ANNOUNCEMENT

I take great personal pleasure in announcing that effective November 3, 2004 Ms. Melissa Firth has been made Law Librarian/Administrator to the Peel Law Association. The Peel Law Association Board of Directors is equally happy that she has taken on this permanent role in our Law Library. Ms Firth, as many of you may know, has been working with us in the A. Grenville and William Davis Courthouse Law Library in Brampton, Ontario since July 2001 when she was hired as Reference Technician. She is, we feel, more than amply qualified to meet the demands of her new position.
Ms Firth came to us, having received her Masters Degree in Library and Information Science as well as her Bachelor of Arts Degree in History. She, as a result of her earlier working career, comes to us with strong interpersonal and managerial skills.

Many of our Association members will already be acquainted with Ms Firth through their contact with her in the law library concerning legal research questions or more general questions concerning the workings of the Association or Continuing Legal Education seminars.

Ms Firth’s confirmation in her new role comes at a time of exciting growth and renewed interest in our local law association, as well as developments within the province-wide law library system. I am sure the membership will enjoy meeting with her and we shall all look forward to her direction in the Library as well as her assistance in the many often demanding tasks which she is called upon to perform in respect to Peel Law Association business. In addition to her role in the library she will be an ex officio Board member and she will be able to convey to the Board of Directors any questions or concerns members may have.

We are happy to have Ms Firth with our Association.

Mark Skursky
President
Peel Law Association