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Christine Lavra
M.Lib, 1977
Christine changed professions to civil engineering after graduating with a BSCE in 1992 and is now retired.
Sandra O'Connor
M.Lib, 1977
In 2020, Sandra was elected chair of the North Carolina Real Estate Commission and Vice Chair of the City of Greensboro, North Carolina, Zoning Commission.
Sally Wise
M.Lib, 1977
Sally is the director of the law library and a professor of law at the University of Miami School of Law. In 2014 she was appointed by the American Association of Law Libraries to be their representative to the Section on Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar of the American Bar Association.
Jonathan Betz-Zall
M.Lib, 1976
As of 2025, after seven years of retirement from the community college system, Jonathan returned to the profession as an "intermittent" (i.e. on call) librarian for the Seattle Public Library. He's enjoying all the excitement and energy of direct public service work with little of the administrative hassles experienced by those in regular positions. Jonathan said he felt like an "old head" in his neighborhood gang.
Elizabeth Evans
M.Lib, 1976
Elizabeth is now enjoying retirement after working as a Library Media Specialist with the Tacoma Public Schools.
Mark Linneman
M.Lib, 1976
Mark retired in October 2013 after 14 years as a librarian at the California State Law Library. Over his 40-year career he held a number of positions, including working as the director of the University of Kentucky Law Library and as a law librarian at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Kathleen Murray
M.Lib, 1976
Kathleen is Head of the Alaska Medical Library, a fee-based service that provides library services to healthcare providers throughout Alaska. She also serves as an academic librarian at the University of Alaska Anchorage, working with the School of Nursing and WWAMI collaborative medical school program.
Alice Shands
M.Lib, 1976
In 2012, Alice retired after a long career as a public librarian in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Over the course of her career, Alice worked as the director of the Sunflower County Library System (Indianola, MS), the director of the Columbus-Lowndes Library System (Columbus, MS), the senior manager of the LINC Department (telephone reference and community information database) of the Memphis Library and Information Center, a consultant to public libraries for the Arkansas State Library, a branch manager for the Central Arkansas Library System, and a children's librarian for the Memphis Public Library and Information Center.
Alice also established the patient and family library at the Arkansas Children's Hospital, served as the executive director of the Arkansas Division of Volunteerism, the executive director of the Wilowe Institute (a rural leadership development agency in Arkansas), and the executive director of the Arkansas Library Association.
Sue Swanson
M.Lib, 1976
Although she technically retired in 2011, in 2015 Sue filled in as a short-term replacement at her last job, working as the school librarian at the Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India. The school is a well-respected, US-accredited, K-12 private residential school located in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. The Library and the Learning Resource Centers generally are well-supported by the administration, staff and students, which made it a really exciting place to work!
Penny Hazelton
M.Lib, 1975
After revising her chapter on banking law, Penny edited the 900-page revised edition of Specialized Legal Research, a reference work for law librarians and lawyers. Sold to over 270 law libraries, the 2014 edition was published in-house at the UW Law School's Gallagher Law Library.