News & Events
The Colorado Bar Exam will begin tomorrow, February 23, 2021!
The William A. Wise Law Library will host bar exam takers on both Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The bar exam is scheduled to take place between 8 AM and 6 PM both days. Signs will be posted to help direct bar exam takers to the appropriate area. Non-bar exam takers are requested to be mindful and respectful in the areas where bar examines are located.
The William A. Wise Law Library wishes all exam takers the best of luck on this exam!
Baylee Suskin is very excited to begin her new role as Access Services and Research Librarian at the library, and is ready to answer any of the law school community's questions about our current and updated library access guidelines. Baylee became the Access Services and Research Librarian on January 1, 2021. In her role, she supervises the circulation desk, provides reference services, and assists with instruction for the Foundations in Legal Research course. Prior to joining the William A. Wise Law Library, Baylee served the University of Denver Westminster Law Library as the Digital Initiatives Intern and spent five years conducting legal and editorial research for a national weekly newspaper. Baylee has volunteered in elder law and domestic violence clinics and takes an interest in issues of public service and access to justice. She is the current President-Elect of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Special Libraries Association and is an active member of the Colorado Association of Law Libraries. Outside of work, Baylee loves to bake, drink tea, and explore Colorado's great outdoors with her family.
The William A. Wise Law Library's Instructional Services and Research Librarian, Jill Sturgeon, and the Law Library Fellow, Aamir Abdullah, presented during the "Tech Talk: Technologies for the Virtual & Hybrid Classrooms" for the Teaching the Teachers Virtual Conference on Monday, December 7, 2020. More information can be found here: https://elibrary.law.psu.edu/tttconference/2020/Schedule/11/.
The William A. Wise Law Library's current Law Library Fellow, Aamir Abdullah, contributed a post to the DipLawMatic FCIL-SIS (Foreign, Comparative, & International Law-Special Interest Section) blog, recapping the 2020 Virtual Law Via the Internet Conference. Read the full post here.
Rebecca Ciota is joining the William A. Wise Law Library as the Technology & Web Services Librarian. Ciota has four years of experience at Grinnell College, as their Discovery and Integrated Systems Librarian. Their duties at Grinnell College, in addition to overseeing Grinnell College’s institutional repository and migrating the integrated library system, included providing instruction and research consultation. Ciota received their undergraduate degree from Oberlin College in 2014, and their Masters of Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2016. Ciota’s scholarly interests include issues of access to enable participation in democracy, furthering student persistence in their field of study, digital scholarship, oral histories, and library technology.
Boulder, Colo. – Lauren Seney has been named Associate Director and Head of Technical Services at the William A. Wise Law Library at the University of Colorado Law School. Seney begins her new role in January 2020.
Seney comes to Colorado Law with nearly fifteen years of law library experience. Most recently, she was the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Wolf Law Library at the College of William & Mary Law School in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she was also an adjunct professor teaching law and literature courses. Seney began her career at the College of William & Mary Law School as an access and technical services librarian.
Seney brings a wide breadth of knowledge across technical services, library systems, and institutional repositories/digital archives to her new position. She is active in professional associations at both the regional and national levels, and is a well-respected and nationally recognized expert on law school repositories. Her professional activities include chairing both the Technical Services Section and Law Repository Caucus of the American Association of Law Libraries as well as chairing the steering committee for a highly successful, cutting-edge national conference on law school repositories.
Seney obtained a Masters in Information Science from the University of Tennessee in 2008 and received her Digital Archives Specialist Certification from the Society of American Archivists in 2014.
She replaces Georgia Briscoe, who was Associate Director and Head of Technical Services of the William A. Wise Law Library and a member of the faculty at Colorado Law for nearly 27 years. Briscoe retired from the law school in January 2019 and was awarded Emeritus status by the Colorado Law faculty.
About University of Colorado Law School
Established in 1892, the University of Colorado Law School (www.colorado.edu/law) is one of the top public law schools in the United States. Located at the base of the inspiring Rocky Mountains, Colorado Law’s curriculum, research centers, and experiential learning opportunities prepare students for success in today’s changing legal environment. Its diverse student body represents over 100 undergraduate institutions, and last fall, the school welcomed its most diverse 1L class ever. A deliberately low student-to-faculty ratio enables meaningful engagement between faculty and students inside and outside the classroom. The school’s nine clinics and three research centers focus on the school’s nationally recognized areas of strength, including natural resources and environmental law, American Indian law, juvenile and family law, business and entrepreneurial law, and technology and intellectual property law. Colorado Law’s graduates thrive in a variety of professional settings and fields across Colorado and nationwide.
Published in the November / December 2019 issue of AALL Spectrum, this article is a behind-the-scenes look at algorithims that rank results in Bloomberg Law, Fastcase, Lexis Advance, and Westlaw.
Law Library Fellow Gerard Fowke had his article titled "Librarians Before Congress: Advocacy and Identity" published in the current issue of Legal Reference Services Quarterly. The article explores the connection between congressional testimony and political identity for libraries. Researchers can access the article on the LRSQ website.
The Clifford Calhoun Service Award is given to Prof. Thompson in recognition of her commitment to public service, and ongoing contributions to the legal community, which exemplify the spirt and tradition of Professor Calhoun’s altruistic career. She will be honored by the law school at the Faculty and Staff Awards Lunch held on May 14, 2019.
The Technical Services Special Interest Section Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the recipient of the 2019 Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award for Outstanding Contributions in Technical Services Law Librarianship is Karen Selden.
Karen is the Metadata Services Librarian and Interim Head of Technical Services at the William A. Wise Law Library, University of Colorado Law School. Karen's distinguished service to law library technical services and law librarianship in general include leadership roles at the local, regional, and national levels, active committee service, significant publications and scholarly work, and numerous conference presentations.
Karen joined the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) in 1998, and currently serves as a Member-at-Large on the AALL Board where she brings to the Association a much-needed technical services perspective. On her path to AALL leadership, Karen brought her considerable skills and energy to both the Technical Services Special Interest Section (TS-SIS) and the Online Bibliographic Services Special Interest Section (OBS-SIS) as an active member, chairing and participating in committees, proposing and presenting educational programs on cutting edge issues of importance to technical services librarians, and of interest to public service librarians, as well.
The Renee D. Chapman Memorial Award recognizes extended and sustained distinguished service to technical services law librarianship and to AALL, in memory of Renee D. Chapman, former head of technical services at the Charles B. Sears Law Library at the State University of New York at Buffalo and chair of the TS-SIS in 1988-1989.