Paul D. Callister, JD, MSLIS
Curriculum Vitae
Director of the Leon E. Bloch
& Associate Professor of Law
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University of Missouri-Kansas City
Email: callisterp@umkc.edu
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Education
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· JD Cornell University (1991). Certified Concentration: Business Law and Regulation. Academic Accomplishments: Editor-in-Chief, Cornell International Law Journal.
· BA Brigham Young University (1988). Major: Philosophy.
Professional Experience
Current Position
Director of the Leon E. Bloch
Philosophy of Law Librarianship
A law library may be thought of and administered in five fundamental modes: library as stacks, library as portal, library as social knowledge networks, library as informational impact, and library as communal space and forum for self and group-directed learning. The director’s job is to see and care for the library in each of these modes. See article, Seeing the “Whole Elephant” in “Book Chapters,” listed at p. 9, for detailed account of philosophy.
Current Professional Responsibilities
· Administration
o Seventeen employees (excluding student employees)
o Budget of $1.8 million (2008-09)
o Oversee computer networking and technology support at the UMKC School of Law
o 514 students and 33 faculty
· Courses
o Cyberlaw and Information Policy (taught in fall since 2004, 3 credit hrs)
o Entrepreneurial Lawyering: Solo and Small Firm Practice (co-teach 1 unit only, 2 credit hrs)
o Advanced Legal Research: Transactional Law (teach February mini-term,1 credit hrs)
o Humanity, Emotion, and the Law (co-taught unit on “Law, Emotion, and Economics,” 1 credit hr, February mini-term 2008)
o Independent writing and research papers for course credit
o Legal Research Boot Camp (oversaw its creation, now a 1-credit hour course, Bridging the Research Gap: From Classroom to Practice, offered by other librarians in Spring intersession)
o Advanced Legal Research & Writing: Scholarly Writing (co-taught, 1 credit hr)
o Introduction to the Law (fall 2003, 2004, research component to for the school's foreign LL.M. program, 1 credit hr)
Previous Academic & Professional Employment
· Reference Law Librarian & Assistant Professor of Library Administration, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law (2000-2003).
Tenure-track position through the university library faculty. Charged with reference and research, instruction and website design.
· Library Intern. University of Southern California School of Law (Spring 2000).
Provided reference and instructional services as part of an internship program while still in library school.
· Shareholder, Callister & Callister, A Law Corporation, Glendale, California (1991-2000).
Family firm established in 1928 in
Scholarly & Professional Publications
Research and Publishing Interests
· The relationship of the information environment to jurisprudence, the rule of law, the progression of arts and sciences, and the evolution of government and legal institutions.
· The pedagogy of legal research instruction, including its history, appropriate responses to changes in the information environment, and the beneficial use of conceptual models.
In Process
·
Time to Blossom:
An Inquiry into the Virtues of Bloom’s Taxonomy as a Means to Ordered Legal
Research Skills.
Invited submission for Boulder Summer Conference—Legal
Information Scholarship and Teaching (June 2009 at U. Colorado School of Law). Selected
papers to appear in Legal References
Services Quarterly (draft submitted May 2009).
· Thinking like a Research Expert: Conceptual Frameworks for Teaching Complex Problem-Solving Skills.
Invited submission for special, double issue of Legal References Services Quarterly (currently in page proofs, 2009).
·
The Rule
of Law and the Book as Icon: Lessons from Seventeenth-Century
Chapter proposal accepted after double-blind review
from among 250 abstract submissions for a treatise on legal visual semiotics, Treatise on Legal Visual Semiotics,
Anne Wagner, Sophie Cacciaguidi-Fahy & Richard Sherwin eds., Springer SBM
publisher (anticipated 2010, finished chapter must still go through blind
review).
·
Books
above the Throne: The Ascension of the Book and the Actualization of Rule of
Law in 17th -Century
Manuscript is in draft form. Intention of publishing as
a book and some chapters as related articles). The book applies “media theory”
to seventeenth-century
· Revision of Digital Content Licensing for third edition of Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science.
