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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

Institutional Service
Chair, Building Committee 2005 - 2009
Ad Hoc Budget Committee 2008 - 2009
Curriculum Committee 1996 - 2001; 2003 - present
College of Law Library/Information Technology Committee 1997 - 2007; Chair 1998 - 1999, 2004 - 2005
College of Law Library United Way Representative 1996 - present
Chair, Space Planning Committee 2001
College of Law Library Curriculum Committee 1996 - 2001
Ad Hoc Information Technology Committee 1997 - 2001; Chair, 1998 - 1999
Ad Hoc Space Planning Committee, Chair 1999 - 2000
Dean Search Committee 1998; 2008 - 2009
Community Service Award Committee 1999
ABA Self-Study Team 1998
Acting Director of First Year Moot Court Program 1998 (Spring)
Member, State Law Librarian Search Committee 1998
Awards
AALL Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographic Award (with Marguerite Most) (recognizes significant contribution to legal bibliographical literature)  2007
AALL Call for Papers Award  1987
AALL Law Library Publication Award (with Kathryn Christie and Claire Germain)  1984
   
       
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