Mari Cheney
Associate Director of Research and Instruction
Mari started working at Boley Law Library in 2012 and began her current role as Assistant Director, Research and Instruction in 2018. Prior positions at Boley have included Digital Resources Librarian, Reference Librarian, and Head of Research Services. Previously, Mari served as a reference librarian for the Utah State Law Library in Salt Lake City. Mari manages the research and instruction department, teaches legal research courses, supports faculty research, and provides reference services to all library patrons. She coordinates the legal research curriculum in the first-year lawyering program and teaches Legal Research: Administrative Law.
Course Descriptions
Legal Research: Administrative Law
Academic Credentials
- BA, Walla Walla University, English
- JD, American University, Washington College of Law
- M.L.I.S., University of Washington, certificate in law librarianship
Bibliography
Published Works
The Hearing-Impaired Law Librarian: Navigating Silent Spaces, 25 AALL Spectrum, January/February 2021, at 24.
Best Practices for Supporting Hearing-Impaired Law Library Patrons, 16 Public Services Quarterly, Aug. 2020, at 206.
Tackling Administrative Law Research: 10 Tips to Help You Prepare Your Course or Workshop, 22 AALL Spectrum, March/April 2019, at 22 (with Julie Graves Krishnaswami and Jason Sowards).
Promoting Services and Celebrating Differences, 17 AALL Spectrum, Nov. 2012, at 22 (with Jennifer Dalglish and Sue Mecklem).
Utah Legal Research, William S. Hein & Co., Inc. (2011) (with Jessica Van Buren and Judge Martha Thomas).
Virtual Reference: No Budget? No Time? No Problem!, 15 AALL Spectrum, Nov. 2010, at 28.
Services for Attorneys at the Utah State Law Library, 23 Utah B.J., Mar.-Apr. 2010, at 26.
Researching the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, 22 Utah B.J., Nov.-Dec. 2009, at 28.
Before the Utah Bar Journal, 22 Utah B.J., Sept.-Oct. 2009, at 38.
Web 2.0 Tools for Utah Attorneys, 22 Utah B.J., May-June 2009, at 33.
Researching Utah Administrative Law, 22 Utah B.J., Mar.-Apr. 2009, at 39 (with Jessica Van Buren).
Researching and Using Utah Appellate Briefs and Other Appellate Resources, 22 Utah B.J., Jan.-Feb. 2009, at 22.
Utah Legislative History Research Tips, 21 Utah B.J., Nov.-Dec. 2008, at 31.
Presentations
Copyright & Fair Use: What it Means and How to Educate Users, presented at NWILL 2016, Sept. 8, 2016, in Portland, Oregon
Social Media Outreach in Law Libraries: Learn from Our Successes and Failures, presented at the WestPac Annual Meeting, Oct. 1, 2016, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Social Media Use in Law Libraries: Learn from Our Successes and Failures, presented at the AALL Annual Meeting, July 16, 2017, in Austin, Texas
Hiring and Managing Student Workers in the Law Library, presented at the WestPac Annual Meeting, Oct. 20, 2017, in Boise, Idaho
Top Ten Tips for Teaching Administrative Law Research, presented at the AALL Annual Meeting, July 16, 2018, in Baltimore, Maryland
Cool Tools 2018 (Monosnap), presented at the AALL Annual Meeting, July 16, 2018, in Baltimore, Maryland
Slack: The Internal Communications Tool You Never Knew You Needed, presented at the WestPac Annual Meeting, Sept. 29, 2018, in Anchorage, Alaska
Do More With Less: Workplace Efficiency Tools, presented at the AALL Annual Meeting, July 14, 2019, in Washington, D.C.
Accessibility and Instructional Design, presented at the Instructional Design for Law Librarians Workshop, July 30, 2020, online.
Cool Tools 2021 (Otter.ai), presented at the AALL Annual Meeting, July 21, 2021, online.
Honors
AALL/LexsNexis, Short Form Award for “Legal Research Boot Camp: Bridging the 1L Knowledge Gap,” 2013.
AALL/LexisNexis, Short Form Award for “The Hearing-Impaired Law Librarian: Navigating Silent Spaces,” 2019.
Paul Gatz Publication Award, 2021.
11th Annual Boulder Conference Participant, 2019.
12th Annual Boulder Conference Participant, 2020.
13th Annual Boulder Conference Participant, 2021.
Professional Affiliations
American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), Member
AALL CS-SIS, Member
AALL RIPS-SIS, Member
AALL WestPac, Member