Revision of 2 Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 2d 873-83 (2003) (currently in final page proofs). Article adds Kathleen Hall as co-author.
Peer-Reviewed Journals
· Law and Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology: A Prolegomenon to Future Law Librarianship, 99 Law Library Journal 285-305 (2007).
Published paper from “Legal Information and the
Development of American Law: Further Thinking about the Thoughts of Bob
Berring,” an invited symposium presentation (Boalt Hall,
Also published as chapter in Legal Information and the Development of American Law: A Collection of Essays Inspired by the Contributions of Robert C. Berring 121-145 (Richard A. Danner & Frank G. Houdek eds., 2008); as chapter in Legal Issues of Technology (solicited for inclusion in forthcoming book, Icfia University Press, Amicus Books, India, anticipated fall 2009); and as article in International Journal of the Book (forthcoming 2009).
Cited in AALL Special Interest Section, Foreign,
Comparative and International Law Sis, Recommended
Selected by SSRN for “Top Ten” downloads for “Legal Education” and “Law and Society: The Legal Profession” categories. Two hundred sixty-five downloads on BePress and 113 on SSRN since posting.
· Beyond Training: Law Librarianship’s Quest for the Pedagogy of Legal Research Education, 95 Law Library Journal 7-45 (2003).
Cited in Nolan L. Wright, Standing at the Gates: A New Librarian Wonders About the Future Role of the Profession in Legal Research Education, 27 Legal Reference Services Q. 305, 321-23, 333, 335 n.12, 336 n.19, 339 n.68, 342 nos.109-18, 342, nos.124-25, 345, n.187 (2009); Pearl Goldman Legal Education and Technology II: An Annotated Bibliography, 100 Law Libr. J. 415, 454 no.188, 489 no.384 (2008); Frank G. Houdek, The Essential Law Library, 100 Law Libr. J. 137, 161, n.86, 162 n.90 (2008) (cited by Dick Danner with reference to another article listed as essential); Richard A. Danner, Legal Information and The Development of American Law: Writings on the Form and Structure of The Published Law, 99 Law Libr. J. 193, 206 n.92 (2007); Barbara A. Bintliff, Rebuilding the Profession: Recommendations for Librarians Interested in Becoming Academic Law Library Directors, 99 Law Libr. J. 101, 114 n.6 (2007); Stephann Makri, University College of London, Studying Academic Lawyers’ Information Seeking to Inform the Design of Digital Law Libraries 7 (2007), http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/5095/; Debra L. Gilchrist, Academic Libraries at the Center of Instructional Change, Faculty and Library Experience of Library Leadership in the Transformation of Teaching and Learning 224 (April 24, 2007) (unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Oregon State University), http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/jspui/handle/1957/5150; Ellen M. Callinan, Law Firm Librarians: A Tradition of Educating Lawyers, Prof. Dev. Q. 9, 9-10, 14 n.1 (Nov. 2006); Randy Diamond, Advancing Public Interest Practitioner Research Skills in Legal Education, 7 N.C. J. L. & Tech. 67, 74-5 n.19 (2005); Stephann Makri, Ann Blandford, & Anna L. Cox, University College of London, Studying Law Students ’ Information Seeking Behaviour to Inform the Design of Digital Law Libraries 4 (2006), http://en.scientificcommons.org/40510562; Debbie Grey, Legal Reference Services: An Annotated Bibliography, 97 Law Libr. J. 537, 538 n.6, 554 no. 46 (2005); Gillian Kerins, Ronan Madden, and Crystal Fulton, Department of Library and Information Studies, University College Dublin, Information Seeking and Students Studying for Professional Careers: The Cases Of Engineering and Law Students in Ireland, 10, no. 1 Information Research, http://informationr.net/ir/10-1/paper208.html (Oct. 2004); Richard A. Danner, Contemporary and Future Directions in American Legal Research: Responding to the Threat of the Available, 31 Int'l J. Legal Info. 179, 188 n.32 (2003); Laura Justiss, A Survey of Fee-Based Web Subscriptions in Academic Law Libraries, 95 Law Libr. J. 383, 384 n.4 (2003); Donald J. Dunn, Legal Research and Writing Resources: Recent Publications, 12 Persp: Teaching Legal Res. & Writing 38, 39 (2003).
