Jim,
Good Luck for your new and exciting career !
Best Wishes
Ron Huttner LL.B (Hons)
(Retired) Barrister, Solicitor, Law Lecturer and Legal Researcher
Melbourne
Victoria
Australia
On 02/11/2008, at 4:19 AM, Jim Milles wrote:
> To all my friends in law libraries:
>
> After 25 years as a law librarian, and almost nine years as Director
> of the Law Library and Associate/Vice Dean for Legal Information
> Services, the time has come for me to make a change.
>
> For several years I have been considering all the options available
> to me, and in particular the roads (so far) not taken, and I have
> decided to turn in a different direction to take on new challenges.
> As of May 1, 2009, I will step down from my position as Director of
> the Law Library to continue my service to the Law School as a
> tenured professor of law.
>
> As a law librarian, I have come to be identified with my work in the
> application of technology in law libraries and legal education, and
> more broadly in digital communication and online communities. My
> work in these areas has always led me to push the envelope of
> traditional library services in fruitful directions. The problem
> with pushing the envelope, of course, is that the envelope pushes
> back. Over the last few years, I have found the challenges of
> trying to lead a law school library within a centralized university
> library system increasingly confining. Ours being one of the
> remaining handful of non-autonomous law libraries, as Director I
> have had vanishingly little discretion to implement my vision for an
> active and dynamic 21st century law library. At the same time, I
> have had to defer pursuing my own scholarly and teaching interests.
> I have always worked on the practical side of exciting emerging
> technologies, and have more and more been drawn to explore the
> legal, social, and policy aspects of those technologies in greater
> depth as a teacher and scholar. Accordingly, I have decided to take
> on a new role which will allow me both to use my talents more fully
> and to serve the Law School more effectively.
>
> Starting in Fall 2009 I will be teaching in such areas as Cyberspace
> Law, Information Privacy Law, Internet Speech, Electronic Evidence,
> Computer Crime, and Law and Social Media. I will also be Director
> of the new Program on Law and Emerging Technologies in the Baldy
> Center for Law and Social Policy. In the latter role I plan to help
> the Law School build connections with other University researchers
> in the areas of nanotechnology, biometrics, extreme events,
> genomics, and bioinformatics.
>
> I have always loved being a law librarian, and the friendships I
> have made with my colleagues have meant the world to me. I look
> forward to continuing to nurture those friendships, and exploring
> collaborations with law librarians and other technology leaders, as
> I take on new challenges in the years to come.
>
>
> Jim Milles
> Vice Dean for Legal Information Services and Director of the Law
> Library
> Professor of Law
> University at Buffalo Law School
> 208 O'Brian Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260
> (716) 645-2089, jgmilles@buffalo.edu
> http://ClaimID.com/jmilles
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