Wonderful for the library and for scholars and of course for Sandy.

Paul Finkelman
President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law
     and Public Policy
Albany Law School
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Albany, New York   12208-3494

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This is great news!  Congratulations, Sandy!

Kevin

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:22:38 -0400
>From: Brent Tarter <[log in to unmask]>  
>Subject: Historian is New Librarian of Virginia  
>To: [log in to unmask]
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>	The Library Board meeting in Richmond on Monday, June 11, 2007,
>unanimously appointed Sandra Gioia Treadway to be Librarian of Virginia
>effective July 1 to succeed Librarian Nolan T. Yelich, who has been the
>librarian since March 1995 and is retiring at the end of June.
>	Treadway has been deputy librarian since January 1996. She has a
>doctorate in American history from the University of Virginia and will
>receive a master of library and information science from the University
>of Tennessee in August 2007. Prior to becoming deputy librarian,
>Treadway directed the publications program of the Library of Virginia.
>She is a founding editor of the Dictionary of Virginia Biography, has
>published widely in Virginia history and in Southern women's history,
>and is a former president of the Southern Association of Women
>Historians.
Kevin R. Hardwick, Ph.D.
Department of History
James Madison University