Selected by American Library Association's Library Instruction Round Table, from among more than 100 articles, as one of the "Top Twenty" articles on library instruction in 2003.
Ninety-nine downloads on BePress and forty-three downloads on SSRN since posting on May 31, 2007.
· Digital Content Licensing, 2 Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science 2d 873-83 (2003).
Cited in Mei-Mei Wu, Chair, Taiwan Normal Graduate Institute of Library and Information Sciences, In Search of Exchange and Sharable Repository Models for Digital Content, at http://mwu.glis.ntnu.edu.tw/blog/archives/publicatioins/2004_2 .pdf.
·
The Internet, Regulation and the Market for
Loyalties: An Economic Analysis of Transborder Information Flow, 2002 Journal of Law, Technology and Policy 59-107. Journal is
cosponsored by the Illinois College of Law, the
Cited in William J. Cannici, Jr, The Global Online Freedom Act: Combating American Businesses that Facilitate Internet Censorship in China, 12 J. Internet L. 3, 4 n.46, 70 n.5, 7 n.100 (2009); Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., The Irrelevant Wasteland: An Exploration of Why Red Lion Doesn't Matter (Much) in 2008, The Crucial Importance of the Information Revolution, and the Continuing Relevance of the Public Interest Standard in Regulating Access to Spectrum, 60 Admin. L. Rev. 911, 919 n.27 (2008); Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, Fighting Homogenization: The Global Infiltration of Technology and the Struggle to Preserve Cultural Distinctiveness, SSRN Working Paper Series, 8 n.23, 17 n.61, 29 n.108, 32, 119, 42 n.137, 44 n.142, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1260898; William J. Cannici, Jr., The Global Online Freedom Act: A Critique of its Objectives, Methods, and Ultimate Effectiveness Combating American Businesses that Facilitate Internet Censorship in the People's Republic of China, 32 Seton Hall Legis. J. 123, 131 n. 48, 136 n.79, 142 n.115 (2007); Elizabeth Spahn, As Soft as Tofu: Consumer Product Defamation on the Chinese Internet, 39 Vand. J. Transnat'l L. 865, 870 n.9 (2006); Anne S.Y. Cheung, The Business of Governance: China's Legislation on Content Regulation in Cyberspace, 38 N.Y.U. J. Int'l L. & Pol. 1, 7 n.29 (2005-06); Joseph Gibbons Llewellyn, Semiotics of the Scandalous and the Immoral and the Disparaging: Section 2(A) Trademark Law After Lawrence v. Texas, 9 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 187, 241 n.270 (2005); Andrianna D. Kastanek, From Hit Man to a Military Takeover of New York City: The Evolving Effects of Rice v. Paladin Enterprises on Internet Censorship, 99 Nw. U. L. Rev. 383, 394 n.94 (2004); Leonard I. Rotman, The Fiduciary Regulation of E-Commerce, 29 Queen's L.J. 739, 748 n.28 (2004); Thirty-Fifth Selected Bibliography On Computers, Technology and the Law, 29 Rutgers Computer & Tech. L.J. 503, 525 (2003).
Ninety-two downloads on BePress and fifty-seven downloads on SSRN since posting on May 31, 2007.
·
Charitable Remainder Trusts–An Overview,
51 The Tax Lawyer 549-70
(1998), which is jointly published by the Taxation Section of the American Bar
Association and
A condensed version was reprinted in Best of ABA Sections: Taxation: Charitable Remainder Trusts: an Overview, 16 GP Solo and Small Firm Lawyer, March 1999, at 52-53.
