Susan Nevelow Mart was awarded UC Hastings’ Traynor Scholarly Publication Award for 2009 - 2010. The award is given in recognition of “superlative scholarly accomplishments in the last year or so.”
Stacey L. Bowers, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, completed her PhD in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Denver and graduated in June 2010. Her dissertation was titled: “Library Anxiety of Law Students: A Study Utilizing the Multidimensional Library Anxiety Scale.”
Benjamin Keele, College of William and Mary, had his paper, “What if Law Journal Citations Included Digital Object Identifiers?: A Snapshot of Major Law Journals”, named a co-winner in the student division of the AALL/LexisNexis Call for Papers competition.
The Pence Law Library at American University, Washington College of Law is very pleased to announce that Christine Dulaney will join our Library Faculty September 1 as Associate Law Librarian for Technical and Metadata Services. Christine joins WCL after ten years with Congressional Research Service, first as the Head of the Library Technical Services Office and most recently as the Head of the Knowledge Asset Management Group. Prior to her CRS positions, Christine served in professional library positions at Catholic and George Washington Law School Libraries. Christine has a B.A. (magna cum laude) in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo; and M.L.S. from the University of Chicago; and a M.A. in English Language & Literature from University of Virginia.
Nancy L. Strohmeyer has been named the Interim Director & Associate Dean of Information Services at Barry University School of Law Library.
The University at Buffalo Law Library welcomes Theodora Belniak as the new Faculty Services/Reference Librarian. Theo received her JD and MLS from the University at Buffalo and a Masters in Culture and Colonialism at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Anne C. Matthewman is now the Chief Law Librarian, Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University.
John Cannan has joined our staff here at the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University as a Research and Instructional Services Librarian. John was formerly at the Law Library of Congress.
Shawn Friend joined Florida Coastal as our new Head of Reference in July. She has her J.D. and Masters in Library Science from Arizona State University. She has practiced law, taught at Daytona State College, and worked in county libraries. Also in July, Florida Coastal added two new Reference Librarian positions filled by Charles (CJ) Pipins and Jamie Marie Keller. CJ has his J.D. from New York Law School and received his Masters of Arts in Information Resources and Library Science from the University of Arizona with a specialty in Legal Information. CJ spent two years as a Law Library Fellow at the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library at the U. of A. College of Law. Jamie Marie earned her JD from Seattle University School of Law and her Master’s of Library and Information Science from University of Pittsburgh. On her way to law librarianship and Florida Coastal, Jamie Marie worked as a paralegal, a litigation assistant, and a competitive intelligence researcher.
Georgia State University College of Law Library, welcomed Austin M. Williams and Deborah Schander as their new Reference/Student Services Librarians. Austin received both his M.L.S. and J.D. from North Carolina Central University. Deborah most recently worked at the University of La Verne College of Law in southern California. Margaret (Meg) Butler also joined the library as Associate Director for Public Services in Fall 2010. Previously Butler worked as international law reference librarian and professor of legal research at New York Law School.
The Thurgood Marshall Law Library at the University of Maryland is happy to welcome two new librarians to its Library Faculty. Jill Smith has joined the library as Research and Instructional Technology Librarian. Jill received her M.L.S. from the University of Maryland in August, and she has a M.F.A. from Syracuse University and a J.D. from the University of Maine. Before returning to library school, she spent two years as a legal index editor at BNA and twelve years working in executive relationship management with the NASDAQ Stock Market and in corporate communications for NASDAQ-listed companies. Rachel Hradecky is the new Public Services and Outreach Librarian. She received her M.L.S. from Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, in May, and worked for the past two years in the library at Vedder, Price in Chicago. Rachel has her undergraduate degree from Southern Illinois University.
Yolonda P. Harrison, formerly the Reference/Electronic Resources Librarian at Seton Hall University’s Rodino Law Library, is now the Electronic Resources Librarian at North Carolina Central School of Law Library.
The Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina welcomes librarians Leslie Street and Timothy Gallina to our staff. Leslie began her position as Reference/Faculty Research Librarian on July 1. Tim begins his Reference Librarian position with the library on August 23rd after finishing his MLS work at the University of Washington. Also, Julie Kimbrough has moved to a new position, Electronic Resources Librarian, to work more closely on managing multiple aspects of acquiring, implementing and maintaining the library’s expanding electronic collection.
Linda M. Ryan, former Director of the Rittenberg Law Library of St. John’s University School of Law, in now Director of the Palmer School of Library and Information Science of Long Island University, Brookville, New York.
Benjamin Keele has started work as a reference librarian in the Wolf Law Library at the College of William and Mary.
Karen Westwood is the new Head of Reference at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN as of July 26, 2010. Formerly Head of Outreach Services at the Minnesota State Law Library, Karen received her J.D. with honors from Hamline University School of Law in 2007 and spent two years in private practice before returning to law librarianship.
Laura Justiss, SMU Dedman School of Law, has had her paper, A Survey of Electronic Research Alternatives to Lexis and Westlaw in Law Firms, SMU Dedman School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 62, posted to SSRN. You can find it at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1649471.
Kathryn C. Fitzhugh, Reference/Special Collections Librarian, and Melissa Serfass, Electronic Resources/Reference Librarian, of the UALR/Pulaski County Law Library, UALR Bowen School of Law, published a law review article, Using Legislative History in Arkansas to Determine legislative Intent: An Examination of Cases and Review of the Sources, 32 UALR Law Review 285 (2010).
Harry Caldwell and Jennifer Allison, both from Pepperdine Law School, co-wrote, Counting Victims and Multiplying Counts: Business Robbery, Faux Victims, and Draconian Punishment, 46 Idaho L. Rev. 647 (2010).
The St. Mary’s University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas, held its inaugural program - Institute on Chinese Law and Business – in Beijing, China on July 5-31, 2010. Robert Hu, Law Library Director and Professor of Law, served as a co-director of the China Institute, which drew its first class of twenty-two students from St. Mary’s law school and abroad. Hu also co-taught a course in the program, International Intellectual Property Law, focusing on Chinese IP law. The program was conducted successfully and received very positive reviews from the participants. A second year of the program will be held in May – June 2011.
Benjamin Keele, College of William and Mary, had an article, “Copyright Provisions in Law Journal Publication Agreements,” published in the Spring 2010 issue of Law Library Journal.