Harvard Law School Library appoints Palfry

The Harvard Crimson reports that John F. Palfry is the new head of the Harvard Law School Library. Palfry is a well-known scholar of cyberlaw and has been the director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School’s largest affiliated research institute and one of the most prominent cyber law centers in the country. According to the Berkman Center website, Palfrey is Harvard Law School's first Associate Dean of Library and Information Resources; he will take over as director of the Harvard Law School Library and become a tenured professor at the Law School.