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Loren Turner joins faculty as reference librarian, adjunct professor

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:00:29 +0000

Loren Turner joined the UF Law faculty as a reference librarian and adjunct professor of law. She serves as a library liaison to faculty and provides research reference services to faculty, students and members of the public. She is teaching legal research to 1Ls during the fall semester.

Turner earned a bachelor of arts degree in Italian Studies from Loyola University in Chicago and J.D. from American University Washington College of Law. After graduating from law school, Turner practiced law at a boutique law firm in downtown Chicago specializing in family law litigation.

After a couple years of practicing law, she advanced her research and writing interests by transitioning from practice to the field of law librarianship and returned to school to earn her master of science (M.S.) in library and information science from the University of Illinois. While pursuing her master’s, Turner worked at the Pritzker Legal Research Center at Northwestern University School of Law.

She said she chose UF Law because of the support the library receives from the UF Law administration, faculty, and alumni.

“I look forward to further developing my professional expertise through my work with students and faculty here at UF Law and the greater UF community,” Turner said.

Michael G. Moore joins faculty as reference librarian, adjunct professor

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:00:17 +0000

Michael G. Moore joins the UF Law faculty as a reference librarian and adjunct professor of law. He will teach Legal Research to 1Ls and will provide faculty and students with reference services.

Moore graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh with a bachelor of philosophy and earned a master of arts degree in African American studies from the University of Iowa. He earned his law degree, with honors, from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Florida Law Review.

Moore was a lawyer at a private practice in Miami before enrolling in the law-librarianship program at the University of Washington. He graduated from UW in 2012, earning a master of library & information science degree and a Special Certificate in Law Librarianship. While at UW, he received the prestigious Earl C. Borgeson Research in Law Librarianship Award and completed directed fieldwork at the University of Michigan Law Library.

Moore said he is looking forward to rejoining the Gator Nation as a part of the reference team.

“I’m excited to support an amazingly talented faculty, and I look forward to working with the next generation of Gator lawyers.”

Shamika Dalton joins faculty as assistant university librarian, adjunct professor

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 16:00:08 +0000

Shamika Dalton joins the UF Law faculty as an assistant university librarian and adjunct professor of law. She provides reference service to students, faculty, and others, who come through the UF Law Library. Beginning in fall of 2013, Dalton will teach her a 1L Legal Research course section.

In 2008, Dalton graduated summa cum laude from North Carolina Central University with a Bachelor of Social Work. After completing her undergraduate degree, she entered law school at her alma mater. It was in an Advanced Legal Research Course that she found her passion for legal research and writing. Her law school had a Dual JD/MLS program, from which she she graduated in December 2011.

This is Dalton’s first job in the law librarianship profession and she said she’s especially looking forward to the new legal research curriculum.

“Everyone was so welcoming,” she said. “I enjoyed the fact that I would be a part of the 1L legal research curriculum.”

- Maggie Powers
Student writer