Mr. Potter is currently the Head of Public Services at the University of Iowa College of Law Library. He spent fifteen years at the University of Toledo Law Library, first as Acquisitions/Serials librarian, and then as a Reference / Public Services librarian. In 1998, Ted moved to Milwaukee to become the Associate Director of the Law Library at Marquette University, where he taught as an adjunct professor in the first-year and advanced legal research programs. He moved to his current position in 2005, where he participates in the first year legal research and writing program, and supervises reference, student computing support, circulation, interlibrary loan and looseleaf filing. His service to the profession includes AALL and regional association committee work, as well as serving as president of two law librarian associations (ORALL & LLAW), and stints on their executive boards. He currently serves on the ALL-SIS Faculty Services Committee.
There are many issues that are of concern to us all: in what concrete ways will changes to the ABA Standards for the Approval of Law Schools affect the way libraries and librarians participate in the mission of the law school? How do the competencies of law librarians figure in the status of librarians, if at all? Is empirical research the wave of the day or is it the new norm, and how do we adapt our training and competencies? What role do institutional repositories play in the access to scholarship and has the student-edited law review hit its zenith? How do we protect access to important content that is no longer subject to ownership, but must be repurchased after so many uses or a set time, like e-books? If these issues are of concern to you, I will work diligently to ask the difficult questions and listen carefully to your suggestions and solutions. Now, more than ever, we need your creativity and spirit of hard work and dedication to make our voices heard. I bring a breadth and depth of experience, across multiple libraries and from front-line looseleaf filing to middle management. It would be my privilege to serve you on the ALL-SIS executive board.
