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Hollis Near
M.Lib, 1992
Hollis retired in May 2020 after 21 years as Director of Library Services at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
Jim O'Grady
M.Lib, 1992
In 2011, Jim retired from an active career in public librarianship. He returned to the Pacific Northwest, and he and his wife now live in Greenbank, WA, on Whidbey Island.
Mike Showalter
M.Lib, 1992
As of 2023, Mike had recently retired after five years at UCLA's Continuing Education of the Bar, where he first led the launch of its new legal research platform and then later led sales and revenue operations. Mike's technology career started in 1992 at Internet pioneer NorthWestNet and included product management roles at several library-focused vendors and start-ups, including OCLC, EBSCO, ProQuest, Serials Solutions, usedbooks.com and Plum Analytics.
Michael Bergeson
MLIS, 1991
Mike works in the Interlibrary Loan Department at the Seattle Public Library. Previously, Mike has worked in the Special Collections Department, Art Department and Business Department, all located at SPL's Central Branch.
Margaret Jakubcin
MLIS, 1991
Margaret works as the director of the North Olympic Library System in Clallam County, WA.
Amy Massey
MLIS, 1991
As of January 2022, Amy was the Branch Librarian at the Leavenworth Public Library.
Amy Schaaf Massey
MLIS, 1991
As of 2024 Amy retired from serving as Branch Librarian at NCW Libraries/Leavenworth Public Library.
John Sheller
MLIS, 1991
In October 2012, John was appointed to a three-year term as the Federal Relations Coordinator for the Washington Library Association.
Pennington Ahlstrand
M.Lib, 1990
After contracting and consulting in Silicon Valley for 20 years, Pennington started working as the reference and processing archivist for the Computer History Museum.
Mary Furr
M.Lib, 1990
Mary retired to her family farm after a career in corporate systems development.