Roy Mersky news

[alums at ischool.utexas.edu]

Dear iSchool Community

It is with great sadness that we learned of Professor Roy Mersky's death on
May 6th.  Roy held a faculty appointment in the School of Information and
was instrumental in advancing our school's program in legal librarianship
that is now ranked #3 in the nation. Roy was a giant, intellectually,
professionally and personally. He was deeply committed to the field, to
justice, and to our education of the finest legal information specialists in
the world. More than this, he led by example in all facets of his amazing
life. He was a truly unique individual and the world seems a darker place
with his passing.
 
Roy held the Harry Reasoner Regents Chair in Law Director of Research and
was Tarlton Law Library Director. Professor Mersky received his B.S. in
1948; a J.D. in 1952; and, a Master's degree in Library Science in 1953. A
strong human rights activist and committed advocate of legal libraries, Roy
helped shape the careers of hundreds of the leading law librarians in the
nation both through his classes and his long-term mentoring.

I know many of you will have worked with Roy, taken a class with him or
heard him speak. I know your sympathies are with his family and friends at
this time.


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Andrew Dillon
Dean & Professor 
School of Information
The University of Texas at Austin
web: http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/~adillon/
blog: http://sentra.ischool.utexas.edu/~adillon/blog/
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