Before accepting the position of Director of the new Drexel Law Library, Professor
Simoni was the Associate Dean for Library and Information Services and Professor of Law
at Northwestern University School of Law, where he was responsible for the law library
and law school computing. His professional interests include information policy including
copyright, the use of information technology in libraries in developing countries, and
the changing patterns of research and scholarly communication caused by developments in
information technology.
He is very active with the American Association of Law Libraries, the Association of
American Law Schools, and the American Bar Association, and has consulted at law
libraries in Ethiopia, Ghana, and Uganda on the use of information technology for library
collection development and research support. He teaches advanced legal research and
helped develop a specialization in Law Librarianship at Drexel's College of
Information Science and Technology, to which he has been appointed as a Visiting
Professor.