Cited in Peter R. Brown, Understanding “Estate Planning”: Asset Protection or Fraudulent Conveyance, 16 J. Am. Acad. Matrim. Law. 347, 366 n.31 (2000).
Law Reviews, Non-Peer Reviewed Journals and Other Publications
· Public Access to Presidential Records and Claims of Executive Privilege, AALL Issue Brief 2007-1 (March, 2007), available at http://www.aallnet.org/aallwash/ ib032007a.pdf.
· Identity and Market for Loyalties Theories: The Case for Free Information Flow in Insurgent Iraq, 25 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 123-53 (2006) (invited submission).
Cited in Naomi Cahn, Deep Purple: Religious Shades of Family Law, 110 W. Va. L. Rev. 459, 464, n.26 (2007).
Three hundred eighty-eight downloads on BePress and thirty-five downloads on SSRN since initial posting on November 13, 2005.
·
Law's Box:
Law, Jurisprudence and the Information Ecosphere, 74 UMKC Law Review 263-334
(2005).
Selection committee for the Brenner Faculty Publishing Award unanimously designated the article from law faculty publications for 2005-2006 as the recipient of the award. In making the award, the committee remarked that the article “impressed the committee as a deftly written article that covers an expansive sweep of time, reaching back to the days of stone stellǽ, to show the interplay between the forms of legal communication and public acceptance of the rule of law. It demonstrates how the information ecosphere of any era—such as stone or papyrus—has a direct influence on the substantive content of law in that age.”
Article is used in a course on ancient law taught at
Cited in Katrina Fischer Kuh, Electronically Manufactured Law, 22 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 223, 229 n.21, 230 n.24 (2008);
Richard A. Danner, Legal Information and tThe
Development of American Law: Writings on the Form and Structure of the
Published Law, 99 Law Libr. J.
193, 219 n.180 (2007).
Five hundred eighty-nine downloads on BePress and forty-seven downloads on SSRN since initial posting on April 21, 2005.
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Майбутнє Бібліотек, Бібліотечниѝ Фору України,
no. 2 (8) 2005, 46 (translated by Nadezhda Strishenets of the Natioinal Library
of
·
Vision of the Communal Role of Libraries,
draftsman for working group statement adopted by fellows and faculty of
The statement was signed by forty-nine fellows, faculty
and observers of the Session, representing 27 countries and institutions such
as National Geographic,
· Library at a Crossroads, Res Ipsa (Alumni Publication), Winter 2004, at 12-13. Also edit News from the Library page appearing each issue.
· Illinois Bar Journal, co-columnist for Finding Illinois Law section (Jan. 2003-Jan. 2004).
o Getting Your Research Bearings–Dead
Reckoning v. the Sextant, 91
Cited in 19. Lee F. Peoples, The Death of the Digest and the Pitfalls of Electronic Research: What Is the Modern Legal Researcher to Do?, 97 Law Libr. J. 661, 666 n.36 (2005); Thomas Keefe, Teaching Legal Research from the Inside Out, 97 Law Libr. J. 117, 130 n.38 (2005).
o The
Science of Citation Analysis, 91
o Legal Research and the Ballad of John Henry,
91
o Working
the Problem, 91
· Framework for Conducting State Tax Research on the Internet, 11 Journal of Multistate Taxation and Incentives 26-37 (Oct. 2001).
· Dual Purpose Retirement/ Disability Plans: Can a State Ignore Federal Precedent?, 8 Journal of Multistate Taxation 119-26 (1998), published by Warren, Gorham and Lamont of the Thomson West RIA Group.
Also republished under a different title at 14 Journal of Compensation and Benefits 35-41 (1998) and the California Tax Lawyer, Summer 1998, at 3-10 (published by the Tax Section of the California Bar).
