Kris Niedringhaus has served as Associate Dean of Information Resources and Technology and Associate Professor of Law at Phoenix School of Law since July 2005. She is currently teaching Advanced Legal Research and has research interests in the areas of library services innovations, management techniques, and cultural artifact law.
Kris has served on several law school committees including Faculty Appointments and Creative Works. She has also served on AALL committees and SIS committees including as Co-Chair of the ALL Membership Committee and Chair of the ALL CALI Committee.
Kris’ work at Phoenix School of Law has included helping to build a new law school library with all the excitement and challenges that brings. Prior to PhoenixLaw, she worked at several other law school libraries in a variety of positions. After law school, Kris worked as a University Judicial Administrator enforcing the Honor Code and student disciplinary code. She came to her senses fairly quickly and happily found her life’s work in academic law librarianship.
Professor Niedringhaus received a B.A. with honors in economics and political science from Washington University in St. Louis, a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. from the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at University of Missouri – Columbia.
I am truly honored to have been nominated to run for the position of Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect. I have received so much outstanding assistance from the resources and members of ALL-SIS throughout my career and I welcome the opportunity to serve my colleagues in this way.
As information resources, and the way they are provided, continues to change it is important that ALL-SIS provide support and leadership to our members as they strive to be recognized at the forefront in their home institutions and in the profession. The members of ALL-SIS have the creative vision and expertise to work toward solutions to issues such as licensing and contract clauses, escalating prices, status and tenure, and attracting new members academic law librarianship. ALL-SIS can facilitate bringing together our collective knowledge to address these, and other, issues.
ALL-SIS is a community through which we share our knowledge and experience to make the whole stronger and wiser. It is crucial that we continue to recruit new members and nurture their involvement in the professional so that we continue to infuse our discussions with new ideas. If I am honored to be elected Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect I will work hard, as a member of the larger team, to advance the interests of academic law libraries and librarians.
