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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.

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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.

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Margaret Jakubcin

MLIS, 1991

Margaret works as the director of the North Olympic Library System in Clallam County, WA.

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Amy Massey

MLIS, 1991

As of January 2022, Amy was the Branch Librarian at the Leavenworth Public Library.

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Amy Schaaf Massey

MLIS, 1991

As of 2024, Amy retired from serving as Branch Librarian at NCW Libraries/Leavenworth Public Library.

 

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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.

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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.

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Mary Furr

M.Lib, 1990

Mary retired to her family farm after a career in corporate systems development.

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Carolyn Pearson

MLIS, 1990

As of 2025, Carolyn moved to Kamloops, BC, where her wife will be attending nursing school.

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Kenneth Rudolf

MLIS Law, 1990

Kenneth retired as director of the law library at the University of La Verne on June 1, 2020. He is now a professor emeritus of law.

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