· Note, The December 1989 European Community Merger Control Regulation: A Non-EC Perspective, 24 The Cornell International Law Journal 97-134 (1991).
Cited in Jeffrey A. Miller, The Boeing/McDonnell
Book Chapters
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Invited author for chapter, Seeing the “Whole Elephant”: A new model for
Per the publisher, Aspatore Books, "featuring library directors and managers representing some of the nation's top law schools, these experts guide the reader through the history of law school librarianship and outline major elements of the librarian's role today, including monitoring budgets, allocating resources, harnessing new technologies, and enhancing research education."
· CCH Editor/Author for rewrite of General Qualifications for All Plans, Chapter C:4, CCH Federal Tax Service (1999) (CCH Tax Research Network).
Journal Boards
· Advisory Board (founding board), Legal Information & Technology eJournal (commencing 2009).
· Board Member, International Journal of the Book, a publication of University Press Journals, Common Ground Publishing (commencing service 2009).
Web Tutorials & Guides
· Electronic Resources Beyond Lexis and Westlaw (Boot Camp 2005), http://www1.law. umkc.edu/Faculty/callister/bootcamp/ppt/BeyondWexis.ppt
· Federal Tax and Transactional Law Research (Boot Camp 2005), http://www1.law.umkc.edu/ faculty/callister/bootcamp/ppt/tax.ppt
· International and Foreign Law Resources, http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/ callister/intl/
· Knowledge, Information & Technology Resources for Small Firm, http://www1. law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/SmallFirm/
· Lexis and Westlaw Research Tutorial (Lasted updated Spring 2003), archived at http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/bootcamp/ot/index.html
· Online Skills for Westlaw & Lexis, http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/ guides/Wexis1.ppt
· Online Skills for Westlaw & Lexis Part II, http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/ callister/guides/Wexis1.ppt
· Prof. Paul's Cyberlaw & Infosphere, http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/ Guides/CyberlawLinks.htm
· Research Guide–National Security Law, http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/ callister/guides/nsl/
· Tax Law Resources, http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/tax_ resources.htm
· Thinking about Legal Research Problems (A Guide to Legal Research), http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/bootcamp/Survival/Tab1.html
Academic Presentations & Panels
· Northland Art League, tentative title, Copyright and Licensing Essentials for Artists (Kansas City, MO, Oct. 2009).
· UMKC IS Meeting, Copyright & Licensing For Librarians & IS Professionals (Dec. 2008).
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6th International Conference on the Book,
plenary speaker with prior paper accepted for publication, Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology, A Prolegomenon to Future Librarianship
(
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MAALL Annual Meeting, presenter, MALCO Group Collection Analysis (
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MAALL Annual Meeting, co-presenter, Licensing Electronic Information: An Effort
Towards Best Practices (
· National Defense University, co-presenter, Rule of Law and Governance as Stabilization Tools, speaker, Rule of Law in the Context of Stability (Washington, DC, April 2008), presentation available at http://www.ndu. edu/ctnsp/Stab_Ops/Callister%2017%20Apr.pdf.
·
Arab Federation of Libraries and Information
Annual Meeting, invited key note speaker, The
Question Concerning Libraries; facilitated five-hour workshop, Defining Your
Library’s “Value Proposition” or
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MAALL Annual Meeting, invited panelist,
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5th International Conference on the Book, paper
accepted for presentation, Books above
the Throne: The
Ascension of the Book and the Actualization of Rule of Law in 17th -Century
· UMKC Oxford Summer CLE Program, invited presentation, entitled, Books above the Throne - Lord Coke, the Limitation of Royal Prerogative, and Effect of Publishing Innovations in Seventeenth Century England (Oxford, England Aug. 2007).
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Kansas City Association of Law Libraries (KCALL)
Quarterly Meeting, invited presentation, title, Copyright & Licensing Developments (
·
Pacific Area Special Operations Conference,
briefing with Captain Donald Smith, III from U.S. Joint Operations Information
Warfare Command of U.S. Information Operations of commanding officers from
Special Operations Pacific Command, title, The
Market for Loyalties–An Alternative Paradigm to “Winning Hearts and Minds
(Marriot Hotel, Honolulu, HI, Apr. 2007).
