30 years in law libraries. Her last day will be June 30, 2010. Her accomplishments in libraries and elsewhere will be remembered and appreciated. More details are located in her profile at www.lawsch.uga.edu/profile/e-ann-puckett.
Ms. Sandy Keller, Evening/Weekend Reference Librarian for the University of Iowa Law Library, retired after nearly 30 years of service to the institution. All of the staff trust that the world will be a little bit greener, since Sandy will have more time to devote to her favorite hobby! We wish her all the best.