Molly Brownfield
Reference Librarian and Lecturing Fellow
Molly Brownfield, a Reference Librarian and Lecturing Fellow, joined the Duke Law Library in July 2008. She received her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2004, her Master of Science in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information in 2006, and a B.A. in French and Comparative Areas Studies from Duke University in 2001. Prior to arriving at the Duke Law Library, she worked as a reference librarian at the Rutgers Law Library-Newark and as a Tarlton Fellow at the University of Texas School of Law's Tarlton Law Library.
Ms. Brownfield provides reference assistance, co-teaches a section of Legal Analysis, Research and Writing and coordinates the library's Faculty Research Assistants Program. She is a member of the American Association of Law Libraries, and served on the AALL Foreign, Comparative & International Law Special Interest Section's Strategic Plan Committee from 2006-2007. Ms. Brownfield is a member of the Illinois State Bar. In addition to Foreign, Comparative and International Law, her research interests include Information Literacy, and she is a co-recipient of the 2006/2007 AALL/Aspen Research Grant for a research study titled "Assessing Information Literacy of Law Students."