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·
Fellows
presentation, Identity and Market for
Loyalties Theories: Frameworks for Understanding the Relationship of the
Information Environment to Instability (Oct. 2006).
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Southwest
University of Political Science and Law,
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Law School of
Nanjing University,
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Peking University Law School,
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·
Association of
Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) Central Region Legal Research and Writing
Conference. Presentation, Beyond Training: Conceptual Frameworks and the
Quest for a Pedagogy for Legal Research Education (
·
American
Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Annual Conference. Panelist, Copyrights,
Copywrongs, and the Gray Areas In-Between (
·
Missouri
Bibliographic Information User System (MOBIUS) Annual Conference. Presentation,
Conceptual Frameworks and Research Instruction: Where Pedagogy and Design
Principles Meet to Facilitate Information Literacy (
·
ABA/Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative
(CEELI), Preparing for Practice: A Conference on
Legal Skills Training in Central and Eastern Europe, a joint
Conference with the ALWD, US State Department, National Center for State Courts
and American Society of International Law. Presentation, Beyond Training: Conceptual Frameworks and Legal Research Instruction
(
· Symposium on the Future of Legal Research. Invited presentation. Has the Emperor any Clothes? Legal Research, Information Literacy, and the Lawyer as Information Professional (Chicago-Kent College of Law, May 2005).
·
Salzburg Seminar.
Informal presentation, Conceptual
Frameworks and Information Literacy (
·
AALL Annual
Conference. Program co-coordinator and moderator, Understanding International Licensing Agreements: Copyright and
Contract Law Mix it Up in the International Arena (
·
CALI
Conference for Law School Computing. Presentation, Conceptual
Frameworks in Legal Research Instruction: Where Pedagogy and Design Principles
Meet to Make Better Tutorials and Presentations (
·
MOBIUS Annual
Conference. Presentation, Collaborative Collection Development: A Case
Study from Law Librarianship (
·
Kansas City
Metropolitan Bar Association, International Law Committee. Presentation,
International Legal Resources in
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KCALL Quarterly Meeting. Presentation, UMKC and
Local Firm, Court and
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KCALL
Meeting. Panelist, Future of Law Librarianship (
· AALL Annual Conference. Program coordinator, Maximizing Business Research Skills (Seattle, July 2003).
·
Mid-America
Association of Law Libraries (MAALL) Annual Conference. Presentation, Connecting
as a Teacher: Using Simple Conceptual Frameworks to Improve the Acquisition and
Retention of Research Skills (
·
Starr
Foundation Information Transfer Network. Invited presenter and consultant
for group foreign and comparative law librarians (from overseas) funded by the
Starr Foundation to develop a global law library "without walls." Expertise
sought with respect to teaching legal research emphasizing Web
tutorials, conceptual
models, and library guides (
·
Faculty Summer
Institute on Learning Technologies. Panelist, Intellectual Property
Panel, discussing copyright issues facing university libraries and faculty
(
·
Graduate
School of Library and Information Science Doctoral Seminar. Invited paper
presentation, Beyond Training: Law Librarianship's Quest for Pedagogy of
Legal Research Education (
·
Illinois
Preservation Agency Conference on Illinois History. Commented on papers in
forum entitled, World and Local Courts (
Contributions to Digitization Projects
· The Charles D. Gould, Jr. Digital Collection. See http://digital.library.umsystem .edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?page=index;c=umkcnureic.
With Professor Doug Linder (author of the award- winning
“Famous
Trials”
website), helped secure collection and arrange for digitization project
involving
· Sir Edward Coke Collection (expected release in 2009).
