Library & Technology

Staff

Administration

Richard A. Danner

Dick manages and administers the Duke Law School Information Services team, which includes the Law Library as well as the Academic Technologies department.

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Melanie J. Dunshee

Melanie is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Library, including developing the collections of print and electronic resources, as well as personnel and facilities matters. Melanie also coordinates initiatives to collect and expose the faculty's scholarship.

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Sue Hicks

Sue is responsible for the Library’s business operations, including payroll and human resources.

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Collection Services

Janeen J. Gammage

Janeen manages and administers all aspects of the Collection Services Department, and provides supervision and coordination of borrower services including circulation, reserves, interlibrary loan, and collection management.

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Francine Clarke

Francine is responsible for superseding and updating legal research materials and maintaining the government documents collection.  She supervises the circulation desk assistants and provides assistance in locating library materials.

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Lee Cloninger

Lee is responsible for all aspects of interlibrary loan, including request processing and notification.

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Tina Moore

Tina serves as the weekend desk supervisor, manages and coordinates the collection of serial publications for commercial binding, and maintains the microforms collection. She is also responsible for the faculty office routing service.

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David Swearingen

David coordinates and manages looseleaf filing and conducts searches for missing library materials. He is the evening desk supervisor and provides assistance in locating library materials.

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Reference Services

Lauren M. Collins

Lauren manages and administers all aspects of the Reference Department, including the Reference Desk and faculty services. She also provides reference assistance and teaches in the first-year legal research program.

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Jennifer Behrens

Jennifer provides reference assistance, in addition to teaching in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs, managing the Library’s government documents collection, and coordinating development of the Library website.

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Molly Brownfield

Molly provides reference assistance, co-teaches a section of Legal Analysis, Research and Writing and coordinates the library's Faculty Research Assistants Program.

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Mirya Holman

Mirya provides faculty and staff with empirical research support, including assistance with locating statistics, designing surveys, and interpreting data.

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Amy Taylor

Amy provides reference assistance, co-teaches a section of Legal Analysis, Research and Writing and coordinates the library's Empirical Legal Research Program.

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Katherine Topulos

Katherine is the Foreign & International Law Librarian, and provides general and specialized reference assistance. She teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs, and also coordinates the Library’s rare book collection.

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Technical Services

Karen Douglas

Karen manages and administers all aspects of the Technical Services department and works on special department projects. She is also responsible for preservation of the library collections.

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Shyama Agrawal

Shyama supervises operations of ordering, claiming and receiving all library materials, including electronic resources, and is responsible for monitoring the library budget and compiling statistical reports.

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Kathleen Bothwell

Kathleen performs tasks related to tracking and updating receipt of serials and supplements, and updates this information in the online catalog. She is the troubleshooter for serial claims and other problems.

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Tonya Cates

Tonya creates orders for library materials and downloads records for the online catalog. She also receives depository government document shipments and checks in treatise supplements.

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Sean Chen

Sean performs a wide variety of cataloging tasks, including foreign language items and original cataloging, and creates reports from the catalog system. He also catalogs electronic serials and adds link resolver records.

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Yvonne Dittmar

Yvonne is responsible for checking in new journals, claiming issues not received, and preparing items to send to the commercial bindery. She also repairs damaged books.

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Doris Hinson

Doris supervises cataloging operations and ensures cataloging standards and procedures are followed. Doris is responsible for complex and original cataloging, and maintenance of catalog records.

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Paul Norris

Paul is responsible for basic cataloging, updating records in microfiche, and processing of library materials.

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Marsha Perry

Marsha is responsible for paying invoices, and maintaining and reconciling financial records for library acquisitions funds. She is also responsible for receiving new acquisitions and solving delivery problems.

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