Library Administration
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Richard A. Danner
Senior Associate Dean, Information Services and Archibald C. and Frances Fulk Rufty Research Professor of Law
Dick manages and administers the Duke Law School Information Services team, which includes the Law Library as well as the Academic Technologies department.
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Melanie J. Dunshee
Assistant Dean, Library Services and Senior Lecturing Fellow
Melanie is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Library, including developing the collections of print and electronic resources, as well as personnel and facilities matters. Melanie also coordinates initiatives to collect and expose the faculty's scholarship.
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Sue is responsible for the Library’s business operations, including payroll and human resources.
Acquisitions
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Shyama supervises operations of ordering, claiming and receiving all library materials, including electronic resources, and is responsible for monitoring the library budget and compiling statistical reports.
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Kathleen performs tasks related to maintaining and updating the serials collection. She also serves as the troubleshooter for serial claims and other serials problems.
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Tonya creates orders for library materials and downloads records for the online catalog. She also receives depository government document shipments and checks in treatise supplements.
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Marsha S. Perry
Acquisitions/Serials Accounting Specialist
Marsha is responsible for paying invoices, and maintaining and reconciling financial records for library acquisitions funds. She is also responsible for receiving new acquisitions and solving delivery problems.
Cataloging/Digital Resources
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Sean is responsible for the development and maintenance of services to improve access to information resources, including the cataloging of library materials and the support of metadata services for the Law School scholarship repository and library website.
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Michelle assists with the organization and acquisition of library materials and resources. She also works on projects in inventory and holdings maintenance, acquisitions, serials and electronic resources, our institutional repository and documentation.
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Allyson performs cataloging and metadata tasks in support of the library's collections. She also works on projects in library collections, electronic resources, and our institutional repository.
Collection Services
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Karen manages and administers all aspects of the Collection Services Department, and provides supervision and coordination of borrower services including circulation, reserves, interlibrary loan, and collection management.
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Francine is responsible for superseding and updating materials. She also maintains the government documents collection.
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Lee is responsible for the processing of interlibrary loan borrowing and lending requests. He also handles course reserves and works with the library’s archival collections.
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Tina Moore
Collection Services Associate, Circulation Manager
Tina manages all circulation functions, including overdues and hold requests. She is responsible for hiring and training student workers and resolving user problems with circulation functions. Tina also manages the faculty routing service.
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Paul is responsible for maintaining the microforms collection, loose-leaf filing, processing of library material and collection maintenance projects.
Digital Initiatives
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Hollie White, Ph.D.
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Hollie coordinates and develops the Law School Scholarship Repository and provides digital applications support for faculty scholarship/instruction and library service assessment. She also develops and manages digitization projects for the library.
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Alexandra works on a variety of digital projects including media format conversion, the Faculty Oral History Project, the Duke Law Historical Photograph collection, and the Duke Law Scholarship Repository.
Reference Services
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Jennifer L. Behrens
Head, Reference Services and Lecturing Fellow
Jennifer manages and administers all aspects of the Reference Services Department, including the service desk, first-year legal research instruction, and faculty services. She also provides reference assistance, teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs, and coordinates the library's web presence.
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Kristina J. Alayan
Foreign & International Law Reference Librarian and Lecturing Fellow
Kristina provides general and specialized foreign, comparative & international law reference assistance. She also teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs.
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Jane Bahnson
Reference Librarian and Senior Lecturing Fellow
Jane provides reference assistance and teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs. She also coordinates the library's Empirical Legal Research Program and Faculty Research Assistants.
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Kelly provides reference assistance and teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs. She also coordinates the library's New Titles current awareness service for faculty.
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Guangya Liu, Ph.D
Empirical Research Analyst and Lecturing Fellow
Ya provides support for empirical research to the Law School faculty, including consultation on coding schemes, location of data sets, analysis of existing data, or interpretation of statistics.
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Marguerite Most
Reference Librarian and Senior Lecturing Fellow
Marguerite provides reference assistance and teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs. She also coordinates the library's rare book collection.
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Laura M. Scott
Reference Librarian and Senior Lecturing Fellow
- Laura provides reference assistance and teaches in the first-year legal research program. She also teaches an advanced course on business law research.
