J.D., Wayne State University; M.I.S., University of Michigan; B.A., Michigan State University; Member of the Michigan Bar; University of New Mexico School of Law Keleher & McLeod Professorship (2008-2010). Professor Carol Parker currently serves as associate dean for Finance and Administration. She teaches Wills and Trusts, Advanced Legal Research and International Legal Research. As associate dean, she is responsible for administration of law school finances, personnel, facilities and law journal operations, in addition to the law library and information technology department. Parker's current research interests include analyzing the impact of faculty and tenured statuses for academic law librarians and the impact of the open access movement on legal scholarly communication. She has presented on both topics at various conferences. Her most recent article, The Need for Faculty Status and Uniform Tenure Requirements for Law Librarians, 103:1 L. Libr. J. 7-38 (Winter 2011), received the "AALL LexisNexis® Call for Papers Open Division Award" for 2010. An earlier article, Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think About Legal Scholarship, 37 N.M. L. Rev. 441-77 (2007), received the 2008 Outstanding Article Award from the Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (ALL-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries. Parker's other publications include articles in the Wayne Law Review and the Michigan Bar Journal. Parker currently serves on the UNM Faculty Senate Budget Committee and represented the UNM law faculty on the UNM Faculty Senate from 2005-2008. She also serves on the AALL Leadership Development Committee and the ALL-SIS Committee on Tenure/Continuous Appointment. She is active in SWALL and serves on the LIPA Marketing committee and the LIPA State Representatives committee. She is a board member of the Desert States Law Library Consortium, which is working on an ambitious project to establish a shared repository of pre-statehood and primary legal materials for the six member states (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming). Prior to joining the UNM School of Law, she was assistant director at the Wayne State University Law Library. Before that, she served as the head of Faculty and Public Services in the Law Library at the Michigan State University College of Law. She taught Advanced Legal Research and Legal Research, Writing and Advocacy while at Michigan State University. Parker served on the Faculty Senate at Wayne State, and served for several years on the State Bar of Michigan Committee on Libraries, Legal Research & Publications, chairing that committee in 2000. Immediately after graduating from Wayne State University Law School, Parker clerked at the Michigan Court of Appeals. While at Wayne State University Law School, she served as an assistant editor of the Wayne Law Review.
Legal Education
How Law Schools Benefit When Academic Law Librarians Write, Teach and Hold Faculty Status, Legal Ref. Serv. Q. (2011)
Many non-director academic law librarians publish and teach legal research classes. Some hold faculty status...
Institutional Repositories and the Principle of Open Access: Changing the Way We Think about Legal Scholarship, New Mexico Law Review (2007)
Open access to scholarship, that is, making scholarship freely available to the public via the...
Law Librarianship
Leadership Development Programs for Academic Law Librarians (in special issue entitled, “Our Commitment to Building Leaders: Programs for Leadership in Academic and Special Libraries”), Journal of Library Administration (2009)
In 2003 the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) identified leadership development as one of...
The Impact of New Technology on Librarianship, THE CHANGING ROLE OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANSHIP: LEADING LIBRARIANS ON TEACHING LEGAL RESEARCH SKILLS, RESPONDING TO EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES, AND ADAPTING TO CHANGING TRENDS (2008)
Tenure and Continuous Appointment
Tenure Advice for Law Librarians and Their Directors, Law Library Journal (2011)
Successful tenure candidates will excel as librarians, master shared governance concepts and understand their institution’s...
The Need for Faculty Status and Uniform Tenure Requirements for Law Librarians, Law Library Journal (2011)
Various statuses, tenure tracks, and performance review standards exist in law librarian tenure or continuous...