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Cathy Cochran

Computer Services Librarian and Associate Professor
B.A., 1988, M.S.I.S., 1997, University of Tennessee

cochran@utk.edu

Professor Cochran joined the Law Library faculty in 2000. Some of her duties include maintaining the library's web site, participating in the design and development of the web catalog and coordinating efforts within the library that deal with electronic resources. Her most recent position before joining the Law Library faculty was business reference librarian at the Knox County Public Library. Prior to that, she worked as a librarian in the Government Documents Department at UT's Hodges Library. While pursuing a graduate degree in Information Sciences she was part of the full time staff at UT's Hodges Library in the Reference and Instructional Services Department where her primary responsibilities were teaching bibliographic instructions sessions for a variety of audiences, giving tours and assisting in the development of computer-based tutorials for library instruction. Current research interests include: evaluation of law library web sites; spousal rape exemptions in state statutes; using technology to support instructional efforts.

Publications

       Articles:

Going On-Line with Justice Pedagogy: Four Ways of Looking at a Web Site, 50 Villanova Law Review 875 (2005)(with Professor Fran Ansley).

Book reviews: A History of the Tennessee Supreme Court; Ely, James W. Editor; 54 TENN. Librarian No. 3 (2004).

Survey on Electronic Reserves; Briefs in Law Librarianship, AALL Publication Series No. 56 vol. 5, 2002.

"Tennessee Internet Treasures: Sites for K-12," with Anne Langley, 47 Tenn. Librarian 24-28 (1995).

"Tennessee Reviews: Bush, Florence Cope, Dorie: Woman of the Mountains." Cathleen Cochran-Ball, 45 Tenn. Librarian 49-50 (1993).

Selected Professional Presentations and Service

Co-presenter, with Professor Fran Ansley on panel, "Critical Pedagogies" at LatCrit IX conference, Malvern, Pennsylvania, April 2004.

Coordinated with UT Libraries Training, a teleconference titled "Safeguarding Our Patrons' Privacy: What every librarian needs to know about the USA PATROIT Act & Related Anti-terrorism Measures" December 2002.

Presented a component of a Continuing Legal Education program, "Legal Database Training for Business and Transactional Attorneys," at University of Tennessee College of Law, January 2000.

East Tennessee Chapter of American Society of Information Science and Technology, 2000 - 2002.

Workshop presentation for the Tennessee Library Association October 2000.

Site coordinator for American Association of Law Libraries teleconference, "Balancing Books and Bytes," April 2000.

Coordinated teleconference with UT Libraries on UCITA December 2000.

Presented "HTML Based Welcome Center," with Patty Lee at the Tennessee Library Association annual conference, 1997.

August 3, 2006