cones photoWork history

Summer 2007 — present: Palo Alto office of a large New York-based law firm. Librarian and docketing clerk; previously library assistant and docketing clerk.

Fall 2009: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, San Jose State University. Instruction and reference intern.

Fall 2008: Robert Crown Law Library, Stanford University. Reference and archives intern.

Summer 2006 — Spring 2007: Various Bay Area law firms. Contract attorney.

Fall 2004 — Spring 2006: Palo Alto office of a large California-based law firm. Associate attorney, mostly litigation.

Also: The FDIC, Barnes & Noble, my hometown public library, and various office and retail and foodservice jobs. And a paper route.

bridge photoWork future

Appealing possibilities include reference in an academic and/or law library, cataloging in a public library, and generalizing in a special library, to name a few. I look forward to evaluating, implementing, and improving the right tools for the right jobs to make people's information lives better and easier.

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2009: MLIS, San José State University School of Library and Information Science

2004: J.D., New York University School of Law

2000: B.S., English, Iowa State University

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"Ending Copyright Claims in State Primary Legal Materials: Towards an Open Source Legal Operating System." Law Library Journal 102 (2010): 59-68.

"Comparisons of information technology education in MLIS programs." Library Student Journal 2009 (January), http://librarystudentjournal.org/index.php/lsj/article/view/99/220.

pumpkins photoSelected work samples

Tutorial on subscribing to table of contents alerting services at Stanford Law School; see also the printer friendly version

Final project for LIBR 240, Information Technology Tools and Applications

Pathfinder for LIBR 210, Reference and Information Services

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California Bar

American Library Association

Real résumé available on request