WestPac News

Vol. 35, No. 2 Spring 2012

Newsletter of the Western Pacific Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries

WHAT WAS I THINKING?

REFLECTIONS ON BEING A NEW DIRECTOR

AND WESTPAC PRESIDENT AT THE SAME TIME

I was thinking, “’President’ will look great on my tenure application.” I was thinking,

“Associate Director and Director can’t be all that different.” I was thinking it would be

a piece of cake to turn my class notes into that book I’m supposed to be writing. I was

thinking there are more than 24 hours in a day. I was thinking my alter-ego super-

hero’s special powers have something to do with superhuman organizational skills . I

was thinking my new office wouldn’t be complete without WestPac Willy. I was

thinking I work with really great people. And on that last one, I was right: in both my

library and in WestPac I am surrounded by terrific (and endlessly patient!) librarians

who have helped me muddle through it all with some retained sanity and a modicum of

success.

First, the staff at the William J. Jameson Law Library have to be commended for the

hard-work and sense of humor with which they have approached me deciding to

analyze every subscription in the library, implement new book ordering procedures,

start a library blog, and write an ambitious strategic plan, all this year.

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President’s Column

Stacey Gordon

Director of the Law Library

William J. Jameson Law Library

The University of Montana School of Law

Missoula, Montana

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President’s Column (continued from previous page)

For a five-person staff, we have accomplished a lot this year and I am proud to work

with them; they have made my initiation into law library directorship easy and enjoy-

able. I also want to take this opportunity to welcome both a new member of our staff

and a new WestPac member, Cynthia Condit. Cynthia has been with us this year on a

temporary contract and is now joining our staff permanently as a Reference & Faculty

Services Librarian, a newly designed position that she is helping to craft. See more in-

formation about Cynthia in her new member profile on page 21. Also in this issue of

WestPac News, I hope you enjoy Ed Wrzesien’s photographs from his travels in West-

Pac country. Ed works in our IT office, but whenever we let him out of the library he

travels around the West and brings back amazing photos, some of which I am happy to

share with you.

Then there are the people who stepped up to the plate in WestPac. When I discovered

way too late in the game that we had no Local Arrangements Chair for the 2012 meet-

ing in Utah, Bonnie Geldmacher agreed to step in. She and Lee Warthen have been

working on finding us a fabulous venue and we can now announce that the 2012 West-

Pac meeting will be held at the Salt Lake Marriott Downtown in Salt Lake City, UT,

October 18-20. Watch the WestPac website and westpac-l for more information.

And speaking of annual meetings, the Executive Board can

also announce that the 2013 meeting will be held in

Nevada. We will be veering away from our site rotation

schedule slightly for the next two years. When I asked

Dennis Sears to start looking for a Zone 4 (Washington

and Canada) location for 2013 he quickly realized that

with the 2013AALL meeting being held in Seattle,

Washington librarians already have their hands full with

conference planning for the year.

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Golden Gate Bridge—E.W.

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President’s Column (continued from previous page)

At Dennis’s suggestion the Executive Board decided to trade

Zone 1 (Alaska, Nevada & Northern California) and Zone 4

sites for the next two years, and Jennifer Gross immediately

volunteered to host the 2013 meeting in Nevada. Not only

that, but she has already recruited a Local Arrangements

Chair for the meeting: Jennifer Anderson from the Wiener-

Rogers Law Library at UNLV. Thank you Dennis, Jennifer

and Jennifer for a creative solution.

Kathy Faust and the Grants & Awards Committee have also been busy. This year

WestPac was awarded an AALL Chapter Registration Grant-- congratulations to

Laura Tretter from the State Law Library of Montana for winning that grant! The

Grants & Awards Committee is still accepting applications for a $750 travel grant for

the Boston AALL meeting. Application forms are available on the WestPac website

and are due May 28.

While Laura and the yet-to-be-selected winner of the travel grant are in Boston, they

will have the opportunity to attend the WestPac luncheon and membership meeting,

which will be held Sunday, July 22 at Noon in Sheraton-Hampton B. Watch the listserv

and website for more information regarding registration for the meeting. I hope to

have the chance to visit with many WestPac members at the luncheon.

