Staff Directory
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Richard A. Danner
- Senior Associate Dean for Information Services
- zad@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7115
Dick manages and administers the Duke Law School Information Services team, which includes the Law Library as well as the Academic Technologies department.
Melanie J. Dunshee
- Assistant Dean for Library Services
- dunshee@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7119
Melanie is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Library, including developing the collections of print and electronic resources, as well as personnel and facilities matters. Melanie also coordinates initiatives to collect and expose the faculty's scholarship.
Sue Hicks
- Business Manager
- hicks@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7114
Sue is responsible for the Library’s business operations, including payroll and human resources.
Acquisitions
Shyama Agrawal
- Acquisitions Librarian
- agrawal@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7070
Shyama supervises operations of ordering, claiming and receiving all library materials, including electronic resources, and is responsible for monitoring the library budget and compiling statistical reports.
Kathleen Bothwell
- Library Associate - Serials
- bothwell@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7067
Kathleen performs tasks related to maintaining and updating the serials collection. She also serves as the troubleshooter for serial claims and other serials problems.
Tonya Cates
- Library Assistant Senior
- cates@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7064
Tonya creates orders for library materials and downloads records for the online catalog. She also receives depository government document shipments and checks in treatise supplements.
Marsha Perry
- Accounting Specialist
- perry@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7063
Marsha is responsible for paying invoices, and maintaining and reconciling financial records for library acquisitions funds. She is also responsible for receiving new acquisitions and solving delivery problems.
Cataloging/Digital Resources
Sean Chen
- Digital Resources Librarian
- schen@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7028
Sean is responsible for the development and maintenance of services to improve access to information resources, including the cataloging of library materials and the support of metadata services for the Law School scholarship repository and library website.
Collection Services
Karen B. Douglas
- Head of Collection Services
- douglas@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7116
Karen manages and administers all aspects of the Collection Services Department, and provides supervision and coordination of borrower services including circulation, reserves, interlibrary loan, and collection management.
Francine Clarke
- Library Assistant Senior
- clarke@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7125
Francine is responsible for superseding and updating legal research materials and maintaining the government documents collection. She also handles the processing of interlibrary loan lending requests.
Lee Cloninger
- Library Assistant Senior
- cloninger@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7122
Lee is responsible for the processing of interlibrary loan borrowing requests. He also handles course reserves and works with the library’s archival collections.
Joel Lammers
- Library Assistant Senior
- joel.lammers@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7129
- Library Associate - Circulation Manager
- tmoore@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7127
- Library Assistant
- norris@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7066
- Digital Initiatives Librarian
- hollie.white@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-8560
- Head of Reference Services
- behrens@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7198
- Foreign & International Law Reference Librarian
- alayan@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7118
- Reference Librarian
- bahnson@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7113
- Reference Librarian
- leong@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7041
- Empirical Research Analyst
- guangya.liu@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7178
- Reference Librarian
- most@law.duke.edu
- 919-613-7120
- Reference Intern
- steele@law.duke.edu
Joel staffs the Circulation Desk on evenings and Sundays. He is also responsible for the binding and preservation of library materials.
Tina Moore
Tina manages all circulation functions, including overdues and hold requests. She is responsible for hiring and training student workers and resolving user complaints and problems with circulation functions. Tina also manages the faculty routing service.
Paul Norris
Paul is responsible for maintaining the microforms collection, loose-leaf filing, processing of library material and collection maintenance projects.
Digital Initiatives
Hollie White
Hollie coordinates and develops the Law School Scholarship Repository and provides digital applications support for faculty scholarship/instruction and library service assessment. She also develops and manages digitization projects for the library.
Reference Services
Jennifer L. Behrens
Jennifer manages and administers all aspects of the Reference Services Department, including the service desk, first-year legal research instruction, and faculty services. She also provides reference assistance, teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs, and coordinates the library's web presence.
Kristina Alayan
Kristina provides general and specialized foreign, comparative & international law reference assistance. She also teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs.
Jane Bahnson
Jane provides reference assistance and teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs. She also coordinates the library's Empirical Legal Research Program and Faculty Research Assistants Program.
Kelly Leong
Kelly provides reference assistance and teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs. She also coordinates the library's New Titles current awareness service for faculty.
Guangya (Ya) Liu
Ya provides support for empirical research to the Law School faculty, including consultation on coding schemes, location of data sets, analysis of existing data, or interpretation of statistics.
Marguerite Most
Marguerite provides reference assistance and teaches in the first-year and LL.M. legal research programs. She also coordinates the library's rare book collection.
Jane Steele
Jane provides reference assistance at the library service desk, and also assists the Reference Services staff with faculty research projects, preparation for instruction, and updating the library guides and website.

