American Council on Education Fellowship (2012-2013) Keleher & McLeod
Professorship (2008-2010) B.A., Michigan State University M.I.S., University of Michigan
J.D., Wayne State University Member of the Michigan Bar 

Professor Carol Parker currently serves as associate dean for Finance and Administration,
overseeing the Law School’s finances, personnel, contracts, facilities, and law journals;
and directing the law library and information technology department. Prof. Parker teaches
Wills and Trusts, Advanced Legal Research, and International Legal Research. 

Prof. Parker was awarded a Fellowship with the American Council on Education (ACE) for
2012-2013. As an ACE Fellow, she works on issues of concern to UNM while also spending a
portion of her fellowship year working with college or university presidents and other
senior officers at host institutions. The ACE Fellows Program combines retreats,
interactive learning opportunities, campus visits and placement at other higher education
institutions to condense years of on-the-job experience and skills development into a
single year. 

Parker was also the recipient of the UNM School of Law’s Keleher & McLeod
Professorship for 2008-2010; the winner of the 2010 American Association of Law Libraries
LexisNexis Call for Papers Award, Open Division; and the recipient of the 2008
Outstanding Article Award, Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section, American
Association of Law Libraries. 

Parker currently serves on UNM’s Faculty Senate Budget Committee, and served as the Law
School’s elected representative to the Senate from 2005-2008. She serves as an
accreditation site inspector for the ABA’s Section on Legal Education Section of Legal
Education and Admissions to the Bar. 

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. She has also served as president of the Michigan State University Honors College
Alumni Association.

Legal Education

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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...

 

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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

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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

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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...

 

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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...