Barbara Swatt Engstrom and the Nominations Committee have masterfully put to-

gether an excellent slate of candidates for this month’s WestPac elections for Secretary

and Vice-President/President Elect. See page 18-19 in this newsletter for candidate

statements & bios from Tim Kelly (candidate for Vice-President/President Elect) and

Michelle Finerty (candidate for Secretary). Elections will be held May 7-25. WestPac

members will be receiving instructions on how to participate in the online elections.

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President’s Column (continued from previous page)

And thank you for voting in previous elections. It is because of your votes that I have

such an excellent Executive Board to work with this year. Secretary, Ilona Tsutsui, and

Treasurer, Alana Carson-Wilson, are remarkably proficient in their respective jobs. I

have not once had to ask them to do anything because they have already done every-

thing before I knew it had to be done. Rob Truman must live by the philosophy of “no

question is too dumb” because he has suffered some real doozies from me, and always

answered them with wisdom and humor. Jennifer Gross, in true WestPac spirit, is now

looking ahead to being WestPac President and hosting the annual meeting at the same

time. Tim Kelly, Newsletter Editor extraordinaire, is both gracious and patient as I

know he is waiting for this column I promised him a whole week ago.

Finally, a big thank you to everybody who volunteered to serve on WestPac commit-

tees. As my grandmother used to say (she really did), “Many hands make light work.”

See page 15 for the updated list of WestPac commit-

tees. A special thank you to new WestPac members

who immediately volunteered to serve on committees,

including Geri Cepada, who I believe may be our first

member (at least in a while) from Guam. Raise your

hands—how many of you have visions of a WestPac

meeting on the beach in Guam?

One last note (I do that to my students too—I say

“finally” and they think class is over, but it’s not): if

you haven’t yet renewed your WestPac membership

for 2012, please do so right away. Only current mem-

bers will be able to vote in the May elections. Both

print and online renewal forms are available on the

WestPac website. To circle back around, I really am

surrounded by great people in WestPac and I hope you

will continue to be one of those people—renew now!

Lake McDonald -

Glacier National Park— E. W.

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Save the Date

WestPac Annual Meeting October 18-20, 2012

Salt Lake Marriott Downtown at City Creek

Watch the website and WestPac listserv for more details and meeting registration information.

Hotel rooms are $116/night + tax and can be reserved by calling (800) 228-9290 and identifying that you are with WestPac.

Questions? Contact Bonnie Geldmacher, Chair, Local Arrangements

Committee geldmacherb@law.byu.edu; (801) 422-3572

FREE BOSTON AALL REGISTRATION

We have a winner for the comped Boston registration! Her name is Laura Tretter and she is the Techni-

cal Services Librarian at the State Law Library of Montana. She joined the State Law Library’s staff a

little less than a year ago. Not only is she new to law libraries, having previously worked in public li-

braries, but she is also new to technical services. She’s looking forward to attending the conference and

extending her knowledge of law cataloging as well as meeting other law catalogers.

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WESTPAC News Editor

Timothy P. Kelly

Willamette University College of Law Library

tkelly@willamette.edu

Statements and opinions expressed in

WESTPACNews are those of the authors and do not

necessarily represent the official opinions of

WESTPAC or AALL.

Newsletter ©2011, Western Pacific Chapter,

American Association of Law Libraries.

Individual authors retain the copyright in their

original writings. Please contact the author(s)

directly for permission to reproduce material from

this publication.

WESTPAC Discussion List: to subscribe, send a mes-

2 0 1 2 A A L L B O S T O N

M E E T I N G G R A N T

The Grants & Awards Committee is accepting applications for a $750 travel grant for the Boston AALL meeting. Applications available on the WestPac website: http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/westpac/. Applicants must submit the application form along with two letters of recommendation to the Grants and Awards Committee by May 28. All WestPac grant recipients must agree to write an article for WestPac news about their trip and serve on a WestPac comittee of their choice.

