University of Arizona Rogers College of Law

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UA Law | Faculty - Updated 10/09/2009

Faculty Profile
Michael Chiorazzi
Academic Title: Associate Dean for Information Services, Professor of Law and Information Resources & Library Science
E-mail: Michael Chiorazzi
Office Number: 127
Office Phone: (520) 621-5477
Office Fax: (520) 621-3138
Courses Taught:
Legal Research and Writing

Intermediate Legal Research

Advanced Legal Research

Law Library Practice and Administration

Teaching Legal Research

Curriculum Vitae
Personal Webpage

Education

University of Washington, M. Law Libr. (1981)

Gonzaga University, J.D. (1980)

University of Miami, B.A. (1976)

Personal Work Experience

Professor of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library Science, University of Arizona, 1998 - present

Director and Professor of Law, Law Library, James E. Rogers College of Law, 1996 - present

Deputy Director and Instructor in Legal Research, Boston College Law Library, 1989 - 1996

Reference Librarian, Duke University Law Library, 1981 - 1989

Senior Instructor in Legal Research, Duke University Law Library, 1986 - 1989

Instructor in Legal Research, Duke University Law Library, 1981 - 1986

Representative Publications

Commentaries on Hicks’ ‘Teaching Legal Bibliography’: With an Addendum by Robert Berring, 28 Legal Reference Services Q. 9 (2009) (co-author, with Shaun Esposito).

Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Fifty-State Research Guide, Including New York City and the District of Columbia (2005) (co-editor, with Marguerite Most, and author of Preface xxix).

Books, Bytes, Bricks and Bodies: Thinking About Collection Use In Academic Law Libraries, 21 Legal Reference Services Q. 1 (2002), reprinted in Law Library Collection Development in the Digital Age 1 (Michael Chiorazzi & Gordon Russell eds., 2002) and available at http://www.law.arizona.edu/Library/research/guides/paretoarticle.cfm?page=research"

Law Librarianship: Historical Perspectives (1996) (co-editor, with Laura N. Gasaway & author of William R. Roalfe: Builder of Libraries, Scholar, Association Animal 215). [Law Reserve Z 675.L2 L3837 1996]. [The article is also available at: http://www.law.arizona.edu/Library/research/guides/lawlibrarian.cfm?page=research

Complete List of Publications

Presentations

Speaker, Law Library Directors: Who Are We Today? Librarian, Administrator, Faculty Member (AALS 2008 Mid-Year Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio, June 2, 2008).

Organizer and Speaker, AALL Leadership and Management Institute (Tucson, Ariz., Mar. 2007).

Speaker, Publishing Legal History: The Prestatehood Project (Westpac Conference, Las Vegas, Nev., Sept. 25, 2006).

Complete List of Presentations

Organizations

Desert States Law Library Consortium 2003 - present

American Association of Law Libraries 1981 - Present

Committee on Indexing of Legal Periodicals, 1983; Committee on Relations with Dealers and Publishers, 1984 - 1986; Legal History and Rare Book Special Interest Section, Vice-Chair, Chair-Elect 1989 - 1990; Chair 1990 - 1991; Boston Meeting Local Arrangements, 1993; Special Committee on the History of Law Librarianship 1994 - 1996; Special Committee on Training the Next Generation Of Law Librarians, 2005 - 2007

Association of American Law Schools 1981 - Present

Delegate, AALS House of Representatives 1997 - present

Southwestern Association of Law Libraries 1996 - Present

Arizona Association of Law Libraries 1996 - Present

Consortium of Arizona Law Libraries 1996 - Present

American Bar Association 1998 - 2002

Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, Law Libraries Committee

Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries 1981 - 1989

Newsletter Committee, 1983 - 1984; Membership Committee, 1985 - 1987; Chair, 1985 - 1986

Consortium of Southeastern Law Libraries 1988 - 1989

Executive Board

Law Librarians of New England 1989 - 1996