Acquired the third edition (the last edition published
during Coke's life) of the First Part of the Institutes, first editions of the remaining three parts, and the thirteen
parts of the first English edition of Coke's Reports. Made arrangements for digitization with the
·
From an idea originating with Professor David
Achtenberg, helped initiate and coordinated a project with the Missouri Supreme
Court Library and
Other Recognition
· Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Session 435, The Rule of Law: Reconciling Religion and Culture in a Constitutional Framework (Oct. 2006). Fellowship was partially funded by the Seminar.
· Fellow, Salzburg Seminar, Session 422, Libraries in the 21st Century (Oct. 2004). Fellowship was partially funded by the Seminar.
· Award from UMKC Chancellor’s Fund for Innovation ($21,400). Co-recipient of award for Partnering for Cooperative Resource Sharing Project. Project was designed to set up digital inter-library loan system among local county and court libraries and UMKC’s law library.
·
Article in University of Illinois College of Law
alumni publication featuring work identifying and displaying legal materials in
the library collection from NAZI Germany. See Library Lines: A Reminder to Never Forget the Past,
· AALL Annual Meeting Travel Grant (2001).
Academic, University & Community Service
Academic & Professional Organizations
· American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) (2001-present). Special Interest Section Member–Academic Law Libraries; Legal History and Rare Books; and Foreign, Comparative and International Law.
· American Bar Association (ABA) (2004-present).
· American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) (2009)
· Association of American Law Schools (2004-present). Member of International Legal Exchange, Law and Anthropology, Law and Religion, Legal History and Scholarship sections.
· American Society for Information Science (2001).
· California Licensed Real Estate Broker (1995-1999).
· California State Bar Association (active status from December 1991 until November 2001, currently “inactive” status).
· Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) (2004-present).
· Institute for Rule of Law, Identity, Stability & Culture (2007-present).
· International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) (commencing 2006).
· International Relations Council (2006-2007).
· J. Reuben Clark Law Society (1996-present).
· Legal Information Preservation Alliance (2006-present, represent law library).
· Kansas City Association of Law Libraries (KCALL) (2003-present).
· Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association (2004-present).
· Mid-America Association of Law Libraries (MAALL) (2001-present).
· Mid-America Law School Library Consortium (2003-present).
Committees & Appointments
·
Tasked with Information Services, Technology Resources, and Facilities sections.
·
Tasked with Information Services and Technology Resources sections.
· AALL
o Chair, Copyright Committee (2005-2006); Member 2003-2005.
AALL’s Copyright Committee bears significant responsibility to speak on behalf of AALL with respect to copyright matters, oversee AALL lobbying efforts with respect copyright legislation (e.g., DMCA, Piracy Act, orphan works and library exceptions under § 108, see comment letter drafted for U.S. Copyright Roundtable at http://www.loc.gov/section108/docs/Callister-Baish-Newcomb_AALL-SLA.pdf), and review AALL’s co-submission of amicus briefs pertaining to file-swapping and other copyright matters.
o Government Relations Committee (2006-2008).
Worked on AALL Issue Brief regarding release of Presidential Documents. See “Other Publications” above.
o Open Access Task Force (2005-2006) as ex officio member.
o 2006
o Graduate Education for Law Librarianship Special Committee (2004-2007). Copyright Committee (2003-2005).
o Publications Committee (2000-2002).
Created website for submission of publication proposals.
· Intellectual Property Society (UMKC law student organization). Faculty advisor (2004-2005).
· International Conference of the Book. Board member (commencing 2009).
·
Institute for Rule of Law, Identity, Stability
& Culture (IRISC), a
Co-founder, fellow, and president (2007-present). Formed corporation, prepared tax forms for 501(c)(3) filing, and designed website (www.irisc.org).
IRISC promotes stability through the rule of law, culture, and civic identity. It was created to provide expertise, education, and research with respect to rule of law and stabilization for foreign states. IRISC develops interdisciplinary expertise to use law as a means to foster reconstruction and provide stability to foreign states and regions at risk of, besieged with, or emerging from conflict due to civil strife. IRISC partners or collaborates with governmental agencies, academic institutions, professional organizations, NGOs and others to advance its mission.