The committee members for grants are:

Kathy Faust (faust@lclark.edu)

Suzanne Darais (daraiss@law.utah.edu)

Matthew Downs (mdowns@pacific.edu)

Tawnya Plumb (tplumb@uwyo.edu)

DJ Morrison Grant

Approved by WestPac Executive Board

July 2005

DJ Morrison was a much esteemed and loved

WestPac member who served as the Electronic

Services Librarian at the State of Oregon Law

Library before passing away in 2003. This

grant was established in her honor, to provide

financial assistance in attending WestPac's

annual meeting to those members pursuing

careers or responsibilities in the area of

electronic services. This grant carries a value of

up to $500.00, dependent on projected

conference expenses and financial

need.expressed by the successful applicant.

IT IS TIME TO RENEW YOUR

MEMBERSHIP!

The WestPac membership year runs from

January to December. Renewals for 2012

are required for eligibility to vote in the

upcoming chapter elections.

The Membership Page has links to the

PDF form, as well as a new ONLINE ver-

sion. (The online form is something of an

experiment, so please forgive any glitches

in the process.)

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NATURE AND CITY PHOTOS COMPLIMENTS OF

ED WRZESIEN

FROM MONTANA SCHOOL OF LAW

Enjoying the nature and city photos in this issue of WestPac News?

Stacey Gordon offers this biography of our own WestPac photographer, Ed Wrzesien.

Ed Wrzesien's job title at The University of Montana School of Law is Computer

Support Specialist but unofficially he is the library's artist-in-residence. He is a

talented musician with a degree in music who is part of Missoula's local music scene;

he has composed the scores for a horror movie and a video game. He fairly recently

discovered a talent for photography that goes well with his love for road-tripping and

camping on the beach. Whenever he has the opportunity he travels and takes as many

pictures as possible, much to the delight of his Facebook friends.

The photographs in this newsletter are from recent road-trips around Montana

and to other WestPac states including Idaho, Washington, Northern California and

Utah.

We are sending him to Nevada next month and given the opportunity, he would

love to photograph Hawai'i, Alaska, Wyoming and Western Canada as well for future

editions of WestPac News.

Near Wisdom MT—E. W. Montana—E.W.

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WESTPAC ANNUAL CONVENTION, 2012

“Bicycle Law”

Presenter: Ray Thomas, Esq., Swanson, Thomas & Coon

“Collaborations: Idaho's Law Learning Center and the Colorado Law Project“

Moderator: Stacey Gordon, University of Montana School of Law, William J. Jameson Law Library

Panel: Stacey Bowers, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Westminster Law Library

“Discovery Layers in the Law Library Catalog “

Presenter: Valeri Craigle, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law Library

Thanks to Robert Truman, who recorded the presentations, and Laurie Urquiaga, our webmaster, the recordings

of all of the programs from the 2012 conference are available at the WestPac website,

http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/westpac/2011portland/programs.asp

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“Hiring the Law Librarian of the Future”

Moderator: Ron Wheeler, University of San Francisco, Dorraine Zief Law Library

Panel: Kathy Carlson, Wyoming State Law Library Tina Ching, Seattle University School of Law Library Philippe Cloutier, Lane Powell, Seattle

WESTPAC ANNUAL CONVENTION, 2012

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“New Information Delivery Technologies”

Moderator: lona Tsutsui, University of Oregon Law Library

Panel: Tina Ching, Seattle University School of Law Library Meredith Farkas, Portland State University Richard Jost, University of Washington, Gallagher Law Library

WESTPAC ANNUAL CONVENTION, 2012

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“Program F: Foundations and Developments in Animal Law”

Moderator: Michele Finerty, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Library Panel: Pam Frasch, Lewis and Clark School of Law

WESTPAC ANNUAL CONVENTION, 2012

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WESTPAC Business Meeting

Portland, OR RiverPlace Hotel

Friday, October 28, 2011

Call to order – President Rob Truman called the meeting to order.

Approval of minutes – The minutes from July 26, 2011 meeting in Philadelphia were approved.

Welcoming Remarks – Rob Truman welcomed members and introduced the Executive Board.

Treasurer’s Report - Christine Timko gave the Treasurer’s report (attached). Alana Carson is the

new incoming Treasurer. WestPac has a healthy bank balance of $10,000 from membership dues

and registrations.

