Faye Jones is Director and Professor at the Florida State University College of Law Legal Research Center. Prior to moving to Florida State, Faye was the Director at the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law Library. Her other law library experience was earned as Associate Director at the University of California Hastings School of Law Library, Head of Public Services at the University of Puget Sound Law Library (now Seattle University), public services and technical services duties at the Nova Southeastern School of Law Library, and Serials Librarian at the Duke University Law Library. Faye also served as a Navy Judge Advocate General. As a JAG, Faye served as Commanding Officer of her reserve unit, and was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal. She retired as a Commander after 21 years of active and reserve duty. For the past twelve years, she has taught Cyberlaw and advanced legal research courses. Faye has published bibliographies and works on the legal ramifications of Trust-Based Internet Accountability, spam law, web search engines, intranet design, legal research instruction, and a book chapter "Playing Nicely with Others: Managing Work Relations" in Beyond the Books: People, Politics and Librarianship. During her career, Faye has served in professional law library organizations including ALL-SIS, AALL, local AALL chapters, and the AALS Section on Law Libraries. In those organizations, she has focused on new initiatives and innovations. Currently, she is a member of the ALL-SIS Task Force on the US News and World Report which is working to create recommendations for appropriate measurements and methodologies for law libraries in the USNWR rankings.
ALL-SIS has a critical leadership role in promoting the interests of academic law libraries. As an organization, ALL-SIS helps attract, educate and mentor law librarians, presents innovative, worthwhile continuing education programs at AALL's Annual Meeting, and advocates for our interests in AALL and other forums. I believe my experience shows that I am a strong leader and team player who can make a substantial contribution to our SIS. I have served ALL-SIS in the past as newsletter editor and on the Program Selection Committee. Presently, I am on the ALL-SIS Task Force on the U.S. News and World Report Standards. I am eager to continue to be part of the work furthering the interests and issues important to Academic Law Libraries. It would be an honor to serve as Chair of the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section's Executive Board and help our members to better educate new librarians, provide the highest quality programming, promote scholarship, and achieve our initiatives. Thank you.
