UNLV has an opening for a qualified law librarian as some people are moving on.

The Wiener-Rogers Law Library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is currently recruiting for a Head of Electronic and Information Services. The Head of Electronic and Information Services will provide service-oriented electronic research leadership and take the lead in developing and implementing electronic reference, circulation, and web-based service initiatives important to the Law Library and Law School.

Qualifications include: Master’s degree in library science from an ALA-accredited institution a JD from an ABA-accredited institution preferred and a minimum of 2 years of law library experience. Requires extensive knowledge of technology-based resources. Salary is competitive and contingent on labor market. Position is contingent upon funding.

Application details may be obtained by visiting http://hr.unlv.edu/Employment_Svcs. Review of applications will begin immediately. EEO/AA Employer. For assistance with UNLV’s online applicant portal, contact bob Sitts at (702) 895-1655 or bob.sitts@unlv.edu.

During this most recent break from posting, there have been some major developments, not least of which is my decision to accept the position of Reference Librarian for Electronic Services at Yale Law School. I start there on August 1st.

Though we will no longer be working together at UNLV, Josh and I will continue to work together here on Library Laws. The only change will be my affiliation information in the author box at the top of the site's sidebar.

Thanks to everyone at UNLV for three years of growth and collaboration, and thanks to everyone at Yale for a great opportunity for my future.

UNLV president David Ashley today announced that Professor John White of LSU will be the next dean of the William S. Boyd School of Law. The announcement is below.

I am pleased to formally announce the appointment of John Valery White as Dean of the Boyd School of Law, effective July 1, 2007.

John is a dynamic and accomplished legal scholar and a superb leader, who comes to UNLV from Louisiana State University. He has been a faculty member of the Paul M. Herbert Law Center since 1992 and holds the J. Dawson Gasquet Memorial Professorship. He has also served as a distinguished visiting professor at the University of Insubria in Como, Italy, and prior to teaching law, he served as the Orville Schell Fellow at Human Rights Watch in New York City. John received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991, where he was a notes and topics editor for the Yale Law Journal and participated in the Jerome N. Frank Legal Service Organization.

I am delighted John will be joining the team at the Boyd School of Law, and look forward to working with him to advance the school as it enters its second decade. I very much appreciate the work of the search committee and extend my sincere thanks to everyone who contributed to the search process.

Please join me in welcoming John Valery White to UNLV. For more information, please read the full news release at www.unlv.edu.

Sincerely,

David B. Ashley
President

While neither Tom nor I regularly post on the happenings at our employer it does seem that we should mention this major piece of work-related news. All the standard disclaimers apply about this being our own, independent work and not the work of our employer etc. With that out of the way the dean of UNLV's law school, Richard Morgan, announced Monday that he will retire at the end of this academic year. When he leaves his post on June 30, 2007 Morgan will have been a law school dean for two decades. The second decade he spent getting the William S. Boyd School of Law started, accredited and ranked in the top 100 schools in the country. There are so many very nice things to say about Dean Morgan's career but the most important is likely Thank You.