Committee Reports:

Membership – Rob Truman reported that WestPac stands at 154 current members.

Grants and Awards – Kathy Faust reported two travel grant winners: Georgia Briscoe and Kurt

Meyer from Gonzaga.

Nominations and Elections – Galeen Roe gave a report in July on the successful election of

Jennifer Gross and Treasurer Alana Carson.

Public Relations – Thank you to Buck Sterling for attending CONELL.

Local Arrangements – No report.

Education – Thank you to the committee. Received a combination of direct proposals and re-

quests from the committee. Next year, contact Jennifer Gross.

Newsletter – No report from Tim Kelly, but please submit articles for the newsletter.

Old Business – No old business.

New Business – No new business.

Announcements:

WestPac 2012 Annual Meeting will be held in Utah. Dennis

Sears is the chair.

Kelly Reynolds is collecting signatures for the Consumer

Advocacy Caucus.

Ron Wheeler reported that AALL elections are coming up.

Emails will be set November 1. Please review the slate of

candidates and vote.

Raffle gifts were donated by Lewis and Clark Law School.

Meeting Adjourned.

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WESTPAC TREASURER’S REPORT ACCOUNT DETAILS

ACCOUNTS ACTIVITIES FROM JULY 28, 2011 TO OCTOBER 23, 2011 Business Checking Balance as October 21, 2011 $21,258.01 I. Receipts

Dues $1960 WestPac 2011 registrations $ 8715 Total $10,675

II. Expenditures

III. Business Market Account

Balance as of 7/21/2011 $5,274.42

IV. CD Balance as of 7/21/11 $5535.91

Bank Check Card fee 25.00 3/28/11

Riverplace Hotel Deposit 1,000.00 2/14/11 Check 1008

AALL 2011 Conference Grant 750.00 7/21/11 Check 1009

Reimbursement for WestPac table supplies at AALL

24.90 9/15/11 Check 1010

Secretary of State WA renewal 10.00 9/15/11 Check 1011

AALL Insurance 127.00 10/17/11 Check 1012

Cancellation refund 135.00 10/19/11 Check 1013

Travel Grants to WestPac 1000.00 10/27/11 Check 1014

Check 1015

Oregon Screen Impressions - Port- 172.50 10/19/11 Check Card

Marriott – AALL Reception 2566.68 8/10/11 Check Card

Maggiano’s PA -AALL 771.18 7/28/11 Check Card

Expenses 10/12/10 to 10/24//11 $6,582.26

Washington—E. W.

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WESTPAC TREASURER’S REPORT ACCOUNT ACTIVITIES

FROM JANUARY 7, 2012 – APRIL 5, 2012

I. Business Checking Balance as of April 5, 2012 $11,880.44

Receipts

Membership Dues $1442.50

AALL Business Luncheon (2011) $75.00

Total Receipts this Quarter

$1,517.50

Expenditures

VOIDED CHECK W-9 form for Nevada State Court

1/30/2012 and 2/8/2012

Check #1019 and #1020

Total Expenditures this Quarter

$0.00

II. Business Market Account Balance as of April 5, 2012 $5,276.00

III. CD Balance as of April 5, 2012 $5,540.06

There has been very little activity this quarter, except for receivables for WestPac mem-

berships, which currently stand at $1565.00 for 105 memberships. Last year, there were

132 memberships, though dues were received throughout the year up until the annual

meeting in October.

Balances appear adequate to sustain upcoming expenditures for grants.

Submitted by:

