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September 2009 

Veralrose Hall-Hylton (MSLS 2004) was promoted to Senior Information Services Analyst in the Research Information Center at AARP in March 2009.  She is also the Liaison to the Knowledge Management Group since 2008.
 
Edward M. "Ted" McClure (MSLS 2003) isnow the Faculty Services Law Librarian at Phoenix School of Law, Phoenix, Arizona.
 
Marian Taliaferro (MSLS 2000) is now Chair of the Health Association Libraries section of the Medical Library Association (MLA).
 
Ruth Dukelow (MSLS 1979) has been named 2009 Librarian of the Year by the Michigan Library Association.  See:
http://mlcnet.org/cms/sitem.cfm/news__announcements/mla_honors_dukelow/

July 2009

Barry Trott (MSLS 1997) has been elected Vice-President/President-Elect of the American Library Association's Reference and User Services Association (RUSA).

Bruce Rosenstein (MSLS 1987) authored a new book, Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life, published August 1 by Berrett-Koehler. Learn more about the book, and see a free excerpt, at http://www.brucerosenstein.com/book.html

Bruce also wrote a guest post for the Government Info Pro blog, http://www.governmentinfopro.com/federal_info_pro/2009/07/how-a-new-businessselfdevelopment-book-had-its-genesis-in-a-library-school-class.html about how the seeds of the book were planted when Bruce was a CUA SLIS student in 1986.

Louis Abramovitz (MSLS 2005) recently authored an article for legal marketing professionals about Web productivity tools. "Information Wants to Be Free (Well, Sort of...)" was published in the July 2009 issue of Strategies: The Journal of Legal Marketing. (Available at: http://www.legalmarketing.org)

Nancy Matthes (MSLS 1999) earned a Certified Association Executive (CAE) credential during Summer 2009 from the The American Society of Association Executives.  More than 3,500 association professionals currently hold the CAE credential, the highest professional credential in the association industry. To earn it, applicants must have 75 hours of professional development, pass a stringent examination, and pledge to uphold a code of ethics. To maintain it, individuals are required to continue  their professional development.

May 2009
Megan Gorski Albritton (M.L.S. 2008) is now a processing archivist for the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Rosalind S. Young (M.S.L.S. 1990) is working as an Information Specialist at Otsuka America Pharmaceutical Inc in Rockville, MD.
 

April 2009
Nancy Seeger (M.S.L.S. 1985) is now working as a cataloger and archivist in the Music Division at the Library of Congress.

Larry Roeder (M.S.L.S. 1977) is the U.N. Affairs Director for the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA), and recently co-chaired an Ambassador's Briefing for the Group of 77 nations at the U.N. in New York. It focused on the need to protect livestock in order to protect the ability of poor people to have sustainable development. In addition, he is Editor in Chief of Climatecaucus.net, a network of NGOs interested in preventing further damage to climate. They recently presented a report to the Secretary General of the United Nations. Larry's website is available at: www.artbyroeder.com

March 2009
In December 2008, James King (M.S.L.S. 2002) was elected President-Elect of the Washington, D.C. Chapter of the Special Libraries Association. In March 2009, he accepted a position as the Information Architect at the National Institutes of Health Library. In March, he and his wife Carla were also selected to domestically adopt a 6 month old girl.

Jessica Perkins Storrs (M.S.L.S. 1996) is a Research Librarian at the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees in Washington, D.C.

Dave Davis (M.S.L.S. 1982) is completing his 15th year working as researcher and analyst at the Copyright Clearance Center in Danvers, Massachusetts.

January 2009
Charlotte Bonham (M.S.L.S. 2005) is now the reference/catalog librarian at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Benjamin T. Almoite (M.S.L.S. 2008) is now the Reference Librarian at Keller and Heckman LLP in Washington, DC.

Tim Edwards (M.S.L.S. 1990), Commad Librarian, Army Materiel Command, is now posted at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, as part of the HQ AMC-Forward group. HQ AMC is moving from Ft. Belvoir, VA to Redstone Arsenal, AL, as part of the BRAC (Base Realignment and Closure) process. His career focus has been on virtual library systems, Sharepoint Portal development, and consortia purchasing involving 11 Scientific and Technical Libraries serving appoximately 10,000 Army Engineers and Scientists and an equal number of contractors worldwide.

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