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Library Faculty and Staff

Library Administration


Kory Staheli 
Name:  

Kory D. Staheli 

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Law Library Director

Policy, planning, management services, reference assistance, select publications for purchase, and teach Legal Research courses.

Email:  

stahelik@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-9223

 
 
 


Gary Hill  
Name:  

Gary L. Hill 

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Deputy Law Librarian

Assists the Director, manages Law Library operations, participates in collection development, offers reference assistance and teaches Legal Research courses.

Email:  

hillg@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-3596

   


Alecia Richey 
Name:  

Alecia Richey

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Administrative Assistant

Library maintenance, supply orders and inventory, basic support of Law Library Faculty and Staff. Schedule Law Library conference room and the Lee Reading Room.

Email:  

richeya@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-7475

   

Access Services


Laurie Urquiaga 
Name:  

Laureen C. Urquiaga 

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Associate Director for Access Services

Manage Access Services operations, course packet support, digitization, law school copyright compliance, law library website development, teach 1L Legal Research.

Email:  

urquiagal@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-6657

 
 


Dianne Davenport 100 
Name:  

Dianne Davenport

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Circulation Manager

Supervise the circulation of materials be it reserve or part of the regular collection, distribute the law study carrels each Fall and arrange the carrel lottery each Spring, InterLibrary Loan, and a myriad of other duties.

Email:  

davenportd@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-9052

 
 

Public Services


Steve Averett 
Name:  

Steven E. Averett 

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Head of Reference and Collection Maintenance

Arrange coverage of the reference desk and library tours. Review invoices and the Library collection to see which materials should be retained. Teach the LL.M. research class.

Email:  

averetts@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-9023

 
 


Dennis Sears 
Name:  

Dennis S. Sears 

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Associate Director for Legal Research Instruction

Coordinate legal research instruction for the Advocacy program and undergraduate and graduate law related courses. Teach first year legal research and advanced legal research courses. Responsible for foreign, comparative, and international law (FCIL). Provide reference assistance.

Email:  

searsd@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-7472

 
 


Galen Fletcher 
Name:  

Galen L. Fletcher 

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Faculty Services Librarian

Manage research pool of law student research assistants for law professors, coordinate faculty liaison program, provide reference and research support, develop state and federal government information collections.

Email:  

fletcherg@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-9051

 
 


Shawn Nevers  
Name:  

Shawn G. Nevers 

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Research Librarian

Facilitate faculty research and support.  Oversee and maintain the library’s electronic resources.  Provide reference services and assistance to students, faculty and public patrons.  Assist with Westlaw/Lexis Nexis user passwords.

Email:  

neverss@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-8784

 
 

Technical Services


Dale Swensen  
Name:  
Dale Swensen 
Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Head of Technical Services & Digital Access

Provide description, analysis, and classification of library materials for effective identification and retrieval; oversee technical services operations.

Email:  

swensend@lawgate.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-4407

 
 


Bonnie Geldmacher  
Name:  

Bonnie R. Geldmacher

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Acquisitions Librarian

Responsible for supervision and administration of the acquisitions department, the serials department, looseleaf filing, and for the the bindery.

Email:  

geldmacherb@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-3572

 
 


Andrea Howard  
Name:  

Andrea Howard

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Acquisitions Assistant

Assist in ordering, paying, and receiving legal material for the Law Library.

Email:  

howarda@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-1632

 
 


Teresa Odam  
Name:  

Teresa Odam

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Serials Librarian

Responsible for maintaining the serials collection in the Law Library. Check-in all serials, routing of serial publications to faculty and process serials for the bindery

Email:  

odamt@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-3571

 
 


Colleen Liechty  
Name:  

Colleen Liechty

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Serials Assistant

Assist in receiving, routing and processing legal periodicals for the Law Library.

Email:  

liechtyc@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-3623

 
 

Library and Networked Information Systems


David Armond  
Name:  

David L. Armond 

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Associate Director for Information Technology

Lead the Library and Networked Information Department (LNIS) which supports, develops, and implements information technology within the Howard W. Hunter Law Library. Coordinate support with the Law School Computing Support Department for law school enterprise-wide information technology

Email:  

armondd@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-4258

 
 


Wayne Schneider  
Name:  

Wayne Schneider

Primary Responsibilities: 
Title:  

Electronic Resources Manager

Oversee technical aspects of the Library's electronic database collection.  Maintain electronic resources to ensure they are accessible to faculty, students, and patrons of the Law Library and meet patron and institutional needs.  Evaluate, implement and support  programs and applications to better support the delivery of electronic information in the academic environment.

Email:  

schneiderw@law.byu.edu

Phone:  

(801) 422-9050