Work historySummer 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.
Work futureAppealing 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.
Education2009: 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
Publications"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.
Selected work samplesTutorial 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
MembershipsCalifornia Bar
American Library Association
Real résumé available on request