Treasurer, WestPac

Alana Carson-Wilson

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt

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Archives

Jacque Jurkins, Chair

Constitution and Bylaws

Rob Truman, Chair Geri Cepeda Kent Mulinovich

Deb Person

Education

Jennifer Gross

Phil Cousineau

Michelle Finerty

Galen Fletcher Peter Howard

Judy Janes

Government Relations

David McFadden, Chair

Alaska: vacant

California: Kelly Brown

Hawaii: Jenny Fujinaka

Idaho: Kristin Ford

Montana: Susan Lupton

Nevada: Paula Doty

Oregon: Kelly Christianson Rey-nolds

Utah: Kory Staheli

Washington: Merri Hartse

Wyoming: Kathy Carlson

Grants

Kathy Faust, Chair

Ruth Funabiki

Tawnya Plumb

LedJa Cullen

Karen Selden

Local Arrangements 2012

Bonnie Geldmacher, Chair

Mari Cheni

Galen Fletcher

Michelle Hardgrave

Felicity Murphy

Lee Warthen

Local Arrangements 2013

Jennifer Gross, Chair

Membership

Lori Neilson, Chair

Jaye Barlous

Nominations

Barbara Swatt Engstrom, Chair

Tami Gierloff Holly Lakatos

Galeen Roe

Kim Ositis

Public Relations

Lisa Mecklenberg Jackson, Chair

Alison Perry

Buck Sterling

Site Selection

Dennis Sears, Chair

Mari Cheney

Kurt Meyer

Cynthia Condit

Newsletter and Listserv

Tim Kelly, Editor and Moderator

Webmaster

Laurie Urquiaga

WESTPAC COMMITTEES, 2012

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Boston Meeting Opportunities

Membership Meeting: The WestPac luncheon and

membership meeting will be held on Sunday, July

22 at Noon in Sheraton-Hampton B. Watch the

listserv and website for more information

regarding registration for the meeting.

Multnomah Falls, Oregon—E. W.

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Going to the AALL Annual Meeting in Boston? We Need You!

The American Association of Law Libraries is holding the 2013

Annual Meeting in Seattle, July 13-16. We need volunteers for our

booth in Boston to promote the Seattle meeting. If you are attending

the AALL Annual Meeting this year in Boston, consider helping us

staff the publicity booth. Even WestPac Willie is excited about

returning to Seattle! Please contact us if you are interested.

Seattle —- E. W.

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MICHELE FINERTY

CANDIDATE FOR WESTPAC SECRETARY

Michele Finerty

Assistant Director for Technical Services

Gordon D. Schaber Law Library

Pacific McGeorge School of Law

I am honored to be nominated for the position of Executive

Board Secretary. Currently I am serving in my 2nd year as a member

of the WestPac Education Committee. I have been a WestPac

member since 2010, and I was very impressed with the first meeting

I attended last year in Portland—the WestPac members, the

program, the hotel, how the meeting was organized—made for a

very interesting and informative experience.

I am the Assistant Director for Technical Services at the

Pacific McGeorge School of Law’s Gordon D. Schaber Law Library

here in Sacramento, CA, and I have been active in our profession at the national, regional

and special interest sections levels. I currently serve as chair of the AALL Grants

Committee, President of the AALL Animal Law Caucus, and am working with others

throughout California in support of SB1075, the bill to enact the Uniform Electronic Legal

Material Act in the state.

For the last three years, I have coordinated successful NOCALL Sunshine Week

Programs in Sacramento, so I know how important a viable and supportive chapter is to our

membership. For that reason, I look forward in playing a role in keeping WestPac a

strong chapter.

IMPORTANT: The election for the positions of WestPac Vice President/President-

Elect and WestPac Secretary will run May 7-25. Current members will receive an

email with a link to the ballot and candidate statements. There are no contested

elections, but your vote is still important. Thanks for your participation.

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TIM KELLY

CANDIDATE FOR WESTPAC

VICE-PRESIDENT/PRESIDENT ELECT

Tim Kelly

Dept. Head of Reference and Research

Willamette College of Law Library

Salem, OR

Thank you for my nomination for Vice-President, Presi-

dent Elect of WestPac. As many of you already know, I love

our regional chapter conventions and how much fun we have as

a group and how much we share and learn. I became known

infamously as Rowdy Azell from my first WestPac convention

in 1994 as part of a murder mystery. I have attached a photo

of the amazing cast for those who may have missed it.

I began my law library career as a law student library intern in cataloging and

reference at Washburn College of Law in 1984 in Topeka, Kansas. After my first law job

clerking for the Honorable Edward Larson of the Kansas Court of Appeals, I taught

paralegals in Kansas City. In 1990, I became Assistant Professor of the Law Library and

Reference Librarian at University of Nebraska-Lincoln Law Library.

