Paul L. Boley Law Library

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

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).

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. 

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.

11th Annual Boulder Conference Participant, 2019.

12th Annual Boulder Conference Participant, 2020.

Professional Affiliations

American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), Member
AALL CS-SIS, Member
AALL RIPS-SIS, Member
AALL WestPac, Member