General Information

Whom to Contact for What

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:

Bindery	Bonnie Geldmacher
Bloomberg Passwords	Iantha Haight
Book Checkout and Renewal	Circulation Desk or Melanie Coleman
Carrels	Dianne Davenport
Cataloging	Andrea Howard
CILP Service	Contact your library liaison
Collection Development	Kory Staheli
Copyright Questions & Permission Requests	Laurie Urquiaga
Course Reserve	Melanie Coleman
Document Digitization Requests	Melanie Coleman
Electronic Database Training	Iantha Haight
Interlibrary Loan, Document Delivery, & Lee Library Requests	Melanie Coleman
Gifts and Donations	Bonnie Geldmacher
Government Documents	Reference or your library liaison
Group Study Rooms	Dianne Davenport
Keys	Dianne Davenport
Lexis Passwords	Iantha Haight
Library Instruction	Annalee Hickman Pierson
Library Policies	Kory Staheli or Shawn Nevers
Lost & Found	Circulation Desk
Microforms	Reference or your library liaison
Missing Books	Chelsea Frandsen
New Material Requests	Kory Staheli or your library liaison
Notary Requests	Melanie Coleman, Maureen Holman or Bonnie Geldmacher
Overdues/Fines	Melanie Coleman
Preservation/Book Repair	Bonnie Geldmacher
Reference Questions	Reference or any Reference Librarian
Routing Material	Teresa Odam
Security	Dianne Davenport
Website Feedback	Laurie Urquiaga
Westlaw Passwords	Iantha Haight

For more information about employees, see the Library Directory.

revised: 28 September 2021

Library Faculty and Staff

Administration

Name:	Kory D. Staheli	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Law Library Director	Policy, planning, management services, reference assistance, select publications for purchase, and teach Legal Research courses.
Email:	stahelik@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.9223

Name:	Shawn G. Nevers	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Deputy Law Librarian	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. Assist with Westlaw/Lexis Nexis user passwords.
Email:	neverss@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.8784

Name:	Maureen Holman	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Administrative Assistant	Library maintenance, supply orders and inventory, basic support of Law Library Faculty and Staff. Schedule Law Library conference room and the Lee Reading Room.
Email:	holmanm@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.7475

Circulation

Name:	Melanie Coleman	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Access Services Librarian	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.
Email:	colemanm@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.3656

Collection Maintenance

Name:	Dianne Davenport	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Collection and Student Services Librarian	Library public relations, student study carrels, building security and keys.
Email:	davenportd@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.9052

Public Services

Name:	Dennis S. Sears	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Foreign & International Law Librarian	Responsible for the foreign, comparative, and international law (FCIL) collections. Teach first year legal research course. Provide reference assistance.
Email:	searsd@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.7472

Name:	Iantha Haight	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Electronic Resources & Research Librarian	Legal reference, faculty research support and development, management of the library's electronic collections, and legal research instruction.
Email:	haighti@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.9023

Name:	Annalee Hickman Pierson	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Head of Reference and Faculty Services	Oversee legal reference and faculty services, provide faculty research assistance and support, and teach legal research.
Email:	HickmanA@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.3596

Technical Services

Name:	Bonnie R. Geldmacher	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Acquisitions Librarian / Head of Technical Services	Acquires legal materials for the law library collection. Oversees cataloging and serials, looseleaf filing, donations, and the bindery.
Email:	geldmacherb@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.3572

Name:	Andrea Howard	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Cataloging Specialist	Catalogs newly acquired print and electronic legal resources, processes old law material, and assists in paying for legal material for the Law Library.
Email:	howarda@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.1632

Name:	Teresa Odam	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Serials Librarian and Data Project Manager	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.
Email:	odamt@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.3571

Name:	Melanie Chao	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Technical Services Assistant	Provides assistance within the technical services department, including ordering/receiving, processing/maintaining the library catalog, mending/binding, and other related work as assigned.
Email:	chaom@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.5192

Library and Networked Information Systems

Name:	David L. Armond	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Head of Infrastructure and Technology	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
Email:	armondd@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.4258

Name:	Mark Harris	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	LNIS Manager & Programmer	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.
Email:	harrism@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.9050

Name:	Laureen C. Urquiaga	Primary Responsibilities:
Title:	Digital Resources Librarian / Law School Copyright Coordinator	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.
Email:	urquiagal@law.byu.edu
Phone:	801.422.6657

revised: 5 August 2021

Library Access and Hours for Law Faculty

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

General Library Schedule

revised: 5 August 2021

Borrowing Privileges for Law School Faculty

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.

revised: 5 August 2021

Gifts and Donations

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.

revised: 7 September 2021

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