Jeff Montgomery retiring after 46 years After 46 years at KU Law, Jeff Montgomery is retiring. The circulation and serials department manager for the Wheat Law Library started working with the law school as a graduate student, shelving books in “old” Green Hall – now known as Lippincott – in 1976. He joined the law library staff full-time in 1981. …
Hazel Anderson: Librarian extraordinaire
If you’ve been on the main floor of the library and stopped to peruse the Kansas City Star or the Lawrence Journal-World, you may have wondered about the clock that hangs above the couch and the picture of the woman underneath it. The woman is Hazel Anderson, and she was the first full-time librarian at KU Law. When classes began …
Wheat Law Library is a space for restorative practice
Photo by Ashley Golledge As times and needs change within the law community, so changes the library. Where we were once only a gathering place for students to focus on their academic well-being, we have also become a place for mental and physical well-being. In August of 2017, the ABA’s National Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being released its report Creating …