My parents moved from Scottsdale, AZ to Rohnert Park, CA in 1986 with my help just before I took off for Minneapolis, MN to attend law school at the U of MN. They lived there up through 1996 or so with me in tow since December 1991 after I got kicked out of the law librarianship profession for complaining about the U of MN Law Library's tactic of putting my mental health in question when I brought up JUST my interest in being honest about my commitment to survivors' of crimes right to practical information in 1991.

In 1991, I wrote a bunch of law librarians, politicians, scholars, and others about how one should handle someone who talked about an interest in survivors of crimes rights to practical information-- this was based on my experiences following a murder on my birthday of February 24, 1976 of my then high school English teacher's daughter Michelle-- and only a couple like Robert Berring said I should be honest about this interest and its background. The others like the U of Chicago's Charles Ten Brink just kind of said keep quiet and rest on your fine resume at that time.


The Law Librarian from Boalt Hall (U of CA, Berkeley), Robert Berring, was one of the few people who responded that I should be honest about a commitment and its background like this because as he said it is bound to come out sooner or later.

That's unlike the initial reaction at the U of MN in February 1991. My supervisor Suzanne who was also a Graduate of the same Law School Class as I (1989) said I looked like a nut to talk about an interest in survivors rights based on practical experiences like mine with the investigation and media coverage of the double homicide surrounding the February 24, 1976 murder of Michelle and another lady. As you might imagine this February 24, 1976 murder was covered widely by the Northern Nevada press from February 25, 1976 at least through 1985. Kind of also hard to just forget something like that which also happened to occur on your birthday of February 24.

The U of MN also while I was there (1986-1991) did not have much in the way of practical materials to help survivors of crimes who were looking for information about the justice system, agencies, people contacts, etc. The U of MN Law Library is probably one of the top ten largest university law libraries in the United States.

Of course, I lost my employment references from the U of MN when I tried to fight back against this tactic of attacking the person through putting his mental health in question rather than addressing the niche in services towards survivors/victims of crimes in libraries.

Still think this is a really dirty tactic of attacking the person rather than looking at the merits of what he or she is actually trying to write or do. This looks like something you would see a third rate divorce lawyer do in a nasty divorce case.

My efforts in this area of helping crimes victims get access to practical information were based in the Sonoma County, CA area from late 1991 through mid-1996. Cannot say I had much success though in Northern California with getting practical materials for victims of crimes into libraries in that area.

That's my story of how I ended up in the tow of my parents even though I have 4 degrees and had quite a lot of good experience in librarianship up through 1991.

Incidentally, the U of MN Law Library did add some very useful links in the area of Criminal Law to their website a few MONTHS ago (around February 2008). http://local.law.umn.edu/library/sub...-web.html#Crim

I do have a lot of baggage to bring to any club I will admit.