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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Carson City, Nevada

Nashville, Tn

Oversees all public services operations including reference, circulation, interlibrary loan, document delivery and stacks maintenance. Supervises research services librarians. Coordinates the research component of the first-year legal research program and teaches courses in specialized legal research. Evaluates and promotes the library’s electronic resources. Manages the library’s online presence. Identifies and monitors new and emerging technologies. Provides empirical research support and for law school students and faculty as well as general research assistance to faculty, students, attorneys, and the general public as part of the public services department.

Nashville, Tn

Oversees all public services operations including reference, circulation, interlibrary loan, document delivery and stacks maintenance. Supervises the research/reference librarian in charge of access services. Coordinates the research component of the first-year legal research program and teaches courses in specialized legal research. Evaluates and promotes the library’s electronic resources. Manages the library’s online presence. Identifies and monitors new and emerging technologies. Provides empirical research support and for law school students and faculty as well as general research assistance to faculty, students, attorneys, and the general public as part of the public services department. Supervises and works with the Digital Library Services Assistant in digitization projects as well as the law school’s institutional repository.

Nashville, Tn

Coordinates the research component of the first-year legal research program and teaches courses in specialized legal research. Evaluates, coordinates and promotes the library’s electronic resources, including scheduling and coordinating online training with vendors/account representatives. Designs and develops the library’s online presence. Identifies and monitors new and emerging technologies. Serves as the point person for empirical research support and the university's institutional repository for the law school. Also provides research assistance to faculty, students, attorneys, and the general public as part of the public services department. Works with and supervises the Digital Library Services Assistant in digitization projects as well as the law school’s institutional repository. Access services responsibilities include managing circulation, document delivery, and stacks maintenance staff.

Nashville, Tn

Evaluates, coordinates and promotes the library’s electronic resources, including scheduling and coordinating online training with vendors/account representatives. Designs and develops the library’s online presence. Develops and implements online legal research instruction, including training tailored for faculty, students, and librarians. Identifies and monitors new and emerging technologies. Also provides research assistance to faculty, students, attorneys, and the general public as part of the public services department. Participates in collection development. Serves as the point person for empirical research support and the university's institutional repository for the law school.

Provide reference services to all library users and research services to law faculty. Serve as a faculty liaison and teach in the mandatory Legal Research and Writing Program for first year law students. Serve as the foreign/comparative/international law librarian. Hire, supervise, and train student reference desk attendants. Administer library’s Facebook presence. Served as government documents librarian from 2007-2009.

Jd, Law

Activities and Societies: Journal of Law & Education (Editor-in-Chief), National Labor & Employment Law Moot Court Team

Master Of Education (M.Ed.), Instructional Design

Mls, Library Science

Activities and Societies: Beta Phi Mu (National Library Science Honor Society)

Ms, Economics

Ba, Economics (Political Science Minor)