Filippa Marullo Anzalone has served as Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Library and Computing Services at Boston College Law School since August 2002. Professor Anzalone currently teaches Advanced Legal Research; she has plans to teach Art Law in Fall 2008. Legal education, higher education management, and law library leadership are of particular interest to her.
Before joining Boston College Law School, Filippa Marullo Anzalone was at Northeastern University School of Law School for almost eleven years. When she left Northeastern University School of Law School Library, Filippa was Professor of Law and Director of Information and Research Services. Professor Anzalone had served as Acting Dean of the Northeastern University Libraries for the 2000/2001 academic year.
Prior to entering academic law librarianship, Filippa Marullo Anzalone was director of the law library at the Boston law firm of Bingham, Dana and Gould (now Bingham McCutcheon). She has also worked as a research librarian at Dike, Bronstein, Roberts, Cushman & Pfund, as a public library administrator at the Cambridge Public Library, and as the head children's librarian in the Medford Public Library. Before her real career in libraries, Professor Anzalone spent time working summers in the Medford Public Library during her undergraduate years. Her other jobs have included working as a counter girl in an Italian bakery, as a nursing home aide, and as a babysitter. Her favorite job (pre-library) was without a doubt, working in the Cara Dona Bakery.
Professor Anzalone has published many articles, book chapters, book reviews and opinion pieces. She is active in the both the Law School and University communities. Most recently, she has served on the Boston College Law School Appointments Committee and Publications Committee. She chaired Boston College’s Academic Technology Forum and been a member of the University’s Academic Technology Advisory Board. She is past-chair of the AALS Section on Libraries and a member of the AALS Committee on Libraries and Technology. Professor Anzalone has served as a panelist and chaired several programs at recent AALL and AALS conferences and she has participated in numerous ABA and NEASC site evaluations of law schools. She has served as a consultant to a number of law school libraries and she has lectured both in the United States and abroad on leadership and management issues.
Professor Anzalone received an A.B. from Smith College in 1975, a M.S.L.S. from Simmons College Graduate School of Library Science in 1977, and a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in 1985. She lives in Medford with her husband, Antonio, and her two daughters, Patricia and Lucia.
I am honored to have been nominated to serve on the ALL-SIS board. If elected (or not), I would like to work with ALL-SIS members on what Linda Ryan has identified as “the marginalization of the academic law library.”
We need to make sure that this Section does everything that it possibly can to help law schools understand that short-sighted changes, such as the weakening of law libraries, will ultimately harm our universities and law schools.
As law librarians, we are stewards of an integral piece of our educational institutions. Training and fostering tomorrow’s leaders and educating those who will follow in our footsteps is an essential part of our legacy as academic law librarians. I will work collaboratively and I will work hard if you select me as your next ALL-SIS chair-elect.
