As the Head of Technical Services for the Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center at the University of Florida, Edward carries out the center’s collection development and teaches advanced legal research. He supervises the acquisitions and accession of resources to the collection, and works in partnership with the center’s Cataloger to manage the department. Prior to moving to Florida in July 2005, he served for five years as the Acquisitions and Collection Management Librarian for the New England School of Law Library, Boston. During his ten years of library work, his roles have allowed him to understand and practice budget management and the need for providing good administrative support to an organization’s leadership.
In Fall 2009, Edward had the great experience of teaching the first law library class offered in the library and information science program at Valdosta State University.
Edward earned his MSLIS from Simmons College, his JD from the New England School of Law, and his BA and MA in history from Valdosta State University.
A member of AALL since 2000, Edward maintains membership and participation in ALL-SIS, GD-SIS, and TS-SIS. Prior service to ALL-SIS includes membership on the SIS’s Collection Development and Continuing Education Committees. He was an active member in LLNE from 2000 - 2005, serving as Government Relations Committee Chair, 2003 - 2005. Currently, he is now a member of SEAALL and has served on that chapter’s Membership Committee since 2006, including being chair 2007 - 2009.
The need for academic law librarians for a forum such as ALL-SIS grows more important every day. At nearly every turn we are confronted with changes as the roles of libraries and librarians evolve to best serve the needs and wants of our users. This evolution occurs while most of us find ourselves ever more limited by a lack of financial resources. The ALL-SIS allows us to share our thoughts and efforts on these issues and build a true community that betters academic law librarianship. It takes a great deal of effort to make such a dynamic section run smoothly and this requires dedicated leadership.
I welcome the opportunity to serve our community as Secretary/Treasurer and to support the effective management of the section.
