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Lisa Mecklenberg Jackson
MLIS, 1997
In 2013, the Montana Supreme Court selected Lisa to serve as the state law librarian. The Montana Law Library provides access to legal information to Montana’s courts, the Legislature, state officers and employees, attorneys, and members of the public. Previously, Lisa worked as the in-house counsel for Equity Management, Inc. in Missoula, as a librarian at the Missoula Public Library, and as a librarian for the Montana Legislature's Legislative Services Division.
Manu Parhar
MSIM, 1997
As of 2023, Manu works as seasoned Director of Product Marketing at Cisco Inc., leading an industry-recognized Webex Suite portfolio of products.
Christine Perkins
MLIS, 1997
Christine is the Executive Director of the Whatcom County Library System. Previously, she worked as the Assistant Director of the Bellingham Public Library and the Director of the Burlington Public Library. Christine won Library Journal's Fiction Reviewer of the Year Award in 2005.
Bob Thomas
MLIS, 1997
Bob retired from the library profession in August 2016. He spent the last 10 years as Head of Cataloging at Western Washington University, following periods at the University of Virginia and WLN/OCLC. He and his wife, Gail, will begin full-time cruising around North America on their boat, with plans to eventually end up back in the Puget Sound.
Debra Westwood
MLIS, 1997
Debra is the Library Cluster Manager for three branches of the King County Library System: Bellevue, Lake Hills and Crossroads.
Angelina Benedetti
MLIS, 1996
In 2022, Angelina became the Director of Outreach, Programs, and Services for the King County Library System.
Greg Careaga
MLIS, 1996
Greg is Head of Assessment and Planning for the University Library at UC Santa Cruz. This summer, he contributed a chapter to Assessing Library Space for Learning and presented a paper at the 12th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries.
Jim Cheng
MLIS, 1996
Jim is the director of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library at Columbia University and is known for promoting archival films about East Asia. In 2012, he and his staff organized a symposium at Columbia, The Korean War and Its Aftermath: Cinematic Memories from the Theodore Conant Collection.
Ruth Griffith
MLIS, 1995
Ruth works as an adult services librarian at the Mountlake Terrace Library, specializing in business services. She has been with Sno-Isle Libraries since March 1996.
"Thanks, UW School of Library Science, for making it possible for me to have my dream career!"
Colleen Brazil
MLIS, 1994
Colleen is Content Access Manager at Sno-Isle Libraries, which was selected as one of 12 Public Libraries to participate in the LibHub Initiative Early Adopter Program in 2015. As project manager, she is guiding its efforts to publish catalog metadata to the Web for search engine optimization. Her team is experimenting with and contributing to the development of a new metadata structure originally developed by the Library of Congress called BIBFRAME.