As this busy week at the library comes to a close, another one of our co-workers has decided to move on. Neal Smith Jr. is leaving us to pursue a Juris Doctor degree in the hopes of becoming one of the great minds of copyright law. Neal was instrumental in bringing the R.A. Williams Library into the fore of the internet age, implementing such features as a new Drupal content management system and our Symphony Integrated Library system used to administer the library collections. Not content to simply play the Head of Digital Services and Cataloging at the library, Neal also formulated a number of library specific guidelines and was the sole developer of our campus-wide copyright policy, helping to protect Florida Hospital College readers and writers alike.
Thoreau correctly noted that, "the law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free." And since it has been rightly said about Neal that his intellect is diamond-tipped, keen as the edge of a barber's blade, it is with no small amount of joy that we watch Neal sally forth into the wild world of the law. It shall certainly be the better for his addition to it. Many thanks, Neal! Goodluck and Godspeed!
Updated: Mon, 2010-07-26 08:46 - bwea92

