New Positions and Promotions
The Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona, has five new library fellows. Brad Nichols, a graduate from the University of New Mexico School of Law; Daneal Grotenhouse, a graduate of the University of Oregon School of Law; David DeCabooter, a graduate of the James E. Rogers College of Law, The University of Arizona; Cindy Hirsch, a graduate of Boston University School of Law; and Eric Prosser, a graduate of the University of San Diego School of Law, recently started their studies at The University of Arizona’s School of Information Resources and Library Science. Alexandra Lee Delgado, one of last year’s fellows, has recently left for a position as the E-Resources Librarian, Robert Crown Library, Stanford Law School.
Effective February 14, Karen Beck will be the new Manager of Historical and Special Collections at the Harvard Law Library. She has spent the past 14.5 years at the Boston College Law Library, most recently as Curator of Rare Books / Collection Development Librarian.
Charlene Cain has recently joined the Howard Law Library reference department. She has twenty years of experience as a law librarian, having begun her career at the Louisiana State University Law School Library as government documents librarian and progressing to the position of Head of Access Services. After moving to the D.C. area she worked part-time at American University's law library before coming to the Howard University Law Library in her present full-time position of reference librarian. She is active in AALL, having served as chair of the Government Relations Committee and co-chair of the Annual Meeting Local Advisory Committee (New Orleans conference), and she is currently chair of AALL's Placement Committee. She has also served on the Depository Library Council to the Public Printer and as president of the Louisiana Library Association. She is a member of SEAALL, LLSDC, and VALL.
Scott Craft, the Law Library's newest Reference Librarian, joined the library staff as of November 2010. Scott earned his Master of Science in Library Services from Clark Atlanta University and his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Albany State University. Before coming to Howard, Scott was the Campus Research Librarian for the Business and Technology library at DeVry Institute in Atlanta, GA. He began his professional librarian career as the Electronic Resources Librarian at the University System of Georgia Darton College Library in Albany, GA. At Howard, Scott will primarily be responsible for answering reference questions and teaching legal research resources.
Martin Cerjan is the new Associate Dean for Library and Technology Services and Associate Professor of Legal Research at St. John’s University School of Law. He began his new position January 3, 2011. For the past eight years, Martin has been Assistant Dean, Law Library Director, and Assistant Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School. Before joining the Vanderbilt law faculty, he was deputy director of the Garbrecht Law Library at the University of Maine School of Law. He also has held law librarian positions at the University of Washington and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
James M. Donovan is the new Director of the Evans Law Library at the University of Kentucky, and began his duties on December 1. He succeeds Helane Davis, who is now the Director at Albany Law Library. Dr. Donovan was previously Faculty and Access Services Librarian at the University of Georgia Law Library.
In September, Beau Steenken became the newest reference librarian at the University of Kentucky Evans Law Library. Beau has his JD and M.S.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin, an MA in History from Texas State University-San Marcos, and an L.L.M. in Public International Law from the University of Nottingham. Beau’s official title is Instructional Services Librarian.
Amy Osborne, formerly Head of Public Services at the University of Kentucky Law Library, began a new position in January 2011 as Branch Manager at the Boone County Public Library in Northern Kentucky. Ms. Osborne was recently the president of SEAALL.
Michael Roffer is now the Associate Librarian for Reader Services and Professor of Legal Research at New York Law School’s Mendik Library. Michael was previously the Government Resources/Reference Librarian and Professor of Legal Research at the Law School.
Radu D. Popa, Assistant Dean and Director of the Law Library at the NYU School of Law has been appointed Lecturer in Law.
Gail Winson, Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Professor of Law at Roger Williams University School of Law, has retired after serving for over seventeen years as the School of Law’s founding law librarian. During the search for her successor, Lucinda Harrison-Cox will serve as Interim Director of the Law Library and Stephanie Edwards will serve as Interim Associate Law Librarian. Nicole Dyszlewski has also joined the library staff as a Reference Librarian to assist during the transition period.
Jane Larrington, formerly of Thomas Jefferson School of Law, is now a reference librarian at the University of San Diego Legal Research Center.
In order to continue to provide the highest level of service possible and to encourage the creation of innovative programming, the Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas School of Law has reorganized its public services department.
In addition, we have two University of Texas School of Information students working as Tarlton Fellows. The Tarlton Fellowship supports law school graduates who are pursuing graduate degrees in information science. Jason Zarin, our senior Tarlton Fellow, joined us in the Fall of 2009. Jason received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Tufts, a master’s degree in economics from UCLA, a J.D. from USC and an LLM in taxation from Georgetown. He worked for many years in the Department of Justice’s Tax Division before joining O’Melveny & Myers’ D.C. office. Most recently, he worked in Baker Botts’ Houston office. Stephen Wolfson is our newest Tarlton Fellow and joined us in the Fall of 2010. He has both his J.D. and his bachelor’s degree (in political science) from The Ohio State University.
Publications/Presentations
Joel Fishman, Asst. Director for Lawyer Services, Duquesne University Center for Legal Information/Allegheny County Law Library, has published the following books and articles:
He also gave two presentations: Legal Literature and Law Books in Tudor England at the University of Pittsburgh Law School in Sept. 2010 and Pennsylvania Constitutional Law and History at the Pittsburgh Paralegal Association in August 2010.
Laura Justice, SMU Dedman School of Law, has an article, A Survey of Electronic Research Alternatives to Lexis and Westlaw in Law Firms, that will be published in the Winter 2011 issue of Law Library Journal.
Amanda Runyon, University of Texas, and Leslie Street, University of North Carolina, published an article last year. Finding the Middle Ground in Collection Development: How Academic Law Libraries Can Shape Their Collections in Response to the Call for More Practice-Oriented Legal Education, 102 Law Library Journal 399 (2010) (with Leslie A. Street). <http://www.aallnet.org/products/pub_llj_v102n03/2010-23.pdf>