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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
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