ASSOCIATE LAW LIBRARIAN (January 1986 to December 1993) and HEAD, COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT AND TECHNICAL SERVICES, Columbia University Law School Library, November 1983 to December 1993).

INTERNATIONAL, FOREIGN, AND COMPARATIVE LAW LIBRARIAN, Columbia University Law School Library, August 1982 to October, 1983.

REFERENCE LIBRARIAN, Fordham University School of Law Library, 1981 to July, 1982.

TEMPORARY HEAD OF TECHNICAL SERVICES, New York Law School Library, February to May, 1982 (Part-time).

*Reference Librarian, Louisiana State University Law Library, 1979 - 1980 (Part-time).

*Assistant to the Foreign Law Librarian, Louisiana State University Law Library, 1979 - 1980 (Part-time).

*These two jobs were while I was a student in the law and library schools.

Before Law School, worked as a Photographic Librarian, Stage Manager, Carpenter, Plasterer, and Cook.

Professional Education

MASTERS IN LIBRARY SCIENCE, May 1980, from Louisiana State University.

JURIS DOCTOR, May 1980, from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center of Louisiana State University. Recipient of the Class of 1950, Board of Supervisor's, and Tullis - Herget Scholarships. Member of the Student - Faculty Relations Committee.

Undergraduate Education

BACHELOR OF ARTS, August 1974, from the State University of New York College at Oswego.

Ancillary Experience

TEACHING:

In July 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2002, I taught the course on American Legal Research in the Leiden - Amsterdam - Columbia Summer Program in American Law.

From 1986 through 1991 I taught the course in Law Librarianship at the Columbia University School of Library Service. This is taught each spring term, and covers basic American legal research and a short introduction to law library management. This involved a formal appointment as Lecturer in the Columbia University School of Library Service.

In September of 1986, I gave lectures on international law and subject cataloguing at the Law Department of Fudan University, in Shanghai. The students were a group of Chinese law librarians. The program was sponsored by the library program of the Chinese Legal Educational Exchange Committee.

I have given a variety of internal lectures and subject presentations for programs and courses at Columbia University.

ORGANIZATIONAL WORK:

For the Columbia University Libraries, I have served on the Documents Collection Policy Task Force, the Social Sciences Resources Committee, and the Professional Review Committee.

For the Law Program Committee of the Research Libraries Group (RLG), I have been the designer and compiler of the Foreign Law Conspectus Verification Project. This involved creating a small database which contained a crude analysis of about 20 foreign law collections in the United States. I have also worked on the International Law sub-committee of the Law Program Committee.

For the American Association of Law Libraries: I have chaired panel sessions on Research in Nuclear Disarmament in 1984 and The Nature and Use of Foreign Legal Databases in 1985 at the annual meetings. At the 1988 meeting, I was a member of a panel on the problems of middle management in a union environment. For a panel at the 1994 meeting I gave a report on the growing conglomeratisation of the law publishing industry. From 1995 through 2000, I was a member of the Committee on Citation Formats.

Delivered a paper on fee-based services to a joint meeting of the International Association of Law Libraries and the Caribbean Association of Law Libraries in Bridgetown, Barbados, in April, 1990.

Given classes on legal research for the Law Library Association of Greater New York intermittently.

CONSULTING:

Of Counsel to the attorney for the respondent in the case of Eicke v. Eicke, (459 US 1139, 1983), in the Supreme Court of the United States, 1982 - 1983.

Provided information on a core serials collection covering the law of the European Communities for a proposed Institute of European Communities Law at the Fordham University School of Law, March 1984

Participated in meetings of the "Expert Group on the Crime Information Network" for the United Nations, December, 1987 and May, 1989. The ultimate product will be UNCJIN, or The United Nations Criminal Justice Information Network, an international electronic communications and gateway system aimed at criminal justice administrators and scholars.

In May of 1990, provided on-site Collection Assessment of the Libraries of the Institute of Public International Law of Beijing University and the library of the Chinese Foreign Ministry's Department of Treaty and Law. This was in furtherance of a Ford Foundation project to aid development of international law in the People's Republic of China.

Evaluated law library collections for tax and estate purposes.

Acted as a grant application evaluator for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

In June of 1994, and intermittently since, worked with MetaMetrics,Inc, a US AID subcontractor, on The American Legal Consortium, a program to help develop democratic and rule-of-law oriented legal institutions in Kazakstan and neighboring countries. This has involved trips to Kazakstan in June-July, 1994 and November, 1995. The first was a needs assessment visit, and the second was to lead a seminar on Law Library Management and Fund Raising for librarians from Kazakstan and Tajikistan. A one day class on Comparative Legal Research was also given to a group of law scholars.

EXCHANGE:

Spent May and June of 1987 at the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law, in Lausanne. I advised them on strengthening their American collection, while I investigated European acquisitions procedures and European legal databases.

Writing

Compiled the Tables of Abbreviations in German, Spanish, French, and Italian found in West's Law and Commercial Dictionary in Five Languages, St. Paul, West Publ., 1985.

Revised the chapter on International Law in the fourth edition of Morris Cohen's Legal Research in a Nutshell, St. Paul, West Publ., 1985.

Short book notice of J. G. Merrill's International Dispute Settlement in 23 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 721, 1985.

Review of Bowker's Index to Legal Books, in 201 New York Law Journal, No. 76, p. 2, April 21st, 1989.

"Metodos para la investigacion del derecho in el Estados Unidos", a chapter (pp 495-516) in El Derecho de Estados Unidos en torno al comercio y la inversion edited by John Molloy and Boris Kozolchyk, and published by the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade in conjunction with the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, 1999.

Have written grant applications to a variety of agencies and foundations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, The United States Institute of Peace, the U.S. Department of Education, and a number of private sources. Both the NEH and the USIP applications were successful.

Skills

Trained in the use of a wide range of computer based information systems.

Atrophying knowledge of Latin, Spanish, and French