The following is a list of contacts for some of the major services provided by the Law Library. If the service you need is not listed, please contact reference or your library liaison to request assistance:

For more information about employees, see the Library Directory.

Administration

Name:

Shawn G. Nevers

Title:

Law Library Director

Email:

neverss@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.8784

Primary Responsibilities:

Direct library operations. Facilitate faculty research and support. Oversee and maintain the library's electronic resources. Provide reference services and assistance to students, faculty and public patrons. Teach legal research.

Name:

Maureen Holman

Title:

Administrative Assistant

Email:

holmanm@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.7475

Primary Responsibilities:

Library maintenance, supply orders and inventory, basic support of Law Library Faculty and Staff. Schedule Law Library conference room and the Lee Reading Room.

Circulation

Name:

Melanie Coleman

Title:

Access Services Librarian

Email:

colemanm@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.3656

Primary Responsibilities:

Manage the overall process of circulation and supervise the student employees. Process routed and hold materials to law school faculty and ensure law school faculty needs are being met quickly and efficiently. Process InterLibrary Loan and Document Delivery requests to meet the needs of the law school faculty, staff, and students. Processes overdue items, damaged materials, fines and the overall process of requesting materials from libraries.

Collection Maintenance

Name:

Anne Moss

Title:

Collection Maintenance Assistant

Email:

mossa@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.7474

Primary Responsibilities:

Assist with collection organization, shelf management, and weeding of obsolete materials.

Public Services

Name:

Dennis S. Sears

Title:

Foreign & International Law Librarian

Email:

searsd@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.7472

Primary Responsibilities:

Responsible for the foreign, comparative, and international law (FCIL) collections. Teach first year legal research course. Provide reference assistance.

Name:

Kory D. Staheli

Title:

Senior Law Librarian

Email:

stahelik@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.9223

Primary Responsibilities:

Oversee collection development, select publications for purchase, provide faculty research assistance and support, and teach Legal Research courses.

Name:

Iantha Haight

Title:

Electronic Resources & Research Librarian

Email:

haighti@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.9023

Primary Responsibilities:

Legal reference, faculty research support and development, management of the library's electronic collections, and legal research instruction.

Name:

Annalee Hickman Pierson

Title:

Head of Reference and Faculty Services

Email:

HickmanA@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.3596

Primary Responsibilities:

Oversee legal reference and faculty services, provide faculty research assistance and support, and teach legal research.

Name:

Nick Hafen

Title:

Legal Technology Librarian

Email:

nick.hafen@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.2658

Primary Responsibilities:

Oversees legal technology trainings, law student technology certifications, and advanced technology learning platforms.

Student Services

Name:

Melanie Chao

Title:

Student Services and Outreach

Email:

chaom@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.9052

Primary Responsibilities:

Oversees library marketing and outreach. Manages student study carrels, study rooms, reference computers, building security, and keys.

Technical Services

Name:

Bonnie R. Geldmacher

Title:

Acquisitions Librarian / Head of Technical Services

Email:

geldmacherb@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.3572

Primary Responsibilities:

Acquires legal materials for the law library collection. Oversees cataloging and serials, looseleaf filing, donations, and the bindery.

Name:

Andrea Howard

Title:

Cataloging Specialist

Email:

howarda@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.1632

Primary Responsibilities:

Catalogs newly acquired print and electronic legal resources, processes old law material, and assists in paying for legal material for the Law Library.

Name:

Teresa Odam

Title:

Serials Librarian and Data Project Manager

Email:

odamt@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.3571

Primary Responsibilities:

Responsible for maintaining the serials collection in the Law Library. Coordinates with other Law Library employees to process data project requests from Law School and Law Library faculty.

Library and Networked Information Systems

Name:

David L. Armond

Title:

Head of Infrastructure and Technology

Email:

armondd@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.4258

Primary Responsibilities:

Lead the Library and Networked Information Department (LNIS) which supports, develops, and implements information technology within the Howard W. Hunter Law Library. Coordinate support with the Law School Computing Support Department for law school enterprise-wide information technology

Name:

Mark Harris

Title:

LNIS Manager & Programmer

Email:

harrism@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.9050

Primary Responsibilities:

Oversee technical aspects of the Library's electronic database collection. Maintain electronic resources to ensure they are accessible to faculty, students, and patrons of the Law Library and meet patron and institutional needs. Evaluate, implement and support programs and applications to better support the delivery of electronic information in the academic environment.

Name:

Laureen C. Urquiaga

Title:

Digital Resources Librarian / Law School Copyright Coordinator

Email:

urquiagal@law.byu.edu

Phone:

801.422.6657

Primary Responsibilities:

Manage the Library's presence on the web; overseeing website development, the digital archive, libguides and other web-related resources. Provide course packet support and monitor law school copyright compliance.

Law faculty have 24-hour access to the collection with their campus ID card.

General Library Schedule

Law school faculty have special borrowing privileges at the Law Library. Regular library materials are due in May of each year and may be renewed as needed. Journals may be checked out for one month. Non-circulating and reserve materials may also be checked out by special arrangement. No overdue fines are charged to law faculty for regular Law Library material. However, all items are subject to recall by the Lee Library or other patrons. Be aware that any fines accrued due to the late return of a recalled item are non-waivable.

To request material from the collection, faculty members may contact either their liaison or Melanie Coleman at (801) 422-3656 or lawill@law.byu.edu. Faculty may also come to the Circulation Desk on the second floor of the Library for assistance.

The Howard W. Hunter Law Library gratefully accepts gifts of books and other materials. Gifts are accepted with the understanding that the law library retains discretion to utilize or dispose of the items as warranted by library needs. Upon written request, at the time of donation, gifts not added to the library collection will be returned to the donor. Unless requested otherwise, a letter of acknowledgement will be sent to the donor of each gift. The library does not assign a value to gift materials. Contact Bonnie Geldmacher at 801-422-3572 for all gifts and donations.