· J. Reuben Clark Law Society (UMKC Student Chapter).
With Associate Dean Jeff Thomas, serve as the founding faculty advisors of the student chapter (2004-present).
·
J. Reuben Clark Law Society (
· KCALL. Treasurer for 2004.
· Mid-America Association of Law Libraries.
o Annual Meeting Program Committee (2002).
o
o Nominations Committee (2004-2005).
· Mid-America Law Library Consortium (MALLCO, formerly MALSLC).
o Ad hoc committee member for consortium study using WorldCat Collection Analysis Service (2007-present).
Proposed protocol for analysis foreign and international collections of MALLCO members. See http://www1.law.umkc.edu/faculty/callister/ presentations/protocolforeign.ppt. Provided training and presentations at MALCO meetings. See above in “Academic Presentations and Panels” at page 9.
o Chair, Strategic Planning Committee (2007-2008).
Oversaw committee reviewing priorities and strategic objectives, drafting new mission statement, and developing infrastructure for benchmark reporting, collaborative collection development and more robust inter-library loan opportunities.
o Executive Committee Steering Committee (2005-2007).
Work with committee to hire a part-time, paid director for the consortium. Interview prospective candidates, prepare independent contractors agreement, and help revise bylaws.
· National Archives and Records Administration. Reviewer (2007).
Tasked with reviewing methods of appraising trial court records held by National Archives and Record Administration, which were otherwise slated for destruction.
· Society of Academic Law Library Directors. Board Member (2009).
Elected to first board of new organization of over 150 law library directors.
·
o University Library User Education Committee (2001-2003).
Committee tasked with reviewing curriculum and information literacy standards.
o Search Committee for Director of Library Systems (Fall 2001).
·
· University of Missouri-Kansas City. Criterion Three Committee (Student Learning and Effective Teaching) for university reaccreditation before the Higher Learning Commission (2008-present).
Working under the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, serve as convener and editor for subcommittee Core Component 3d (“Organizations learning resources support student learning and effective learning”).
·
University of Missouri-Kansas City
o International Committee (2006-present).
o Library Committee (ex officio, 2003-present).
o Space Committee (2006-2008).
o Curriculum Committee (2003-2008).
o Dean Search Committee (ex officio, 2003-2005).
o Technology Committee (2003-2004).
·
o Library Directors Group (2003 to present).
Group works with the UM System Vice-president for Technology and the Director of the UM Library Systems Office to provide oversight (including digitization efforts), review system-level library budgeting, engage in strategic planning, and take up issues concerning MCO-Merlin and MOBIUS (interlibrary loan consortia).
o Member, Digital Information Repository Task Force (2007).
Task force studying pilot projects, vendor solutions
and the digital repositories of other universities to assess their need and
feasibility for the
Other Service
·
Presentation, Cyberlaw and the Constitution,
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Attendance as law school recruiter at Western
Association of Pre-Law Advisors annual recruitment caravan at the
· Participant in UMKC’s Diversity Curriculum Infusion Institute (series of workshops designed to help enrich pedagogical approach to diverse student population through revising the curriculum for a selected course, Cyberlaw & Infosphere, to include three class sessions on minority ownership and access to broadcasting and media).
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Two-years of missionary service including
leadership assignments in the
· Various leadership and service assignments in the LDS church, including at present serving as Media Public Affairs Representative, Olathe Kansas Stake, and formerly serving as a high school seminary instructor and stake clerk (chief financial and records officer for 10 congregations.
· Assistant Scout Master (11-year old LDS scout leader) and Merit Badge Counselor for Boy Scouts of America.
Personal
· Interests include Celtic and Norse literature, and classic films.
· Some proficiency in Dutch (and Flemish). Rudimentary knowledge of German and very limited Biblical Greek