Michael Chiorazzi, 1954 –

Hall of Fame Induction: 2012

Significant AALL Service

Michael Chiorazz

  • Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect, Legal History and Rare Book Special Interest Section, 1989–90
  • Chair, Legal History and Rare Book Special Interest Section, 1990–91
  • Member, Special Committee on the History of Law Librarianship, 1994–96
  • Chair, Special Committee on Training the Next Generation of Law Librarians, 2005–07
  • Representative to Association for Library and Information Science Education, 2008–10

Professional Honors and Awards

  • AALL Law Library Publication Award (with Kathryn Christie and Claire Germain), 1984
  • AALL Call for Papers Award, 1987
  • Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award (with Marguerite Most), 2007
  • Leslie F. and Patricia Bell Faculty Award, University of Arizona College of Law, 2006–07
  • Leslie F. and Patricia Bell Faculty Award (with John Strong), University of Arizona College of Law, 2010–11
  • AALL Hall of Fame, Inductee, 2012
  • AALL Distinguished Lectureship Award, 2013
  • Marian Gould Gallagher Distinguished Service Award, 2022
  • Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award, 2023
  • Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section Book Award, 2023

Selected Publications by the Inductee

  • “Statistics in Litigation: A Selective Bibliography,” Law and Contemporary Problems 46, no. 4 (1983): 297–303.
  • “Tax Reform During President Reagan’s First Four Years: A Selective Bibliography,” Law and Contemporary Problems, 48, no. 4 (1983): 301–09.
  • “Selected Annotated Bibliography.” In U.S. Immigration Policy, Richard R. Hofstetter, ed. Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1984.
  • Review of The Process of Legal Research, by Christina Kunz et al. Journal of Paralegal Education 3 (1986): 49–51.
  • Review of The Appointment of Judges: The Johnson Presidency, by Neil D. McFeeley. Duke Law Magazine, Winter 1988, 52.
  • “Empirical Studies in Civil Procedure: A Selected Annotated Bibliography,” Law and Contemporary Problems 51, no. 3 (1988): 87–207.
  • “Francois-Xavier Martin: Printer, Lawyer, Jurist,” Law Library Journal 80 (1988): 63–97.
  • Review of Lexis: A Legal Research Manual, by Kathleen Carrick, Lexis: The Complete User’s Guide, by Fred Shapiro. Law Library Journal 82 (1990): 551–54.
  • Law Librarianship: Historical Perspectives, Laura N. Gasaway and Michael G. Chiorazzi, eds. AALL Publication Series No. 52. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1996.
  • “William R. Roalfe: Builder of Libraries, Scholar, Association Animal.” In Law Librarianship: Historical Perspectives, Laura N. Gasaway and Michael G. Chiorazzi, eds., 215–60. AALL Publication Series No. 52. Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1996.
  • “A Changing of the Guard,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 18, no. 1 (1999): 1–2.
  • “Just Another Wednesday Night,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 18, no. 4 (2000): 1–5.
  • “Tales from the Reference Desk: The Naked Guy,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 21, no. 1 (2002): 1–4.
  • “Books, Bytes, Bricks, and Bodies: Thinking about Collection Use in Academic Law Libraries,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 21, no. 2/3 (2002): 1–28.
  • “Parable of the Power and the Danger of the Internet,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 22, no. 2/3 (2003): 1–6.
  • “Vignettes of Julius Marke,” Law Library Journal 96 (2004): 20–22.
  • “The Next Twenty-Five Years of LRSQ (editorial),” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 25, no. 4 (2006): 5–11.
  • Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide, Including New York City and the District of Columbia, Michael G. Chiorazzi and Marguerite Most, eds. N.Y.: Haworth Information Press, 2006.
  • “Commentaries on Hick’s ‘Teaching Legal Bibliography’: With an Addendum by Bob Berring,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 28 (2009): 9–30 (with Shaun Esposito).
  • “Legal Research Boot Camp: One Approach to Meeting the Research Needs of Law Students,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 30 (2011): 299–309 (with Cynthia Condit).
  • “Remembering Who We Are,” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 34 (2015): 101–04.
  • “Mentoring, Teaching, and Training the next Generation of Law Librarians: Past and Present as Prologue to the Future,” Law Library Journal 106 (2014): 69–83.
  • The Role of Citation in the Law: A Yale Law School Symposium, Michael G. Chiorazzi, ed. AALL Publications Series No. 86. Getzville, NY: William S. Hein & Co., 2022.

Selected Publications about the Inductee

  • “Michael Chiorazzi, Law Librarian/Legal Information Specialist.” In Kenney Hegland, Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law In a Nutshell, 394–96. St. Paul, MN: West Group, 1999.
  • Margaret K. Maes, “Entering the Hall of Fame: AALL Honors Bintliff, Chiorazzi, Hein, and Surrency for Professional Leadership,” AALL Spectrum 16 (July 2012): 16–17.
  • Michael Chiorazzi, Interview. In An Oral History of Law Librarianship, interviewed by Frank G.
    Houdek, July 14, 2013, videorecording. Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf, HeinOnline.
  • Richard Leiter, “Joseph L. Andrews Award Celebrates Achievements in Legal Literature,” AALL Spectrum 27, no. 6 (July/August 2023): 43–44.

Professional Positions

  • Reference Librarian and Instructor in Legal Research, Duke University Law Library, 1981–89
  • Deputy Director and Instructor in Legal Research, Boston College Law Library, 1989–96
  • Associate Dean for Information Services and Professor of Law, University of Arizona College of Law Library, 1996–present
  • Professor of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science, 1998–present

Education

  • B.A., University of Miami, 1976
  • J.D., Gonzaga University, 1980
  • M.L.L. (Masters in Law Librarianship), University of Washington, 1981

Selected Professional Activities & Achievements (outside AALL)

  • Executive Board, Consortium of Southeastern Law Libraries, 1988–89
  • University of Arizona College of Law, AALS Delegate, House of Representatives, 1997–present
  • Member, Law Libraries Committee, ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, 1998–2001
  • Editor, Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 1999–present