Deputy Director, Law Library
Senior Lecturing Fellow
Melanie Dunshee is the Deputy Director of the Law Library and a Senior Lecturing Fellow. She is responsible for much of the day-to-day management of the library including developing the libraries
collections of print and electronic resources, personnel, and facilities matters. Library initiatives to collect and publicize faculty scholarship are coordinated by Ms. Dunshee including the
Recent Faculty Scholarship web page and the repository of faculty scholarship. Ms. Dunshee also serves as the Director of Legal Research Instruction and teaches in the first year legal research and
writing course, and participates in conducting various research workshops. Her areas of specialized research interest are in corporate, securities, tax and administrative law.
Ms. Dunshee received her J.D. and A.M.L.S. degrees from the University of Michigan and her undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota. She practiced law for several years and worked as a law firm librarian in Detroit, Michigan before coming to the Duke Law Library in the fall of 1994 as a reference librarian. She served as the Head of Reference Services from 2001-2004. Ms. Dunshee is active in various professional organizations including the Southeastern Chapter of the American Association of Law Libraries and the American Association of Law Libraries.
Her most recent publications are, North Carolina Colonial Legal Materials, in Prestatehood Legal Materials 837-857 (Michael Chiroazzi & Marguerite Most eds., Haworth 2006) (with Scott Childs); Bibliography, in Legal Opinion Letters - 2005 update (M. John Sterba, Jr. ed., 3d ed. 2003) (with M. John Sterba, Jr.).