In 1994, I came to Willamette College of Law Library in Salem, Oregon, where I am

Head of Reference. I became the WestPac Newsletter distributor in 1994 when we still

folded, stapled, and attached a stamp with address labels. In 2009, I became Editor of the

Westpac Newsletter, doing my best to highlight our members for all of their projects and

hard work. In addition, I have managed the WestPac listserv since its inception in 1998,

adding members, monitoring communications and fixing any technical glitches.

I volunteered as Diversity Conference Coordinator and Diversity Group Leader for

the AALL Annual Convention in 1995. I became an

Editor for The Daily Rose, the AALL Portland Con-

vention newspaper in 2008, doing interviews and col-

lecting stories from the executive board, members and

speakers. As part of a unique librarian exchange

program, I worked at reference for one semester at the

Yale Law School Goldman Library in 1998.

As an officer of WestPac, I hope to further the

goals of keeping our regional chapter vibrant and ef-

fective. I especially look forward to greeting new

members.

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NEWS FROM AROUND WESTPAC

WASHINGTON —- Cheryl Newberg and Peggy Jarrett of Marion Gould Gallagher Law Library recently published

Washington State Documents: A Bibliography of Legal and Law-Related Sources. It is number 3-93 in

the AALL Occasional Papers series, published by Hein, and is part of the AALL Government Docu-

ments Special Interest Section State Documents Bibliography Series. The previous edition, which they

also compiled, was published in 1997.

For National Library Week, the Gallagher Law Library conducted a Peepshow contest, inviting

members of the University of Washington School of Law community to enter the contest with pictures

of Peeps in three categories: Legal Peeple, Library Peeple, and Peeple’s Choice. The entries and winners

are found on their blog, http://gallagherlawlibrary.blogspot.com/search/label/peeps.

OREGON —-

Dick Breen, Director of the Willamette College of Law Library, retires this

August. In a personal comment, he said; “It’s been a pleasure to be associated

with our students, staff and faculty for these past 36 years.”

UTAH —-- The University of Utah Quinney Law Library has hired Felicity Murphy as a

Reference/Instruction librarian. Felicity was a Spring 2011 law school graduate from the University of

Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law. Her responsibilities will include providing reference services and

participating in teaching Basic Legal Research and Advanced Legal Research as well as being in charge

of faculty support services.

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NEWS FROM AROUND WESTPAC

WYOMING —–

Kathy Carlson is now the Legal Review Administrator in the Wyoming Attorney General's Of-

fice. “I review all work product before it is submitted--Briefs, A.G. Opinions, and all other filings. I

am developing a style manual and will be doing educational programs to help improve the writing qual-

ity within the office.”

MONTANA ——

The University of Montana School of Law welcomes Cynthia Condit to our library staff. Cynthia

has been at Montana this year as temporary Reference Librarian , and will soon be joining the staff

permanently as the new Reference and Faculty Services Librarian. She teaches Advanced Legal Re-

search, assists with guest Lectures, and provides reference service. Cynthia received both her bache-

lor’s and law degree from the University of Arizona. After graduating from law school, she accepted a

Law Librarian Fellowship position at the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library at the University of Ari-

zona. During this time she obtained her Maters in Information Resources and Library Science from the

University of Arizona. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, Special Librar-

ies Association, and is also a new member of WestPac.

WANTED: NEW WESTPAC NEWSLETTER EDITOR

With this issue of WestPac News, Tim is resigning as Editor after 4 years. Note, however, that he is the

candidate for VP/President-Elect, so he isn't going far and will still be lending his considerable time,

creativity and sense of humor to WestPac. With this news from Tim, the Executive Board will be look-

ing for a newsletter editor; start thinking about whether you might be interested. — Stacey Gordon

Spring, 2012 ❖ WESTPAC News ❖ Page 22

Cape Disappointment Lighthouse - Illwaco, Washington — E. W.

Columbia River Estuary — E. W.

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Near Jerry Johnson Hot Spring - Idaho - New Years Day 2012 — E. W.

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Near Havre MT — E. W.

Near Whitehall MT — E. W.

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Many Glacier —- E. W.

Big Hole Battlefield —- E. W. Near Bannack Ghost Town — E. W.