| Technical Services Librarian and Associate Professor of Law Librarianship Areas of Responsibility- Cataloging, Government Documents, Acting Assistant Director of the Law Library Education- J.D. Drake University, with honors M.A. University of Iowa B.A. Iowa State University, with distinction Experience- Drake Law Library Technical Services Librarian since 1991 Clemson University, Bibliographic Database Librarian Kansas State University, Serials Cataloger Selected Publications- "Use Study of OCLC Cataloging in an Academic Law Library," 89 Law Library Journal 31 "Caroline M.S. Kirkland," "Henry Clay Caldwell," and "John Finis Philips," American National Biography, Oxford University Press Professional Affiliations- American Association of Law Libraries Mid-America Association of Law Libraries American Bar Association Iowa Bar Association |
 "Librarians and lawyers both tend to get a bum rap in the media and the court of public opinion. Just look at Donna Reed's terrible fate in "It's a Wonderful Life" if Jimmy Stewart had never been born: a hopelessly dowdy, spinster librarian! And then there are the ubiquitous lawyer jokes ("What's wrong with lawyer jokes? Lawyers don't think they're funny and other people don't think they're jokes."). Regardless of such stereotypes, I believe that both librarianship and the law are legitimately classed among the "helping professions." My job as a law librarian is to support people seeking to improve their lives or the lives of others through the power of information or the virtue of justice." |
