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Law Library Directory

Library Faculty and Staff by name or by department

By Name

Adkins Collins Marshall Taylor
Best DeArmond McWilliams Tobin
Burns Freeman Offshack Tweed
Carter Gray Preuss
Childs Groah Price
Cochran Klavon Smalley

By Department

Administration
Acquisition & Serials Department
Cataloging Department
Network & Computing Services
Public Services/Circulation Department/Reference

Law Library Administration

Scott Childs    schilds3@utk.edu

(865) 974-6733. Associate Dean for Library and Information Technology/ Associate Professor in Law Library The Associate Dean is responsible for the overall administration of the Law Library and Information Technology for the Law College.

Reba Best    rbest2@utk.edu

(865) 974-6728. Associate Director of the Law Library/Professor in Law Library The Associate Director assists the Associate Dean in the administration of the Law Library.

de Thomis Burns     dburns3@utk.edu

(865) 974-4381.  Administrative Support Assistant. Performs general secretarial duties for the Law Library. Responsible for the monthly and biweekly payroll and leave records; for keeping account of fine, copy order, and other payments; and for verifying our equipment inventory.

Phyllis McWilliams     pmcwilli@utk.edu

(865) 974-6547.  Accounting Specialist I.  Pays invoices and reconciles statements.  Records the payment of some invoices on serials check-in cards and solves problems related to invoices and statements.

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Acquisitions & Serials Department

Loretta Price     mprice@utk.edu

(865) 974-9746.  Acquisitions & Serials Interim Department Head/Associate Professor in the Law Library.  Responsible for the acquisitions, serials, government depository functions of the Law Library.

Suzanne Smalley      ssmalley@utk.edu

(865) 974-4918. Library Departmental Supervisor. Responsible for ordering all materials for the Law Library.  Coordinates and supervises all related processes.

Dawn Adkins      dadkins@utk.edu

(865) 974-6726.  Library Supervisor III.  Establishes and maintains records for all serial publications purchased by the Library.  Supervises the serials updating processes and solves problems related to that portion of the library collection. U.S, Government Documents depository specialist. Responsible for receiving, maintaing records for, and solving problems related to GPO materials.

 

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Cataloging Department

 

Carol Collins     ccollin1@utk.edu

(865) 974-6552.  Interim Head of Cataloging/Associate Professor in the Law Library.  Responsible for cataloging and classifying; processing and binding; and maintenance of the online catalog. 

Sally Carter (Phyllis)     pcarter3@utk.edu

(865) 974-7075.  Library Supervisor III Oversees the integrity of the catalog, creates or obtains catalog records for complex serials, and manages the compact storage collection. Supervises and coordinates related processes.

Patty DeArmond     psd@utk.edu

(865) 974-6546. Senior Library Associate I.  Manages and supervises binding, preservation, and related functions. 

Sandy Klavon      sklavon@utk.edu  

(865) 974-9407. Senior Library Associate III. Creates or obtains catalog records for titles held by the library. Supervises the physical processing and coordinates related procedures. 

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Public Services/Circulation Department/Reference

Sibyl Marshall    smarshal@utk.edu

(865) 974-5906. Head of Public Services / Associate Professor in the Law Library.  Oversees Public Service functions (circulation, reference, interlibrary loan) in the College of Law Library. Teaches legal research classes and provides reference and research assistance.

Nathan Preuss    npreuss@utk.edu

(865) 974-6736. Reference Librarian / Assistant Professor in the Law Library.   Provides reference and research assistance, teaches legal research classes, and coordinates all legal research instruction.

Kris Tobin   ktobin3@utk.edu

(865) 974-0133. Reference Librarian / Assistant Professor in the Law Library.   Provides reference and research assistance, teaches legal research classes.

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Jeff Groah     jgroah@utk.edu

(865) 974-6731 Circulation Supervisor/Classroom Technology Coordinator IT Technologist III. Supervise the circulation functions (circulation, reserve, interlibrary loan & stacks management) in the College of Law Library. Hires and trains student workers. Responsible for classroom technology within the College of Law.

Beth Offshack      boffshac@utk.edu

(865) 974-7416. Circulation/Senior Library Associate II. Circulates materials, prepares reserve items, trains and supervises student workers, assists patrons, participates in document delivery and interlibrary loan programs.

Rebekah Tweed      rtweed@utk.edu

(865) 974-1823. Library Assistant /Interlibrary Loan/Circulation Responsible for the interlibrary loan program.  Supervises student workers, circulates materials, and assists patrons.

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Network and Computing Services

Jolyon (Joe) Gray    jcgray@utk.edu

(865) 974-2547.  IT Team Leader. Responsible for all the electronic services of the Law Library and the Law School.  Plans, manages, provides technical support for, and supervises the day-to-day operation of the College of Law's local area network (LAN), World Wide Web server, and computing infrastructure. 

Daniel Freeman        freeman@utk.edu

(865) 974- 0614. Senior IT Technologist II. Provides computer support for both the Law Library and the College of Law. Also installs and upgrades over 225 PC's and peripherals and provides software support to faculty, staff, and students of the entire College.

Mike Taylor      mtaylo72@utk.edu

(865) 974-6859. Senior IT Technologist II. Installs, configures, and troubleshoots PCs, printers, modems, scanners, light pens, network adapters, and other components and peripherals. Also installs, configures, and troubleshoots a standard set of end-user operating system and application software. Resolve hardware and software problems for faculty, staff, and students.

Cathy Cochran     cochran@utk.edu

(865) 974-0236. Computer Services Librarian/ Associate Professor in the Law Library. Responsible for access to electronic resources. Maintains and coordinates the Library's web pages. Supports the College of Law community on the campus institutional repository.

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Cheryn Picquet (865) 974-6729. Professor Emeritus

William J. Beintema     beintema@utk.edu Retired

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