Jim Kelly currently is Access Services Research Librarian and Lecturer-in-Law at the Alyne Queener Massey Law Library at Vanderbilt University. At Vanderbilt, he oversees many of the public services functions of the law library while performing reference duties. He also teaches legal research.
Prior to coming to Vanderbilt, he served as a Reference Librarian and Assistant Professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has written for several library publications, including AALL Spectrum and Law Library Journal.
He is a member of several special interest sections with AALL, and has served on the Nominations, Membership, and Archives committees for ALL-SIS. He is also a member of SEAALL.
Jim earned his J.D. at the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. He practiced law for several years before attending the University of Kentucky, where he earned his M.S.L.I.S. He maintains his membership in the Kentucky Bar Association.
In my time as a law librarian, I have met many passionate professionals, dedicated to serving the needs of their different patrons. In these times of economic and technological upheaval, the challenge of being a law librarian and meeting those needs has never been greater.
ALL-SIS is an important forum and community where academic law librarians come together and work out solutions to these challenges so they can continue to provide excellent service to their patrons. Learning from one another and continued collaboration will be vital to the future of academic law libraries.
I hope to contribute to an organization that provides opportunities for the overall betterment of the entire academic law community. It would be an honor and a pleasure to serve the section as a Member-at-Large.
