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Jacquelyn Gayle Kasper

Reference & Government Documents Librarian & Adjunct Assistant Professor of Legal Research

Room: 47
Email: jacquelyn.kasper@law.arizona.edu
Phone: 520.626.7139
Fax: 520.621.3138

Education

1988, J.D., University of Arizona College of Law
1966, M.S.L.S., University of Southern California
1965, B.A., graduation with honors, Kansas Wesleyan University

Bio

A reference librarian at the College of Law since 1990, Jacquelyn Kasper brought experience from working at the Arizona State Law Library, a county law library, as well as college, medical and public libraries. She provides subject expertise in Arizona legal materials and legal history, Indigenous peoples law and, as the Federal Depository Librarian, government documents. She is the research librarian for the Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy LLM Program at the College of Law. Jacquelyn is active in professional organizations and has published articles on various topics, including the life and work of Arizona's first woman lawyer, and a bibliography and research guide to Arizona prestatehood documents. She chaired the Intellectual Freedom Committee of the Arizona State Library Association and edited, and contributed to, a state guide for librarians on intellectual freedom and censorship.

Publications

Arizona Practice Materials: A Selective Annotated Bibliography (2009), in State Practice Materials: Annotated Bibliographies (Frank Houdek ed., 2002 - ).

Arizona Prestatehood Documents: An Annotated Bibliography and Research Guide, in Prestatehood Legal Materials: A Research Guide to the Fifty States including New York City and the District of Columbia (Michael Chiorazzi & Marguerite Most eds., 2005).

Arizona, in State-by-State Report on Permanent Public Access to Electronic Government Information 36 (Richard J. Matthews et al., eds., 2003), available at http://www.aallnet.org/aallwash/State_report.pdf.

Sarah Herring Sorin, Arizona's First Woman Lawyer, 12 W. Legal Hist. 211 (1999).

Arizona's First Woman Lawyer: Sarah Herring Sorin, 32 Ariz. Atty. 49 (Jan. 1996).

Intellectual Freedom Manual for Arizona Libraries (editor, 2d ed., 1995).

U.S. Government Documents: Selected Print and Online Sources

A Guide to Arizona Practice Materials at the College of Law Library

Government Documents at the College of Law Library

Guide to Primary Arizona Legal Materials

Arizona Legislative History: A Step-by-Step Research Guide